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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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Burningbird, Alice Hill's Real Tech News, VoIP and ENUM, TechBeat, SiliconBeat and Darren Barefoot
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Richard MacManus / Read/Write Web:
Will mainstream people flock to Flock? — By now most of you know that Flock, a trendy new Mozilla-based "social web browser", has gone live. Because it's said to be a quintessential Web 2.0 application, I feel duty-bound to try it out. So I've downloaded it and will give it a go as my main browser for a while.
Margaret Kane / CNET News.com:Bloggers don't flock together
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog, ben barren, Chris Pirillo, gigaom.com and Smalltalk Tidbits …
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."
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.
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Ryan Block / Engadget:Access announces the death of PalmOS... sooner than later
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Treonauts
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.
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Gadgetopia
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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 …
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Nokia 770
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.
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 …
Matt / Photo Matt:
Leaving CNET — It was just about a year ago I blogged about leaving Houston and driving across the country to join CNET. It ended up being one of the best moves of my life. Since moving to the Bay Area I've had incredible oppurtunities and met a whole tribe of amazing people.
Vin / Digital Deliverance LLC:
What Obstacles Exist for Online Journalism? — What obstacles exist for online journalism? — That topic will be on the minds of attendees at the Online News Association's annual conference next week in Manhattan. — Unfortunately, the major obstacle for online journalism is the people …
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 …
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TechSpot
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft backs off music player squeeze — Microsoft has pulled back from a plan to exclude rival media players from portable music devices using its software. — Details of the plan—and the reversal—were contained in a quarterly status report that Microsoft and the Department …
Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
Google responds on Blogspot - and Icerocket.com continues to grow — If Im going to criticize for inaction, its only fair to praise for action. Google has taken the very needed step of adding a captcha word verification system to blogspot. I went in today to see if the process of setting …
Alicia Chang / Associated Press:
Blackberry Users Learning Painful Lesson — LOS ANGELES - Chris Claypool was addicted to his BlackBerry wireless handheld. Like many users, he never thought twice about pecking away at lightning speed, replying to a wave of e-mails from clients around the globe.
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Lifehacker
snapshot.opera.com:
Release Notes — This is a preview version of Opera. Use only on properly backed up computers and do not install over previous Opera versions. — This release uses a new account storage format. If you install over an existing profile, you will be prompted to convert all accounts into the new format.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Memeorandum Hype and New Feature — Memeorandum continues to be our news site of choice, and it is starting to get real traction outside of the core blogosphere as well. — Ryan Singel at Wired posted an in depth review of Gabe Rivera's Memeorandum this morning.
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Scobleizer
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