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May Wong / Associated Press:
TiVo to expand program recording to cellphone — SAN JOSE, Calif. — TiVo subscribers will soon be able to program television recordings straight from cellphones using the Verizon Wireless network. — An agreement with Verizon Wireless, announced Tuesday, expands on TiVo's strategy to bring …
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media.timewarner.com:
AOL Introduces New Open AIM Strategy — Puts the Power of Real Time Communications and Access to More Than 63 Million Active Worldwide Users into the Hands of Developers, Online Communities and Sites and Services of Every Kind — Dulles, VA - March 6, 2005 - AOL today announced the creation …
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Tom Sanders / vnunet.com:
Questionable OS X hacking report prompts genuine challenge — Hack a Mac for fame — The University of Wisconsin has launched a competition in which hackers are challenged to hack into an OS X system connected to the internet. — "Mac OS X is not invulnerable.
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Silicon Valley Sleuth, TechBlog, MacInTouch and The Apple Core
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ZDNet:
Winner mocks OS X hacking contest … Gaining root access to a Mac is "easy pickings," according to an individual who won an OS X hacking challenge last month by gaining root control of a machine using an unpublished security vulnerability. — On Feb. 22, the Sweden-based Mac enthusiast set …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Drive: What we know so far — We have all the ingredients for a great story: dramatic predictions of Google taking over the world, secret disclosures of a new stealth product at a Google analyst meeting, outing of the story by bloggers, and subsequent purging of the public data by Google …
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ZefHemel.com, Web 2.0 Explorer, Somewhat Frank, Google Blogoscoped and John Battelle's Searchblog
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Tom Zeller Jr / New York Times:
Popular Web Site Falls Victim to a Content Filter — THERE are lots of ways to describe Boing Boing, the Web's obliquely subtitled "Directory of Wonderful Things," which draws millions of eyeballs to its relentless, stylistically minimalist scroll of high-weirdness each month.
Jean Véronis / Technologies du Langage:
Search: And the winner is... [ French version - Version française ] — Google and Yahoo - a tie! — Yes, that's the result of the evaluation I carried out in December 2005 with my students in Aix, some aspects of which I have already revealed on this blog (see [fr] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
microsoft.com:
Microsoft Lands Milestone 5,000th Patent — Multibillion-dollar research and development investment yields powerful portfolio of innovations. — REDMOND, Wash. — March 6, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. has reached a patenting milestone by logging its 5,000th patent granted in the United States.
Sam Mcloughln / PalmAddicts:
GETTING THE FORM FACTOR JUST RIGHT.... With the recent viral marketing by Microsoft of their new Origami platform I was again reminded of a critical aspect in the design of a good hand-held device. Be it PDA, smart phone or MP3 player, form factor is king. — I remember getting my first Palm PDA, a Palm IIIc, many years ago.
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S Karat / ContentSutra:
Sabeer Bhatia Logs In To Web 2.0; Launches Blogeverywhere.com — Press Release: So this is the Web 2.0 product from the Hotmail founder Sabeer Bhatia. His new venture Blogeverywhere.com was launched in Delhi today. It claims to enhance (I am yet to test it) the speed and functionality …
Adam Sherwin / Times of London:
World's fastest internet will send Britannica to Shoreditch in 7 sec — A BRITISH-designed internet system promises to break the "four-minute mile" of broadband technology by delivering the fastest web service on the planet to British households. — Residents in Shoreditch, East London …
Lia Miller / New York Times:
Cosby's Lawyers See No Flattery in an Imitation — Data Analysis Cosby and Toothpaste Cosby may be the height of humor to fans of the online parody "House of Cosbys," but the man who inspired them is not laughing. — Last June, Justin Roiland, the creator of the animated series …
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Ben McConnell / Church of the Customer Blog:
10 reasons why YouTube is better than Google Video — Here's 10 reasons why YouTube is better than the much-anticipated Google Video. — 1. YouTube was constructed with a community in mind. — Its interface tools, such as tagging, a rating system, comments, friends, favorites …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Boob tube meets online maps as TV fans get creative — Ever wonder where the Soup Nazi is located in Seinfeld's New York City? How about the back road where Tony Soprano nearly whacks his drugged-out second cousin Christopher? — To feed the growing hunger for more information …
Hugo 'poogie' Ortega / Uber Tablet:
We said Origami, not Versace! — With all this Talk of Origami, "is it real?" "Is it not?" I thought I'd take the opportunity to post some images myself. [These come from a truly reliable source.] — Knowing that Engadget has posted an image from this gallery and subsequently questioned it's validity …
Andrew F. Hamm / MSNBC:
Ricochet making a comeback, targets a wireless niche — SILICON VALLEY/SAN JOSE BUSINESS JOURNAL — Ricochet, the early wireless Internet provider once the darling of Silicon Valley geeks, is making a bid to return to the Bay Area. — Denver-based Ricochet Inc. is one of the bidders …
