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Reuters:
Google says bill could spark anti-trust complaints — SOFIA (Reuters) - Google warned on Tuesday it will not hesitate to file anti-trust complaints in the United States if high-speed Internet providers abuse the market power they could receive from U.S. legislators.
Discussion:
Techdirt, IP Democracy, ReveNews Online Revenue …, Google Operating System and Center for Citizen Media
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
The Internet Knows What You'll Do Next — A FEW years back, a technology writer named John Battelle began talking about how the Internet had made it possible to predict the future. When people went to the home page of Google or Yahoo and entered a few words into a search engine …
Kristina Shevory / New York Times:
Microsoft Is Looking for More Elbow Room — In the midst of its biggest expansion in nearly a decade, the world's largest software company has suddenly found itself with a major setback: not enough room to grow. — Microsoft — in the midst of a bitter rivalry with Google and Yahoo …
Discussion:
Valleywag
DeWitt Clinton / DeWitt Clinton's Unto.net:
On RSS and Atom — RSS is great. No, I'll go further than that. RSS, as a representation of an idea, is perhaps the single most influential cultural shift of the post-2001 technical and business community. RSS is the embodiment of the notion of sharing and syndication.
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Reuters:
Paris wants wireless Internet access across city — PARIS (Reuters) - Paris wants blanket wireless Internet cover by the end of 2007, helping to make it the most connected capital city in the world, Mayor Bertrand Delanoe said on Tuesday. — Under a new plan, the city hopes to set …
Star C. Foster / Shiny Shiny:
Voice Activated Remote Control — I hope you'll all forgive me, as I'm about to go all "old fogey" on your for a moment. When I was a child, our television sets had these numbered knobs on them, which we used to manually change the television station. This meant, if you can believe it …
teleclick.ca:
BSkyB May Offer Free Broadband to UK Customers — UK satellite broadcaster, BSkyB, will reveal the details of its long-term broadband internet strategy on July 18, said News Corp chairman, Rupert Murdoch, at a recent investors conference. — Many analysts expect the company …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
YouTube challenger offers to pay for video — update A new video-sharing site is offering videographers a share of the advertising dollars that their movies generate, at a time when most video-sharing sites are just trying to eke out a profit. — Saturday saw the launch of eefoof.com …
Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:
Record industry to sue Yahoo China over pirated tunes — Back in February, I posted an item on BoingBoing about the abundance of pirated tunes one can find by way of Chinese-language search engines Yahoo China and Baidu. Not news for anyone who's spent time on those sites, but as a non-Chinese-speaker, it was news to me.
Discussion:
Valleywag
The Register:
Rank outsider sues Google over zero score — Google has defended its right to rank web pages in any manner it likes in a groundbreaking court case over its search engine results. — The search giant is being sued in California by a parenting website which claims it lost most of its traffic when its ranking dropped to zero.
Matthew Broersma / Techworld.com:
Munich Linux 'a reality' — The City of Munich has insisted it is on track with its massive Linux migration, in the face of claims in the German Senate that the project seemed to have failed before it ever got off the ground. — Under the LiMux project, which commenced in 2004 …
trac.adiumx.com:
Download — 1.0b1 - Tuesday, July 4, 2006 — Note: Backing up a copy of the folder ~/Library/Application Support/Adium 2.0/ before using betas or alphas is probably a good idea. — Known issues — Larger download size due to the inclusion of debugging info — May have issues receiving some ICQ messages
Randy Charles Morin / The RSS Blog:
SOAP, REST and XML-RPC — Dave Winer on SOAP, REST and XML-RPC. … Dave believes that XML-RPC is easy compared to SOAP and REST. Let's examine the merits of each with concrete examples. Following is sample SOAP, REST and XML-RPC request and response messages. Note that I've left out some HTTP headers.
Will Hadfield / computerweekly.com:
IT Management — Linux cuts Kent Police system costs by 90% — Kent Police has cut the cost of running its major criminal investigations system by 90% using Novell Open Enterprise Server, the company's version of SuSE Linux. — The migration to Novell enabled Kent to scale …
Phill Ryu / PhillRyu.com:
The Top Ten Most Beautiful OS X Apps — Top ten lists are a dime a dozen, but I haven't seen one floating around yet on the most beautiful OS X apps out there. And as someone who's hitting MacUpdate daily as a small part of my job, always on the hunt for what's cool and new …
