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6:35 AM ET, April 10, 2006

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San Francisco Chronicle:
Wi-Fi plan stirs Big Brother concerns  —  Log-on rule would allow Google to track users' whereabouts in S.F.  —  Privacy advocates are raising concerns about Google Inc.'s plans to cover San Francisco with free wireless Internet access, calling the company's proposal to track users' locations …
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Associated Press:
Google's Wi-Fi network in San Francisco raises privacy concerns  —  SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc.'s plan to provide free wireless Internet access throughout the city is raising concerns among privacy advocates worried about the prospect of "Big Brother" monitoring how and where users surf the Web.
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
This Boring Headline Is Written for Google  —  JOURNALISTS over the years have assumed they were writing their headlines and articles for two audiences — fickle readers and nitpicking editors.  Today, there is a third important arbiter of their work: the software programs that scour the Web …
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Tim Finin / UMBC eBiquity Blog:
Newspapers, like bloggers, write headlines for search engines  —  The New York Times has an article This Boring Headline Is Written for Google that talks about how journalists and their editors are now writing headlines with search engines in mind. … We've been trying to do this with good effect …
Discussion: Raw
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Now Starring on the Internet: YouTube.com  —  YouTube.com Seems Like a Startup Straight Out of Silicon Valley Central Casting  —  SAN MATEO, Calif. (AP) — Internet video sensation YouTube.com seems like a startup straight out of Silicon Valley central casting.
Discussion: GigaOM
Charles Piller / Los Angeles Times:
How Piracy Opens Doors for Windows  —  Bill Gates may not be entirely dismayed by software thieves.  They seed the world market and make Microsoft a standard.  —  Microsoft Corp. estimates it lost about $14 billion last year to software piracy — and those may prove to be the most lucrative sales never made.
Loren Heiny / Inkineer:
Running the Tablet PC OS on an iMac  —  Yep, this post is being written on an iMac.  —  I successfully installed the Tablet PC OS this morning using Apple's Boot Camp and the Tablet PC OS from my MSDN subscription.  I'm using a Wacom Graphire3 Tablet for the digitizer.
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Dennis Rice / GottaBeMobile.com:
Oh how the Tablet faithful have fallen ....!
BBC:
Phone firm 'plans free broadband'  —  Mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse is expected to announce the launch of a free broadband service later this week.  —  The company looks poised to provide free access for customers who sign up to its Talk Talk landline service.
Discussion: GigaOM and Connected Internet News
Michael Kwan / mobilemag.com:
Lenovo makes touchscreen smartphone  —  Owning the "ThinkPad" badging just doesn't suffice anymore for Lenovo, and that is why the company is launching the all new i921 smartphone to take on giants in the industry like PalmOne and HTC.  —  Lenovo is already known as a phonemaker in China …
Discussion: Engadget Mobile
Dean / UBC Google Scholar Blog.folio:
CRITIQUING MICROSOFT LIVE "ACADEMIC SEARCH"  —  I've had e-mails from readers asking me about Microsoft Academic Search, and I can at least tell you a little bit along the lines of what's reported in PC World.  (A few things are confidential until Tuesday, but not because I signed an NDA).
Discussion: ResourceShelf
Schuyler / Mapping Hacks:
Web Map API Roundup  —  Yesterday, Tim O'Reilly emailed us to ask the following: … My response ran something like this:  —  Early on — i.e. last summer — there was a huge gap between Google Maps and the rest.  In particular, Google offered a JavaScript API, which offered wide latitude …
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Tim / O'Reilly Radar:   Relative Openness of Mapping APIs
Rob Pegoraro / Washington Post:
MovieBeam Proves a Novelty With Lukewarm Reception  —  Between cable and satellite TV's premium channels, Blockbuster and Hollywood's stores and Netflix and other DVD-by-mail services' envelopes, it's not exactly difficult to get a steady supply of commercial-free movies to watch at home.
Discussion: Techdirt
thealarmclock.com:
Canadian Blog Network B5 Media Looking for VC Backers  —  It will be interesting to see if B5 succeeds in its endeavor to raise funding.  Rival Creative Weblogging was able to raise funding so we suspect B5 has a shot.  The blog network has managed to launch a large number of blogs that cover tech, entertainment, sports and more.
Discussion: The Blog Herald and Tinfinger
Marc Canter / Marc's Voice:
Its time Google Base made their intentions clear  —  Richard MacManus has a great piece on Google Base.  —  What's especially exciting to me are 'people profiles'.  The question is: "will this data be available in FOAF or XFN/hCard?"  And will it be available at all?
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Windows Expertise:
Robert X. Clueless  —  Mark Stephens, the PBS pundit who goes by the pseudonym Robert X. Cringely, is modestly famous for his bomb-throwing anti-Microsoft screeds.  He's also famous for being flat-out wrong, often, even when it comes to his own professional credentials.
mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp:
'Female' robot 'models' in Kyoto  —  KYOTO — Robo Garage, a venture company formed by prestigious Kyoto University, has unveiled "Female Type," a bipedal robot modeled on a woman.  —  Weighing in at a tiny 800 grams and standing 35 centimeters tall, Female Type, or FT for short …
 
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Lisa Belkin / New York Times:
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Cingular, MySpace, InfoSpace join as ringtone providers