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Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Windows Vista SP1 confirmed again by loud-mouth Microsoft Downloads — Microsoft Downloads can never keep a good secret, always spilling the beans no matter how many times you point at it (keep it up team!). After all the lies Microsoft had to endure to keep Windows Vista Service Pack 1 …
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MetroFi Reaches Over 11,000 Monthly Users of Portland Wi-Fi Network — Coverage Expansion Continues; Nearly 20,000 Registered in 6 Months — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 6 /PRNewswire/ — MetroFi — the leading provider of free wireless Internet access and municipal services over Wi-Fi networks …
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Mark Jewell / Associated Press:
Akamai gives free peek at Internet — BOSTON - What does the Internet look like? A free new Web service from Akamai Technologies Inc. offers a peek, providing a sort of Internet weather report on global traffic tie-ups, cyberattacks and spikes in activity.
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Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
Converters Signal a New Era for TVs — At midnight on Feb. 17, 2009, the rabbit ears and the rooftop antennas that still guide television signals into nearly 1 of every 5 American homes will be rendered useless — unless they are tethered to a new device, including two versions unveiled yesterday …
Louise Story / New York Times:
Promoting a Thirst for Sprite in Teenage Cellphone Users — The Coca-Cola Company is hoping its new mobile site for social networking, Sprite Yard, will become the MySpace of the cellphone world. — But some marketing executives say the plan could instead become the BudTV of the soda world …
Stephanie Reitz / Associated Press:
Teacher Gets New Trial on Classroom Porn — NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) - A judge granted a new trial Wednesday for a former substitute teacher convicted of allowing students to view pornography on a classroom computer. — Prosecutors did not oppose the defense motion for a new trial for Julie Amero …
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Karen / Official Google Blog:
What U.S. immigration policies mean to Google — Our experience with American immigration policy dates back to one of our founders: when he was six, Sergey Brin's parents fled the Soviet Union in 1979 and settled in the United States. Today, there are literally hundreds of examples …
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Sony:
SONY ADDS NINE MODELS TO BRAVIA® FLAT-PANEL LCD LINE — Models Compatible with BRAVIA Internet Video Link and Feature XMB Menu System — Sony today introduced nine new BRAVIA® flat-panel LCD high-definition televisions with advanced features. — The new models all feature 1920 …
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Alexander Zaitchik / Wired News:
Soviet-Era Arcade Games Crawl Out of Their Cold War Graves — Alexander Stakhanov (left) and Alexander Vucman stand with the digital host of Magistral, one of the first games they repaired. — MOSCOW — If American teenagers during the Cold War ever stopped to consider …
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Finding a Date — on the Spot — Internet Matchmakers Migrate — To Cellphones, Promising — More-Immediate Results — Earlier this week, Jeff Blum was out buying a sandwich when his mind wandered toward his social life. So he got out his cellphone and sent a text message …
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Groups want limits on Google — Planned DoubleClick purchase raises concerns about invasion of privacy — A coalition of privacy groups have taken another swing at Google Inc.'s proposed acquisition of online advertising firm DoubleClick, calling on federal regulators to prohibit …
Reuters:
If it's not tennis elbow, it may be 'Wiiitis' … BOSTON, Massachusetts (Reuters) — When Dr. Julio Bonis awoke one Sunday morning with a sore shoulder, he could not figure out what he had done. It felt like a sports injury, but he had been a bit of a couch potato lately. — Then he remembered his new Wii.
Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
Via mobo is smaller than a business card — Computex 007 Makes for the best laptop at Computex — VIA HAS TWO interrelated items here that put the 'wow' back in computing. One is a mobo, the other is a laptop based on it, and both are really small. — The first one is the new Via Mobile ITX form factor motherboard.
Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
As Cellphones Multiply, Phone Books Get Slimmer — Parents have used them as booster chairs for children. Marksmen have fired at them for target practice. And musclemen have ripped them in half as a show of strength. — But the fat phone book, a fixture of the urban American household …
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Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Web 2.0 madness grips China — reporter's notebook BEIJING—Forget Silicon Valley—if you want to see a place enthralled with Web 2.0, come to China. — A rising middle class, cheap start-up costs, increasing penetration of PCs and Internet-enabled cell phones, and an ability to tap …
Reuters:
Sony game unit says plans to cut jobs in U.S. — TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp.'s (6758.T) game unit said on Thursday it planned to cut jobs in the United States and was eyeing restructuring steps in Japan as it struggles to keep up with industry rival Nintendo Co. Ltd. (7974.OS).
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Jeremyliew / Lightspeed Venture Partners Blog:
Ecommerce 2.0 is happening now — I just spent the last two days at the Internet Retailer conference, and emerged convinced more than ever that we've just scratching the tip of the iceberg with ecommerce opportunities. There are still many more $500m+ revenue ecommerce companies to be built …
Longofest / MacRumors:
ZFS To Become Default File System In Leopard — Perhaps overcome with excitement (and forgetting that Apple doesn't like such pre-emptive disclosures), Sun's Jonathan Schwartz announced today at Sun event in Washington D.C. that Apple would be making ZFS "the file system" in Mac OS 10.5 Leopard (video link, requires RealPlayer).
