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Vince Sollitto / Cuil:
Cuil Launches Biggest Search Engine on the Web — Technology Company Offers New Look at Search — Cuil, a technology company pioneering a new approach to search, unveils its innovative search offering, which combines the biggest Web index with content-based relevance methods, results organized by ideas, and complete user privacy.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Cuil Exits Stealth Mode With A Massive Search Engine — Menlo Park based Cuil will launch later this evening with an index of 120 billion web pages, making them arguably the most comprehensive search engine on the web (Google doesn't disclose the size of their index, although they claim …
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
MPAA Still Clueless; Claims Anti-Piracy Is Why Dark Knight Had A Huge Opening — from the are-these-people-serious? dept — Last week, we wrote about how the massively successful opening of The Dark Knight showed (once again) how little an impact “piracy” has on movies. But don't tell the movie industry that.
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Harrison Hoffman / The Web Services Report:
When the “Wisdom of Crowds” turns on itself: IMDB Edition — The concept of the wisdom of crowds is a fundamental building block of a lot of the Web 2.0 services that we see today. While not all of them are built on this core concept, major sites like Digg, Wikipedia, and Mahalo rely heavily on crowds being wise.
Dawn C. Chmielewski / Los Angeles Times:
Secrecy cloaked ‘Dark Knight’ — Warner Bros. took painstaking care to thwart pirates ahead of the film's premier, and the effort paid off. — For Warner Bros., the mission was to keep “The Dark Knight” from seeing the light of day. — In an era of instantaneous digital copying …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Hires Mozilla Exec Mike Schroepfer As Director Of Engineering — Mike Schroepfer, the extremely well regarded VP Engineering at Mozilla, is now Facebook's Director of Engineering. — He'll be heading up Facebook Platform and the main product front end, he said by telephone this morning …
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Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:
Steve Jobs Walks Into the Trap — What was Steve thinking? I don't pretend to understand the pressures he's under, both physically and professionally, but calling New York Times columnist Joe Nocera with an “off the record” health update was a big mistake, completely unnecessary, and serves only to fan the flames.
New York Post:
‘CAPITAL’ UNREST CASTS GLOOM OVER YAHOO! — Yahoo! may have made peace with activist investor Carl Icahn, but its second-largest shareholder is still furious with Chairman Roy Bostock and CEO Jerry Yang and is considering withholding votes for them, sources told The Post.
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Calendar Adds CalDAV Support — After many months of testing, Google Calendar finally adds CalDAV support. “CalDAV is an open protocol that allows calendar access via WebDAV. CalDAV models calendar events as HTTP resources in iCalendar format, and models calendars containing events as WebDAV collections.
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Emil Protalinski / One Microsoft Way:
Microsoft Research releases free software for academics — At the ninth annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, Tony Hey, corporate vice president of Microsoft's External Research Division, unveiled free software to help researchers seamlessly publish, preserve, and share data.
Seth Weintraub / Computerworld Blogs:
Rumor: MacBook updates to include glass trackpad, other goodies — As I hinted in my “fun” blog, I have been hearing some interesting things about Apple's upcoming line of portable computers. The talk amongst insiders on the new MacBooks is kind of scattered but here's a summation of what I've heard:
PR Newswire:
Verizon Reports Double-Digit Earnings Growth, Strong Operating Cash Flows, Sales Gains in All Key Areas in 2Q — Network Investments Delivering Growth: Wireless Again Tops Industry, and FiOS Penetration and Sales of Strategic Business Services Continue to Advance
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Robert M. McDowell / Washington Post:
Who Should Solve This Internet Crisis? — The Internet was in crisis. Its electronic “pipes” were clogged with new bandwidth-hogging software. Engineers faced a choice: Allow the Net to succumb to fatal gridlock or find a solution. — The year was 1987.
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Brandstreaming: What Is It & Who's Doing It? — If there's a hot new social media trend happening, you can bet that companies are trying to find a way to use it too. It happened of course with blogging, it happened with Twitter, and it is now happening with FriendFeed and other lifestreaming apps.
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David Chartier / Infinite Loop:
iPhone, App Store problems causing more than just headaches — It has been a couple weeks since Apple deemed iPhone OS 2.0 to be ripe enough for us to pluck from its digital tree. While third-party software (albeit from a walled garden) is indeed an appetizing treat, widespread reports …
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Patent Office finds voice, calls for software patent sanity — The US Patent and Trademark Office is a convenient whipping boy for problems with the patent system. The USPTO famously approved the junk patents at the heart of the legal battle between Research in Motion and a patent-trolling firm called NTP.
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