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Karen / Google Health Advertising Blog:
My opinion and Google's — Posted by Lauren Turner, Account Planner, Health — Well, I've learned a few things since I posted on Friday. For one thing, even though this is a new blog, we have readers! That's a good thing. Not so good is that some readers thought the opinion I expressed …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Faux Pas Retracted — I'm betting that Lauren Turner's job duties at Google will no longer include blogging. Yesterday she wrote an anti-Sicko (Michael Moore's new movie lambasting the U.S. health care industry) post on the Google Health Advertising blog, and encouraged health care companies …
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
U.S. healthcare industry: Google wants to protect you from Michael Moore's Sicko — Taking a break from reading the wall-to-wall iPhone coverage on TechMeme, I ran across a post from Lauren Turner, who works for Google as an account planner selling ads to the healthcare industry.
Jeremy Toeman / Jeremy Toeman's LIVEdigitally:
Why Apple will NOT Take Over the wireless industry — In response to the article How Apple Will Use The iPhone To Take Over The Wireless Industry, I'm opening by saying "take over" is a ludicrous claim. Do you have any idea the sheer volume of mobile handsets sold worldwide?
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
How Apple Will Use The iPhone To Take Over The Wireless Industry — Steve Jobs isn't stupid. He knows that AT&T Wireless sucks. So why lock the revolutionary iPhone into a crappy network? — Because Jobs knows that everyone will buy an iPhone anyway, even if they hate the network.
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Poll: got iPhone activation problems? — We heard yesterday that despite some issues over AT&T way, iPhone activations would (hopefully) be up and running smoothly by as early as this morning. Of course, evidenced by the flood of users continuing to tip us, we'd say a great deal of you are still experiencing activation problems.
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Jonathan Dee / New York Times:
All the News That's Fit to Print Out — When news broke on May 8 about the arrest of a half-dozen young Muslim men for supposedly planning to attack Fort Dix, alongside the usual range of reactions — disbelief, paranoia, outrage, indifference, prurience — a newer one was added …
GigaOM:
And now the French Web 2.0 Wave — France leads Europe in its enthusiasm for Web 2.0 startups, an industry that has doubled in size across the continent since 2005. According to Dow Jones/Venture One data French start-ups raised close to $40 million in venture capital in 2006 …
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Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
War and PDF: Microsoft submits XPS to standards body — Microsoft has announced that it has chartered a new Technical Committee to submit a new standard to the standards-setting body Ecma International. The would-be standard involves "creating an XML-based electronic paper format …
Stan Schroeder / franticindustries:
Pownce, the Twitter Killer — I hate titles like "X is the Y killer" because they're usually just a cheap way to grab attention. But, if there ever was a clearcut situation of a new application that completely eclipses an old, popular one, then it's the case of Pownce vs. Twitter.
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David Reid / BBC:
Beating congestion with mobiles — Working out how people use a city's roads and planning for it, can be difficult, but research into mobile phone use may hold the key to preventing traffic jams in the future. — If you do not like crowds, congestion, chaos - and few do - then you might want to avoid Rome's rush-hour.
Wendy / Wendy's Blog:
AGING THE INTERNET PREMATURELY, ONE PDP AT A TIME — After blogging about ICANN's new gTLD policy or lack thereof, I've had several people ask me why I care so much about ICANN and new top-level domains. Domain names barely matter in a world of search and hyperlinks, I'm told …
Tony Ruscoe / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Docs Dictionary and Thesaurus — Earlier this week, Ionut Alex. Chitu noted that Google was planning to integrate with Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster's dictionary and thesaurus. After a bit of digging around, I've found a way you can enable the dictionary and thesaurus features now …
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
How to port 'ineligible' mobile numbers to AT&T and iPhone — Some iPhone customers trying to port their mobile numbers from carriers such as Verizon are being told by the iTunes software and AT&T customer service reps that their current mobile number 'cannot be transfered,' is 'ineligible' for a port …
