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Google Talkabout:
Google Talk Gadget — We're thrilled to be launching a new way to use Google Talk today. The Google Talk Gadget is a web-based module that you can add to your Google Personalized Homepage, letting you see your friends and chat with them — all on your homepage.
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Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
GoogleTalk Gadget Added to Personal Pages — Google just announced integration of their instant messaging service, Google Talk, with Google IG, their personalized home page. The flash-based widget plugs into your Google Personal Home Page as an integrated buddy list and IM window.
Karen / Official Google Blog:
Taking steps to further improve our privacy practices — Posted by Peter Fleischer, Privacy Counsel-Europe, and Nicole Wong, Deputy General Counsel — When you search on Google, we collect information about your search, such as the query itself, IP addresses and cookie details.
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David Pogue / New York Times:
One Number That Will Ring All Your Phones — If you have only one telephone with one phone number, this column won't be of any interest to you. Skip to another article, you eccentric you. — But first, count your blessings. Millions of people have more than one phone number these days …
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Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch:David Pogue Profiles GrandCentral In the New York Times
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Salim Ismail To Head Yahoo Brickhouse — Yahoo Brickhouse, a new semi-autonomous business unit to foster new product development, is yet to be formally launched. They've been busy, though. Yahoo Pipes, which launched on February 7, is a Brickhouse project.
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Salim / You've Got Ismail!:
I join Yahoo.... Well, after a long hiatus from blogging, I have news. I have officially joined Yahoo!. We've been in talks for a while and it all came together recently. — Mike has the story over here. — At Yahoo, I'll be running the Brickhouse, the program spearheaded and created …
EFF: Breaking News:
DMCA Abuser Apologizes for Takedown Campaign — Michael Crook Agrees to Stop Attacks on Free Speech — San Francisco - Michael Crook, the man behind a string of meritless online copyright complaints, has agreed to withdraw those complaints, take a copyright law course …
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Wired News:
Wired Meets Assignment Zero — "We are the media." — The phrase is seemingly everywhere these days, debated in business offices by the media elite and emblazoned on T-shirts at popular events like the South by Southwest culture klatch. — Starting today, Wired is putting that claim — that challenge — to the test.
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Dave Winer / stories.scripting.com:
The future of Twitter? — I was introduced to Twitter last summer at a dinner at Henrietta's Table in Cambridge by Ross Mayfield. I posted two or three notes using my Blackberry that evening and never did it again. I still receive SMS's from Ross on a regular basis, but …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
SharePoint: The next big 'operating system' from Microsoft? — Many industry pundits have speculated as to whether Windows Vista is the last big-bang release of Windows. (The answer, as Microsoft officials have repeatedly stated, is no.) — I think they're asking the wrong question.
TiVo:
TIVO LAUNCHES REMOTE SCHEDULING WITH VERIZON WIRELESS — Verizon Wireless and TiVo Allow Subscribers to Schedule TV Recordings through Verizon Wireless Phones — Alviso , Calif. and Basking Ridge , N.J. — TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders …
Falafelkid / Wii:
BREAKING: No unified gamer tags or codes for Wii online — There will not be unified gamer tags or codes for Wii online games. Users will have to register with each title separately, as is already the case with the DS and the Wii's first online title, 'Pokemon Battle Revolution'.
Business Wire:
Skype Goes Beyond Voice and Introduces SkypeFind and Beta Version of Skype Prime — LUXEMBOURG—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Skype today announced Skype(TM) 3.1 for Windows, introducing SkypeFind(TM) and Skype Prime(TM) (Beta), giving people new ways to share knowledge with one another.
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Reuters:
Time Warner's AOL withdraws TradeDoubler bid — NEW YORK (Reuters) - AOL on Wednesday withdrew an estimated $900 million cash offer for Swedish online marketer TradeDoubler AB after failing to gain the approval of 90 percent of shareholders. — The acceptance deadline, extended once, expired on March 14.
Steve Hamm / Business Week:
Red Hat Launches Open-Source Exchange — The software company is unveiling an online marketplace for open-source developers—where Red Hat can sell support, and links to its own products — Ever since its launch in 1993, Red Hat (RHAT) has kept a laser-like focus on one thing …
BBC:
Microsoft hits 'cybersquatters' — Microsoft is pursuing five alleged UK-based cybersquatters in its battle against firms and individuals who have registered variations or misspellings of its key brands, such as Xbox. — It is already pursuing hundreds of lawsuits in the US and is now keen to extend its reach in Europe.
