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10:20 AM ET, May 2, 2006

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
New Blog Search Engine Sphere Launches  —  New blog search engine Sphere launched just moments ago and has also announced a $3.75 million round of venture financing.  In addition to covering the launch of Sphere here, we have a podcast interview with CEO Tony Conrad and advisor Toni Schneider over at TalkCrunch.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Sphere Launches With New Cash  —  Sphere, a San Francisco- search engine company that specializes in searching blogs, for relevant information has closed a $3.75 million in fresh capital from Hearst Publishing, Trident Capital and About.com founder Scott Kurnit.
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Windows Expertise:
Google cries foul, but for what?  —  I'm having a hard time understanding why Google is so outraged at Microsoft's design of the search bar in IE7.  Steve Lohr summarizes the complaint in today's New York Times: … I don't get this at all.  Let's look at IE7 up close and compare it to Google's preferred browser, Firefox.
Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Fire up vi to change your search engine
Financial Times:
Apple sets tune for pricing of song downloads  —  Apple Computer on Monday revealed it had renewed contracts with the four largest record companies to sell songs through its iTunes digital store at 99 cents each.  The agreements came after months of bargaining, and were a defeat for music companies …
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Yahoo Tech Is Tech For the Rest of Us  —  Yahoo launches a consumer tech site and the blogosphere is not impressed .  Why — because they're all a BUNCH OF GEEKS (with all due respect).  —  Here's why I think Yahoo Tech is a serious threat to CNET:  —  1. "Advisor" Blogs — Sure they're …
samsung.com:
SAMSUNG's D520: Stylish Simplicity and Stunning  —  Seoul, Korea - 2 May, 2006 -Samsung maintains its leadership in the mobile industry with the launch of the new slim SGH-D520.  A masterpiece in design, the tri-band D520 is slimmed and trimmed with all of today's latest features.
Discussion: Gizmodo and MobileWhack.com
Carlo / Techdirt:
Here's An Idea: If You Don't Like What's On TV, Don't Watch It  —  from the personal-responsibility-goes-missing- again dept  —  The idea of so-called family-friendly cable TV packages is turning into quite the Goldilocks tale.  First, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin tacitly threatened operators …
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Web 2.0 marketing — bottoms up!  —  One of the concepts we're trying to tackle as part of mesh (May 15th and 16th in beautiful downtown Toronto, get your tickets before it's too late, etc. etc.) is the idea that Web 2. and blogs and all that they represent are fundamentally rewriting the rules …
John Markoff / New York Times:
Intel to Offer Its Own Plan for Global Internet Access  —  SAN FRANCISCO, May 1 — Aiming to help close the so-called digital divide, the Intel Corporation plans to announce a design for a sub-$400 educational laptop and a five-year, $1 billion program to train teachers and to extend wireless digital Internet access worldwide.
Discussion: IP Democracy
New York Times:
Microsoft and Google Set to Wage Arms Race  —  Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, described Google in an interview late last year as a worthy adversary, a company to test Microsoft's mettle.  "This is hypercompetition, make no mistake," Mr. Gates observed.
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Helio launches  —  Alright kids, it's the moment we've all been waiting for (and by we, we mean the MVNO nerds).  SK Telecom's and Earthlink's joint-venture Helio is officially lighting up today with their first two devices — the Hero and Kickflip.  We're all pretty well briefed to date …
mindstorms.lego.com:
Hackers, Get Ready!  LEGO Group Announces Open Source Firmware, Developer Kits for LEGO® MINDSTORMS® NXT  —  Consumer-directed robotics experience creation to enter "NXT" phase with open firmware, Software, Hardware and Bluetooth Developer Kits to launch in August
Discussion: Infinite Loop and Open Source
Mike Davidson:
ABC Full Episode Streaming is Live... and it's Spectacular  —  Seinfeld fans will note the Teri Hatcher reference in the title of this post, but I just tried out ABC's full-episode streaming video service which launched a few minutes ago (around 2am this morning), and it is indeed quite nice.
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Staci / paidContent.org:
First Look: ABC.com's Ad-Supported Streaming "Experiment" [by Staci]
Discussion: Rex Hammock's Weblog
Ellen Lee / San Francisco Chronicle:
Video bloggers claim spotlight  —  Online diaries looking a lot like television  —  Jay Dedman's life plays out in snippets of video, captured on a handheld video camera and posted on his online diary, Momentshowing.  —  A Manhattan subway bomb scare spurs him to post a photo montage of Sept. 11 and the days before and after.
Chris Anderson / The Long Tail:
Google and the Long Tail of Time  —  As I look more at the "Long Tail of Time" (see my first post on that here) in preparation for this Long Now talk, I'm finding that one of the biggest forces driving demand into the archives is Google.  We're used to the newspaper model of content …
Justin Davis / modojo.com:
First Lumines Mobile Screens & Details  —  Ubisoft's Lumines undoubtedly sold more than a few PSPs to hardcore puzzle fanatics.  It remains to this day one of the strongest-reviewed products on the platform.  We at Modojo even awarded it a perfect score.  It came as no surprise when a PSP sequel and PS2 remix were announced.
Discussion: Kotaku and Game|Life
Jonathan Watts / asiamedia.ucla.edu:
CHINA: How Google became a rude word in China  —  Google's adoption of Mandarin name in China opens up online debate  —  Gougou, Gugu, Gege, Goule or Guge?  A furious online debate has opened up in China over the recent adoption of a Mandarin name by Google — the latest in a series …
linuxdevices.com:
Linux gains enhanced WiFi stack  —  The day when WiFi cards "just work" under Linux may be fast approaching.  WiFi software stack specialist Devicescape has released its "Advanced Datapath" 802.11 driver stack to the open source community under the GPL, and the Linux kernel developer community appears …
Discussion: Wi-Fi Networking News
 
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James Ransom-Wiley / Joystiq:
GameCube price drop: Nintendo preps retailer [update 1]
Discussion: Alpha Blog and Gadgetell
John Gaudiosi / next-gen.biz:
Top Industry Figures Muse PS3
Discussion: Xbox 360 Fanboy and Kotaku
Jeff Clavier / Jeff Clavier's Software Only:
Quick LinkedIn update
Discussion: AccMan Pro
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Napster markets paid service with free listens
Elizabeth M. Gillespie / Associated Press:
Gates, N.Y. Times tout 'onscreen reader'
Discussion: Rational rants and A VC
tinyscreenfuls.com:
Should Intel eliminate my job?  What value do I bring to the bottom line?
Discussion: What's New and Chris Pirillo
Jason / Signal vs. Noise:
Crain's Chicago Business cover story
Discussion: Chicago Business and GigaOM
 Earlier Items: 
Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Rumor: OS X Leopard To Have BitTorrent Client for iTunes Store
Discussion: EuroTelcoblog and Forever Geek
David Berlind / Between the Lines:
JavaDB: An idea whose time has finally come?
Discussion: tecosystems
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
BlogBurst to Launch Tomorrow
Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Geek Chic: The Scope Watch
Discussion: SCI FI Tech and Boing Boing
Cisco Cheng / PC Magazine:
Samsung Q1  —  With Samsung's novel Q1 device ($1,099 direct) …
Nick / Rough Type:
Monetizing the wasteland  —  User-generated content is great stuff.
Wired News:
Ultimate Guide to Online Video