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Bill Brand / Mercury News:
U.C. Berkeley student's Twitter messages alerted world to his arrest in Egypt — BERKELEY _ When Egyptian police scooped up UC Berkeley graduate journalism student James Karl Buck, who was photographing a noisy demonstration, and dumped him in a jail cell last week, they didn't count on Twitter.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Twitter Saves Man From Egyptian Justice — Twitter. Don't leave home without it. — I don't know if this is as good for Twitter as the Charlie Rose incident was for Apple, but it's close. UC Berkeley graduate journalism student James Karl Buck was arrested on April 10 without any charges …
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Harrison Hoffman / CNET News.com:
Microsoft hits back at Google with Live Search News — As a part of its Rome release, Microsoft's Live Search team has launched Live Search News, a direct competitor to Google News. — At this time, Live Search News looks like a simplified version of Google News.
Mitch Wagner / InformationWeek:
How To Put Google Street View To Practical Use — Google Street View can scope out real estate, travel destinations, and even save you from your next parking ticket — all from your desktop, laptop, or smartphone browser. — Google Street View is the closest thing to teleportation that you can find outside the starship Enterprise.
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Peter Birch / Google LatLong:
Introducing Google Earth 4.3 — The Google Earth team is proud to announce the latest version of Google Earth is available today at http://earth.google.com. The release of Google Earth 4.3 (beta) greatly advances our vision of offering a realistic, 3D model of the world by giving users a higher quality, more immersive experience.
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Asus Eee PC 900 — Few could argue that Asus created something special when it launched the Eee PC last year. The idea of making a truly mobile, yet very affordable mobile computer was welcomed by the Press and consumers in equal measure. Although the Eee PC 4G 701 that Andy reviewed …
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Rory Reid / CNET News.com:
Asus Eee PC 900 Review — The Asus Eee PC 701 has earned a permanent place in history. It almost single-handedly defined the sub-notebook — a genre of PC that made slow, inexpensive laptops the hottest properties in the computing world. Many have tried to emulate its success …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Google's paid clicks anemic in March; Will it matter? — Google's paid click rate for March grew 2.7 percent in March, a tally that was deemed “anemic” by analysts. — Google's paid clicks have been the most overanalyzed metric of the first quarter, but we're about to find out whether …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google: March Paid-Click Growth Awful (Again) — Google's (GOOG) US paid-click growth in March was as bad as in February—up only 2.7%—rounding out a violent deceleration in Q1, says Comscore (per Mark Mahaney at Citi). In all of Q1, Google's US paid clicks rose only 2% year-over-year versus 25% in Q4 and 48% in Q3.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:For Google A New Month, Same Story: Weak Paid Clicks
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Glenn Derene / Popular Mechanics:
Mac vs. PC: The Ultimate Lab Test for New Desktops & Laptops — This computer rivalry has been elevated to a cultural divide on par with Pepsi versus Coke. Taking it beyond personal taste, PM crunches the numbers—with some surprising results (and detailed benchmark scores). — Photographs by Lendon Flanagan
Stan Schroeder / Mashable!:
PluggedIn: Hello And Goodbye — This article might sound unfair to our US & Canada readers, so I've decided to give you a quick recap of this new service, called PluggedIn, before jumping to the point. It's a freshly launched music video repository, focused on licensed, high quality videos.
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Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited:
UK music industry demands an iPod tax (and the law is still an ass) — Out-Law.com reports that: “The UK music industry has rejected the Government's proposal to legalise the transfer of music from CDs to MP3 players without a levy. It has asked for a tax on devices like Apple iPods …
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Shane Richmond / Telegraph Blogs:What will the music industry tax next?
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John Markoff / New York Times:
Larger Prey Are Targets of Phishing — SAN FRANCISCO — An e-mail scam aimed squarely at the nation's top executives is raising new alarms about the ease with which people and companies can be deceived by online criminals. — Thousands of high-ranking executives across the country …
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Tungle launches meeting time broker — Tungle, launching today, may be the meeting coordination utility to beat. Like TimeBridge, Jiffle, and other products in this new category, it lets you block off a bunch of times for a meeting you want to have with a person or group of people …
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Don Reisinger / CNET News.com:
The other Microsoft-Apple battle — Everyone likes to talk about the battle between Microsoft and Apple on the OS front, but that seems like old hat to me. Sure, there's certainly a battle being waged in that space, but is it really as hotly contested as some want to believe?
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Marshall University fails to block RIAA's P2P subpoenas — The music industry's legal campaign against campus P2P activity marked its one-year anniversary in late February, and the RIAA is still at it. The group has sent off another 569 prelitigation settlement letters to students at 26 schools …
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