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Bruce Horovitz / USA Today:
Starbucks offers new flavor: Free Wi-Fi — Thirsty for more business during the worst slump in its history, Starbucks will try to lure more customers by offering two hours of free AT&T Wi-Fi a day. — The Wi-Fi freebie will be available starting Tuesday to customers who purchase …
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Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Wikia Search launches the hackable search engine — This morning, Wikia is rolling out cool features on the controversial Wikia Search engine (previous review). — Starting today, if you do a search on the engine and don't like the results, you'll be able to change them.
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Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
Jimmy Wales Reboots His ‘Google-Killer’ — Last January, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launched a search engine called Wikia Search, a purported “Google-killer” that aimed to edit and refine search results with the same methods that have made Wikipedia a Web phenomenon—the contributions of thousands of volunteers.
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Joanna Stern / LaptopMag.com:
MSI Wind (Windows XP) — This 10-inch mini-notebook has good computing punch and impressive endurance. — Price as Reviewed: $499.00 — Review Contents: — In order to achieve their diminutive size, weight, and price, most mini-notebooks come with compromises: the screen or keyboard is too small …
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Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
Acer aspires to lead low-cost laptop race — After months as the subject of speculation in the media, Acer will introduce its own low-cost mini-notebook PC at the Computex trade show in Taipei on Tuesday. — The device will be called the Acer Aspire One, as expected.
Silicon Alley Insider:
Why Time Warner Cable's Pay-Per-Use Internet Experiment Will Fail — Time Warner Cable's (TWC) long-rumored Beaumont, Texas experiment — giving new cable modem subscribers a bandwidth allowance and charging for overages — begins this week, the AP reports.
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Jonathan Skillings / CNET News.com:Time Warner Cable ready to test metered Net use
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Peter Svensson / Associated Press:Time Warner Cable tries metering Internet use
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Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
Auctions on eBay: A Dying Breed — As consumers opt for fixed-price purchases, what happens to the company that perfected the art of online bidding—and the scores of e-auctioneers? — Bruce Hershenson, who auctions vintage posters online, is hanging up his eBay gavel.
Alexander van Elsas / Alexander van Elsas's Weblog …:
Social Media is timely, get over it — A lot of interesting posts today all related to the effect social media has on the tech elite. Colin Walker kicks it of with a well written essay, followed by Sarah Perez and Frederic over at the last Podcast. Each of them has had the pleasure …
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Ggaren / Surfin' Safari:
Announcing SquirrelFish — “Hello, Internet!” — WebKit's core JavaScript engine just got a new interpreter, code-named SquirrelFish. — SquirrelFish is fast—much faster than WebKit's previous interpreter. Check out the numbers. On the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark …
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
Make blogging effortless with Zemanta — One of blogging's biggest barriers is how much work you have to do to get a post out the door. You can stick to straight text, but adding links, pictures, tags, and related stories makes it more engaging for your readers.
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Eric Auchard / eWeek:
Yahoo Opposed Google Deal Before Microsoft Bid — Execs dismissed a search-advertising deal with Google due to antitrust concerns, one day before Microsoft made its takeover offer. — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc executives dismissed a search-advertising deal with Google due to antitrust concerns …
Cory Bohon / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
.Mac mail down, speculations abound — If you're a .Mac mail user, then you probably know that .Mac's mail system has been down for almost 6 hours. According to the .Mac system status, 100% of users are experiencing the problems. Here's what Apple says:
Microsoft:
Following Success of Windows on Netbooks, Microsoft Extends Windows Offering to Nettop Devices — More than 20 OEMs are delivering Windows solutions on their netbook devices. — Today at Computex, Microsoft Corp. announced that following the success of Windows on netbooks …
Ed Burnette / Ed Burnette's Dev Connection:
What Yahoo doesn't want you to know about the Microsoft deal — After fighting against its disclosure for weeks, lawyers for Yahoo! have finally lost their battle to keep the details of a shareholder lawsuit hidden. They had released a public version on May 15th, but most of the interesting parts were deleted.
Tristan Louis / The TNL.net weblog:
Is Techmeme myopic? — I'm a big fan of TechMeme, a web aggregation service that provides, at a glance, a few of what's being discussed in the technology-focused part of the blogosphere. It has allowed me to unsubscribe from a large number of RSS feeds that were providing me with redundant information …
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Susan Panico / PlayStation.Blog:
Introducing Qore: Taking you behind the curtain with PlayStation — Today we are announcing that Qore: Presented by the PLAYSTATION Network, a highly interactive, monthly lifestyle gaming program covering the world inside PLAYSTATION is on its way to PS3. Qore has been developed …
