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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
At CTIA, Yahoo unveils a smarter mobile search — Yahoo announced a new mobile search strategy Wednesday at the CTIA Wireless trade show in Las Vegas, centered on the latest iteration of its Yahoo OneSearch product. — In a keynote address by Marco Boerrie, the company's executive vice president of …
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Paula Rooney / Open Source:
Firefox 3 Beta 5 released, RC1 Freezes April 8 — As it races to the goal post, Mozilla.org announced that beta 5 of Firefox 3 is available and that the code for release candidate 1 will be frozen on April 8, the open source project announced on Wednesday — Beta 5 offers big improvements …
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Beltzner / Mozilla Developer News:
Firefox 3 beta 5 now available for download — Please note: Firefox 3 Beta 5 is a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. It includes new features as well as dramatic improvements to performance, memory usage and speed.
John Markoff / New York Times:
Intel Makes a Push Into Pocket-Size Internet Devices — SAN FRANCISCO — Intel plans to proclaim Wednesday in Shanghai that the next big thing in consumer gadgets will be the “Internet in your pocket.” — The challenge for the giant chip maker will be to prove that it is not too late …
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New Intel® Centrino® Atom™ Processor Technology Ushers in ‘Best Internet Experience in Your Pocket’ — With 45nm High-K Transistor Formula as Centerpiece, Execs at Shanghai Intel Developer Forum Outline ‘Milliwatts to Petaflops’ Hi-Tech Plans — Intel Corporation today introduced five …
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Amazon Launches SMS Buying Service — Amazon has launched Amazon TextBuyIt, a service that allows Amazon customers to purchase items via mobile phone text message. — To use the service, customers text the name of a product, its description, or its UPC or ISBN number to Amazon (262966).
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Mosaic / MLB.TV Mosaic Blog:
Mosaic Update - Temporarily Unavailable — In order to prevent some of the issues that some of you experienced yesterday, we've temporarily disabled the Mosaic application this evening, which is why you're not able to log in right now. We're working on ensuring that the issue is resolved …
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Declan McCullagh / The Iconoclast:
Judge to RIAA: You can't sue over songs ‘made available’ via P2P — A federal judge in New York has dealt the Recording Industry Association of America a setback in its thousands of lawsuits over piracy on peer-to-peer networks. — In a widely anticipated decision, U.S. District Judge …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple: More On The iPhone Shortage; Why Bernstein Does Not Buy The Theory That A 3G Phone Is Imminent — So here we are again, wondering about missing Apple (AAPL) iPhones. — The last time this became an issue, the question was why Apple's iPhone unit sales were so much higher than the sales …
Veronica Belmont:
Moving on to new projects — Hard to believe the time has already come, but soon enough I'll be moving on from Mahalo to embark on some exciting new projects! Mahalo Daily has been a really amazing experience (and not just because I get to do things like fly a plane) …
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
The New Opera Mini Arrives - Now 50% Faster Than Before — Today, Opera released a new version of their mobile web browser, Opera Mini. This latest version, Opera Mini 4.1 beta preview, offers some new features, but most notably, it claims to be 50% faster than Opera Mini 4.0 when it first launched in November of 2007.
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louisgray.com:
TechMeme Leaderboard's Top Ten: Six Months In — Gabe Rivera turned the world of ranking technology blogs upside down six months ago, seemingly overnight, with the debut of the TechMeme leaderboard, constituting the top 100 blog or news sources whose posts reached the popular site in the prior 30 day period.
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google to Lay Off About 300 at DoubleClick — In the first sizable layoffs in its history, Google is cutting about 300 jobs from the American operations of DoubleClick, the advertising technology company that it acquired recently, according to a person with direct knowledge of Google's plans.
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
eBay Bans Auctions Of Digital Goods — from the another-market-mucked-up-by-digital- goods dept — We've pointed out more than a few times how digital goods muck up traditional markets that are based on the concept of scarcity, and it appears that eBay has come to the same conclusion.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Microsoft Surface launching April 17th... with AT&T — No, Microsoft hasn't suddenly transformed its 30-inch, multi-touch Surface into a big-ass cellphone. It has, however, chosen AT&T to launch the world's first Surface into retail. Shoppers in New York, Atlanta, San Antonio …
Tim Turpin / Video Search Engine:
BLINKX INTRODUCES BBTV, FUSING HIGH-QUALITY, PREMIUM TV CONTENT WITH THE INTERACTIVE POWER OF THE WEB — Video Search Leader Delivers First Broadband TV Offering to Integrate Video into the Fiber of the Web for Full-screen, Online Television — blinkx, the world's largest video search engine …
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Ben Hoyle / Times of London:
Internet book piracy will drive authors to stop writing — Book piracy on the internet will ultimately drive authors to stop writing unless radical methods are devised to compensate them for lost sales. — This is the bleak forecast of the Society of Authors, which represents …
Charlie Caroe / Telegraph Sport:
David Beckham century gift - a golden ipod — Former England captain David Beckham will be dancing for joy after his team-mates clubbed together to buy him a special something to celebrate him reaching the elite 100-cap club for his country. — Beckham, 32, who reached his century during …
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
FriendFeed's goal: More than just a feed aggregator — FriendFeed is a current Web 2.0 darling. The service performs the increasingly valuable job of presenting, in one place, all the online activity of the friends you want to follow. Twitter posts, blog entries, YouTube favorites …
