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1:30 PM ET, April 10, 2007

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Takes Partial Ownership Of Maxthon Browser  —  Multiple sources are confirming that the Chinese/Israeli startup behind the Maxthon Browser has sold a minority stake to Google.  The total investment size is rumored to be around $1 million.  We are also hearing that this investment is part of a …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Salesforce.com Brings Web 2.0 To The Enterprise With ContentExchange  —  Today Salesforce.com announced a new product called Salesforce ContentExchange, a content management product for unstructured data such as email and html.  They also publicly announced the acquisition of Koral …
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Matt Moore / Mail&Guardian:
European papers optimistic on future — with web's help  —  Are newspapers set to become yesterday's news?  Don't count on it, say editors at some of Europe's iconic publications.  —  The pressures on the industry — in Europe as in the United States — are prodigious …
Discussion: paidContent.org and The Media Age
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Robert Andrews / paidContent.org:   European Newspapers 'Optimistic' About Print And Digital
iProspect:
iProspect Social Networking User Behavior Study  —  Background and Definitions  —  In January 2007, iProspect partnered with independent research firm JupiterResearch to develop a series of survey questions focused on how the U.S. online population utilizes several of the most popular social …
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
MySpace Store Looks Promising?
Discussion: Social Media Club
BBC:
Weblogs 'need content warnings'  —  Readers should be warned when they are reading blogs that may contain "crude language", a draft blogging code of conduct has suggested.  —  The code was drawn up by web pioneer Tim O'Reilly following published threats and perceived harassment to US developer Kathy Sierra on blogs.
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Palm prepping its own Linux-based OS  —  Just a few years late, Palm is finally getting ready to land its users onto a modern Palm-built OS.  Ed Colligan, in his Investor Day keynote today, announced that Palm will be launching a homegrown Linux-based OS by the end of the year …
Discussion: PalmAddicts, Wireless Doc and digg
Charles Starrett / iLounge:
i-Dog gets 'Spider-Man' makeover  —  Tiger Electronics, maker of the i-Dog, is releasing two new versions of the musical toy, both inspired by the upcoming Sony Pictures release "Spider-Man 3."  The aptly-named Spi-Dog, available now for $40, retains the music response features and built …
Discussion: Engadget, I4U News and Ubergizmo
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Disney Mobile shares subscriber stats  —  Disney Mobile will soon celebrate its first anniversary, and the mobile virtual network operator is providing some statistics to show how consumers are using the service.  —  In a press release issued over the weekend, the company said 30 percent …
Paul Lewis / Guardian:
Wilfing on the web, the new British pastime  —  It is the virtual equivalent of window-shopping, and a lot of us seem to be spending a lot of time doing it.  "Wilfing" - or surfing the web without any real purpose - has become a new national pastime, according to a survey out today.
Discussion: Rough Type
Ephraim Schwartz / InfoWorld:
Search fatigue … A year ago March, Neil Holloway, president of Microsoft's Europe, Middle East, and Africa operations, boasted about how good Microsoft's search engine would become in six months.  —  "What we're saying is that in six months' time we'll be more relevant in the U.S. market place than Google.
Discussion: Channel 9
Alertbox:
Breadcrumb Navigation Increasingly Useful … Not all design decisions are a matter of website survival.  Of course, it's important to get the big things right, or you won't have any users.  But getting the small things right enhances usability and fosters user comfort.  A perfect example here is the breadcrumb trail.
Business 2.0:
Employers take widgets to work  —  Webified mini-apps have taken the blog world by storm.  Now new versions are getting ready to launch on corporate desktops, Business 2.0 Magazine reports.  —  (Business 2. Magazine) — Most technologies these days are spawned in the consumer world …
Discussion: Business 2.0 Beta and GigaOM
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
PG&E sees plug-in hybrids as potential profit centers  —  SUNNYVALE, Calif.—Plug-in hybrids could one day turn motorists into energy traders, according to Pacific Gas & Electric.  —  The utility demonstrated on Monday a twist on the concept of the plug-in hybrid, which uses a higher capacity battery …
Katie Hafner / New York Times:
A Photo Trove, a Mounting Challenge  —  In some sense, the iconic photograph of Rosa Parks recreating her quiet act of rebellion on a bus in Montgomery, Ala., belongs to every American.  But as a practical matter, it belongs to Bill Gates.  —  Anyone wanting to use that image in a book …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Vista: Whatever happened to fast boot?  —  Anyone else remember when Microsoft used to talk about making Windows Vista (or Longhorn, as it was then known) a fast-booting operating system.  Fast, as in cold boots that were 50 percent faster than those possible with Windows XP?  —  Something obviously went awry.
 
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
AACS hacked to expose Volume ID: WinDVD patch irrelevant
Discussion: Gadget Lab
MediaShift:
BALL STATE VISIT  —  Journalism Education Stuck in Same Oldthink Mode as Big Media
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Widevine to Offer Flash DRM 'Holy Grail'
Discussion: Mashable! and Ryan Stewart
Gizmodo:
Gizmodo's Long-Ass Nokia N95 Review: Why it Rocks, Why it Sucks
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
YouTube Has Pop-Ups Ads
Discussion: Business 2.0 Beta
Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
iTunes streamed to your phone? Possibly
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