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David Pogue / New York Times:
TiVo Plays a Trump Card: Web Smarts — What is it with the rash of new set-top boxes lately? One recent box brings the best of the Internet to your TV screen, like podcasts, Web videos and Internet radio. Another one is a video recorder that you can operate from anywhere in the world …
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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Trash TechCrunch And Win A Free Pass To The Web 2.0 Expo — We've gotten our hands on three free passes to the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco on April 15-18, valued at $1,500 each. We traded these passes for excess advertising inventory on our sites, and our plan is to give them away to readers.
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Wagner James Au / GigaOM:
Marketing in Second Life doesn't work... here is why! — Last week, the Hamburg-based research firm Komjuniti published the first extensive survey of Resident attitudes toward real world marketing in Second Life. It's been a long time in coming: a British branding agency established …
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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Mike / Techdirt:
Verizon Wireless Slowly, Quietly, Backing Away From Misleading Claims Of Unlimited Service — from the shhhh...-don't-tell-anyone dept — For years, Verizon Wireless has been pushing its EVDO wireless internet service as "unlimited" — but then cutting off users if they passed some unknown, unstated "cap."
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Intel:
Intel Serves Up 'Pro' To Go — Intel® Centrino® Pro Gives IT Managers Wireless Management and Security Capabilities — Under a new brand called Intel® Centrino® Pro processor technology, Intel Corporation today announced it will extend its innovative and popular features designed …
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Knowledge@Wharton:
The Man Who Would Change Microsoft: Ray Ozzie's Vision for Connected Software — Ray Ozzie has a long and storied history of technological innovation, with accomplishments that include creating Lotus Notes and founding Groove Networks. But Ozzie may now be facing the most daunting challenge of his career …
Wall Street Journal:
Ask.Com's 'Revolt' Risks Costly Clicks — Web Users Feel Duped — In U.K. Campaign — LONDON — Internet-search site Ask.com has adopted a risky advertising strategy in Britain: highlighting the huge popularity of rival Google Inc. — The goal of the campaign is to convince consumers …
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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Search Engine Watch Blog, WebProNews, Mashable!, Search Engine Land, HipMojo.com and davidrothman.net
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John Leyden / The Register:
WEP key wireless cracking made easy — Code breakers have discovered a technique for extracting a 104-bit Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) key in under a minute. — Cryptographic weaknesses with the first generation wireless encryption standard have been known for years …
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Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar:
Google Launches MyMaps — Tonight Google launched MyMaps. It adds the ability to create and share maps directly from Google's site (you can see a map that I created above). These maps will be added to Google geoindex and will be available to search in Google Earth and in Local Search.
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.
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Guardian:
Can the internet be truly neutral? — Net Neutrality is dividing opinion. For some it is a cause worth fighting for, but others claim it's a red herring that's impeding progress. Andrew Orlowski investigates — In a much celebrated remark, a senior Bush administration aide told journalist Ron Suskind …
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The Navel of the Internet
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Windows cursor patch causing trouble — Installing Microsoft's Tuesday patch for a "critical" Windows vulnerability is causing trouble for some users. — Microsoft broke with its monthly patch cycle Tuesday to repair a bug in the way Windows handles animated cursors.
Nopporn Wong-Anan / Reuters:
Thailand blocks YouTube for clip mocking king — BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's military-appointed government blocked access to on-line video-sharing Web site YouTube on Wednesday after its owner, Google Inc., declined to withdraw a video clip mocking the country's revered monarch.
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Dsifry / Sifry's Alerts:
The State of the Live Web, April 2007 — Hey, it's that time again, time to slow down, take a deep breath, and dig into the data! — About this Report, and the Obligatory Plug for Technorati — Technorati is known widely for its quarterly State of the Blogosphere reports, analyzing the trends around blogs and blogging.
Reginald Braithwaite / Raganwald:
Don't have a COW, man? What Haskell teaches us about writing Enterprise-scale software — Berlin Brown asked: … Yes, I use what I read on programming.reddit.com in my day job. That's one of the reasons I have this day job: it's part of what I do to sift through all of the cool stuff and find the things that are practical today.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Thunderbird 2.0 To Launch This Week - Interview with Scott MacGregor, Lead Engineer — By the end of this week, the Thunderbird 2.0 Release Candidate will be launched. Thunderbird is Mozilla's open source desktop email client, similar to Microsoft Outlook in features.
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TechSpot News
Business Wire:
Monster Worldwide Comments on Expected First Quarter and Full Year 2007 Results — NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Monster Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ:MNST - News) said today that based on preliminary data available at this time, revenue for the first quarter ended March 31, 2007 is expected …
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BARRONS.com
Gamasutra:
Llamas In Space: Catching Up with Llamasoft's Jeff Minter — Jeff Minter is an enduring testament to potential power of independent games. He's been operating on his own terms for the last 25 years, and shows no sign of branching from his chosen path. Ever an industry anomaly …
Nick Fone / FWi - All News:
Lely unveils new Voyager robotic fencer for automated grazing control — A robotic grazing control system for dairy cows has been developed by Lely. — The Dutch company already has Astronaut milking robots and Discovery robotic muck-scrapers in its armoury. The Voyager is the latest machine to join this high-tech line-up.
