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Scott Kirsner / Variety:
Academy threatens YouTube — Site removes unauthorized Oscar clips — Web surfers will no longer be reliving the magic moments of the 2007 Oscarcast via YouTube. The vid-viewing site complied with a Tuesday request from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to remove all unauthorized clips of the kudocast.
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Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
Oscars.com vs Youtube.com and the value of hosting on Gootube — Comscore released data saying that 139k people visited Oscar.com on Oscar Sunday. Seperately, Mashable reported that the Oscars asked Youtube to remove videos from the show that had been uploaded.
Mike / Techdirt:
Publishing Houses Think That Expensive, Fragmented And Limited Book Search Is Better Than Letting Google And Amazon Do It? — from the please-explain dept — Book publishers have been pretty vocal in their dislike for Google's plan to scan books and make them searchable via …
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Mike / Techdirt:
Silicon Valley Tech Policy Summit Has Plenty Of Tech Policy... Not Much Silicon Valley — from the where-is-everyone dept — On Monday, I attended the Silicon Valley Tech Policy Summit, and wrote about a few of the panels and talks at the event. While the list of speakers was impressive …
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Tom Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher:Low turnout for Silicon Valley Tech Policy Summit - do tech …
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:Tech Policy Summit: Silicon Valley missing in action
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Karen / Official Google Blog:
Stuck in traffic? — There's nothing worse than getting stuck in traffic when you have some place to go, so I'm happy to tell you about a new feature on Google Maps that can help. For more than 30 major U.S. cities, you can now see up-to-date traffic conditions to help you plan your schedule and route.
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:Google Maps Tailgates Yahoo, Microsoft With Real-Time Traffic Info
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Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
IBM teams up with Google over gadgets — IBM and Google are teaming up to bring mini applications called gadgets from the consumer Web to corporate networks. — The two tech giants on Wednesday are expected to announce a partnership that will allow business users to access Google gadgets from IBM's WebSphere Portal software.
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Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar:
Google's Gadget Numbers Revealed — Widget developers take note. If you weren't certain the development time for a widget would be worthwhile or not the numbers are in. Google has released the daily rendering numbers of Google gadgets. To see the numbers for an individual gadget go to the Gadgets For Your Webpage directory.
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
A cure for e-mail attention disorder? — Corporate managers concerned about the amount of time employees spend sifting though mountains of unwanted e-mail may soon have World of Warcraft to thank for providing a solution. — That's because a Palo Alto, Calif.-based start-up called Seriosity …
DigiTimes:
Intel to adjust CPU pricing — A Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report is indicating that Intel plans to cut prices for selective single-core Pentium 4 (P4) and entry-level dual-core CPUs in the range of 5-10% before April 22. — Intel had originally planned to introduce …
MSFTextrememakeover:
Limbo, limbo, like kimbo — A limbo is, among other things, a West Indian dance in which the dancers keep bending over backward and passing under a pole that is lowered slightly each time. Substituting the stock for the pole (or bending over for that matter), that sounds remarkably like the fate of MSFT shareholders.
Enterprise Open Source / ENTERPRISE OPEN SOURCE …:
How Open Is "Open"? - Industry Luminaries Join the Debate — Need an "open source" company nowadays merely be "a company that will help you make the switch to open source in your company"? — Nat Torkington raised this week the very real question of whether the term "open source" …
CNET News.com:
Adobe to take Photoshop online — Hoping to get a jump on Google and other competitors, Adobe Systems plans to release a hosted version of its popular Photoshop image-editing application within six months, the company's chief executive said on Tuesday. — The new online service is part …
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Jo Best / Business Week:
Nokia Tops in 2006 Smartphone Sales — Despite its underperformance in North America, the Finnish tech giant took 48% of market share. RIM came in second — 2006 was the year of the converged device with 80 million smart phones shipped worldwide, according to analysts …
BBC:
Fragrant future beckons for web — Within a decade the net will be able to deliver smells as fast as it does data, predicts a report. — The forecast came in a wide-ranging survey produced by the South Korean government to find out what consumers will want from future technologies.
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Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
The Online-Video Takedown Smackdown — Filmmakers say their material is being unfairly removed from video-sharing sites, accusing Viacom and its ilk of censorship — Amateur filmmaker Matt Hawes thought his video spoof of MTV's The Real World was sufficiently funny to get noticed on YouTube.
