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WordPress.com:
OpenID — You can now use your WordPress.com blog as an OpenID. — Are you fed up with having to remember dozens of usernames and password? Does the idea of creating yet another account on yet another site leave you cold? — OpenID is a new standard that hopes to alleviate some of the pain …
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
New iTunes version still not fully Vista-ready — A new version of Apple's iTunes software released Monday addresses a number of compatibility issues with Microsoft's Windows Vista, but a few problems remain. — The updated version supports the upcoming Apple TV product and includes …
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CyberNet Technology News, Engadget, Neowin.net, Podcasting News, Macsimum News, Gadget Lab and Alice Hill's Real Tech News
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Inside Google Desktop:
The New Sidebar and Gadgets — With the dramatically increasing amount of content out there, you need better ways to find relevant information, whether searching your computer or reading the latest headlines in sidebar. How could we improve the way you stay up-to-date with sidebar and gadgets?
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Karen / Official Google Blog:New and improved Desktop — For the past several months …
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Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek:
Forrester Report Claims R&D Studies Are Biased — Despite U.S. spending of almost $300 billion on knowledge, the analyst firm found common flaws: bias, flawed analysis, and shortsightedness. — National investments in innovation are largely wasted and technology studies confirm the political …
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Brian Crecente / Kotaku:
GDC07: EA Signs Harmonix — Maxim's Big Buck Hunter Girlies — Arcade game Big Buck Hunter Pro makes its way into America's favorite jubblie-glossy Maxim Magazine this month. Turn to page 34, and the cabinet's in the "Good" section of "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" column. Those plastic shotguns?
BBC:
Microsoft attacks Google on books — Microsoft is to launch an attack on Google, saying the search giant's rival book-scanning service "systematically violates copyright". — Since December, Microsoft's project - Live Search Books - has allowed users to access certain publications which were no longer under copyright.
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Exclusive: Microsoft and the Associated Press Teaming with Thousands of Newspapers and Broadcasters in New Online Video Network — The Associated Press, the world's largest news organization, and Microsoft have developed an online video platform for thousands of U.S. newspapers …
Business Wire:
Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0 Goes Windows Mobile — Yahoo! and HTC Announce Partnership to Distribute Yahoo! Go 2.0 on Millions of Windows Mobile-Based Devices — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Continuing to redefine the mobile Internet experience for millions of consumers around the world …
Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Commodore set to introduce high-end gaming PCs — Commodore's big beige glory days may be long past, but the familiar name is still out there kicking (such as it is), lending its considerable cachet to an array of otherwise unremarkable devices. Now the company appears to have decided …
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Paul Kapustka / GigaOM:
Does Presence really matter? — Is the idea of "presence" really one of the next steps in communications applications, or is it just a fancy way of not having to answer your phone? — Alec Saunders, one of the founders of VoIP presence software startup iotum, definitely hopes it's the former …
Live Search's WebLog:
Breaking Out of the Browser — Got Vista? Then check out these two Live Search gadgets for your Vista Sidebar and stop waiting for that browser to load! Today we're announcing the launch of two new gadgets that bring some of the most popular Live Search services directly to your desktop:
Adam Green / Feedonomics:
$1.5M Series A, Dan Bricklin joins Board, Version 1.1 of Grazr.com — I know I've been pretty quiet here, but behind the scenes lots of things have been happening. I probably should spread this into multiple posts, but I'll just lay it out briefly here and then go into details over the next few days.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
BT to Invest in FON? — FON, the Spanish share-your-Wi-Fi services company, is close to announcing a new round of funding that could total to as much as 10 million Euros (shade over $13 million.) — While some of its existing investors - Index Ventures, Skype and Google …
Peter Sayer / InfoWorld:
France bans citizen journalists from reporting violence — Law could lead to imprisonment of amateur videographers and Web site operators who publish their images — The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists.
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, 27B Stroke 6, Techdirt, 901am, Lost Remote, Between the Lines and Slashdot
Microsoft:
Microsoft Research Unveils More Than 100 Innovations for Future of Computing — Researchers introduce new technologies to explore distant galaxies, bring friends and co-workers closer, and teach kids the magic of programming. — Whether it's helping people discover distant planets online …
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Scribd "YouTube for Documents" Gets $300K — Scribd, a site for sharing documents, is coming out of private beta this morning with a fresh Angel investment of $300K on top of their original Y Combinator nest egg of $12,000. Scribd is most easily described as a text version of YouTube.
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
AT&T turns cell phones into TV remotes — AT&T Homezone subscribers are now able to program their digital video recorders from their cell phones. — AT&T said that starting Tuesday, it will allow customers of its Homezone product, a service that offers video-on-demand and other content …
mamamusings:
why twitter matters — I'm completely fascinated by Twitter right now—in much the same way I was by blogging four years ago, and by ICQ years before that. — If you haven't tried it yet, Twitter is a site that allows you to post one-line messages about what you're currently doing—via the web interface, IM, or SMS.
