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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.
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).
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Dean / UBC Google Scholar Blog.folio:
WHY TITANS LIKE MICROSOFT WANT TO TALK TO LIBRARIANS — Search is a huge part of the Web's future, and Microsoft - currently the 3rd most popular search engine - knows it. Bill Gates, the world's richest man, dragged his heels on search until about fifteen months ago when he decided …
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.
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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 …
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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.
Fred / A VC:
Disney Proves Me Right and Wrong — Wow. — Disney will announce today that they are making "much of its newest and most popular programming on ABC and other channels available free anytime on the Web", according to the Wall Street Journal which does not make much ot its newest …
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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.
Josh / Redeye VC:
Bridge Loans vs. Preferred Equity — Over the last few years, my fund has made over 20 seed-stage investments. While we strive to be the "first money" into a company, we recognize that we typically don't provide enough capital to get a company to profitability.
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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 ....!
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Laptop thieves descend upon wireless cafes — Grab-and-run robbers find pricey computers easy to resell — A San Francisco finance manager stopped in at a Mission District cafe and was tapping on his laptop as he enjoyed his coffee just before noon on a Thursday. Suddenly, he was under siege.
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 …
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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.
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.
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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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