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Om Malik / Om Malik's Broadband Blog:
Google Confirms Free San Francisco WiFi Plans — breaking.... Google is making a bid to build a San Francisco-wide free wifi network, according to company officials. The company today filed documents in response to San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's request for information for the city wide network.
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Wireless access for all? — Google plan would offer free Internet throughout SF — Google Inc. has proposed to blanket San Francisco with free wireless Internet access, placing a marquee name behind Mayor Gavin Newsom's effort to get all residents online whether they are at home, in a park or in a cafe.
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Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Google proposes free Wi-Fi for San Francisco — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Marking its biggest step into the wireless communications market to date, Google Inc. said on Friday it has proposed to provide free wireless Internet services across the city of San Francisco.
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Dell to stop free home delivery of computers — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Dell Inc. (DELL.O: Quote, Profile, Research) will stop its practice of sending low-end computers to customers homes without charge in order to cut costs, the company said on Thursday.
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Mark / brainwagon:
Some one has to say it again... James Robertson doesn't much like OPML or RSS as file formats, and tells us why: … I couldn't agree more. Take for example Mark Pilgrim's comments: … The reason just isn't that programmers are lazy (we are, but we also like stuff to work).
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:More on crappy formats — Ahh, lots of people are getting …
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Matthew Broersma / eWEEK.com:
Eolas Wins Round vs. MS in Browser Patent Fight — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected an attempt to invalidate a far-reaching browser patent controlled by Eolas, despite fears that the patent and others like it could lead to Internet chaos. — The decision is a serious blow …
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Terry Heaton / Terry Heaton's Weblog:
The view from the top — There is a growing acceptance of bloggers and blogging among mainstream media executives, although there are still lingering questions about the role of blogging as media and as to how it "fits" with culture. This picture emerged from Wednesday's gathering in New York …
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Get in on the CustomScoop Blog/News Search Private Beta — I am testing a new free tool from CustomScoop that searches both news and blog sites and delivers results in aggregate. So far it looks promising. The beta is by invitation only. However, they are inviting my readers to take a test drive.
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physorg.com:
NASA Takes Giant Step Toward Finding Earth-Like Planets — Are we alone in the universe? Are there planets like Earth around other "suns" that might harbor life? Thanks to a recent technology breakthrough on a key NASA planet-finding project, the dream of answering those questions is no longer light-years away.
Paul Miller / Engadget:
The Raven X41 Linux Tablet PC by EmperorLinux — Linux has matured greatly on the desktop, but it's still mostly an also-ran in the laptop space, mainly due to that crazy specialized hardware that manufactures put into their portables—like batteries. The Tablet PC brings a whole 'nother batch …
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Ars Technica:
Blu-ray fires back at HD DVD camp, Microsoft responds — Calling the reasons cited by Microsoft and Intel for choosing HD DVD over Blu-ray "inaccurate," members of the Blu-ray Disc Association group issued that they characterized as "corrections" on a number of issues, ranging from capacity to managed copy support.
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Chitika eMiniMalls & Google Adsense on Same Webpage : Make More Money — Can you put Chitika's eMiniMalls ads on the same page with Google Adsense? Yes. But you have to use non contextual Chitika ads (Just as is the case with using non contextual Adbrite ads with Adsense).
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Yahoo accused of poaching speech engineers — update A California court has been asked to temporarily bar about a dozen engineers hired by Yahoo from working on interactive speech technology at the search engine after the company they recently left filed a lawsuit accusing Yahoo of trying to steal trade secrets.
Robert Stein / activewin.com:
Microsoft Technical Beta Invitation for Office "12" Sent — Due to your interest in Microsoft Office Systems, the Microsoft Office Product Team would like to invite you to complete a brief nomination survey to be used in selecting participants for the Office "12" Technical beta.
Google Blogoscoped:
Google Search Tips 2005 — Here are some search syntax basics and advanced tricks for Google.com. You might know most of these, but if you spot a new one, it may come in handy in future searches. — A quote/ phrase search can be written with both quotations ["like this"] as well as a minus in-between words, [like-this].
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