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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App Engine — Our live coverage of the Google App Engine launch event is here. — Google isn't just talking about hosting applications in the cloud any more. Tonight at 9pm PT they're launching Google App Engine (Update: The site is live) …
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Paul McDonald / Google App Engine Blog:
Introducing Google App Engine + our new blog — At tonight's Campfire One we launched a preview release of Google App Engine — a developer tool that enables you to run your web applications on Google's infrastructure. The goal is to make it easy to get started with a new web app …
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Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Google: Cloud Control to Major Tom — Google has just launched Google App Engine, “a developer tool that enables you to run your web applications on Google's infrastructure.” This will allow startups to use Google's web servers, APIs, and other developer tools to build a web app on top of.
Fred / A VC:
Can The Y Combinator Idea Turn Into A Movement? — Most readers of this blog know what Y Combinator is. Hell, last month two of the top five referrers were affiliated with Y Combinator. But for those who don't know, Y Combinator was started by Paul Graham and now runs two programs a year …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:Google hopes to house Web software on App Engine
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Jon Fortt / Big Tech:
HP's mini laptop packs a punch — The HP Mini laptop is aimed at the education market, but it could appeal to road warriors as well. Image: HP — Pick up HP's new $500 mini-laptop, and the first thing you notice is the aluminum casing. Though the thing weighs only about 2.5 pounds …
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James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:jkOnTheRun review- hands on with the HP Mini-Note UMPC
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Joanna Stern / LAPTOP Magazine:The Leader of the Pack? Hands-On Video of the HP 2133 Mini-Note
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James Sherwood / The Register:
Nokia confirms ‘iPhone killer’ handset in pipeline — Nokia has confirmed that it's developing a touchscreen-equipped handset to take on the Apple iPhone, and has shown off pictures of the upcoming phone to drooling onlookers. — The Finnish giant's handset is codenamed ‘Tube’ …
Therese Poletti / MarketWatch:
Yahoo seems headed the way of PeopleSoft — Commentary: Yang's fight against Microsoft seems futile at this point — SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang has not resorted to boorish tactics like calling Steve Ballmer a sociopath or comparing him to Genghis Khan …
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Bill Evans / Apple:
Final Cut Server Now Shipping — Apple® today announced that Final Cut® Server, a powerful software solution for media asset management and workflow automation, is now shipping. A scaleable server application, Final Cut Server automatically catalogs large collections of assets …
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Wal-Mart Refunding HD DVD Players Bought On or After Nov. 1 — Wal-Mart is a little late to the HD DVD pity party, finally deciding to offer tokens to suckers who threw in with the dead format. Until April 30, they'll refund any HD DVD player bought after Nov. 1, as long as you've got the original receipt …
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Chris Williams / The Register:
Phorm admits ‘over zealous’ editing of Wikipedia article — $10,000 Panda Challenge - are you really protected? — Updated Phorm has admitted that it deleted key factual parts of the Wikipedia article about the huge controversy fired by its advertising profiling deals with BT, Virgin Media and Carphone Warehouse.
Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
iPhone Developer Lockdown reportedly iPinkBricks all dev units — Reports are streaming into TUAW that official iPhone developers have been hit this morning by the Pink Screen of Expired Release. Their beta licenses for the current 1.2/2.0 firmware distribution have expired as of 12:01am April 8th.
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Early notes on GoogleApps — The last few years when something new hits the tech blogosphere, I usually kick back and think while so many others scramble for position on Techmeme. I find that by doing this I can usually find the nugget that they're all missing, assuming it's an area I'm interested in …
Dennis O'Reilly / CNET News.com:
Put a finer point on your Gmail searches — The first application I open and the last one I close each workday is Gmail. — Even though I use the service's labels and filters to sort my mail, I often found myself scrolling through the 600-plus messages in my Gmail in-box to find the one I need.
Larry Dignan / Zero Day:
RSA: Microsoft launches trusted Internet initiative; Aims for security dialogue — Microsoft said Tuesday at the RSA security conference that it is launching a trustworthy Internet initiative much like its Trustworthy Computing plan launched in 2002. — And like Microsoft's Trustworthy …
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Courts chip away at Web sites' decade-old legal shield — For more than a decade, Web site operators have enjoyed a broad legal shield against lawsuits filed over material posted by their users, which has let user-driven sites like YouTube and MySpace.com flourish.
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Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Find new people to follow on Twitter with Twubble — Twitter's really no fun unless you have a few interesting people to follow. But what's the best way to find new Twitter users? You could look at the friend lists for the people you already follow, but that could take forever.
