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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, Darren Barefoot and SiliconBeat
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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
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."
Paul Buchheit / Official Google Blog:
Guess what just turned 34? — It's difficult to pin down the exact origin of email, but in October 1971, an engineer named Ray Tomlinson chose the '@' symbol for email addresses and wrote software to send the first network email. — At the time, it must not have seemed very important …
Charles Arthur / The Register:
How ATM fraud nearly brought down British banking — This is the story of how the UK banking system could have collapsed in the early 1990s, but for the forbearance of a junior barrister who also happened to be an expert in computer law - and who discovered that at that time the computing department …
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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 …
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
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 …
Dave Winer / thetwowayweb.com:
Build to flip the Flickr of evrything — Later today I'll give a keynote address, at a BBQ. — That's got to be a first. — It's a tradition that when I give a talk, I prepare it on Scripting News, in the open, for all to see. — Since this talk will be given in the heart of Silicon Valley …
Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
Google responds on Blogspot - and Icerocket.com continues to grow — Update: — I stand corrected. As i have since found out, figured out and been told. The Captcha from Google has been in place. It was only triggered in respone to their spam filters. I hadnt been flagged before.
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 …
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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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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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.
