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BBC:
Online TV viewing 'on the rise' — Almost half of European broadband users are using their computers to watch television online, a survey claims. — The ability to "take control" of their viewing was the motivation for many users said Motorola, which interviewed 2,500 people including the UK.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
45% of Europeans watch TV online — A new study from Motorola has found that an amazing 45% of Europeans now watch television online. — The survey covering the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Spain found that the French lead Europe in terms of online television consumption …
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification — As part of the monthly security bulletin release cycle, Microsoft provides advance notification to our customers on the number of new security updates being released, the products affected, the aggregate maximum severity and information about detection tools relevant to the update.
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Paul Kapustka / GigaOM:
FCC Chairman Martin to Telcos: No Blocking Iowa Calls — BREAKING: FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said Thursday that the commission told large telcos to stop blocking calls into numbers for the Iowa-based free calling operations, threatening punitive actions if the carriers didn't comply.
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
OLPC project clarifies: no plans for Windows support — Late last week the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project had a media event in Cambridge, and while I couldn't make the event, I did tape a video interview for the BBC on the project. During my preparation I kept coming across these claims …
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Slashdot, Engadget, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Between the Lines, TechSpot News, Neowin.net and Hardware 2.0
Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
How Wi-Fi Can Extend T-Mobile's Range — Aims to Improve Reception, Savings — T-Mobile USA Inc., the fourth largest U.S. wireless operator, is planning a national launch this summer of cellphones that can roam on Wi-Fi hotspots in homes and coffee shops, carrying calls over the Web …
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Fractals of Change, Phone Scoop, GigaOM, broadbandreports.com, I4U News, textually.org and VoIP Watch
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
AOL Slips to No. 3 on Internet — After more than a decade connecting more Americans to the Internet than any other company, AOL has given up its title as the leading Internet service provider, a reflection of changing consumer habits and its own strategic shift.
Pipes Blog:
Pipes Adds Interactive Yahoo! Maps, KML Support (and More) — The Pipes team is proud to announce two new features that we've been working on that enhance our support for GeoData. — First, we added a interactive Yahoo! Map to the runpage of any Pipe containing GeoData.
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Acquires Mobile Advertising Pioneer ScreenTonic — ScreenTonic's mobile ad serving and management expertise increase advertiser opportunity across Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions. — Microsoft Corp. today announced it has agreed to acquire ScreenTonic SA …
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InfoWorld, Startup Meme, SearchViews, Microsoft News Tracker and Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Belgian Papers Back In Google; Begin Using Standards For Blocking — Belgian newspapers that sued Google to be removed from its index are now back in, having agreed to use the commonly-accepted blocking standards that they initially rejected as not being legal.
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Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Google Goes Wireless — A coalition led by the Web search giant is scoring early wins in a tussle over $10 billion in wireless airwaves — For a company that's had an office in Washington, D.C., for less than two years, Google is wielding a surprising amount of power in the nation's capital.
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mocoNews.net, Connecting the Dots, Search Engine Land, David Dalka and dailywireless.org
Jgovernor / James Governor's Monkchips:
If Markets Are Conversations Then Twitter Is Money — Twitter is the conversation. David Weinberger gets it right enough. — One of the themes coming through loud and clear in the twitterverse is that many of us are a bit jaded about blogging. Marshall Kirkpatrick wants to Twitter instead of blogging.
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Internet radio royalty hike delayed; last chance to petition Congress — Internet radio will remain safe and sound, at least through July of this year, on account of a new decision by the US Copyright Royalty Board. Under the CRB's original ruling, Internet radio stations …
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TechCrunch, mathewingram.com/work, Zatz Not Funny!, Mark Evans, Copyfight, Hear 2.0, Today @ PC World, digg and Slashdot
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
YAHOO TESTING NEW SEARCH LOOK? — From Rob Phillips, an astute reader in the UK, a new look for Yahoo search. He can only see this from a UK IP address looking at the main yahoo.com site, not uk.yahoo.com. — He reports:
Jose Antonio Vargas / Washington Post:
Obama Campaign Asks: Is It MySpace or Yours? — In the first MySpace skirmish of the 2008 presidential race, no one's come out looking good. — Not MySpace, the popular social networking site. Not Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who until earlier this week had more "friends" on the site …
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Frengo Raises $5.7 Million Series A Round — Redwood City based Frengo, a mobile social networking startup targeting the growing SMS/ TXT market have completed Series A funding of $5.7 million. The founding round was led by Trilogy Equity Partners, a firm led by John Stanton …
BBC:
Snowflakes promise faster chips — Chips could run faster and be more energy efficient thanks to a process from IBM that copies nature's creation of seashells and snowflakes. — The process, called airgap, enables trillions of microscopic vacuum holes to be placed between the copper wire in chips to act as an insulator.
Don MacAskill / SmugBlog:
Thoughts on Silverlight — I was at MIX this week speaking on a panel about web services. Obviously, the big announcements there were around Silverlight, so I've been getting emails asking what I think. Here you go, just a raw brain dump: — No matter what happens, everyone wins.
