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Direct2Dell:
Ubuntu 7.04 Offering—Technical Details — Before we announce the availability of Ubuntu 7.04 on select Dell client systems, I'd like to give an overview of what customers can expect from our initial Ubuntu offering. — Availabile Software and Hardware — The default software …
BBC:
'$100 laptop' sparks war of words — Chip-maker Intel "should be ashamed of itself" for efforts to undermine the $100 laptop initiative, according to its founder Nicholas Negroponte. — He accused Intel of selling its own cut-price laptop - the Classmate - below cost to drive him out of markets.
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Between the Lines, The Next Net, Gizmodo, Techdirt, Hardware 2.0, GigaOM, White African, p2pnet, Joe Duck, Neowin.net, Gadget Lab, Memex 1.1, CBS News and Slashdot
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BBC:
Success for Everest mobile effort — A British climber has set a world record by making a mobile phone call from the top of Mount Everest. — In the early hours of 21 May, Rod Baber made two calls from the mountain's north ridge. — In the first call Mr Baber described the view …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Prof. wants FCC spectrum auction winners to support "wireless network neutrality" — Columbia professor Tim Wu has a proposal for the FCC when it auctions off the prime 700MHz spectrum vacated by analog TV in 2009: require that anyone who wins in the auction establish a "neutral" network.
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:Google Proposes Real-Time Auction Approach For Radio Spectrum Use
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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Google, Salesforce.com Discuss Alliance — SAN FRANCISCO — Salesforce.com Inc.'s stock price climbed by more than 4 percent Monday in response to a report that the online software pioneer is poised to team up with Internet search leader Google Inc. in a double-barreled attack on Microsoft Corp.
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Rev2.org, ContentBlogger, Search Engine Watch Blog, Good Morning Silicon Valley and Mashable!
Ilse Jurriën / LetsGoDigital English Edition:
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX100 — Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX100 : Panasonic announce a new addition to the Lumix family of high-performance digital cameras. The new Lumix DMC-FX100 combines 1/1.72-inch large 12.2-megapixel image recording with a superb, 28mm wide-angle Leica DC lens that features …
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Google Online Security Blog:
Introducing Google's online security efforts — Online security is an important topic for Google, our users, and anyone who uses the Internet. The related issues are complex and dynamic and we've been looking for a way to foster discussion on the topic and keep users informed.
Scott Martin / Red Herring:
Limelight Prices IPO — Akamai rival wants to raise as much as $198 million. — Limelight Networks on Monday priced its proposed initial public offering in hopes of raising as much as $198.7 million. — Tempe, Arizona-based Limelight, a high-performance content delivery network …
Vikram Madan / Vikram Madan's Blog:
Post-winHEC Post — WinHEC 2007 seems to have gone well. UMPC exposure was pretty-decent. Bill Gates showed off UMPCs in his keynote. I presented a session on UMPCs (somewhat ambiguously titled 'UMPC Ecosystem' - I'll post a link to the slides when they become public) …
Orbitcast:
BREAKING: Is XM down? — Seems like there's a massive outage going on with XM right now. Reports have been coming in like crazy, and I myself in NYC haven't been able to get signal since about 12-noon. — UPDATE: Reportedly one of the satellites (SAT1) is down, and all of the repeaters are down due to a "software update."
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
MyPunchbowl: The Algorithm Schedules Your Event — eVite has been a target of several startups over the past year. Sites like Skobee or Renkoo have differentiated themselves by helping plan the casual outings for drinks or dinner. Socializr is taking a social networking approach.
Mark Shuttleworth:
Microsoft is not the real threat — Much has been written about Microsoft's allegation of patent infringements in Linux (by which I'm sure they mean GNU/Linux ). I don't think Microsoft is the real threat, and in fact, I think Microsoft and the Linux community will actually end up fighting on the same side of this issue.
Think Secret:
Death knell tolls for 17-inch iMac — Apple's pending iMac update will spell the end of the day for the 17-inch iMac, the most affordable computer in the line. The refreshed iMac, currently on track to arrive by the end of June according to sources, will feature just 20- and 24-inch models.
Hiawatha Bray / Boston Globe:
Second Life gets a Bay State boost — Virtual world taps local technology — Second Life will soon be getting a second wind, with the help of some Bay State-bred technology. — Linden Lab, the San Francisco firm that created the popular online community, has acquired Windward Mark Interactive LLC …
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Rootly relaunches... new UI, new features... a real news start page — Over the past few weeks I have been testing a new version of Rootly. When I reviewed Rootly in December 2006, I defined it as, "Rootly is a news aggregator at its most basic definition."
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Google Coop Embeds Gadgets in Search Results — Google Coop has quietly expanded and now can embed data from gadgets (i.e. widgets) as subscribed links. In English, as opposed to Googlese, what this means is that you can opt-in to have important live data pop-up when you enter certain search keywords.
BBC:
Music giant EMI agrees takeover — UK music business EMI Group has agreed to be bought by private equity firm Terra Firma for £3.2bn including debt. — The group, whose artists include Robbie Williams and the Beatles, has been the subject of bid speculation for the past year as its business has struggled.
