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Richard MacManus / Web 2.0 Explorer:
Ajax homepages market review — Over the past year many new AJAX homepages, aka personalized start pages, have been introduced to the market. Microsoft and Google have offerings, as do a host of small startups. First I'll define what an AJAX homepage is, then I'll do a feature comparison between the leading services.
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Guardian Unlimited
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Read/WriteWeb:
AJAX homepages - Portals 2.0? — I've been tracking the development of all the personalized start pages that have flowered up over the past year. Live.com, Google Personalized Homepage, Netvibes, PageFlakes, et al. These are services that don't just offer a place to store all your content and links …
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Ed Sutherland / internetnews.com:
DoJ: Google Search Request Not a Privacy Threat — UPDATED: The Department of Justice (DoJ) has rejected Google's assertion that a government subpoena for search data threatens the privacy of Internet users. — "The government has not asked Google to produce any information …
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Threadwatch.org
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Feds: Google's privacy concerns unfounded — The U.S. Justice Department has denied requesting anything from Google that could threaten the privacy of the search engine's users, as the company recently contended. — And by trying to block the government's efforts to review a week's worth of search terms …
Reuters:
TiVo may give away set-top boxes-CEO — NEW YORK (Reuters) - TiVo Inc. (Nasdaq:TIVO - news), the television recording technology company that is facing increasing competition, on Monday said it is considering giving away TiVo set-top boxes as part of plans to win subscribers.
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Montreal airport denies electricity to laptop users — Alec Saunders reports that Montreal airport has put covers over its electrical outlets, presumably to stop people from charging their laptops and phones while travelling. Which is, you know, really dumb: frequent travellers need juice between flights …
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Staci / PaidContent.org:
Networks Grapple With YouTube; CBS's Turn : Updated: The response when CBS News told the story of an autistic teen's triumph on the basketball court was so extraordinary, the network ran the story again the next night. Not surprising, then, that a YouTube user would feel driven to share the experince via the video site.
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Dion Hinchcliffe / Enterprise Web 2.0:
Balkanizing RSS and the risks to the information ecosystem — I've been following Dave Winer's various work for years now but none of it has been quite as interesting as watching the political imbroglios surrounding RSS 2.0. The RSS format itself is something that is still creeping onto …
Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
New Microsoft Maps Combine Photos, Directions — At noon PDT on Tuesday, Microsoft will unveil a preview version of its Windows Live Local Technology, which will allow users to view a "street-side" perspective of local neighborhoods. — Microsoft's preview site is but one of several …
Carlo / Techdirt:
Just Like It Now Gets The Internet, News Corp. Now Gets Mobile, Too — A lot of people said that News Corporation's purchase of MySpace was a sign that the company now "gets" the internet — although that's far from certain. The company is today on the receiving end of a glowing story …
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Mike Rundle / Business Logs:
Getting Real, Web 2.0 "Businesses", Edgeio Secrets, Upcoming 9rules Plans — Sometimes I wish I had a linklog where I could post links and small bits of commentary, but because I don't my 3 readers will have to suffer through this mishmash of the latest tech news in a regular blog entry :)
developer.apple.com:
Apple Developer Connection — The Ruby on Rails web application framework has built up a tremendous head of steam over the last year. Fueled by some significant benefits and an impressive portfolio of real-world applications already in production, Rails is destined to continue making significant inroads in 2006.
John Borland / CNET News.com:
Yahoo claims start-up stole trade secrets — Yahoo has filed a lawsuit against wireless content company MForma, charging the San Francisco-based company and a group of ex-Yahoo employees there with theft of trade secrets. — According to the lawsuit, which was filed Monday …
Bill Snyder / TheStreet.com:
Microsoft Nears Xbox Equilibrium — PHOENIX — With Xbox 360s as scarce as truffles, Microsoft (MSFT:Nadsaq - commentary - research - Cramer's Take) CFO Christopher Liddell has good news for game fans — and the software giant's legions of investors: Supply and demand should be in balance in the next few months.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Cable VoIP, Hotter Than Ever — What a whopper of a year for cable telephony! — Cablevision, the last MSO to report its fourth quarter earnings added 130,000 new VoIP customers, up just 7,000 from the previous quarter. The company also added, 94,000 new broadband customers, up from 81,000 adds in the previous quarter.
Burt Helm / Business Week:
Click Fraud Gets Smarter — Internet ad-traffic scams could be ripping off as much as $1 billion annually. Are Web companies like Google doing enough to foil them? — Web consultant Greg Boser has an ingenious method for sending loads of traffic to clients' Internet sites.
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Details unfolding on Microsoft's 'Origami' — As rumors unfurl about a new gadget upcoming from Microsoft, the company's Origami Project is starting to take shape as a very small tablet computer, one perhaps affordable enough to appeal to mainstream consumers.
Chris Pratley / Chris Pratley's OneNote Blog:
One percent for art: Napkin Math a.k.a. The Calculator in OneNote 2007 — I like to love the software I use. I gather many of you do too. In the process of designing a new release of OneNote its important to keep this in mind, since it is easy to make a product that meets a lot of business criteria but has no soul.
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Life On the Wicked Stage
Graeme Wearden / CNET News.com:
Distributed computing cracks Enigma code — More than 60 years after the end of World War II, a distributed computing project has managed to crack a previously uncracked message that was encrypted using the Enigma machine. — The M4 Project began in early January, as an attempt …