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Jonathan Richards / Times of London:
New chip will let an iPod store 500,000 songs — A new storage technology will pave the way for MP3 players and other gadgets to store a hundred times more information — Mobile phones, iPods and other consumer devices may soon be able to hold a hundred times more information …
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Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:
Crawling through HTML forms — Google is constantly trying new ideas to improve our coverage of the web. We already do some pretty smart things like scanning JavaScript and Flash to discover links to new web pages, and today, we would like to talk about another new technology we've started experimenting with recently.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:Google Now Fills Out Forms & Crawls Results
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Gary Morgenthaler / Business Week:
Apple's OS Edge Is a Threat to Microsoft — A recent upgrade to the Mac operating system moves Apple closer to challenging Microsoft for overall computing dominance, even in the corporate market — The 20-year death grip that Microsoft has held on the core of computing is finally weakening—pried loose with just two fingers.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Gartner Says Vista Will Collapse. And That's Why The Yahoo Deal Must Happen — Gartner analysts Michael Silver and Neil MacDonald told a conference audience yesterday that Microsoft's Windows product is collapsing and must make radical changes to its operating system or risk becoming a has-been.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Windows is a glacier and glaciers don't melt overnight — Boy this Windows collapsing under its own weight argument has some legs. — A few points about this Gartner presentation two days ago, which has raised quite a ruckus on Techmeme. The analysts argued Wednesday morning that Windows …
Kevin McLaughlin / crn.com:
Microsoft Exec: UAC Designed To ‘Annoy Users’ — The User Account Control in Windows Vista improves security by reducing application privileges from administrative to standard levels, but UAC has been widely criticized for the nagging alerts it generates. According to one Microsoft executive …
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Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
The problem with Google Apps Engine — If you are considering taking advantage of the new Google App Engine service from Google, I suggest you read this article first. There are some hidden facts that you should be aware of before making your decision to adopt this platform.
Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
TiVo patent win against EchoStar upheld — Updated at 11:45 a.m. PDT with Dish Network's statement. — Another court has upheld TiVo's patent suit against EchoStar Communications. — A U.S. Appeals Court on Friday denied EchoStar's appeal on an earlier court ruling …
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MacGameStore.com:
Burger Shop — This game is for Macintosh — Visit ReallyNeatGames.com for PC Windows Games — After receiving a set of strange blueprints in the mail, you build an extraordinary food-making contraption and open a restaurant. Your goal? To make food and satisfy customers while you explore …
Virtual Earth:
The New Release of Live Maps and Virtual Earth 3D is now Live! — I'm so glad to finally announce that the latest version of Live Maps is online and ready for you to play with. This ended up being a much bigger release than originally planned including three full sprints of development.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Launching ToDo List Product? — TechCrunch reader Nicolas Hoizey noticed a blog post on the official Google Docs Blog today written by Andrew Cheng, a Google Marketing Manager. Hoizey sent us the NetNewsWire screen shot above (click for large view). — The post, based on the screen shot, appears to be a simple to do list.
Royal Pingdom:
Map of all Google data center locations — Data Center Knowledge recently published a “Google Data Center FAQ”. As most other web geeks, we here at Pingdom tend to find this kind of information quite fascinating. We have extracted some interesting tidbits, and also used the information …
InfoWorld:
Microsoft proposes tiered privacy in online advertising — Microsoft has proposed a tiered approach to protecting the privacy of people targeted by online advertising, saying advertisers should get permission before using sensitive, personally identifiable information to deliver ads.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
On the Menu at the Yahoo Top Managers Lunch Yesterday: Fear and AOL-oathing — For some reason, none of the half-dozen SVPs and EVPs I spoke to, who attended a lunch that Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang held yesterday for several dozen top-level execs, wanted to tell me exactly what was on the menu …
Darmano / Logic+Emotion:
The Top 10 Made Up Words of Web 3.0 — You won't find these in Wikipedia. But someone had to write them down. Inspired by Web jargon and making their first appearence on Twitter, I give you the Top 10 made up words of Web 3.0: — 1. Socialstainable — The act of socially conscious …
Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
Security Expert Gives Computer Intruders a Taste of Their Own Medicine — SAN FRANCISCO — Malicious hackers beware: computer security expert Joel Eriksson might already own your box. — Eriksson, a researcher at the Swedish security firm Bitsec, uses reverse engineering tools …
