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Gary / ResourceShelf:
Google Temporarily Stops Registrations for New Google Web Page Creator — Web Search—Google — Google Launches Web Page Creator (Beta) THEN Temporarily Shuts Down Registrations to Use It — Well, here we go again. Google announces a new service and then within hours …
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Hey Google — where's my calendar? — Not content with controlling a majority of the market for online search and search-related advertising, Google has been rolling out add-ons to its online hegemony over the past year or so, including GTalk, Google Analytics and so on.
Jonathan Silverstein / ABCNEWS:
iTunes: One Billion Served — Apple iTunes Hits Its Billionth Download — Feb. 23, 2006 — There's been a counter on Apple's iTunes Web page since early February that's been ticking up to the music service's 1 billionth download, and sometime last night it happened.
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Boing Boing
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John Borland / CNET News.com:
MPAA sues newsgroup, P2P search sites — The Motion Picture Association of America said Thursday that it sued a new round of popular Web sites associated with movie piracy, including several that serve as search engines but do not distribute files themselves.
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IP Democracy
Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Here Comes Open Source Telecom — My latest Business 2.0 article, The Black Box That Would Conquer Telecom, just went online over at the CNN Money website. This is a story about a stealthy startup called Vyatta, that has build the world's first commercial open-source router …
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CNN
Phillip Torrone / MAKE: Blog:
Linux powered, wireless sniffing web radio boom box — Isnoop writes - "For the past few months, I've been working on a web radio boombox. I've hollowed out a perfectly good radio and made room for a tiny motherboard and power supply that are set up to run Damn Small Linux off of a USB flash drive.
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Steve Rosenbush / Business Week:
GQ Magazine Sends a Message — The men's monthly ventures into a new arena — text messaging readers via cell phone. But will advertisers answer the call? — GQ is about to push its men's magazine franchise into the quickly growing world of wireless media.
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The Pondering Primate
Jason Snell / Macworld:
MacBook Pro: First day, first Lab tests — Latest laptop looks and feels like a PowerBook — Our first MacBook Pros arrived yesterday—three 2GHz models bought with our own coin—and the testing started immediately. Macworld Lab has been churning away on benchmark testing …
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Gear Live
PC Magazine:
'V-Chip 2.0' Turns On In March — The V-chip, a small device that allowed televisions to filter out content, was first introduced as part of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. As of Jan. 1, 2000, all analog televisions sold in the U.S. include a V-chip. Now, according to an FCC mandate …
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Engadget
Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
TV catches the Net video bug — Dirty secret or not, the Web has long been a platform for downloading and watching pirated clips of television shows like "Lost" and "The Simpsons," much to the chagrin of the television networks. — But now TV producers are turning the tables …
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picturephoning.com
John Borland / CNET News.com:
Net video explosion triggers traffic jam worries — Blame Steve Jobs, or maybe YouTube.com. — The amount of video online is skyrocketing, whether it's "Lost" episodes or movie trailer mash-ups. The phenomenon is putting new stress on ISP networks, which are seeing the demands on their bandwidth burgeon.
Terry Heaton / Terry Heaton's Weblog:
Thursday: Inside online advertising — The PaidContent mixer last night was loud, crowded and a lot of fun. I spent most of my time with Rafat Ali and Staci Kramer of PaidContent.org, Cory Bergman of Lost Remote, and the inimitable Chris Pirillo (of Lockergnome and Tech TV fame).
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mobile content news
gamesindustry.biz:
PRESS RELEASE: Turbine Grants Midway North American Rights to Distribute The Lord Of The Rings Online: Shadows Of Angmar — WESTWOOD, Mass., FEBRUARY 23, 2006 – Turbine, Inc. announced today that Midway Home Entertainment Inc. (a subsidiary of Midway Games Inc. NYSE: MWY) will co-publish …
matrox.com:
New Matrox Extio F1400 is world's first remote graphics unit — Montreal, Canada, February 22, 2006 — Matrox Graphics Inc., the leading manufacturer of graphics solutions for professionals, announces Extio™ F1400, the world's first remote graphics unit.
Mike / Techdirt:
Sex With Your Mobile Phone — We were just discussing the many reasons why mobile porn might not really catch on (the main one being that TV and internet porn caught on because they let otherwise embarrassed people enjoy the porn in the privacy of their own homes, while mobile takes it out into the world …
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Gizmodo, newscientist.com, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and Alice Hill's Real Tech News
