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David / Signal vs. Noise:
Google does not render resistance futile — From the ashes of Kiko, Paul Graham reads that Google is unstoppable. That all hope is lost when fighting big G on its home turf. That resistance is futile: … What a depressing conclusion from a man who has inspired so many and gives hope to those who dare challenge the incumbents.
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Check your email and events without opening your browser — Easy access — to your new Gmail messages with a quick preview of the message subject, sender, and snippet. — Timely reminder — for your upcoming Google Calendar events, including date, time, event title, and location.
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
If Google Is the New Microsoft, That's Precisely Why They Shouldn't Be Feared — Google is the new Microsoft, and therefore direct competition with Google should be avoided at all costs — that is Paul Graham's takeawy from the news that Kiko, a web calendar play done in by Google Calendar, is autioning off its assets:
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On Kiko and various things — I feel like making a blog post, and here's what's on my mind this Friday afternoon: — Paul Graham has a blog. Am I the last one to notice this? And it's built on a system, infogami, built by noneother than Aaron Swartz.
Griffin Wright / Wired News:
Putting Google-Fi to the Test — MOUNTAIN VIEW, California — Google launched its citywide Wi-Fi service here this week, and Wired News decided to put it to the test. — Our first stop: Off the freeway at the southwest end of town, and the coverage was not bad.
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Official Google Base Blog:
Reporting on Google Base — We're pleased to offer Google Base providers more information on how your items are faring. For example, you might want to know how often they are part of search results ("impressions"), and how frequently people are clicking on them ("clicks").
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Damon Darlin / New York Times:
Profit Falls by Half at Dell — Three days after its announcement of a vast safety recall, Dell reported little but bad news yesterday: profits down by half, and an informal Securities and Exchange Commission investigation into its accounting. — Speaking from China to Wall Street analysts …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Is this the new Amazon video store? — People were snatching early glimpses of what may be Amazon.com's new video store on Friday, after a former employee posted screenshots of the store on his blog. — Web pages that first surfaced at Kokogiak.com, titled "Amazon Digital Video" …
BBC:
Apple admits excessive iPod hours — Apple Computer has said a report of labour conditions at its iPod plant in China found workers did more than 60 hours a week a third of the time. — Staff making the world's most popular MP3 player also worked more than six consecutive days 25% of the time.
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John Markoff / New York Times:Apple Finds No Forced Labor at iPod Factory in South China
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Japan planning intelligent road systems — Finding real-time traffic data is becoming less unusual thanks to nav units popping up more frequently in vehicles nowadays, but real-time data about about potential road hazards, pedestrians in the way, and other random tidbits that could prevent a serious headache …
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MacNN:
Dublin man plans Apple "walk of shame" — Following a week of waiting for Apple to arrange for the pickup of a malfunctioning iMac G5, a Dublin says he has decided to prove that he can walk to Cork — the location of the nearest Apple repair center — faster than Apple can arrange for the pickup of his broken Mac.
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Looking through the wrong end of the wire — There's a fascinating — and entertainingly pissy, if sometimes obtuse — argument going on over Metcalfe's Law (which states that the value of a communications network grows exponentially as its number of users grows).
David Chartier / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
SecureWorks admits to falsifying MacBook wireless hack — Remember those hackers in the Washington Post story who claimed to have hacked a MacBook's wireless drivers to gain control of it? Then remember the follow-up story where the author, Brian Krebs basically, um, how shall I say …
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
DNS could slow broadband service — A broadband provider's claim of superfast speeds may only be as good as its weakest link, which could be its domain name server software. — A report issued Thursday by Nominum, a company that sells domain name system (DNS) server software …
Kyle Orland / Joystiq:
Wal-mart stops Bully pre-sales under pressure [Update 1] — [Update: John Simley from Walmart media relations contacted Joystiq to clear up the ciircumstances behind the Bully pre-order situation. Simley said that Wal-mart policy is to not carry any unrated or Rating Pending games for pre-order or sale, in-store or online.
