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4:25 PM ET, March 20, 2006

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Dan Gillmor / Dan Gillmor's blog:
Saving the Mercury News: Could Yahoo Help?  —  Save The Merc: … Who could not endorse such words?  —  But who can make this unfortunate situation come out the way we in the Silicon Valley community would like?  —  There's plenty irony in this statement and plea, which has been created …
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Damon Darlin / New York Times:
In Boomtown, but Still Stuck on a Bubble  —  SAN JOSE, Calif. — When Dan Gillmor first arrived at The San Jose Mercury News in 1994, he recalled, he felt like he was in the "belly of the beast."  —  In his previous job, as a technology reporter for The Detroit Free Press …
Discussion: michael parekh on IT
Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Save the Merc! Do any of you techies/VCs care?
Discussion: Newsome.Org
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
Microsoft Takes on Craigslist in the Battle for Classified Ads  —  CRAIGSLIST has taken on many giants.  Can it survive a challenge from Microsoft?  —  The software behemoth late last month started Windows Live Expo (expo.live.com), another node in its growing network of Internet services …
Discussion: Techdirt and PaidContent.org
Dean Takahashi / A+E Interactive:
Microsoft's Plans For Handheld Game Player And "iPod Killer"  —  Here's a story that came from reporting for my book, which is coming out in May under the title "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked: The Real Story Behind Microsoft's Next-Generation Video Game Console," www.spiderworks.com/xbox360.
Ryan / CyberNet Technology News:
Portable Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1 — Download It Here!  —  There have been a lot of visitors to my site to download the Tinderbox Build of Firefox 2.0 Alpha 1.  The downside to this build is that the uninstaller does not work properly and there are a lot of extension incompatibilities.
Discussion: TechSpot and Bleeding Edge
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Aline van Duyn / Yahoo! News:
Survey reveals mobile phone revenue hurdle  —  Mobile phone users are unlikely to pay extra to access the growing range of video and audio content available on their phones, according to a global KPMG survey.  This trend could push operators into rethinking their business models.
Discussion: MobHappy and Engadget Mobile
Ken Belson / New York Times:
While AT&T Does Deals, Verizon Spends to Hone Its Networks  —  Ivan Seidenberg is known in the telecommunications industry as a chief executive who makes all-or-nothing bets.  —  Since the late 1990's he has often been the man to beat, having created Verizon Communications …
Eliot Van Buskirk / Wired News:
How to Prevent Hearing Loss  —  I've experienced bouts of fairly severe tinnitus on several occasions after a loud rehearsal or concert, and I know I'm not the only person who's guilty of having been somewhat cavalier about hearing loss.  Now that so many of us seem to spend half …
Discussion: Slashdot
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
The Office to air web-only episodes this summer  —  Viewers addicted to the goings-on at the Dunder-Mifflin paper company will be able to watch 10 Internet-only episodes of NBC's popular UK import, The Office.  Due to be streamed at some point this summer, the story arc will cover a missing …
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Carbon nanotube TV trials on horizon  —  Applied Nanotech has signed a letter of intent to enter negotiations for a trial on carbon nanotube TVs with Da Ling, a Taiwanese contract manufacturer.  —  Under the proposed terms, Da Ling will invest $10 million on a pilot manufacturing facility …
Discussion: Engadget and I4U News
Times of London:
How Apple ate the world  —  It is business, culture, art and a quasi-religion.  Bryan Appleyard praises the great god of computer design  —  Apple Computer is 30 years old on April 1.  What follows, before you turn the page, is not for geeks, it's for aesthetes.
Discussion: SurfBits
Gary Krakow / MSNBC:
Is this the world's best cell phone?  —  Motorola C116 proves cheap can be great - too bad you can't get it in U.S.  —  Motorola  —  Motorola's C116 phone may be basic, but it's built amazingly well for such a cheap device and calls sounded great.  —  Gary Krakow
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
We Need Auditing  —  In traditional media an entire industry rose out of advertisers' need to audit emerging formats.  We have ABC for print, Arbitron for radio, Nielsen for TV, comScore and Nielsen-Netratings for Web sites.  These companies have built a multi-billion dollar syndicated research industry …
Discussion: AdJab and Know More Media
Stanley Holmes / Business Week:
Nike, Google Kick Off Social-Networking Site  —  The sporting goods giant and the Internet search king have teamed up to create Joga.com and connect soccer fans around the world  —  Nike (NKE) and Google (GOOG), hoping to take social networking to a new realm, have quietly launched …
Reuters:
Kinderstart sues Google over lower page ranking  —  SAN FRANCISCO, March 18 (Reuters) - A parental advice Internet site has sued Google Inc., charging it unfairly deprived the company of customers by downgrading its search-result ranking without reason or warning.
David Hornik / VentureBlog:
Google/Yahoo: Deal or No Deal  —  There continues to be a lot of discussion in venture capital and entrepreneurial circles alike about the onslaught of early acquisitions being made by the folks at Yahoo, Google, InterActiveCorp and increasingly Fox Interactive Media.
Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
Digital Rights Management - The coming collateral damage  —  Property owners have every right to do whatever they think is necessary to protect their property.  Homeowners can build walls and add security.  Content owners can add copy protection schemes to their digital content.
Discussion: Television Archiving
 
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Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Google Health, what is it?  —  It isn't a big surprise that Google …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick:
The pain of having multiple social bookmarking accounts
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M-Qube draws $250M in sale to VeriSign
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The REST Elevator Pitch
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Theo Valich / Inquirer:
USB on an earring starts a new trend
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David Heinemeier Hansson / Loud Thinking:
Boy, is James McGovern enterprise or what!
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Sequoia goes Jajah over VoIP
Discussion: SiliconBeat and VoIP Now
Jenn Abelson / Boston Globe:
Merchants X out A, E, I, O, and U
Chris Nuttall / Financial Times:
EA has 'lot to prove' with Godfather game
Discussion: Kotaku, Xbox 360 Fanboy and Joystiq
Mahashunyam / Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab:
Pandora and Last.fm: Nature vs. Nurture in Music Recommenders