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Yahoo! Search blog:
Travel Searching Made Easier — It seems pretty obvious that, especially at this time of year, when the weather is changing and you've got summer vacation on the brain, travel is a big part of what people search for on the web. You want to figure out where to go and what to do - and there's so much out there.
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Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Yahoo improves travel planning via search and maps — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. is introducing an upgraded travel service on Tuesday that blends the breadth of Yahoo search with handy travel-specific features, stepping up its challenge to dedicated travel sites.
Jlewin / Podcasting News:
Podcasting, MP3 Players Stealing Radio's Audience — Podcasting and MP3 players are stealing radio's audience, according to the latest figures from Bridge Ratings. According to Dave Van Dyke, President of Bridge Ratings, "By 2010, today's 94% penetration for terrestrial radio will have sunk to 85%."
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Matt / Photo Matt:
A Little Funding — The best thing that can ever happen to a web service is to have passionate users. Users that notice and email you the second there's a database problem, users that really push the limits of what you can provide, and users that are phenomally successful and bring thousands of others to your doors.
Mike / Techdirt:
Sketchy New Mobile Firm Does Sketchy Reverse Merger — from the not-building-up-much-confidence-here- are-we? dept — Last month, the details started coming out on the latest in an incredibly overcrowded MVNO market, Xero, and they didn't look pretty. The company appeared …
Business Week:
Learning To Love The Dreaded TiVo — How agencies are using it to make ads that viewers actually want to watch — If TV ads are the media equivalent of mosquitoes, then the digital video recorder (DVR) is a bug zapper on steroids. Rather than merely wringing their hands, however …
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Engadget
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Local Coupons at Zixxo — Silicon Valley based Zixxo has launched a great service that I asked for last year (#4 on this list) - local coupons via RSS. This is a very big market. Last year, 323 billion coupons were distributed in the U.S., and of those 4.5 billion were actually used (Zixxo has more coupon stats here).
Microsoft:
Microsoft Announces Windows Live Academic Search — New research tool delivers enhanced search capabilities to the academic community. — REDMOND, Wash. — April 11, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the beta release of its Windows Live™ Academic Search service in seven countries.
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Elise Ackerman / Mercury News:
AT&T asks judge to order documents alleging wiretaps returned — Attorneys for AT&T have asked a federal judge to order a San Francisco civil liberties group to return ``highly confidential'' documents that allegedly show that the telecommunications giant provided detailed records of millions …
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Candace Lombardi / CNET News.com:
Google patent points to voice search — A recently published patent provides further evidence that Google is developing a voice-activated search engine. — Patent No. 7027987, of which Google is the assignee, concerns "a voice interface for search engines.
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PR Newswire:
TiVo and DIRECTV Agree to Extend Relationship for Three Years — Agreement Guarantees Quality Service for Existing DIRECTV TiVo Subscribers; Also Addresses Intellectual Property — ALVISO, Calif., April 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — TiVo Inc. (Nasdaq: TIVO - News), the creator of and a leader …
Richard Water / MSNBC:
ABC experiment faces infrastructure problems — Internet not designed for mass-market streaming video, analysts say — SAN FRANCISCO - The design of the Internet is unsuited to the sort of "live" online television services announced this week by Walt Disney, according to analysts and Internet executives.
Preston Gralla / Networking Pipeline:
Google, eBay And Amazon To AT&T: We'll Build Our Own Network — AT&T and the telcos are threatening to charge Google and other Web sites extortion-type fees unless Google and others pay for adequate bandwidth. But Google and others may soon have this answer for them: No, thanks.
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
The Skinny on April's Batch of Microsoft Patches — Microsoft on Tuesday released five updates to remedy security flaws in its software products, including a huge — and potentially disruptive — patch bundle that fixes eight "critical" flaws in Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser.
Marc Perton / Engadget:
Samsung Q1 gets $2,000 price tag in Korea — We've seen the official price for the TabletKiosk eo ($900). Now another UMPC has gotten its first official price, and it's an even further cry from the original "about $500" price point once expected for these devices.
Techworld.com:
Google spreads tentacles to Russia — Google has announced that it is going to open a research and development centre in Moscow this year. — Sergei Burkov, a former CEO of Dulance, an Internet search company, will run the centre. According to sources, Google has acquired Dulance.
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple's iBook successor may sport fashionable hues — When Apple Computer introduces its new line of Intel-based consumer notebooks this spring, the company may once again offer buyers a fashionable option it phased out of its iMac product line nearly half a decade ago: colored enclosures.
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Infinite Loop, Gizmodo, The Tao of Mac, Good Morning Silicon Valley and O'Grady's PowerPage
Peter / The Local Onliner:
Google Local to Be Lead by Classified Ventures Exec — Sam Sebastian, a longtime veteran of Classified Ventures' Homescape real estate vertical, is the new head of Google Local. In the new position, Sebastian might build bridges to newspapers. But he also poses something of a threat …
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Blogosphere suffers spam explosion — Boing Boing would allow its readers to leave comments and engage in a discussion on the wildly popular blog, if it weren't for spam. — The editors of the technology and pop culture blog took down the comment option about two years ago.
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Bloggers Blog, Donna's SecurityFlash, scot hacker's foobar blog and Datamation IT News Blog
