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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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Rubicon Consulting:The Apple iPhone: Successes and Challenges for the Mobile Industry
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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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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Amazon rings up shopping via text-message — Amazon.com unveiled on Wednesday a text-messaging shopping service, which adds a mainstream player to the mix of companies that offer shopping to-go. — Amazon TextBuyIt is designed to let mobile device users window-shop, compare prices, and purchase products from Amazon.
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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.
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Opera Mini 4.1 released — Opera Mini 4.1 guided tour — Microsoft isn't the only company releasing a point upgrade to its mobile software this week. Opera has released Opera Mini 4.1, which is a minor update to its Opera Mini web browser for cellphones with Java virtual machines.
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Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Is sharing a folder copyright infringement? — $10,000 Panda Challenge - are you really protected? — A US Judge on Monday upheld the view that sharing copyrighted music is infringement. It's a defeat for defendant Denise Barker and the Electronic Frontier Foundation …
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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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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 …
Carleen Hawn / FoundRead:
Lessons of YCombinator: Things I'd do differently after 2 startups — Editor's Note: Serial founder Tony Wright recently completed a 3-month stint at the incubator YCombinator, where, in November 2007, he and two partners launched RescueTime, which hawks free software to help individuals …
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 …
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.
Jon Fortt / Big Tech:
Apple's new campus still a long way off — Apple CEO Steve Jobs addresses the Cupertino City Council on April 18, 2006. Image: City of Cupertino — According to city maps, the site of Apple's new campus will be bounded by Interstate 280, Wolfe Road, Pruneridge Avenue and Tantau Avenue.
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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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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) …
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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 …
Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
Radiohead Continues New Media Onslaught With Remix Contest — Rock band Radiohead has already pushed the envelope in the past year by first releasing their new album under a pay-what-you-want price scheme in October, and then calling on fans to create a music video for any of the album's songs in March.
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Iancr / FISTFULAYEN:
Cool Change — Word is leaking out, so I may as well set the record straight... After four years and three months, I'm leaving Yahoo! for another opportunity. I'll be joining founders Peter Gotcher and Shamal Ranasinghe as the CEO at a still-mostly-stealth company called Topspin Media.
