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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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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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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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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:Seeing Origami — Origami: — It's not an iPod killer.
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Marc Perton / Engadget:Possible Origami pic surfaces on the web
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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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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.
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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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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.
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InformationWeek:
First SIP draft released First products that partly support SIP — Mature, feature-rich version of SIP released — Microsoft, Avaya, Nortel, and 3Com fully support SIP — Cisco unveils broad support — The value of the protocol is moving beyond VoIP, says Joe Burton …
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 …
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
New Fund for Prominent Investor — Alan Patricof, the co-founder of the private equity firm Apax Partners and an original investor in Apple Computer and America Online, plans to announce today that he will leave Apax to start a venture capital fund for emerging wireless, media and entertainment companies.
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 …
microsoft.com:
Cisco and Microsoft Collaborate to Enhance Real-Time Business Communications — Open standards, SIP-based enterprise solutions enable effective communications. — ORLANDO, Fla. — March 6, 2006 — Today, at the VoiceCon 2006 conference, Cisco Systems and Microsoft Corp. announced …
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 …
Jeffrey Goldfarb / Reuters:
Hearst buys NetDoctor as spark for online efforts — LONDON (Reuters) - Media conglomerate Hearst Corp. said on Monday it has bought NetDoctor, Britain's top consumer health Web site, as it tries to keep up with rivals by boosting its presence on the Internet.
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hyku | blog:
Pitching Bloggers: Send Something of Interest to Somebody You Know — One of the discussions during a panel at last week's NewComm Forum was standard "How to Pitch Bloggers?". Here is my answer: — Send Something of Interest to Somebody You Know — What's the most important part of that statement?
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