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Seth Schiesel / New York Times:
Sony to Add Online Bells and Whistles for PlayStation 3 — Moving to enhance its PlayStation 3 game console, Sony today plans to announce new online capabilities for it, meant to draw gamers into Sony's cyberspace community and allow them to share entertainment content they have created, à la YouTube.
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
PlayStation Home revealed — Good news for the PlayStation camp, full details of Sony's PlayStation Home have been revealed, and it ain't no slacker. Alongside those avatars and achievements we heard about earlier, the "service" seems to be a new-gen Second Life killer, with public hangouts …
Jared Rea / Joystiq:
PlayStation Home, the free virtual world of PlayStation 3 — Sony has validated the "blackball rumor" with the unveiling of PlayStation Home — a free to download, virtual world for the PlayStation 3. While earlier murmurings mentioned customizable avatars and achievements …
Tim Hames / Times of London:
YouTube banned in Turkey after video insults — A court in Istanbul has issued an order denying access to the video-sharing website YouTube. The state owned Turk Telecom implemented the ban today after an escalating dispute between Greek and Turkish users of the site.
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Karen / Official Google Blog:
Google Maps Send to Car — On the Google Maps team, our goal is not only to help you find local businesses, but also to enable you to quickly connect with those businesses, wherever you are. To that end, we recently introduced the ability to call businesses in the U.S. directly from Google Maps …
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Reuters:
Friendster makes Google its ad and search supplier — SAN FRANCISCO, March 6 (Reuters) - Friendster Inc. named Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile , Research) as its exclusive advertising and Web search provider, part of a plan by the originator of the social network craze to expand globally, the company said on Tuesday.
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Search Engine Journal, Good Morning Silicon Valley, WebProNews, Google Watch and Search Engine Land
George Ou:
Choosing between Vista x86 32 bit or x64 64 bit — One of the more common questions I hear about Vista is which bit version of Windows Vista should one get. Do we go with x86 32 bit edition or x64 64 bit edition? I'm going to try to clear that question up as best as I can and explain the pros and cons of each choice.
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JD on EP
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Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:FAA May Ditch Microsoft's Windows Vista And Office For Google And Linux Combo
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Good Morning Silicon Valley, Zoli's Blog, The Mac Observer, Gadgetell, InsideMicrosoft, digg and Slashdot
BBC:
Robotic age poses ethical dilemma — An ethical code to prevent humans abusing robots, and vice versa, is being drawn up by South Korea. — The Robot Ethics Charter will cover standards for users and manufacturers and will be released later in 2007. — It is being put together …
Donna Bogatin / Digital Markets:
Yahoo HotJobs needs Craigslist to fill hot jobs at Yahoo — Who says $42 billion market cap Yahoo wishes "free" classifieds Craigslist wasn't disrupting its HotJobs online recruitment business? — In touting its for (big) fee recruiting services to employers, Yahoo HotJobs proclaims:
Google Watch:
Mark Cuban's Magnolia Pictures Subpoenas Google over Pirated Videos — Magnolia Pictures, an independent film studio owned by entrepreneur Mark Cuban, has subpoenaed Google to reveal the identities of users who uploaded Magnolia's copyrighted videos to both Google Video and YouTube, Google Watch has learned.
John Markoff / New York Times:
Searching for Michael Jordan? Microsoft Wants a Better Way — Internet searching was at the forefront of the technologies that Microsoft displayed on Tuesday at an event intended to showcase the company's research prowess. — Despite a lack of visible progress in catching up with Google …
Evan Blass / Engadget:
Hands-on with Vulcan's Flipstart handheld PC — The Vulcan Flipstart is one of those products that just gets you juiced up about gadgets, because really, what's more gadgety than a full-fledged computer that you can slide into a coat pocket? There was a short while there (2003 to 2007) …
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Business Wire:
Superpages.com Enhances Mapping Functionality As Local Search Continues to Grow in Popularity — DALLAS—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Superpages.com, a product of Idearc Media Corp., today strengthens its mapping functionality with an enhanced map-based search application.
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Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
Using Amazon S3 as an Image Hosting Service — In Reducing Your Website's Bandwidth Usage, I concluded that my best outsourced image hosting option was Amazon's S3 or Simple Storage Service. — S3 is a popular choice for startups. For example, SmugMug uses S3 as their primary data storage source.
Gartenberg / GartenBlog:
And Back to Analyst... This is a difficult post to write. But after much of thought, I have decided not to remain with Microsoft and I am returning to JupiterResearch as of Monday 3/12. — At my core, I am an analyst. It's what I do and I do it well and after much thought …
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
TiVo goes live with Amazon Unbox partnership — TiVo subscribers now have direct access to the Amazon.com's Unbox movie and TV download service on their digital video recorders, the companies said Wednesday. — The partnership was originally unveiled last month, and a number of TiVo users …
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Darren Waters / BBC:
Google helps terabyte data swaps — Technology editor, BBC News website, San Francisco — Google is developing a program to help academics around the world exchange huge amounts of data. — The firm's open source team is working on ways to physically transfer huge data sets up to 120 terabytes in size.
