Top Items:
Microsoft:
Media Alert: New York, New York, in 3-D — Seeing Is Believing — Live Search Maps launches photo-realistic 3-D imagery of New York City, several other cities. — Have you always wanted to visit New York City, but never had the chance to make it happen? Have you lived in the city for years …
RELATED:
Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar:
Where 2.0: Google Launches Streetside View with Tech from ImmersiveMedia — This morning Google gave their 2D maps an incredible realworld addition. Its a street-view, that in certain cities, will let you get a street side view of the area you are currently in. This is not just a static, A9-style image.
RELATED:
Cartoon Barry Blog:
Google New Street Views Almost Reaches RustyBrick — Google just launched street views for Google Maps. It is pretty pretty cool. — I tried it in NYC, and they mapped all the streets. Here in Suffern, NY, they didn't do all that much yet. But they did get within a thousand feet or so from my office.
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Google Deal Said to Bring U.S. Scrutiny — The Federal Trade Commission has opened a preliminary antitrust investigation into Google's planned $3.1 billion purchase of the online advertising company DoubleClick, an industry executive briefed on the agency's plans said yesterday.
Discussion:
eWEEK.com, Screenwerk, Search Engine Watch Blog, IP Democracy, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Search Engine Land, Threat Level, parislemon, WebMetricsGuru, Guardian Unlimited, Paul Kedrosky's …, Read/WriteWeb, Threadwatch.org, Valleywag, Conversion Rater, Search Engine Roundtable, Media 3.0 with Shelly Palmer and Slashdot
RELATED:
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
As opposition mounts, FTC agrees to examine Google/DoubleClick deal — The Federal Trade Commission has agreed to open an antitrust investigation into the proposed Google/DoubleClick merger, according to industry sources quoted in the New York Times. The fact that the FTC is investigating the deal …
Discussion:
Neowin.net
Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:
Google buys anti-malware browser virtualization startup — Google has quietly made its first anti-malware acquisition, snapping up GreenBorder Technologies, a venture-backed company that sells browser virtualization security software. — The acquisition gives the search engine a key piece …
RELATED:
Katie Hafner / New York Times:
Silicon Valley Wide-Eyed Over a Bride — Sometimes good fortune arrives in fairytale-like flurries. — Consider Anne Wojcicki, the 33-year-old former health care investment analyst who this month married a handsome young computer scientist, who just happens to be one of America's richest men.
RELATED:
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Tux the penguin waddles to last place in Indy 500; Joost fares better — When the pale blue "Linux car," also known as car #77 from Chastain Motorsports, was the first car to crash in the 91st Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, we can imagine hordes of geeks wishing it had been a "Vista car" instead.
RELATED:
Donald Melanson / Engadget:"Linux car" first to crash at Indianapolis 500
Discussion:
dailywireless.org
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
More Bandwidth Than You Can Use? — Companies such as Verizon are starting to offer Internet connection speeds that are 5 to 30 times faster than standard cable or DSL lines — From the moment the first phone-line modems squawked to life, connecting consumers to early Internet service providers …
Alex Zaharov-Reutt / ITWire:
Did Quanta just confirm a second-gen iPhone? — Rumors, reports and now a seeming confirmation that Quanta will also be building the Apple iPhone sees Quanta's statement point to a second generation model, which another report suggests could come with a different case design.
RELATED:
Reuters:
Nokia says row with Qualcomm may hurt 3G uptake — SEOUL (Reuters) - Nokia (NOK1V.HE), the world's biggest mobile phone maker, said on Tuesday the ongoing patent battle with Qualcomm Inc. (Nasdaq:QCOM - news) may work against the uptake of "third-generation" mobile technology.
Wall Street Journal:
Selling Web Advertising Space Like Pork Bellies — Exchanges That Pair Buyers, — Sellers for Available Ad Slots — Attract Internet Giants — The next big Internet race might turn the buying and selling of advertising space on Web sites into the online equivalent of the pork-bellies pit.
Robert Vamosi / CNET News.com:
Cyberattack in Estonia—what it really means — newsmaker When it comes to denial-of-service attacks, Jose Nazario has seen just about everything. — As senior security researcher at Arbor Networks, Nazario closely monitors network attacks. A denial-of-service, or DoS …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
The Slurpr WiFi aggregator promises "free" broadband — and jail time — Oh my, the 5-0 won't like this one bit. Meet The Slurpr, a WiFi access point which aggregates up to six "available" (read: unprotected) 54Mbps WiFi channels into one bigazz, "free" connection.
BBC:
Deutsche Telekom backs VoIP firm — Deutsche Telekom is backing the internet telephone company Jajah, becoming the first major phone company to support such technology. — Jajah provides voice over internet protocol (VoIP) services, which allow people to make calls over the internet at a fraction of the usual prices.
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Illinois raids welfare to pay for failed video game violence legislation — When the State of Illinois was tardy in paying its legal bills after attempting to defend a law that regulated the sale of violent and sexually explicit video games, the Entertainment Software Association wondered about the reasons for the delay.
Reuters:
Toshiba to use AMD chip in laptop PCs — TOKYO (Reuters) - Toshiba Corp. (6502.T: Quote, Profile, Research said it would buy microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD.N: Quote, Profile, Research, ending its exclusive ties with Intel Corp. (INTC.O: Quote, Profile …
Rebecca O'Connor / Times of London:
TV under pressure in online shift, says Sorrell — Television broadcasters face "severe pressure" as advertisers abandon traditional media in favour of the internet, Sir Martin Sorrell, head of WPP, the world's second-biggest advertising company, told The Times.
Discussion:
paidContent.org
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Have the people at ESPN.com have lost their minds or am I missing something here?!?!? — Wow... it seems based on my last post that ESPN is, in fact, blocking their content on certain ISPs who won't PAY THEM! — This is the stupidest idea I've ever heard of. for a number of reasons:
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Microsoft's Zune: Still Shy of 1 Million Sales — The San Francisco Chronicle generated a lot of buzz for Microsoft (MSFT) yesterday by printing a claim that the software giant had already sold more than a million Zunes — which would put it ahead of the goal the company set for itself shortly …
Discussion:
Gizmodo, Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus, MacDailyNews, ITWire, Digital Inspiration and Podcasting News
