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Editor in Chief Harry McCracken Returns to PC World — Had resigned in dispute with CEO Colin Crawford over editorial independence. Crawford to return to prior IDG post. — Ramon G. McLeod, Editor, PCWorld.com — In a surprise announcement, Robert Carrigan, president of IDG Communications …
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Dylan Tweney / Epicenter:
PC World Brings Editor Back, Removes CEO — In a surprise reversal, IDG management removed Colin Crawford as PC World's CEO and reinstated Harry McCracken as Editor in Chief, after a dispute over a canceled Apple story led McCracken to quit. A memo just sent to PC World and Macworld staffers …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Joost Announces $45 million Funding From Sequoia, Index, CBS & Viacom — Internet TV startup Joost raised $45 million in a venture round of financing, the company will announce this evening. Investors include Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, CBS Corporation, Viacom and Chinese billionaire Li Ka-shing.
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Molly Graham / Google LatLong:
A new world unfolding — Posted by John Hanke, Director, Google Earth & Maps — Welcome to the Google "geo" blog. As web mapping (dare I say "the geoweb"?) matures, we're finding that we have a lot more to communicate about new developments in Earth, Maps, Local, and our APIs.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Comcast's Brian Roberts, Broadband's Tomorrow Man — Brian Roberts, chief executive officer of Comcast Corp., in a move reminiscent of Microsoft's Bill Gates' futuristic announcements at CES, today showed off a new modem that uses channel bonding technology that can pump data into your homes at speeds of 150 megabits per second.
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Ryan Nakashima / Associated Press:Comcast CEO shows off super quick modem
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Kevin 'Digg' Rose goes for 3rd startup — First Digg, then the online video network, Revision 3 and now another start-up! — Business Week poster boy Kevin Rose is rumored to have teamed up with Daniel Burka also of Digg, and first time entrepreneur Leah Culver and has started a new company.
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
Giving Up on Microsoft — Although I am generally platform agnostic, I make no secret of the fact that I am primarily a Microsoft developer. In a way, I grew up with Microsoft— as a teenager, I cut my programming teeth on the early microcomputer implementations of Microsoft BASIC.
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David Lenehan / Read/WriteWeb:
World Wide Web of Widgets — The web has seen an explosion in the use of widgets over the past year or so. So let's explore what a widget is and its uses. Note that in this post, we're discussing Web-based widgets only, rather than desktop widgets such as those provided by Yahoo Widgets or Microsoft's Vista widgets.
Lisa Vaas / eWEEK.com:
Java Security Traps Getting Worse — Updated: At JavaOne last year, Fortify's Brian Chess discussed how to avoid Java security holes. A year later, with even Sun's manuals containing code with cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, we're actually worse off than ever.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Breaking: Odeo Acquired By SonicMountain — Details are just coming out, but New York based SonicMountain, a new startup, has acquired Evan Williams' Odeo. The announcement will come sometime tomorrow. The price is not being disclosed but is in excess of $1 million, and the deal was all cash.
Kenneth Li / Reuters:
Old media turns combative against new media — LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Leading media executives took a combative tone against Internet companies on Tuesday, suggesting that Big Media increasingly considers new content distributors like Google Inc. to be more foe than friend.
Benjamin J. Romano / Seattle Times:
Gates sees accelerated decline of traditional media's ad model — Microsoft thinks the advertising business model for traditional media — those venues where advertisers still channel most of their spending — will fall apart faster in the coming five years as the kind of interactive …
Emily Bell / Guardian Unlimited:
Guardian Unlimited - the next step — From today Guardian Unlimited's network homepage takes on a new look as we release the next part of our new design. — Those of you who use our travel site will be familiar with the wider pages, greater use of pictures and the flexibility of our new design.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Fidg't: Central Control of Social Networks — Presenting at Innovate! Europe 2007 today is Santa Monica based PROTOMOBL with a product called Fidg't, that aims to make social network management easier. — The concept is simple: a centralized control point for social networks.
Rick Merritt / InformationWeek:
Call It The jPhone: Sun Shows Java Twist On Apple's iPhone — At the JavaOne conference, Sun Microsystems debuts software for a high-end cell phone that looks rather similar to the iPhone. — EE Times — SAN FRANCISCO — Call it the jPhone. At JavaOne Tuesday (May 8) …
Tom Sanders / vnunet:
Red Hat to build 'Global Desktop' — Low cost Linux bundle system to target emerging markets — UPDATE - Red Hat is preparing to release a new "Red Hat Global Desktop" that over time will grow into an online desktop that integrates online services into a client desktop platform.
