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Philip Tucker / Official Google Docs Blog:
Bringing the cloud with you — We know that many of you have been waiting for offline access to Google Docs, and I'm happy to tell you we'll be rolling it out over the next few weeks, starting today with a small percentage of users. — Here's why I'm excited about this development.
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Sir Richard Branson / Official Google Blog:
Announcing Project Virgle — In my life, I've had a lot of exciting adventures and launched a lot of ambitious business ventures. I'm delighted today to announce Virgle, Inc., a joint venture between the Virgin Group and Google which qualifies on both counts.
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Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
Windows: A Monopoly Shakes — [Editor's Note: This is the first of two posts pulling data from Forrester report, “Enterprise Desktop And Web 2.0/SaaS Platform Trends, 2007”.] — Forrester Research published the data on Thursday, but only released it publicly today.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Why We're Suing Facebook For $25 Million In Statutory Damages — When I started TechCrunch nearly three years ago it was meant to be little more than a hobby. I love startups, and writing about them was fun, not work. But since then this hobby has grown into a real business.
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Austin Modine / The Register:
Dell axes 900 jobs in Austin plant shutdown — But hey, $3bn in savings! — Round Rock's Sword of Dell-ocles has once again dropped on employees of the world's number two PC manufacturer. — Dell today said it will close its Austin, Texas desktop PC manufacturing plant and lay-off 800-900 workers.
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Dave McClure / Master of 500 Hats:
Web 3.0 isn't the Semantic Web, it's Hailstorm 2.0. Why it Matters & How Microsoft-Yahoo can beat Google. — note: this isn't an April Fool's post, at least not intentionally... Semantic Web, WTF? — Nigga please, tell me something i give a s**t about.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
YouTube RickRolls Users — If you aren't familiar with RickRolling - it's when someone puts a link on website to something, but it actually takes you to a music video of Rick Astley's “hit” song Never Gonna Give You Up. — YouTube is RickRolling its own users on April 1.
Matthew Karnitschnig / Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Unlikely to Raise Yahoo Offer — Microsoft Corp. is preparing to lay a long siege. — Two months after Microsoft made its $44.6 billion offer to acquire Yahoo Inc., the software maker has no plans to raise its bid, people close to the company say.
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InfoWorld:
Microsoft, Yahoo agree on buyout price — After much internal debate and industry speculation, Yahoo today agreed to be acquired by Microsoft, adding $2.6 billion to Redmond's original offer of $44.6 billion on Jan. 31. — The agreement was reached near midnight last night …
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Adam Sherwin / Times of London:
The Facebook tool which turns your mobile into a snoop — Husbands who are not where they are supposed to be could soon be in danger of being “sniffed” out by a mobile phone service that gives suspicious partners an electronic map showing the location of their spouse.
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Web surfers know advertisers are watching—and don't like it — When I visit digg, I most often get ads for shoes available at Cole Haan and Nine West. Incidentally, I happen to like shoes from those retailers, and although I don't really need to buy new shoes, I find myself clicking through …
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Ben Jones / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay Moves to Egyptian Desert Island — As part of their efforts to fight against ever increasing restrictions regarding intellectual property in Sweden, the Pirate Bay has moved from their long-time home in Sweden for pastures new. — Their new residence is the rolling dunes of the Sinai.
MG Siegler / ParisLemon:
The Transition to a Mac-ready Workforce — This is a few days old, but I didn't have a chance to write about it: A new Morgan Stanley survey suggests that 40% of college students plan to buy a Mac as their next computer. I mention this because it goes along exactly with what I've been saying for a while …
Linux Foundation Announcements:
Linux Foundation Publishes Study on Linux Development Statistics: Who Writes Linux and Who Supports It — A close look at Linux kernel development process reveals the number of Linux kernel developers has tripled over the last three years — SAN FRANCISCO - April 1, 2008 — The Linux Foundation …
Kevin Kelleher / GigaOM:
How Google Can Eat Amazon's Lunch — I can't believe I'm going to do this, but I'm going to do it. — Yesterday, Dave Winer ranted about how blogs have become an ecosystem of recycled conversations about an original thought that happened long ago. Even so, I am going to talk about a post that Dave Winer wrote this weekend.
Anil Dash:
Your April Fool's Day Joke Continues to Suck — Having been blogging for a few years, I've developed a few annual traditions. This one's a favorite: Warning you off of lame April Fool's jokes on the web. Every year, I get called a curmudgeon, or lambasted for having no sense of humor.
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InfoWorld:
Norway asks to suspend its ‘Yes’ vote on OOXML — Members of the Norwegian technical committee that voted to ratify Microsoft's OOXML document format as an ISO standard are protesting that decision even before the full results of the standards body's vote on the technology have been announced.
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