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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Microsoft Software Will Let Times Readers Download Paper — SEATTLE, April 28 — Microsoft and The New York Times unveiled software on Friday that would allow readers to download an electronic version of the newspaper and view it on a portable device. — With Microsoft's new Windows Vista software …
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The New York Times to Enhance Online and Offline Reading Experience With Times Reader — New application uses Microsoft software to benefit readers. — SEATTLE — April 28, 2006 — Today at the American Society of Newspaper Editors convention, The New York Times and Microsoft Corp. unveiled …
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Two steps backward — Microsoft is offering a means to read newspapers designed as newspapers on computers. Why? There are other methods of doing this now and I find them all not only awkward and unsatisfying but wrongheaded. Why not design the next frontier for the sharing of news …
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Mike / CrunchNotes:
The Lance Dunston Debacle — If you haven't heard about the blogger who's been sued for criticizing the state of Maine's tourism promotion efforts (among other things, the state's advertising agency created draft advertisement that included a phone sex number which, frankly, deserves to be criticized).
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Treo™ 700w Updater 1.10 — for Verizon Wireless smartphones — The Treo 700w Updater installs the latest software on your smartphone. It is designed to update your device while preserving your data. In some instances, user set preferences may not be retained after updating.
Stace / Wireless, cell phones, mobile phone reviews:
Motorola's Feng Shui Phone — When we found Samsung "Perfume" mobile phone patent application we wondered, what's next? Well next is "Feng Shui" cellphone from Motorola. — In an application published on April 20, Motorola wants to patent "Method and apparatus for evaluating locations according to Feng Shui principles".
Ionut Alex. Chitu / Google Operating System:
Test Internet Explorer 7 Without Installing It — Step 1 — Download Internet Explorer 7 Beta 2. — Step 2 — Use WinRar (you can download a free trial) to extract the files from the setup to a folder, for example C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer 7.
PC World:
Sony Readies iPod Rival — Company is developing a new digital music player that will go on sale later this year. — Sony is preparing to take another swing at Apple Computer's iPod digital music player, a top Sony executive said today. — The company is developing a new music player …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Congress may consider mandatory ISP snooping — It didn't take long for the idea of forcing Internet providers to retain records of their users' activities to gain traction in the U.S. Congress. — Last week, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, a Republican, gave a speech saying …
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Judy Breck / Golden Swamp:
A stroll down this week's carnival midway: — First a note about mobilists getting together. I have not been asked to mention anything this week on the subject but there may be a mini mobilist meet-up soon anyway. When I sent an email to Justin at MOpocket about his Carnival entry …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Some AMD Opterons suffer heat issue — update Advanced Micro Devices is trying to track down and replace as many as 3,000 Opteron processors that could produce "inconsistent results" under an unusual, high-temperature circumstance. — The potential problem affects a number of single-core Opteron 152 …
Pete Cashmore / Mashable*:
Branding 2.0 - Ask A Ninja — I'm going to take some time out from the neverending barrage of Web 2.0 launches and try to explain how smart individuals are building global brands with zero marketing dollars, simply by leveraging existing social networks like MySpace, YouTube and the blogosphere itself.
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Douglass C. Perry / IGN:
Pre-E3 2006: Halo 3 at E3 — Microsoft to show Halo footage at E3 news briefing. — April 28, 2006 - With Microsoft, the rumors are always true. The next iteration in Bungie Studios' Halo series will appear at E3 2006 in video form at its Tuesday, May 9 news conference …
Paul / Firefox Flicks Backstage:
Feedback — I'm one of the team here at Mozilla that's been working on the Firefox Flicks campaign since we rolled this out back in December of 2005. We're nearing the close of the initial stage of this campaign to promote Firefox, when we announce the winners from the contest portion of the campaign Thursday.
Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch:
More On Yahoo & AT&T VoIP Messenger Deal — Based on some G2 I've been able to discover from some well healed off-shore type players in telcom who have played in the telco game for many years and made a bundle off of selling things to SBC I was able to ferret out a bit about the Yahoo/AT&T VoIP marriage and what it may mean...
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Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
Podcast: Second Life Review, Robert Scoble, Chris Salazar and Me! — Check out the Podcast Roundtable for more Podcasts — I did a podcast interview of Chris Salazar (age 20, and Novice User) and Robert Scoble (Second Life evangelist and experienced user) who both are Second Life.
Jouni / MRKTNGman:
Nokia Podcasting Application for S60 3rd Edition — The biggest S60 news of the week has been announcement of 3 new S60 NSeries multimedia computers by Nokia. In the Open Studio event Nokia demonstrated interesting beta version of forthcoming application. It's a Nokia Podcasting Application!
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Start-up aims to ditch kids' training wheels — GyroBike wants to eliminate the wipeout. — The company, a spin-off out of Dartmouth College, is coming out later this year or early next year with a gyroscope/flywheel that fits into the front wheel of a kid's bike.
Charles Cooper / CNET News.com:
Perspective: Bush's dim pitch for energy — President Bush blew into Silicon Valley last Friday for a televised meet-and-greet with Cisco Systems' John Chambers before heading out to Napa Valley for some quality mountain biking. As it turned out, that was the most productive part of his visit.
Valleywag:
Scoop: DOJ jails Spam King! Alan Ralsky might rat out a massive hacker / spammer network — Local hacker "Memehacker" IMed in with a scoop on Alan Ralsky, the famed "Spam King" covered by the Observer and the Detroit News. Here's the breaking story: — Valleywag: Tell me the scoop in three sentences.
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