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Rachel Rosmarin / Forbes:
Open Facebook — They'll let anyone in to Facebook these days. — Once the exclusive online stomping grounds of college students, social networking site Facebook.com is throwing open the doors to rest of the world. The site is slated to announce in coming weeks that anyone can gain access to the site …
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Gavin O'Malley / AdAge:
Facebook to Adopt Open-Admissions Policy — As It Becomes Less Exclusive, Privacy Issues Remain After Member Protest — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Social network Facebook plans to completely ditch its admissions policy, welcoming anyone with internet access.
Microsoft:
Windows Live Services Reach Key Milestones — Live Search, Live.com and Live Local Search released from beta; Live Search to power search on MSN. — Microsoft Corp. today announced the release from beta of Live Search and of Live.com in 47 markets worldwide, and final availability …
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Tom's Hardware Guide:
Intel's Core 2 Quadro Kentsfield: Four Cores on a Rampage — Four On The Floor: Intel's Core 2 Quadro — There is a fascinating element to this combination of multiple processing cores, a fast architecture and even more performance: The new Core 2 Quadro processors are out to beat …
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Isabelle Kassam / Independent:
Insurers get in tune with the iPod generation — Come loss or theft, you'll soon be able to claim for the music downloaded on to your gadgets — For millions of consumers, music downloads are replacing CDs and - for those dinosaurs who just can't let go - vinyl as the way they like to listen to tracks by their favourite bands.
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PaulStamatiou.com, Engadget, Infinite Loop, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and Digital Tech Life
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Valleywag:
What News Corp doesn't want you to know about MySpace: Condensed edition — After News Corp. threatened to sue his publisher if they published his exposé on MySpace and its poster boy Tom Anderson (pictured), journalism student Trent Lapinski sold his story to Valleywag.
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New York Times:
Group Nears Record Deal for Chip Maker — A consortium of investment firms was near a deal late last night to acquire Freescale Semiconductor, a former unit of Motorola, for more than $16 billion, according to people briefed on the negotiations. The deal, if completed …
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Wi-Fi Networking News, Tech Confidential Blog, Blogging Stocks, InfoWorld Tech Watch and Slashdot
Business 2.0:
Suddenly everything's coming up widgets — Breaking down the Web into small, portable pieces is the smart trend that everyone from Nokia to Google is betting on. — (Business 2.0) — Ed Anuff spent nearly eight years building portals for large corporations.
Michael Totty / Wall Street Journal:
The Winners Are... Computer systems are notoriously finicky. They'll hum along just fine and then unaccountably slow down, freeze up or stop working altogether. Finding the cause of some unexplained problem is difficult and time-consuming, especially with complicated systems in real-life settings.
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:
NBC aims at surge in digital activities — NBC Universal is planning a rapid acceleration of its digital activities in the hope of increasing online revenues five-fold by 2009. — The plans will centre on a redesign of iVillage, the women's website bought for $600m in March …
Phil Bradley / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Interesting Items Module: Recommend Searches, Pages & Gadgets — Google has added an Interesting items for you module to the personalized home page interface as noted in the Google Operating System blog. Google works with your own searches and attempts to find other things that will be of interest to you.
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Fred Bierman / New York Times:
Are You Breaking Up? A Cellphone Original Comedy Is Calling — Television viewers may not know Donick Cary's name, but they've probably laughed at his jokes. — As a writer for "Late Show With David Letterman" from 1992 to 1997 and as a writer and producer for "The Simpsons," …
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IP Democracy
Business Week:
Helping Big Brother Go High Tech — Cisco, Oracle, and other U.S. companies are supplying China's police with software and gear that can be used to keep tabs on criminals and dissidents — Google, (GOOG ) Yahoo!, (YHOO ) and Microsoft (MSFT ) endured a wave of public disapproval earlier …
SeekingAlpha Internet Stocks:
Yahoo Finance Now Carries All Seeking Alpha Articles — Yahoo Finance Now Carries Seeking Alpha Articles — Today is a big day for Seeking Alpha and its contributors. Yahoo! Finance now carries Seeking Alpha stock market content, accessible from Yahoo!'s stock quote pages and other areas of its site.
USA Today:
Gas-line broadband a pipe dream? — So intense is the drive to deliver high-speed Internet service to American homes that entrepreneurs have seemingly tapped every conceivable pathway: fiber-optic cable, the air, even power lines. — Now the relentless pursuit for faster …
