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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.
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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 …
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.
Peter Birch / Official Google Blog:A whole new world to explore
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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
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
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Ben Worthen / Business Technology:
Security is No Match for Chocolate and Good Looking Women — People are too trusting, especially when there's chocolate on the line. — A survey out today by the organizers of the tech-security conference Infosecurity Europe found that 21% of 576 London office workers stopped on the street …
Google Analytics Blog:
Graduation Day for Website Optimizer and Urchin Software! — Today at the ad:tech conference in San Francisco, we very happily announced two launches. If we could have shouted them from the rooftops, we would have. Enjoy! — Website Optimizer now available as a standalone product!
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Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
Microsoft planning a Zune-centric entertainment store? — Microsoft may be putting together an “entertainment marketplace” tentatively named Zune VideoX, ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley reported Wednesday. In other words, it's yet another digital content store trying to take a bite out of Apple's iTunes.
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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?
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
When Everyone Talks About Weakness At Google, Wall Street Buys the Stock — Later today when Google announces its first quarter earnings after the markets close, we are finally going to find out whether all the sturm und drang about Google's seemingly-flat growth of clicks on search ads is a bad as everyone thinks.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:Google's paid clicks anemic in March; Will it matter?
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Steven Swartz / Market Wire:
“Free Open Source Software Is Costing Vendors $60 Billion,” New Standish Group International Study Finds — “Open Source software is raising havoc throughout the software market. It is the ultimate in disruptive technology, and while to it is only 6% of estimated trillion dollars IT budgeted annually …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Intel: Netbook shipments about to ramp — Intel is putting a lot of faith in the so-called netbook market and reckons that mobile Internet devices are about to take off too. — What was telling about Intel's earnings conference call was how confident the company was about the netbook market …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Look Out Twhirl, Alert Thingy Adds Twitter Support — Alert Thingy, the FriendFeed desktop application that launched just three days ago, just launched v 1.2 of the service, with Twitter support. — In addition to viewing FriendFeed data streams and posting directly to FriendFeed …
Matthew Moskovciak / Crave:
Movies and TV shows coming to PS3? — The PlayStation 3's newest v2.30 firmware just came out yesterday, but Sony isn't show any signs of slowing down its updates for the PS3. In a blog yesterday, Senior Vice President Peter Dille wrote this enticing tidbit:
