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Judge to force Google's hand — SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) — A federal judge said Tuesday he intends to require Google Inc. to turn over some information to the Department of Justice in its quest to revive a law making it harder for children to see online pornography.
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Judge to help feds against Google — update SAN JOSE, Calif.—A federal judge hearing arguments in the Department of Justice's records fight with Google said Tuesday that he would grant federal prosecutors at least part of their request for excerpts from the search giant's massive database.

Sony Delays PlayStation 3 — Blu-ray forcing the machine into hiding until November. — Sony has been anything but talkative these past few months regarding their plans for PlayStation 3. No one except Sony seemed to anticipate they'd continue to meet their projected spring release date in any territory, even Japan.
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Amazon Offers Up The Platform That Google And Yahoo Should Have Built — from the took-them-long-enough dept — For years and years we've been talking about the idea that the trick to "owning" the internet is to become the platform of the internet. It seemed like Google was moving …
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Remote storage on Amazon S3
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SearchViews, Mashable*, Joseph Scott's Blog, Good Morning Silicon Valley and Jeremy Zawodny's blog

Amazon's Newest Product: Storage
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Squash, TeleRead, Rough Type, Newsome.Org, MobileRead Networks and Randy Holloway Unfiltered 2.0

A new home for @Last Software — I was sitting at the breakfast table this morning, drinking a cup of coffee while I looked out at the snow. It was pretty much like any other winter morning, except — it wasn't. When I went to sleep last night, I was employed by a small start-up called @Last Software.
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The company that Fox Interactive acquired: Newroo — So the secret is out. — Silicon Valley was abuzz a few days ago about which company News Corp, via its Fox Interactive subsidiary, acquired around the time of the Under the Radar conference. — Turns out it is NewRoo …
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FeedBurner Expands Operations with San Francisco Office — Chicago-based feed management leader continues steady growth by establishing West Coast presence and staff dedicated to developing strategic partnerships — Chicago, IL — March 14, 2006 — FeedBurner, the market-leading feed management provider …
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The Blog Commons: What is Uncommon? — Seth Godin has stirred up a tempest in a teapot with his recent The noisy tragedy of the blog commons, the newest go-round in the metaphor wars around blogging: … This is yet another riff on the 'scarce attention' meme: there is too much 'content' being produced …

Picking and Choosing Winners in the McClatchy-Knight Ridder Deal — The newspaper industry is reacting to the fallout of the McClatchy deal to purchase Knight Ridder, specifically the intent of McClatchy to spin off as soon as possible at least 12 of the 32 Knight Ridder papers (LA Times) …

Microsoft Confirms it Originated iPod Box Parody Video — Microsoft spokesman Tom Pilla on Tuesday confirmed with iPod Observer that his company initiated the creation of the iPod packaging parody video that was first reported last month. "It was an internal-only video clip commissioned by our packaging …

Performancing Metrics is Here! — After much tweaking, finalizing and no small amount of hair pulling and shouting, Im really happy to say that Performancing Metrics is here. Available to all, for FREE, in public beta. — Register or login and create an account. — Add a blog.
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Volkswagen and Google develop revolutionary navigation system — Volkswagen and Google are working together to develop a revolutionary new navigation system. — Prototype with Google Earth generates photorealistic 3-dimensional images - online links provide more real-time data for the navigation system …


Electronic Arts: A Radical New Game Plan — The gaming giant is ditching tired tie-ins for more daring, interactive video game ideas — Video game giant Electronic Arts Inc. (ERTS ) had a very simple formula for success: base a product on a popular sports or movie franchise …
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Google News Credibility Foiled By 15-Year Old — Sometimes the most well thought out practical jokes trigger an uneven brand of justice that falls under the laws of unintended consequences. While not formally codified and ill defined, the law of unintended consequences is very real …

YOU are building Windows Live Mail... all 1 million of you! — My name is Richard and I am the core product planner for Windows Live Mail, (visit my blog to learn more about yours truly). This means that I am responsible for making sure that WL Mail makes our customers happy …
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Unconfirmed: Dell buys Alienware — While no word has been officially released from either Dell or Alienware, we heard from a reliable source this morning that the purchase has indeed gone down. Speculation began on March 5 after a blog post by Voodoo PC CEO Rahul Sood.

Overwhelmed with pitches, Dave, say it isn't so! — Dave Winer says he's gonna give up his blog this year. That's caused a lot of conversations here at SXSW. I'm still processing what that will mean for Dave. For me. For everyone. — Anyway, I totally understand why Dave would want to walk away.
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