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Dan Sabbagh / Times of London:
Google in court over refusal to let US examine search requests — GOOGLE users will face US government monitoring if the American authorities win a court case aimed at getting the website to hand over copies of every search conducted. — The world's most popular search engine …
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
FAQ: What does the Google subpoena mean? — FAQ Preparing to defend a controversial Internet pornography law in court, the Justice Department has demanded search logs from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and America Online. — The department asked the search giants to hand over millions …
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
How to Fix RSS — RSS sucks. I'm with Paul Kedrosky. Let the technodweebospehere rain fire and brimstone. I could add to Paul's rant, but instead here's a Really Simple three-step Solution (of course, the real first step is admitting that you have a problem): — 1. Call it "subscribing"
Business Week:
AOL: MySpace Invader — Launching a social network off its instant messenger — Did you think MySpace (NWS ) could blow up this big, this fast without anyone else noticing? Time Warner's (TWX ) AOL is readying its bid for the MySpace.com, um, space. — It won't be a site per se.
Google Blogoscoped:
Google News Adds Most Popular, Recommended — Google News has two new sections to the left; Recommended, and Most Popular. It's interesting to see Google work on improving their news homepage, even though its lack of ads make it a site with no direct revenues. — Most Popular
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:Google News Adds Recommended, Popular Stories
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Burtonator / Kevin Burton's Feed Blog:
RSS came from the publishing industry? — Dave's a smart guy so I'm sure I'm not following here: … If wouldn't have eventually come unless it was pushed. — If the MSM was left to their own accord there would never be feeds. There would be forced registration, robots.txt which blocks everything …
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Scripting News, The Doc Searls Weblog, Smalltalk Tidbits …, rexblog.com and Geek News Central …
Gregg Keizer / PC World:
Busting the Biggest PC Myths — We expose the bad advice that wastes your time and money. — From the August 2004 issue of PC World magazine — « Previous Page 1 2 3 4 5 Next » — Magnets zap your data. — For venerable floppies, this statement holds true.
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Seth Finkelstein / Infothought:
Google, Subpoena, and Privacy — [I wrote this as a contribution to the discussion on Dave Farber's mailing list, but I might as well shout to the wind here, as it may not make the moderation cut. The best documentation I've seen is Gary Price's summary at Blog.SearchEngineWatch.com, and their coverage]
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft looks beyond Vista, sees Vienna — update Although Microsoft is hard at work trying to ship Windows Vista this year, the company is beginning to set its sights on the next horizon, Vienna. — Vienna, once labeled Blackcomb, is the new code name for the successor to Vista.
Diego / d2r: diego's weblog:
nothing like a trashing to get the day started — Picture this: it's a Friday, early in the morning. The office is quiet, there's a smell of fresh coffee in the air. You're still a bit sleepy, and as you're booting up your brain for the day ahead you end up reading a blog post where the writer …
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Surveys show open source popularity on the rise in industry — A survey conducted by IT consulting firm Optaros and InformationWeek magazine shows that American companies and government organizations are saving millions of dollars with open source software.
Google Blogoscoped:
In Google vs Government, It's Not About Child Porn — It's interesting to see how many news sources mistakenly report that the current government vs Google case is about child porn. It's not. If anything, it's about children looking at pornography - i.e. webmasters not ensuring their sites …
Chris Seibold / Apple Matters:
Want to Marginalize the iPod? Ask Steve Jobs How! — There are a million iPod killers floating around. Some feature more capapcity, some feature more gizmos, and some feature lower price points. None of the iPod killers are actually doing any iPod killing because they're too busy trying to be more iPodish than the iPod.
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Erick Schonfeld / CNN:
Spy on yourself online — Forget spyware. Here comes myware. Soon you'll collect data on your own Web use for fun and profit. — NEW YORK (Business 2.0) - For a nice dose of paranoia, open up your Web browser preferences and take a look at your cookies.
geekzone.co.nz:
New Wi-Fi 802.11n Standard Promise Speeds Up To 600Mbps — The IEEE Task Group "N" voted to confirm the proposal for the 802.11n Wi-Fi standard. Submitted by the Joint Proposal team, this specification was developed by the Enhanced Wireless Consortium (EWC) and included several elements developed within the Joint Proposal team.
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