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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Google Bids to Provide WiFi in San Fran — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google Inc. (GOOG) wants to connect all of San Francisco to the Internet with a free wireless service, creating a springboard for the online search engine leader to leap into the telecommunications industry.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google in San Francisco: 'Wireless overlord'? — While some people worried about privacy issues, others on Saturday praised Google's proposal to blanket San Francisco with free wireless high-speed Internet access, saying it will help bring fast Web connections to more people in more places for less money than they are paying now.
San Francisco Chronicle:
Google offers S.F. Wi-Fi — for free — Company's bid is one of many in response to mayor's call for universal online access — Google Inc. has offered to blanket San Francisco with free wireless Internet access at no cost to the city, placing a marquee name behind Mayor Gavin Newsom's effort …
FirstAdopter.com:
Google Submits Bid to Offer Free Wi-Fi to San Francisco — Google submitted a 100 page bid to the city of San Francisco today to offer free Wi-Fi access for its residents. Over a dozen other ISPs and companies including Earthlink have also put in bids. Although the mayor's office …
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Brian Jones / Office XML Formats:
Native PDF support in Office "12" — Today's another exciting day as we move closer to Beta 1. We are just wrapping up the MVP summit here in Redmond and we've finally announced another piece of functionality I've wanted to talk about for a long time now.
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Chris Pratley / Chris_Pratley's OneNote WebLog:
OneNote 12 to support PDF creation — Today was a fun day. It was our last day with our MVPs visiting here at Redmond. This was one of the best MVP Summits for me - there was a lot of good positive interchange and solid feedback given by the MVPs on all our products.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Farber asks: why not go directly to the execs? — Dan Farber asks why I didn't just go to Ray Ozzie, Bill Gates, or Steve Ballmer directly. Hmmm, I did (and a few others too). Ray answered my email immediately. — I'm not the only one Ray answers fast, by the way.
Chris Anderson / The Long Tail:
WEB 2.0 AND THE LONG TAIL, PART 2 — After posting his Web 2.0 "meme map", which he apparently hadn't expected people to find until he was finished with an accompanying essay, Tim O'Reilly has now posted the full essay: What is Web 2.0. He'll be talking about it at his Web 2.0 conference next week in San Francisco.
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:37Signals to Release Writeboard Next Week
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Rustybrick / Search Engine Roundtable:
First Ever Wedding Proposal via Search Engine — I just wanted to let all you know, that I am now engaged to be married to my beautiful girlfriend, Yisha. — Why am I posting this here, at a search blog? Well, because of the way I did it. — I proposed via Ask Jeeves.
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Mark Hachman / extremetech.com:
Pricing, Ship Date Set For Mac Mini Clone — AOpen has announced prices and a ship date for its "Pandora" box, the Intel-based clone of the Apple Mac mini. — The Pandora will be sold as a complete system, according to a note from the OEM that was sent to reporters this week.
homepage.mac.com:
Apple does the right thing — For me personally this issue is over. I took down the website of my own accord. I started the site to get Apple's attention. Mission accomplished. Now that they have investigated what my site was alleging, and made their own statement and rectified the situation to my …
japantimes.co.jp:
Patent high court sides with Justsystem icon — The Intellectual Property High Court on Friday overturned a lower court ruling and ruled that Justsystem Corp. can continue to produce and sell its Ichitaro word-processing software and Hanako graphics software because they do not infringe on a Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. patent.
