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Chris Sherman / Search Engine Watch:
Google Introduces Web Page Creator — Want to create your own web page, but don't know how to begin? The new Google Page Creator is a simple, free tool that allows you to publish to the web with ease. — Google Page Creator is a web based application that uses a basic …
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Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
Google Pages Released — Although there has been no official announcement yet Google have released the long awaited and long-rumored Google Pages (which has nothing to do with cloning Larry Page). Pages allows users to create a webpage using an AJAX interface that removes a lot …
Mutantfrog / Mutant Frog Travelogue:
2nd hand electronics sales will NOT soon be illegal in Japan — Akihabara News, Engadget, and probably a number of other blogs have posted a completely misinformed and alarmist claim that Japanese law will soon make it illegal to sell used electronics. First the alarmist claim …
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Marc Perton / Engadget:
Japan bans old electronics as of April 1 — No, this isn't an AprilFool's Day joke: If you're in Japan and looking for a deal on used gear, your days are numbered, at least if that gearis more than five years old. It seems that Japan's government revised its "Electrical Applianceand Material Safety Law" …
John Clyman / PC Magazine:
Inside Windows Vista, Build 5308 — With today's release of the Windows Vista February CTP (Community Technology Preview), Microsoft has publicly passed a key milestone on the road to launching its new operating system. This release of Vista is "feature-complete", the company says …
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Nate Mook / betanews.com:
Vista 'Enterprise CTP' Feature Complete — Microsoft has announced the arrival of the February Windows Vista CTP, which was renamed to "Enterprise CTP" as the company moves from monthly to audience specific naming. The release means Windows Vista is now "feature complete," offering the first glimpse at the Windows Sidebar.
Graeme Wearden / ZDNet:
IBM issues subpoenas for tech giants' SCO dealings … The long-running legal battle over claims that IBM's version of Linux violates SCO Group's intellectual property took another twist on Tuesday when IBM sent subpoenas to four other tech players. — Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard …
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Perfect 10 v. Google: More Smooth Than Crunchy — While you wouldn't know it from the headlines, I think yesterday's preliminary injunction ruling [1.3mb PDF] against Google will be remembered as a little bad for Google, but a lot good for the Web. (Full disclosure: EFF filed an amicus brief supporting Google in the case.)
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Chicago Tribune:
Bloggy, we hardly knew ye — No sooner had Al Gore invented the Internet than early adopters discovered a liberating opportunity: Anybody with a modem and an ego could share his or her thoughts with the world. — Remember what happened next? By the mid-1990s, a few self-publishers …
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Kevin Delaney / Wall Street Journal:
Google Names Head of Philanthropy — Physician Larry Brilliant, — A Former Tech Executive, — Will Lead Google.org Arm — Google Inc. named Larry Brilliant, a former high-tech executive and doctor specialized in global health issues, to head its Google.org philanthropic arm.
CNET News.com:
Company claims patent win in online rich media — Internet design company Balthaser announced Tuesday that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted it a patent for the design and creation of rich-media services over the Internet. — According to information on the Patent Office's Web site …
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Lockergnome / Chris Pirillo:
Googlefasting — I love a lot of things about Google (especially how they fund many of my advertising-based ventures). I use Google search every minute of every day - or that's what it feels like. I don't like much of their software because of a poor design ethic, but I like what it does for users.
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Craig Pringle:
Hands on Review of the M400 — I was lucky enough to borrow a Toshiba M400 from Toshiba New Zealand for a couple of days. I picked it up today before lunch when I was passing by. I had quite a busy day today so the thing sat on my desk all day largely unmolested. Talk about torment!
Stephen Bryant / publish.com:
Five Reasons Web 2.0 and Enterprises Don't Mix — Opinion: Enterprise-level Web 2.0 apps are coming. But first large companies need to understand the value proposition (not the feel-good proposition) of Web 2.0. — My first job after college—after I came back from Tuscany where I killed pigs …
Jim Finkle / Reuters:
Lenovo to launch low-end brand PCs in US: analyst — BOSTON (Reuters) - Lenovo Group Ltd. (0992.HK), the world's No. 3 PC maker, will soon start selling low-priced computers targeted at small U.S. businesses, taking the Lenovo brand outside China for the first time, said an analyst familiar with the matter.
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Engadget
english.ohmynews.com:
[Press Release] OhmyNews and Softbank Join Hands — In a $11M investment agreement, citizen participatory journalism goes global — OhmyNews and Softbank have joined hands for the globalization of citizen participatory journalism pioneered by OhmyNews in South Korea six years ago.
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Mac OS flaw exposes Apple users — update A serious flaw in Mac OS X could be a conduit for attackers to install malicious code on computers running the Apple Computer software, experts warned Tuesday. — The security problem is the third to surface for the operating system in the past week.
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anythingbutipod.com:
How to Disassemble the Creative Zen Vision: M — Pssst... Want to know what is inside the Creative Zen Vision:M? Here is your chance to take a look inside, and if you are daring enough, take it apart. Below I have provided step by step instructions on the teardown without breaking this portable wonder.
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Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Alarming Phishing Trends — The number of phishing Web sites skyrocketed in December, as did the number of sites designed to spread password-stealing badware, according to the most recent report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group. — The number of unique phishing sites jumped from 4,630 …
