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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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Fred / A VC:
AOL Opens Up AIM (sort of) — I've been critical of AOL recently on this blog, but not today. They are doing something smart in opening up the AIM platform for third party developers. Now if you are building a cool new web service and you want to incorporate AIM into your service, you can do it.
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The Jason Calacanis Weblog
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Monitor:
AOL TAKES AIM — Overnight, AOL announced plans to extend its messaging network to third-party development. It's a bold move, and in some ways a surprising turnabout for AOL. After all, AOL has taken a pretty closed approach to its instant messaging network.
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Mac OS X patch faces scrutiny — An Apple Computer patch released last week doesn't completely fix a high-profile Mac OS X flaw, leaving a toehold for cyberattacks, experts said. — The Mac maker released a security update for its operating system on Wednesday to plug 20 holes.
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Tom Sanders / vnunet.com:Questionable OS X hacking report prompts genuine challenge
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Silicon Valley Sleuth, TechBlog, MacInTouch and The Apple Core
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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Things That, Techdirt, michael parekh on IT, Zatz Not Funny, TiVoBlog and Thomas Hawk's Digital …
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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 …
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).
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 …
Stephen Bryant / publish.com:
Six Apart Launches Enterprise Blogging Tools — Six Apart announced two new business-oriented blogging products on March 7, which the company said are meant to capitalize on the growing blogging trend among small and midsize businesses and large corporations.
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Changing Way
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.
biz.yahoo.com:
Who controls how you use your Internet access? Vonage Canada challenges Shaw "VoIP tax" — Internet phone service company Vonage Canada warns that cable and phone companies could restrict "network neutrality" by limiting Canadians' freedom of choice on the Internet; requests CRTC investigate "anti-competitive" action by Shaw
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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Metafilter
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 …
Scot Wingo / eBay Strategies:
EXCLUSIVE - oh my stars! — Ok folks, we've been learning more and more about the Google Base / wallet reputation system. Last week it was a rumor from Dirson with no screen shots/backup. Yesterday we found the link that talks about "See my seller ratings".
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TechBeat
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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Digital Inspiration
Reuters:
Complexity causes 50% of product returns -scientist —Text+AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Half of all malfunctioning products returned to stores by consumers are in full working order, but customers can't figure out how to operate the devices, a scientist said on Monday.
Henry Blodget / Internet Outsider:
Huge Net Capex: One-Time or Permanent? — The WSJ describes a key issue facing the big net companies, especially Google: massive (and increasing) capital spending. Last week, for example, Google stated that 2006 CAPEX would "significantly exceed" 2005's mind-boggling $800 million …
