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Chris Sherman / Search Engine Watch:
Google Calendar Makes an Impressive Debut — Google has released its long-rumored calendar service, offering an appealing set of features that makes it easy to keep track of your own schedule and share calendars with others. — It's an impressive new service, though not without rough edges.
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Charlene Li / Charlene Li's Blog:
Google Calendar creates a platform for "time" applications — Like many working parents, I juggle multiple calendars - my work calendar, two kids, spouse, school, church, visiting relatives, and supposed, an exercise calendar. So keeping track of all of the bits and pieces of my life …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Google Calendar Almost There — Someone who is gotten spoilt by 30Boxes and Zimbra's calendaring application, Google Calendar is going to look pretty mundane. However, for main stream users looking for a simple web-based calendar that is easy to use, Google Calendar, announced earlier today, seems to be quite capable.
Carl Sjogreen / Official Google Blog:It's about time — We're all busy people. Whether it's work …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Google Calendar is Live
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Nicole Si / BlogHer [beta]:Google Calendar revealed
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Vista won't show fancy side to pirates — Windows Vista plans to offer you spiffy new graphics, as long as you're not a pirate. — With the new operating system, Microsoft is offering plenty of new graphics tricks, including translucent windows, animated flips between open programs and …
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Walter S. Mossberg / Wall Street Journal:
Annual Buying Guide: How to Ensure New PC Can Use Windows Vista — It's a confusing time for computer buyers, and that makes this annual spring buyer's guide to desktop computers harder to write than usual. Microsoft's Windows XP operating system is in its last months of primacy …
Business Wire:
Think Partnership Signs Letter of Intent to Acquire IceRocket.com, a Leading Blog Search Engine — NORTHBROOK, Ill.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—April 13, 2006—Think Partnership Inc. ("THK") (AMEX:THK - News); the Company) today announced that the Company has entered into a letter of intent to acquire IceRocket.com …
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Vcmike / Mike's Blog:
Why Polaris is Backing Automattic — We just announced leading a small round of funding with Automattic, a San Francisco based startup whose team is most known for its leading role in creating the open source personal publishing (ie, blog) platform WordPress, blog spam blocker Akismet, and blog pinging service Ping-o-Matic.
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Ryan Katz / Think Secret:
As Apple retools new video iPod, release rolls back — April 13, 2006 - The roll-out of Apple's forthcoming video iPod has been delayed substantially after the company encountered problems with the display and touch-screen interface, Think Secret has learned.
Tony Smith / The Register:
Samsung UMPC to ship worldwide 1 May — Samsung's upcoming ultra-mobile PC, the Q1, will be pricey enough when it hits the UK's shores, but buyers in the company's native land of South Korea will have to splash out even more if they want one. According to local reports …
Cisco Cheng / Gearlog:
Flashbag: Pumped Up USB Drive — I've seen a Memorex TravelDrive with a built-in LCD panel that tells you how much more space you have left. But how about one that physically expands like a balloon as data gets stored? The Flashbag is a USB drive with a built-in micro pump …
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gadgets.qj.net:
Wall-O-Monitors project — twelve 30-inch flatscreens mounted — When friend of QJ.NET "Crazy Jon" called us up and told us about a project he was working on, we didn't believe it at first. But when we got to his house, sure enough — twelve 30-inch Dell flatscreen monitors are sitting in his office …
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Washington Post:
Terrorists' Web Chatter Shows Concern About Internet Privacy — Groups Advise Members on Anonymity, Avoiding Intercepts — Terrorist groups, which for years have used the Internet and its various tools to organize and communicate, are paying more attention to addressing security …
EFF: Breaking News:
AOL Censors Email Tax Opponents — Won't Deliver Emails Mentioning www.DearAOL.com — San Francisco - AOL is blocking delivery to AOL customers of all emails that include a link to www.DearAOL.com. Today, over 100 people who signed a petition to AOL tried sending messages to their AOL-using friends …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Are Domains The New Black? — Every so often, you run into some entrepreneur and that one thing he (its mostly he) who laments about: lack of available domain names. Which means people use dyslexic spellings of popular words, or even translate words from other languages and then Valleywag gets a chance to make fun of them.
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Lloyd Frink President / Zillow Blog:
Zillow homes in 3D — This is an exciting day for us at Zillow, as we announced this morning the addition of 3D-like, "birds-eye" aerial photos to our beta site. These remarkably clear and detailed images, shown alongside home details and Zestimates, come from Microsoft's Virtual Earth platform.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Unintended Consequences: Seven Years under the DMCA — This document is version 4. Previous versions are still available: version 3, version 2, version 1. — This document collects a number of reported cases where the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA have been invoked not against pirates …
BBC:
Search users 'stop at page three' — Most people using a search engine expect to find what they are looking for on the first page of results, says a US study. — At most, people will go through three pages of results before giving up, found the survey by Jupiter Research and marketing firm iProspect.
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