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Amazon: Grid Storage Web Service Launches — Amazon Web Service is launching a new web service tonight called S3 - which stands for "Simple Storage Service". It is a storage service backend for developers that offers "a highly scalable, reliable, and low-latency data storage infrastructure at very low costs".
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Amazon's Newest Product: Storage — Huh? That's right, the online store with "Earth's biggest selection" of everything from books to zithers will announce Tuesday morning that it's adding a new and different kind of service: an unlimited data storage service aimed at software developers who are creating new Web sites and services.
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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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Download Squad, InsideGoogle, Googlist, Digital Inspiration, Search Engine Roundtable, GigaOM, Venture Chronicles, Incremental Blogger, The Kelsey Group Blog, Search Engine Watch Blog, The Unofficial Google Weblog, SEO by the SEA, Vector One, BetaNews, All Points Blog, Mergers, Acquisitions … and MacMinute

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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Newsome.Org, Blog Business Summit, Smalltalk Tidbits …, Gadgetophile, Brian Sullivan's Random … and Message
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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.

UPDATE 1-Sony opens up software meeting, PS3 details sought — TOKYO, March 14 (Reuters) - Sony Corp. (6758.T: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Tuesday it will allow the media and analysts to attend an annual meeting for third-party software developers of its PlayStation video game …
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French plan would open iTunes to other devices — PARIS (Reuters) - France is pushing through a law that would force Apple Computer Inc to open its iTunes online music store and enable consumers to download songs onto devices other than the computer maker's popular iPod player.
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Gizmodo, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Tom Raftery's I.T. views, FactoryCity and PaidContent.org

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.

25 Things I Love About Google — Love, hate. Love, hate. When it comes to Google, I did the "hate" side of my love/hate relationship over in my 25 Things I Hate About Google article. In this article, I'm all about the love. How do I love Google? Let me count the 25 ways into my heart:
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Microsoft Announces Plans for New Windows Live Family Safety Settings — Free, Web-based Family Safety Settings moves beyond traditional parental controls, helps provide guidance to parents from experts such as American Academy of Pediatrics. — REDMOND, Wash. — March 13, 2006 …
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Man vs. Machine in Newsreader War — Man vs. machine stories are an old standby in journalism. — Think back to John Henry racing a steam drill and forward to Garry Kasparov trying to outmaneuver IBM's Deep Blue in 1997 to the Onion tweaking the genre with its accountant battles Excel story.

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 …

Do Bloggers Break News? — The new State of the News Media 2006 report is out, and it's generally useful reading. Perhaps the finding that will get the most attention in the blog-o-sphere, however, is this: Blogs don't break news. Here is the relevant snippet: … Fair enough, and also damning stuff.

COMBINED AT&T/BELLSOUTH WILL CONTROL 22% CONSUMER TELECOM SPENDING, 34% BUSINESS SPENDING … JENKINTOWN, PA, March 13, 2006 - As regulators now consider the proposed AT&T/BellSouth merger, new study findings from TNS Telecoms indicate that the combined AT&T/BellSouth will control 22% …


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 …

Microsoft Windows Vista — Posted By: Greg Randall(grandall@microsoft.com) — This is the year... the year that Microsoft releases the newest version of Windows. Yes, Vista will be released in November of this year. So what is so compelling that our customers would want to spend money upgrading to the Vista operating system?

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.