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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: MySpace News Launches Thursday — On Thursday morning MySpace will launch its much rumored news property at news.myspace.com. Expect the site to go live and a press release to be issued around 7 am EST. — The news property is built on Newroo technology, a company they acquired in early 2006 for a rumored $7 million.
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Screenwerk, Download Squad, paidContent.org, Susan Mernit's Blog, parislemon, Epicenter, CrunchGear, John Furrier, Startup Meme, Online Media Cultist, CyberNet Technology News, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Search Engine Journal, Techscape, The Boy Genius Report, The Blogging Times, rexduffdixon.com, InfoWorld Tech Watch and Media 3.0 with Shelly Palmer
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Joseph Menn / Los Angeles Times:
MySpace visitors to vote on what's news — Leave it to the folks behind "American Idol" to ask tens of millions of MySpace visitors to vote for their favorite news story. — News Corp., which owns the world's top social-networking website as well as the Fox television network …
Times of London:
MySpace takes on Google News and Digg — MySpace is going into the news business with a service that will scour the internet for news stories and let users vote on which ones receive the most exposure. — This approach blends elements of Google News and sites such as Digg and Netscape …
experiangroup.com:
Acquisition of Hitwise — Experian, the global information solutions company, announces that it has acquired Hitwise, a leading Internet marketing intelligence company, which helps clients monitor the performance of their websites and target their online advertising spend more effectively.
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Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Hitwise Acquired by Experian for $240 Million — All of those great charts that Hitwise so freely provide us, have paid off big time for the web intelligence company. Information services provider Experian has announced their cash purchase of Hitwise for $240 million.
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O'Reilly Radar, Marshall Kirkpatrick, alarm:clock, Liberate Media, Epicenter, ben barren and TechFold
BBC:
Microsoft aims to double PC base — Microsoft software will sell for just $3 (£1.50) in some parts of the world in an attempt to double the number of global PC users. — The firm wants to bring computing to a further one billion people by 2015. — Governments in developing countries …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Announces Commitment to Promote Sustained Social and Economic Opportunity for the Next 5 Billion People — Company unveils affordable education suite for young people in developing nations and announces plans for 90 new Innovation Centers to promote local software ecosystems.
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Digital Markets, Don Dodge on The Next …, InfoWorld, Hardware 2.0, Guardian Unlimited and Paul Mooney
Ubuntu Releases:
Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) — Select an image — Ubuntu is distributed on three types of images described below. — Desktop CD — The desktop CD allows you to try Ubuntu without changing your computer at all, and at your option to install it permanently later. This type of CD is what most people will want to use.
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Candace Lombardi / CNET News.com:
Is the pen still mighty in the computer age? — Your grandchildren may use a stylus on a tablet PC instead of a Bic on tablet paper, but they will continue to write. — That's because even in an era when elementary school students are adept at mousing and teenagers are fiends at text-messaging …
Joshua Porter / Bokardo:
The Blog is the New Resume — Bokardoan Adam Darowski suggests that the blog is the new resume. I think he's absolutely right...whenever anyone wants to know anything about me I send them here. — This immediately brings several things to bear: — Your blog represents you. — Represent!
Bruce Schneier / Wired News:
How Security Companies Sucker Us With Lemons — More than a year ago, I wrote about the increasing risks of data loss because more and more data fits in smaller and smaller packages. Today I use a 4-GB USB memory stick for backup while I am traveling. I like the convenience, but if I lose the tiny thing I risk all my data.
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nycdotnetdev.com:
Interfacing External Hardware Using Managed Code and Microsoft Robotics Studio — You must register at http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id= 117792 in order to be admitted to the building and attend. — While developers write code to build software every day, not often are they exposed to code that drives and interfaces hardware.
AT&T:
AT&T Launches Mobile Remote Access for AT&T U-verse TV U-verse Customers Can Now Program Their DVR With Wireless Phones From AT&T — AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) today announced that AT&T U-verse customers can now schedule and manage their U-verse TV recordings from AT&T wireless phones and devices.
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Sony admits, fixes problem with DVD DRM — Sony has said that it will replace a number of DVDs that caused problems for many of its customers. 20 DVD titles were affected by the glitch—including the movies Casino Royal, Rocky Balboa, and Stranger Than Fiction—which was caused by Sony's ARccOS copy protection on the discs.
BBC:
Colour barcode system to hit DVDs — A colour barcode system holding more data than current codes will find its way onto DVDs later this year. — The four and eight-colour geometric patterns can hold up to two-pages of data, double the amount of traditional black and white, striped barcodes
Bilal Hameed / Startup Meme:
Microsoft Sells 20 Million Copies Of Vista WorldWide, 244 in China — Windows Vista, the much touted and hyped operating system from Microsoft that was long over due, is now out in the market for more than 2 months. Microsoft announced a month back that Vista sales-licenses sold to PC manufacturers …
Yoshiko Hara / EE Times:
Hitachi bets on 85-inch PDP TV — TOKYO — Hitachi Ltd. announced Wednesday (April 18) that it aims to increase its global market share for large-sized plasma display panel TVs with the addition of an 85-inch model to its line. — "As the number of PDP players is limited …
