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Editorial: Google's power couple — Marissa Mayer used to date Larry Page. There, we said it. — The relationship shouldn't be a big deal. Larry Page is co-founder of Google. Marissa Mayer is vice president of search products and user experience at the company, and employee number 20.
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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
IE 7 bugs abound — update People didn't lose any time in finding bugs in the latest preview release of Internet Explorer 7. — It's been but a day since Microsoft publicly released a test version of Internet Explorer 7, but Internet news groups and blogs are already teeming with bug reports.
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Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
CBS Cuts Out Download Middleman — The network will make 'Survivor' episodes available for $1.99 on its own website, bypassing Apple's iTunes service. — CBS Corp. has spoken: When it comes to making its reality hit "Survivor" available for downloading, iTunes has been voted off the island.
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Ryan Naraine / eWEEK.com:
Researcher: WMF Exploit Sold Underground for $4,000 — Virus hunters combing through the wreckage of the zero-day WMF (Windows Metafile) attacks have found evidence that exploit code was being peddled by Russian hacker groups for $4,000 a pop. — The first sign of an exploit was traced …
Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
30 Boxes, Best... Calender... EVER! — Let the ajaxification of your life continue! Yesterday I had the opportunity to sit down with a group of bloggers and technologists for a discussion about how we use calendaring as well as view a preview of 83 Degree's latest project 30 Boxes …
Red Herring:
Feds Blast Tech Firms on China — Congressional caucus launches blistering assault on absent tech firms as the debate on China begins. — The tone of the debate between the U.S. government and U.S. technology companies Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Cisco Systems on the subject of Internet freedom …
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:Politicos attack tech firms over China
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Walter S. Mossberg / WSJ Personal Technology:
PubSub, Rollyo Offer Web Search Services The Big Engines Don't — The Internet search business is a hot topic. But most of the talk centers on the advertising revenue it generates, not on what is happening in the actual search process itself. And most of the attention is paid to the search giants …
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
RSS Is a Glorified "Favorites" Feature — RSS is in Internet Explorer 7!!! The blogosphere is shouting from the rooftops. Yawn. I tried RSS in IE7, and it highlights the true shortcoming of current RSS applications — it's really not much of an improvement over "favorites" or "bookmarks."
George Ou / ZDNet.com:
Firefox 1.5 patches 'undisclosed' security holes — [Updated: 1:40 PM] Open Source has always prided itself in openness, but why is the Mozilla foundation patching security flaws without disclosing what they are? A new Update for Firefox 1.5 was released by Mozilla which actually has a long list …
Sascha Segan / PC Magazine:
Verizon Blesses Phone-As-Modem Plans — Verizon Wireless has changed its policy and will now let subscribers use several popular phones as high-speed modems for their laptops, company representatives confirmed Thursday. — The shift represents a major policy change for Verizon …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Apple's patented the Tablet Mac (part II) — Well, what do you know? Yetanother Apple tablet PC patent's shown up on the USPTO site, this one also with none other than Jonny Ive's Handcock onit (last time around it was both Jobs and Ive on the patent, though).
Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Dabble Dabble — Update: Mark Sigal has an excellent comment about Dabble. He runs vSocial, a video service I prefer over You Tube. Pete Cashmore, Heather Green and Anne 2.0 are extending the conversation. — It has been a busy week already! I have been furiously reporting for my next story for the magazine.
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Connecting the Dots, Under the Radar, Napsterization, Anne 2.0, ben barren, Blogspotting, Download Squad, Online News Squared, Mashable* and Message
Steve Hamm / Business Week:
SAP Gets On-Demand Religion — At last, Europe's biggest software maker is making a tentative — too tentative? — push into the on-demand CRM market occupied by rivals — Marc Benioff, the boisterous boss of Salesforce.com (CRM), has been heralding the end of software as we know it ever since …
Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:
BLOGUE, by Owen Thomas (apologies to Madonna) — Owen "Ditherati" Thomas shares the following original monstrosity masterpiece of pop music parody with BoingBoing. "If you film the music video," says Owen, "I'd gladly pay $1.99 on iTunes for it." … (c) 2006 Owen Thomas with apologies to Madonna
Richard MacManus / Web 2.0 Explorer:
Interview with Digg's Kevin Rose, Pt 2: On Personalization and Fighting Spam — In Part 1 of my interview with digg founder Kevin Rose, we discussed digg's popularity, reputation systems and recent issues with GroupThink. In the final part of this interview, Kevin and I talk about digg's battle …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Gtalkr's New Features — Colorado-based Gtalkr originally launched in November 2005 as a Flash based way to access Google Talk, Gmail and Yahoo maps from a website. I drew comparisons to Meebo as well as the Ajax home page crowd (my current list is here). — Gtalk released a ton of new functionality today.
