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John Markoff / New York Times:
Start-Up Aims for Database to Automate Web Searching — A new company founded by a longtime technologist is setting out to create a vast public database intended to be read by computers rather than people, paving the way for a more automated Internet in which machines will routinely share information.
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Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Freebase Will Prove Addictive — Danny Hillis' latest venture, Metaweb, is about to unveil its first product, the aptly named freebase, tomorrow. While freebase is still VERY alpha, with much of the basic functionality barely working, the idea is HUGE. In many ways, freebase is the bridge between …
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
MYSPACE NEWS: IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME [UPDATE] — MySpace is preparing to launch an integrated news service—with self-aggregating content and social bookmarking—in the coming weeks. MySpace members will be able to post the stories on their profiles, discuss, promote …
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Reuters:
MySpace goes all out for content — News Corp is "in very active negotiations with all the media companies" to bring their content to its MySpace property, the firm's top interactive-media executive said on Wednesday. — Currently, only shows from News Corp-owned Fox, such as 24 and Prison Break …
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Yahoo feels the pressure of AT&T alliance — By Kevin Allison in San Francisco and Paul Taylor in New York — Shares in Yahoo, the internet portal, were marked down more than 5 per cent on Friday morning after it emerged that AT&T is trying to renegotiate a five-year-old agreement under …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Yahoo, AT&T alliance on the rocks? — For five years it has been a perfect marriage: AT&T's DSL offering layered with Yahoo's consumer-friendly services. Yahoo provided SBC (now AT&T) with what it has never been able to figure out: how to make consumers happy!
I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
The Great Apple Video Encoder Attack of 2007 — Maybe you have wondered, as I have, why it takes a pretty robust notebook computer to play DVD videos, while Wal-Mart will sell you a perfectly capable progressive-scan DVD player from Philips for $38? In general, the dedicated DVD player …
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Seth Weintraub / Computerworld:
Why Apple's 'consumer' Macs are enterprise-worthy — Not everyone needs a Mac Pro; sometimes a mini might do — Not too long ago, ad agencies, design firms and other creative companies were about the only businesses that widely deployed Macintosh computers to their employees.
Carlo / Techdirt:
RIAA Gets Legislators To Threaten To Drop 'The Hammer' On Colleges and Universities — from the enough-already dept — The RIAA has been on a renewed push to target file-sharing college students lately, trying to push them into "discounted settlements" so the RIAA doesn't have to go to the trouble …
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Olga Kharif / Business Week:
What the Verizon Verdict Means for Vonage — The patent-infringement decision spells financial woe for Vonage and could stymie customer growth. It may also augur future legal headaches — Web-calling outfit Vonage suffered a major setback on Mar. 8 when an eight-person jury found it guilty …
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John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley:How do you call 911 on this thing again?
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San Jose Mercury News
John Markoff / New York Times:
Palm Responds to the iPhone — Palm Inc., the maker of hand-held computers, has hired a top Silicon Valley software designer as it seeks to respond to the challenge posed by Apple's new iPhone. — The designer, Paul Mercer, a former Apple computer engineer, began work three weeks ago …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Technorati 100: What's Hot in the Blogosphere — Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus — Earlier this week Emre wrote about declining traffic on Technorati and considered the exit options for this blog vertical search and portal site. The challenge from Google Blogsearch is certainly serious.
Mad4 Mobile Phones.com:
Patent: Google Phone knows what you want before you search — Our patent gurus have discovered an interesting patent filing from Google that could reveal the applications they are planning for the Google phone. Alternatively this technology could even debut in the iPhone when it is released in June.
Wall Street Journal:
Music's New Gatekeeper — From their Silicon Valley cubicles, Apple staffers have become music's unlikely power brokers. Our reporters on the horse-trading that can turn unknowns into stars. — Every day, the roughly one million people who visit the iTunes Store home page are presented …
Associated Press:
Ban on YouTube in Turkey Is Lifted — Turkey Lifts Its Ban on YouTube, 2 Days After a Court Ordered the Web Site Blocked — ISTANBUL, Turkey Mar 9, 2007 (AP)— Turkey lifted its ban on YouTube, an official for the country's largest telecommunications firm said Friday …
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Friday Fun: Weird Search Engines — While the serious talk today is about Freebase, a new next-gen search engine from Danny Hillis, it's the end of the week and so time for a bit of fun. Author of the popular Top Alternative Search Engines list, Charles Knight, flicked me an email this morning …
