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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" …
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 …
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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Yahoo! Search blog:
What's been going on with Yahoo! Answers? — It's hard for us on the core product team to believe that it's only been 2 months since we launched the beta of Yahoo! Answers. Since then, we've added many features to the site in a steady stream of improvements. So it seems like a good time to catch you up!
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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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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.
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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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 …
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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