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Mark Evans:
Flock - Why All the Buzz?  —  Thanks to the good folks at Silicon Beat, I was able to download Flock, the much-anticipated browser that is supposed to change the world and, in the process, send Firefox, Opera and IE into oblivion - at least that's what all the hype leads you to believe.
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Richard MacManus / Read/Write Web:
Will mainstream people flock to Flock?
Discussion: Open Source and Google Blogoscoped
Brian Benzinger / Solution Watch:
Flock: It's your turn to fly
Discussion: The RSS Weblog and OSNews.com
web2.wsj2.com:
FLOCK: THE WEB 2.0 BROWSER TAKES OFF
Ed Hardy / brighthand.com:
Despite What You May Have Read, the Palm OS Is NOT Dead  —  An article that appears in the Computer Business Review says that Access Co, Ltd. intends to phase out the Palm OS in the near future.  —  According to a PalmSource spokesperson, this is completely incorrect.
Discussion: Engadget and Michael Gartenberg
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Rik Turner / cbronline.com:
Access: foreseeing the demise of the Palm OS  —  Access has revealed that it believes the Palm operating system will soon reach the end of its life.  —  Access Co Ltd, a mobile browser and content delivery developer that recently acquired PalmSource, has acknowledged that the unit's Palm operating system has a limited future.
Discussion: MobileRead Networks and OSNews.com
Peter Rojas / Engadget:
Hands-on with Intel's Ruby handheld PC  —  We kicked it at Intel's Destination Innovation event yesterday afternoon, and while most of what we saw there wasn't Engadget material — we couldn't care less about yet another way to sort through our digital photos — getting our hands on the Ruby …
John Hudson / Wired News:
Creating the Global Hot Spot  —  LONDON — Telecom giant Inmarsat is weeks away from launching the second in a series of two super-satellites — designed to be among the most powerful commercial communications spacecraft in orbit — that will beam broadband data and voice services to almost any location on the planet.
Discussion: Engadget and Wi-Fi Networking News
Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Why craigslist booted Oodle... and more to come?  —  Here's our Merc story today (free registration) about why San Francisco classifieds company craigslist asked Oodle to stop crawling its site for listings, and explores the move's wider significance.  —  Turns out, craigslist's terms of use …
Russ / Russell Beattie Notebook:
My New iPod: Video Podcasting Is Going to Be BIG  —  I couldn't resist - I got the new 30GB White iPod yesterday and it completely rocks.  Apple did a great job with this gadget.  Much thinner than previous iPods, super-fast syncing over USB, and the screen is *great*.
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Suit filed over Nano scratches  —  Claiming that the iPod Nano has a widespread propensity for scratching easily, lawyers this week filed a class action suit against Apple Computer on behalf of those who have purchased the diminutive music player.  —  The lawsuit, filed Wednesday on behalf …
Discussion: TechSpot
Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
Architecture Astronauts Are Back  —  I'm starting to see a new round of pure architecture astronautics: meaningless stringing-together of new economy buzzwords in an attempt to sound erudite.  —  When I wrote my original complaint about architecture astronauts more than four years ago, it was P2P this and messaging that.
Kevin Newcomb / ClickZ:
Pheedo Tests Multi-Channel Ads  —  Blog and RSS feed advertising network Pheedo has begun testing a program to make it easier for advertisers to create integrated, multi-channel campaigns across blogs, Web feeds and podcasts.  —  "If your ad message is only in one of these channels …
Discussion: AdJab and The Voice of Online …
Alexandros Roussos / macosXrumors.com:
Exclusive: Leopard to feature a totally redesigned Finder, based on Spotlight  —  To date, the only information Apple has provided about Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard is that it will come sometime between late 2006 and 2007 and that it will be Intel compatible.  Meanwhile, anonymous sources revealed …
Mark Morford / San Francisco Chronicle:
Harness iPod's dollar power — porn on the go  —  I am the first.  At least, I am the first I know of to think of this idea at this very moment in time, in this exact space, which you are right now reading, given that I'm quite sure that the very minute Apple announced its sexy …
Discussion: 925.M
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Small company makes big claims on XML patents  —  A small software developer plans to seek royalties from companies that use XML, the latest example of patent claims embroiling the tech industry.  —  Charlotte, N.C.-based Scientigo owns two patents (No. 5,842,213 and No. 6,393,426) covering the transfer of "data in neutral forms."
Discussion: Between the Lines
blogs.sun.com:
OpenOffice.org, AJAX and Common Sense  —  First, let me start by congratulating the global OpenOffice.org community for setting version 2.0 free to the world - you have my heartfelt congratulations (but you were a day early for having a great birthday!).  With 50,000,000 downloads and counting …
Discussion: Ted Leung on the air and Agylen

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