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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 …
Discussion: Nik Cubrilovic and Andrew Allen
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
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Rex Hammock's Weblog
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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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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CNN:
BlackBerry maker scores patent win
Discussion: Engadget Mobile and Techdirt
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.
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!
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Convicted data thief gets eight years  —  A bulk e-mailer who looted more than a billion records with personal information from a data warehouse has been sentenced to eight years in prison, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.  —  Scott Levine, 46, was sentenced by a federal judge in Little Rock …
Discussion: technology filter and Techdirt
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 …
Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
Major League Gaming Gains Edge  —  Host of Videogame Matches  —  Gets $10 Million in Funding  —  To Help Craft Sports League  —  A company seeking to elevate competitive videogame playing into a professional sport said it has raised $10 million in financing and appointed a former Time Warner Inc., executive as president.
Discussion: Techdirt and PaidContent.org
Dave Winer / Dave's Wordpress Blog:
How much has been invested in RSS?  —  In yesterday's piece I wrote of the RSS 2.0 roadmap: "There's a huge community that has invested billions of dollars around its assumptions."  —  Sounds good, but while I was riding on the BART yesterday for a lunch appointment in San Francisco I wondered if it's true …
Discussion: Smalltalk Tidbits …
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.
Discussion: Valleywag
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.
Discussion: Engadget
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.
Discussion: TechSpot, macosxhints and TechBlog
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
The Safari Shell Script Execution Exploit
Discussion: MacInTouch

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