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Dave Winer / Scripting News:   John Battelle almost gets there today in figuring out where the limits are for Google.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
RSS Everywhere II - but where is Google?  —  Last night Yahoo! announced they are integrating RSS into their web mail and alerts products.  As Scott Gatz explained in an interview with PodTech: Yahoo's plan, which started in January 2004 when they launched RSS in the My Yahoo portal, is to "bring RSS to the masses".
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Scott Gatz / Scott Gatz's Blog:
Yahoo Mail's full post RSS reader
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Microsoft tests classifieds service  —  Microsoft is developing a free online service that will let people list items for sale, events and other classifieds-type of information that can be shared either with groups of friends or anyone over the Internet, the company said Tuesday.
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Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Microsoft tries classifieds  —  An upcoming online classified service from Microsoft Corp. may sound like Craigslist or the new Google Base, but the team behind the project says it found inspiration closer to home.  —  Microsoft employees have long used an internal listing service to sell …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Judge to RIM: We're not delaying this any longer  —  update Research In Motion on Wednesday lost two rounds in the long-running patent lawsuit that threatens to imperil the company's BlackBerry service in the United States.  —  U.S. District Judge James Spencer denied RIM's request to halt …
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Reuters:
Setback for BlackBerry maker
Discussion: Smart Mobs
Reuters:
US judge deals RIM blow in BlackBerry patent case
Discussion: Phone Scoop and Techdirt
Kim Zetter / Wired News:
Podcast Chaos Be Gone  —  Two new search engines offer to do for podcasting what Technorati does for blogs by letting users search podcasts by keyword to single out audio that suits their interests.  —  Podzinger and blinkx scour audio content for keywords by translating the audio into text and creating an index for quick searching.
WSJ Personal Technology:
A New Gold Standard for PCs  —  When Apple Computer launched its video iPod last month, the hype was so great that another important Apple product announcement was lost in the shuffle.  The company also released that day a new, improved, and yet cheaper, version of the already excellent iMac G5, its flagship consumer desktop computer.
Associated Press:
High-tech 'repo man' keeps car payments coming  —  NORFOLK, Va. — NOTE TO REPO MAN: Might want to look into another line of work.  —  A new gizmo is upping the odds that even the most hard-knock customer will come up with the car payment.  Hooked into the ignition system …
Matthew Fordahl / Associated Press:
Intel to Partner With TiVo on PC Platform  —  SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Looking to boost the number of computers whirring away in living rooms, Intel Corp. on Wednesday unveiled its first list of companies whose products are expected to work with the chip maker's upcoming Viiv entertainment PC platform.
Discussion: TechSpot
Jeff Leeds / New York Times:
Deadheads Outraged Over Web Crackdown  —  The Grateful Dead, the business, is testing the loyalty of longtime fans of the Grateful Dead, the pioneering jam band, by cracking down on an independently run Web site that made thousands of recordings of its live concerts available for free downloading.
Mark Glaser / Online Journalism Review:
Will NPR's podcasts birth a new business model for public radio?  —  How the public radio giant has become a leading podcaster in just two months.  Plus, a fond farewell from this columnist.  —  Last summer, the folks running National Public Radio started to get a clear message …
Discussion: Technology360
Richard S. Tedlow / Fortune:
The Education of Andy Grove  —  A Harvard historian explains how Intel's legendary chief became the best model we have for leading a business in the 21st century.  —  In 1991, an instructor at Stanford's Graduate School of Business presented his class with a case study.
Discussion: Between the Lines
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Trojan horse rides on unpatched IE flaw  —  Attackers are taking advantage of an unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer to target users of the ubiquitous Web browser, Microsoft warned late Tuesday.  —  Malicious software that exploits the security flaw to download a Trojan horse …
New York Times:
Security Flaw Allows Wiretaps to Be Evaded, Study Finds  —  The technology used for decades by law enforcement agents to wiretap telephones has a security flaw that allows the person being wiretapped to stop the recorder remotely, according to research by computer security experts who studied the system.
Discussion: Techdirt

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