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Ryan Olson / Red Herring:
Google Agrees to Buy Adscape — Search king to pay $23 million for in-game advertising startup. — Google has made a foray into in-game advertising for video games with an agreement to acquire Adscape Media for $23 million, sources familiar with the matter said Thursday.
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Justin Haugh / Official Google Reader Blog:
One subscriber, two subscribers, three... When building a product, your top priority should always be the needs of your users. Here on the Google Reader team, we pride ourselves in being responsive to the complaints and feature requests of those who read feeds using our service.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:Google Reader Reporting Subscriber Numbers, Offers New Publishers Guide
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple to re-enter the sub-notebook market — A tiny sub-notebook on its way from Apple Inc. is expected to re-establish the Mac maker as a leader in the field of compact computing while drawing parallels to the legendary PowerBook 2400 along the way. — It's been nearly ten years since …
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Zulfikar Ramzan / symantec.com:
Drive-By Pharming: How Clicking on a Link Can Cost You Dearly — I wanted to talk about a recent new attack, called Drive-By Pharming, which I co-developed with Sid Stamm and Markus Jakobsson of the Indiana University School of Informatics. It allows attackers to create a Web page that …
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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Hack lets intruders sneak into home routers — If you haven't changed the default password on your home router, let this recent threat serve as a reminder. — Attackers could change the configuration of home routers using JavaScript code, security researchers at Indiana University and Symantec have discovered.
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
OLPC project to ship first 2,500 units for testing — Following the success of initial trials, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project plans to roll out a total of 2,500 units later this month for the next stage of testing. — Recipients of the upcoming test units include Argentina …
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Dan Nystedt / InfoWorld:
One million OLPC laptop orders confirmed — San Francisco (IDGNS) - Quanta Computer, the world's largest contract laptop PC manufacturer, already has confirmed orders for one million notebook PCs for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, a company representative said Thursday.
New York Times:
Viewers Fast-Forwarding Past Ads? Not Always — People with digital video recorders like TiVo never watch commercials, right? — Add that to the list of urban — and suburban — myths. — It turns out that a lot of people with digital video recorders are not fast-forwarding and time-shifting as much as advertisers feared.
John Markoff / New York Times:
Microsoft Plays Down a Sales Lift From Vista — Wall Street analysts are being too optimistic about sales of Windows Vista, Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, told financial analysts in New York on Thursday. — Vista, the latest version of the Windows operating system …
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I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
Appeerances Can Be Deceiving — The new Apple TV media extender is supposed to ship this month, perhaps even by the time you read this column, and if you are like me you are wondering what that 40-gig hard drive is doing inside. I'm guessing we won't know for sure until later this year …
Successforce Blog:
Salesforce's IdeaExchange, Yahoo! Suggestions, Feedlounge & Wordpress Ideas - What Do They Have in Common? — Yahoo Suggestions launched today with much blogospheric fanfare and an undeserved drubbing from the Digg crowd. I think it's great validation of what we've been doing on the IdeaExchange …
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Macrovision sends pretty lies to Steve Jobs — The CEO of Macrovision has sent an open letter to Steve Jobs telling him off for speaking out against DRM. Macrovision is a company that makes abusive DRMs (the system that stops you from hooking up your VCR and your DVD player in series …
Mike / Techdirt:
Carlos Mencia Claims Copyright Infringement On Comedian Who Accuses Mencia Of Stealing Jokes — from the ah,-the-tangled-web-we-weave dept — Another day, another convoluted DMCA claim. Earlier this week, one of the hot stories getting passed around was how comedian (and Fear Factor host) …
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Silicon Valley Meets 'American Idol' With Prizes to Inspire Inventors — FACING down stiff competition to win fame and big prize money? Forget singing for Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul. Try sequencing DNA for a panel of technology investors. — Yes, something like an "American Idol" …
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
FreeYourID: Personalized OpenID — FreeYourID is a new web service that allows users to register a personal .Name domain name which in turn can be used as an OpenID identifier, website URL and email host. Your domain name will be in the format of first.last.name and the domain can then be directed …
Joe / Techdirt:
More Questions Raised About Google's Sweetheart Deal In North Carolina — from the sweeter-and-sweeter dept — Recently, we pointed to a story suggesting that Google, like Microsoft in its early days, still has a thing or two to learn about dealing with politicians.
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BBC:
Digital neighbourhood watch plan — A neighbourhood watch for the digital age, utilising the power of social networking, has been proposed. — Two lecturers in the US have suggested creating a network of Community Response Grids (CRG) in conjunction with the emergency services.
Will Sullivan / Journerdism:
AJC explodes the newsroom, makes MAJOR changes; Study says: Ya gotsta spend money to make it; Newpaper's public record database nets 4 million hits in less than three months; Teaching multimedia tips — February 16th, 2007 — 80 voluntary buyouts. Reorganizing the newsroom structure …
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Matt / mattwaite.com:
Not my job doesn't exist anymore in newspapers — Back in January, Mindy McAdams wrote an empassioned post titled Getting (and keeping) a job in journalism. Worth reading (again) if you haven't. I was thinking about that post today, because I had one of those strange days in journalism …
