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Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:
Yahoo! Alpha - Google Custom Search Engine Gets a Competitor — Yahoo!7 is about to release version 1.0 of Yahoo! Alpha beta - a new service that allows users to create personalized search engine homepage using an intuitive drag-n-drop interface. — Unlike Google Custom Search engine …
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Eric Savitz / BARRONS.com:
Yahoo Could Regret Not Paying Up For Facebook, Needham Says — One of the dark stains on Yahoo's (YHOO) track record is its decision not to buy Google (GOOG) when it had the chance. Needham's Mark May today wonders if the company has made a comparable error with its refusal to pay up for Facebook.
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Yahoo Launches Response to Google Co-op — The Digital Inspiration blog reports that Yahoo is launching Yahoo! Alpha. Ironically, it's called Alpha (beta). You can try it here on their AU domain. It's unclear if this is only going to be an Australian product or if Yahoo will roll it out more broadly.
Fred Vogelstein / Wired News:
How Yahoo Blew It … Terry Semel was pissed. The Yahoo CEO had offered to buy Google for roughly $3 billion, but the young Internet search firm wasn't interested. Once upon a time, Google's founders had come to Yahoo for an infusion of cash; now they were turning up their noses …
Bilal Hameed / Startup Meme:
Mozilla Transforming Into a Social Network — Mozilla labs has released some details about project Coop, an attempt to transform the browser into a social network. The product will allow Firefox users to "subscribe" to friends in the browser along with avatar representation …
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Co-existing with platform vendors — My experience with platform vendors... 1. I have been a platform vendor. — 2. I had to live within the platform of a huge vendor. — 3. I observed up-close how huge vendors dealt with developers in platforms I didn't develop for.
Kristen Nicole / Mashable!:Mozilla Labs Introduces the Coop: Turning the Browser into a Social Network
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:Don't build solely on another's technology... re: Flock
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Between the Lines
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Mozilla To Build Social Networking Into Firefox: Bad News For Flock
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Karen / Official Google Blog:
Search your Mac with Google Desktop — It seems like just yesterday that I was announcing the Google Mac blog. Since then, we've been working hard to deliver great products for Google users on Mac, including MacFUSE and Google Earth. Today, I'm really excited to let you know that Google Desktop is now available on the Mac!
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Scott Knaster / Official Google Mac Blog:
Google Desktop for Mac — People have been asking me since I started at Google what I've been working on, and until today, I've been unable to say. Now is the time to change all that and introduce the newest product from the Google MacEng team: Google Desktop for Mac (beta).
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:Hands on with the new Google Desktop for Mac
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Kostas Tzounopoulos / Zune-Online.com:
Zune for free with a phone-like plan? — According to Zune marketing director, Jason Reindorp, Microsoft is looking at using the Zune Pass subscription just like mobile phone providers use their plans. This means a future flash version of Zune, could be released for a low price or even for free with a Zune Pass subscription plan...
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft sees DRM-free music in Zune's future — Microsoft plans to follow Apple in selling unprotected songs from EMI, though the company won't say just when such tracks will appear on the Zune Marketplace store. — When CEO Steve Jobs issued his open letter calling for an end to DRM …
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Andy Patrizio / internetnews.com:
Intel Wheels and Deals Embedded Xeon Chips — Intel is marking its 30th anniversary in the embedded systems market with some new chips and a stylish new motorcycle from Orange County Choppers that employs embedded technologies. — The quarreling Teutul family, which achieved national fame …
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Ryan / CyberNet Technology News:
Verizon Admits that their Unlimited Data Plan is Limited to 5GB Per Month — Back in August of 2006 I wrote about a guy who had his unlimited Verizon EVDO Wireless Data Service canceled because buried deep into the Terms of Service (TOS) they mentioned some things that were unacceptable.
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Bill Kee / Google Talkabout:
Popouts, Buttons and Slideshows — As an engineer, one of my favorite aspects of delivering Google Talk through the web is that we can enhance it quickly. In fact, we updated the Google Talk Gadget today with a few new features: — (1) To make it easier to use Google Talk anywhere …
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Download Squad, Googling Google, Startup Meme, Googlified, WebProNews, Mashable! and Google Blogoscoped
Nick / Rough Type:
Amazon patents cybernetic mind-meld — As noted by Slashdot, Amazon.com was on March 27 granted a broad patent for computer systems that incorporate human beings into automated data processing - the type of cybernetic arrangement that underpins the company's Mechanical Turk service.
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Intel plans Centrino Pro for business notebooks — Brands are colliding over at Intel, with the company's decision to call its notebook management technology Centrino Pro. — Intel revealed plans to import the vPro desktop PC management technologies into notebooks last month, and plans to announce the official moniker on Wednesday.
Thomas Fuller / International Herald Tribune:
Web crackdown blocks YouTube in Thailand — BANGKOK: The military-appointed government of Thailand has blocked access to YouTube and several other Internet sites in a crackdown on material seen as denigrating the country's monarch, officials said Wednesday.
Samsung:
SAMSUNG Launches Silent and Speedy SpinPoint S166 Hard Disk Drive Series — Seoul, Korea - April 4, 2007 : Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a worldwide leader in digital consumer electronics and information technology, today announced its new SpinPoint S166 Series of ultra silent and high-speed hard disk drives.
