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7:35 AM ET, March 3, 2006

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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft whispers Origami details  —  Microsoft updated the Web site for its secretive Origami Project on Thursday, offering a more elaborate tease, but also confirming key details about the Windows-based mini tablet.  —  "I am everywhere you are, but never in the way," …
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Marc Perton / Engadget:
Origami refolded: here's what we know  —  We'velearned a little more about Microsoft's Origami Project, and asalways, we're here to share.  After thismorning's HTML source confirmation that Origami will indeed be a "Mobile PC running Windows XP," we haveone more detail to add …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Fox Announces Acquistion; Exclusive Video  —  During an interview that I conducted at the Under the Radar event this afternoon, Ross Levinsohn, president of Fox Interactive, announced that they had acquired one of the 32 companies that presented at the event.  He would not, however, say which company it was.
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Fox Interactive buying up Web 2.0 companies
Discussion: Digital Backcountry
securityfocus.com:
The big DRM mistake  —  Digital Rights Managements hurts paying customers, destroys Fair Use rights, renders customers' investments worthless, and can always be defeated.  Why are consumers and publishers being forced to use DRM?  —  One of my favorite magazines is The New Yorker.
Hasan / Under the Radar:
Live from under the radar - Track 2:Connect 2.0  —  Seamless connection, collaboration combined with virtual storage from anywhere that is available to my mom and she can actually use that is connect 2.0.  —  Panelists  —  Jeff Clavier, Managing Partner, SoftTech VC and Editor, Software Only
Mike Davidson / Mike Davidson:
Newsvine Launches  —  After eight weeks of testing in private beta, Newsvine is now live to the world.  It's been an extremely productive couple of months, with countless enhancements and feature additions making their way onto the site almost every day.  —  The decision when to release to the world was a tough one for us.
Alexander Grundner / ehomeupgrade.com:
Build Your Own Windows Vista MCE CableCARD Certified PC  —  I think I figured out a way to build your own CableCARD Certified Windows Vista MCE PC.  It's actually a fairly straightforward concept.  The only part of the equation that will take getting used to is accepting the fact that you'll …
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Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
TiVo's "Big" News May be Bigger Than We All Even Realize  —  So while I got everybody all lathered up yesterday over TiVo's announcement of an announcement, today news is breaking that the big news from TiVo does not have anything to do with Series 3 TiVos, or HDTV, or a subscription only pricing plan, or a sexy new partnership.
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
MacBook Pro  —  Introduction  —  Apple MacBook Pro  —  Just about a month-and-a-half after Steve Jobs's surprisingly unsurprising announcement at the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco that the first two Intel-based Macs to be rolled out would be the iMac and the MacBook Pro …
Discussion: The Apple Core
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Reuters gets it  —  Tom Glocer, CEO of Reuters, is giving a keynote at the Online Publishers Association.  It's good enough to live-blog.  —  Glocer said a year ago, the focus of Reuters was on "the consumer as editor," with tools such as RSS to allow consumers to consume differently.
rpgdot.com:
An interview with Arkane Studios about Dark Messiah of Might & Magic  —  RPGDot: How is the work on Dark Messiah (DM) proceeding?  Are you doing well?  Are you still on schedule? … RPGDot: That sounds great - so the game is likely to ship this summer? … RPGDot: For how long have you been working on DM now?
Ted / IP Inferno:
PR IS BROKEN  —  Tom Foremski, over at Silicon Valley Watcher, said it so much more eloquently — Die!  Press release!  Die!  Die!  Die!.  But to this refrain may I add, Die!  PR Telemarketing!  Die!  Die!  Die!.  And to what do you owe this morning rant?  Jeff Pulver's VON.
Dionne Searcey / Wall Street Journal:
Consumers Could See New Web Rates: Use More, Pay More  —  Large phone companies and telecom-equipment makers are developing plans that would blow up the flat-fee structure for high-speed Internet access and instead charge customers different rates based on how much bandwidth, or Internet capacity, they use.
Jason Snell / Macworld:
Opening up the Intel Mac mini  —  Our first Intel-based Mac minis have arrived, straight from the Apple Store, and what was the first thing the cold, cruel alien intellects at Macworld did with one of these innocents?  That's right.  We got out our putty knife, popped it open, and spilled its guts out faster than you could say "CSI!"
Discussion: MacSlash
Aoife White / Associated Press:
EU Warns Microsoft It Must Change Course  —  BRUSSELS, Belgium - Microsoft Corp. will be fined if it keeps up its current conduct, the EU's antitrust chief warned Thursday after the company accused the EU of withholding documents and colluding with Microsoft's rivals before filing charges last December.
Mark Glaser / pbs.org:
AP Video Requires Microsoft Browser  —  Most people don't realize just how important the Associated Press is.  The news cooperative — owned by its U.S. news organization members — has been around since 1848, and now supplies 8,500 subscriber news outlets with text wire stories and photos …
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Malware-Speak Spooks Symantec  —  Symantec said Wednesday it plans to tweak the behavior of its Norton Internet Security and Norton Personal Firewall products so that they are no longer vulnerable to an annoying but otherwise harmless prank that "script kiddie" hackers have been using …
 
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Lee Odden / Search Engine Roundtable:
Meet The Crawlers
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Newsweek:
Video Napster?  —  Only a year old, YouTube has already rocketed …
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Brad GNUberg / Brad Neuberg:
Introducing the Hyperscope Project
Discussion: Web 2.0 Explorer
Matt McAlister:
Feedburner's publisher deals are getting interesting
Discussion: Burning Questions
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Broadband 2005, What a Year for DSL
Computerworld:
Google moving search records out of China
Storyofdigid / The Story Of Digital Identity:
Episode #16  —  Kaliya Hamlin and I speak with Marc Canter of Broadband Mechanics.
Smartphone / slashphone.com:
T-Mobile Start Ticketless check-in with MMS
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buygoogle.com:
Launching the Video Marketplace -
Discussion: InsideGoogle
Henry Blodget / Internet Outsider:
NYT: Yahoo!'s LLoyd Braun Now "Gets" the Internet
Rajen Sheth / Official Google Enterprise Blog:
Google Mini for a mini price
Joris Evers / silicon.com:
Apple plugs 20 OS X holes
Discussion: The Apple Core
Lester Haines / The Register:
MS in geek sex hard sell shocker
Discussion: Things That
Richard MacManus / Web 2.0 Explorer:
Mashups: who's really in control?
Bloomberg:
Google Is Reportedly Switching to AMD
Ken Belson / New York Times:
Senate Bill to Address Fears of Blocked Access to Net
 

 
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