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BBC:
'$100 laptop' sparks war of words — Chip-maker Intel "should be ashamed of itself" for efforts to undermine the $100 laptop initiative, according to its founder Nicholas Negroponte. — He accused Intel of selling its own cut-price laptop - the Classmate - below cost to drive him out of markets.
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CBS News:
What If Every Child Had A Laptop? — Lesley Stahl Reports On The Dream And The Difficulties Of Getting A Computer To Every Child — (CBS) Nicholas Negroponte, a professor at MIT, had a dream. In it every child on the planet had his own computer. In that way, he figured …
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Google, Salesforce.com Discuss Alliance — SAN FRANCISCO — Salesforce.com Inc.'s stock price climbed by more than 4 percent Monday in response to a report that the online software pioneer is poised to team up with Internet search leader Google Inc. in a double-barreled attack on Microsoft Corp.
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Direct2Dell:
Ubuntu 7.04 Offering—Technical Details — Before we announce the availability of Ubuntu 7.04 on select Dell client systems, I'd like to give an overview of what customers can expect from our initial Ubuntu offering. — Availabile Software and Hardware — The default software …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Panasonic gooses megapixels, zoom — Panasonic announced a new Lumix camera Monday that squeezes a wide-angle lens, a 12.2-megapixel sensor and a novel way of extending zoom lens range into a compact camera. — The Lumix DMC-FX100 is equipped with a 3.6x zoom that spans the equivalent of 28mm to 100mm …
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Mark Shuttleworth:
Microsoft is not the real threat — Much has been written about Microsoft's allegation of patent infringements in Linux (by which I'm sure they mean GNU/Linux ). I don't think Microsoft is the real threat, and in fact, I think Microsoft and the Linux community will actually end up fighting on the same side of this issue.
BBC:
Wi-fi health fears are 'unproven' — Scientists have said there is no evidence to suggest a link between the use of wi-fi and damage to health. — BBC programme Panorama found that radiation levels from wi-fi in one school was up to three times the level of mobile phone mast radiation.
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Google Coop Embeds Gadgets in Search Results — Google Coop has quietly expanded and now can embed data from gadgets (i.e. widgets) as subscribed links. In English, as opposed to Googlese, what this means is that you can opt-in to have important live data pop-up when you enter certain search keywords.
Think Secret:
Death knell tolls for 17-inch iMac — Apple's pending iMac update will spell the end of the day for the 17-inch iMac, the most affordable computer in the line. The refreshed iMac, currently on track to arrive by the end of June according to sources, will feature just 20- and 24-inch models.
Orbitcast:
BREAKING: Is XM down? — Seems like there's a massive outage going on with XM right now. Reports have been coming in like crazy, and I myself in NYC haven't been able to get signal since about 12-noon. — UPDATE: Reportedly one of the satellites (SAT1) is down, and all of the repeaters are down due to a "software update."
Vauhini Vara / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Opens Its Pages As a Way to Fuel Growth — Facebook Inc. has bucked the Silicon Valley acquisition trend, remaining independent of larger technology companies. Now the social-networking start-up is seeking ways to reach the big leagues on its own.
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BBC:
Music giant EMI agrees takeover — UK music business EMI Group has agreed to be bought by private equity firm Terra Firma for £3.2bn including debt. — The group, whose artists include Robbie Williams and the Beatles, has been the subject of bid speculation for the past year as its business has struggled.
Ben Edelman:
Spyware Still Cheating Merchants and Legitimate Affiliates — Spyware vendors are trying to clean up their images. For example, Zango settled a FTC investigation, then last week sued PC Tools for detecting and removing Zango software. Meanwhile, Integrated Search Technologies …
Vikram Madan / Vikram Madan's Blog:
Post-winHEC Post — WinHEC 2007 seems to have gone well. UMPC exposure was pretty-decent. Bill Gates showed off UMPCs in his keynote. I presented a session on UMPCs (somewhat ambiguously titled 'UMPC Ecosystem' - I'll post a link to the slides when they become public) …
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
MyPunchbowl: The Algorithm Schedules Your Event — eVite has been a target of several startups over the past year. Sites like Skobee or Renkoo have differentiated themselves by helping plan the casual outings for drinks or dinner. Socializr is taking a social networking approach.
Xinhua News Agency:
Computers accidentally "attacked" by Norton AntiVirus — www.chinaview.cn 2007-05-20 14:22:04 — An error occurring in the update of Norton's virus database on Friday has caused millions of PCs and computers to crash-a heavy blow to people's daily work and ongoing business.
James Niccolai / InfoWorld:
Noose tightens around allofmp3.com — (InfoWorld) - The recording industry has stepped up its battle to shut down allofmp3.com, announcing the arrest of a man who allegedly sold vouchers used to make purchases at the controversial online music store. — U.K. police arrested the 25-year-old man in Bow …
