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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Forbes Cover Story Blows It, Calling Bloggers Lynch Mobs  —  Earlier tonight I was on a four-minute segment on CNBC that largely focused on Forbes' new cover story - Attack of the Blogs.  Registration is required or the bugmenot login/password "forbesdontbug" worked for me.
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Dan Gillmor / Dan Gillmor's blog:
Forbes's Trashy Blog Attack  —  Overall, what a pile of trash from Forbes Magazine, which uses its cover to go on the attack against bloggers in the new issue.  You have to register to read the stories.  Go ahead if you must; it's worth reading to see how a normally solid business magazine …
Daniel Lyons / Forbes:
Attack of the Blogs  —  Web logs are the prized platform of an online lynch mob spouting liberty but spewing lies, libel and invective.  Their potent allies in this pursuit include Google and Yahoo.  —  Gregory Halpern knows how to hype.  Shares of his publicly held company …
Discussion: Paul Kedrosky's …
blog.flickr.com:
Your Photos - not on Flickr!  —  Over the last year, we've been asked 15,381 times, "How about printing?  When are we going to get printing!?"  Today we are happy to answer: "Today!"  For now it is U.S. only (we know! we're working hard on rolling it out everywhere!).
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Ryan Singel / Wired News:
U.S. Cell Phone Tracking Clipped  —  Federal law enforcement attempts to use cell phones as tracking devices were rebuked twice this month by lower court judges, who say the government cannot get real time tracking information on citizens without showing probable cause.
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EFF: Breaking News:
Court Issues Surveillance Smack-Down to Justice Department  —  No Cell Phone Location Tracking Without Probable Cause  —  New York - Agreeing with a brief submitted by EFF, a federal judge forcefully rejected the government's request to track the location of a mobile phone user without a warrant.
Discussion: Engadget
Jonathan Krim / Washington Post:
FBI Dealt Setback on Cellular Surveillance
Discussion: textually.org
Yahoo! Search blog:
From My Web to Your Website - A Button Share!  —  Over at SearchEngineWatch, Danny Sullivan has been asking why we haven't offered a "Save to My Web" button.  Well here it is!  —  Save to My Web is a simple, sociable button you can add to any and every page of your blog or website.
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Need a job?  Don't use a Mac  —  update When it comes to some big-name companies, Macintosh users may have a tough time landing a job.  —  It's not just that the business world is dominated by Windows-based computers.  It's because, at a number of large companies, Mac users literally can't apply.
microsoft.com:
Microsoft Reports First-Quarter Earnings  —  Microsoft delivers double-digit operating income growth, announces plans to accelerate share repurchase.  —  Income Statements  —  Balance Sheets  —  Cash Flows Statements  —  Segment Revenue/Operating Income(Loss)  —  SEC Filings
Reuters:
SBC to take AT&T name after marriage  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) — SBC Communications (SBC) said Thursday it will change its name to AT&T after completing its $16 billion purchase of that company, restoring a 120-year-old brand to what will become the largest U.S. telecommunications company.
Discussion: Daily Wireless and Techdirt
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Timothy Williams / New York Times:
AT&T Brand Lives On as Buyer Adopts Name
Russ / Russell Beattie Notebook:
Where's The Ambition?  —  All these startups in my feeds lately are killing me!  There are tons of them, but none seem to be doing anything particularly special.  I mean, it's nice that there's a sort of rebirth of small startups, but there's absolutely no sort of wow factor that I've seen.
Tim / Surf-Bits, The Switcher's Website:
The Ultimate Freeware Package for your iPod.  —  The Mac developer community has given us Mac users a ton of great software for our iPods.  I've talked about many of my favorite programs in the past.  Most of these, like Pod2Go and Podlock are shareware and commercial.
Discussion: digg
Darryl K. Taft / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft RTMs Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005  —  Microsoft on Thursday released to manufacturing its Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 products, previously known by the code names Whidbey and Yukon respectively.  —  Officials at the Redmond, Wash., company called the RTM …
Discussion: Andre and OSNews.com
Jack Loftus / searchopensource.techtarget.com:
Novell missteps not affecting SuSE  —  Novell layoff rumors swirled this week, but analysts were quick to dismiss any doomsday scenarios involving the SuSE Linux operating system.  —  Current users of SuSE should not panic even if the 20% workforce cuts cited in recent news reports come to fruition …

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