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Claire Osborn / Austin American-Statesman:
Teen, mom sue MySpace.com for $30 million — Suit filed in Travis County claims popular Internet site fails to protect children from adult sexual predators. — A 14-year-old Travis County girl who said she was sexually assaulted by a Buda man she met on MySpace.com sued …
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Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:
Researchers Say New Chip Breaks Speed Record — Researchers at I.B.M. and the Georgia Institute of Technology are set to announce today that they have broken the speed record for silicon-based chips with a semiconductor that operates 250 times faster than chips commonly used today.
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Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Chip breaks speed record in deep freeze — IBM and Georgia Tech have coaxed a chip to run at 500GHz, a record for a silicon-based device, by dropping the temperature to minus 451 degrees Fahrenheit. — The experiment is part of a project to explore the ultimate speed limits of silicon-germanium (SiGe) chips.
datinganyone.com:
Welcome to DatingAnyone.com — It was fun while it lasted... Myspace has asked that we fold up shop. (I only emailed them 4 times asking them what I should do.) The Cease and Desist letter is below. DatingAnyone.com started back in April 2006 as a cool idea and a challenging development project.
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CNNMoney.com:
The coming Web video shakeout — The number of YouTube-like services now stands at a staggering 173 - and in April alone 3 outfits got $30 million in funding. Who will survive? — (Business 2.0 Magazine) - Too many dotcom startups, not enough seats at the party.
opera.com:
Your Web, Your Choice: Opera 9 Gives You the Control — Opera Software today released Opera 9, its newest Web browser for PCs. You can download it free in more than 25 languages for Windows, Mac, Linux and other platforms from www.opera.com. Opera 9 enhances the way you access …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Robotics Studio Provides Common Ground for Robotics Innovation — Community technology preview of Windows-based robotics development platform garners broad industry support. — PITTSBURGH— June 20, 2006 — Today at RoboBusiness Conference and Exposition 2006 …
Seth Stevenson / Slate:
Mac Attack — Apple's mean-spirited new ad campaign. … (Click here to see the ads.) — When I write about ads, I often face an obstacle: I'm not in the target demographic. Am I really in a position to judge whether, say, a Lexus ad is on the mark? The chances that I …
Owen Thomas / The Browser:
Microsoft's Google fighter leaves abruptly — Who says Microsoft's a slow-moving, lumbering giant? When it comes to eighty-sixing executives, Microsoft can move surprisingly fast. Take the unexpected exit of Martin Taylor, a longtime lieutenant to CEO Steve Ballmer who had recently …
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Microsoft Monitor, Valleywag, paidContent.org, ClickZ Internet Marketing … and Microsoft News Tracker
BBC:
White light 'blinds' film pirates — A device that could foil movie pirates who covertly record films in cinemas has been developed in the US. — The prototype is able to locate the position of a digital camera, before overwhelming it with white light to render any recorded images useless.
Craig / craigblog:
An update on the Authentium/Cox craigslist blocking situation — Folks, first, sorry for taking so long for this update, but I wanted to give the Authentium folks to today to respond; that didn't happen, and I guess we've waited long enough. — We heard about this problem in February …
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Wall Street Journal:
'DRM' Protects Downloads, But Does It Stifle Innovation? — Consumers now have the ability to buy digital versions of music and movies from a vast (and growing) online catalog. But that convenience has come at a price: Most of the digital content is packaged with technology called digital rights management …
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The Technology Liberation …, Democracy in Media, Copyfight, Wendy's Blog, Boing Boing and Joho the Blog
Jon's Radio:
A takedown request from This American Life — A couple of weeks ago, in The network is the network: public radio on the web, I noted in passing that NPR PRI's This American Life had converted from RealAudio streams to MP3s. That meant it was now possible to bypass this tedious procedure …
Joris Evers / ZDNet:
Second zero-day Excel flaw emerges — Attack code for a new security hole in Excel has surfaced on the Internet, just as Microsoft is scrambling to respond to a separate bug in the spreadsheet program. — The latest vulnerability could cause Excel to crash after a malicious file is opened …
Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Design Concept: Nokia Open Cellphone — Inspired by a Japanese fan, this design concept for a Nokia cellphone uses an as-yet-nonexistent flexible LCD color touchscreen that opens when you push the button in the middle. This piece of fantasy art looks like it would be useful …
Patricia Sullivan / Washington Post:
As the Internet Grows Up, the News Industry Is Forever Changed — The news industry, congenitally nervous about its future, looks at the Web this spring and sees cause for panic. — Advertisers are rushing to the Internet. Readers, even of the best newspapers and magazines …
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Micro Persuasion, InterMedia, Sadagopan's weblog …, Socialtwister 2.0 and J. LeRoy's Evolving Web
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Why did Bill Gates step down? — When the top executive of a major company steps down, even gradually, we are too easily distracted by the emotional arguments, and Microsoft plays this sleight of hand better than almost anyone, but come on, do you think Bill would be stepping aside if the graph were inverted?
