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7:50 PM ET, May 2, 2006

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Reuters:
Microsoft may delay Windows Vista again — Gartner  —  SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp.'s long- awaited release of the upgrade to its flagship Windows operating system will likely be delayed again by at least three months, research group Gartner Inc. said on Tuesday.
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
Gartner says Vista to ship in 2007
Discussion: GottaBeMobile.com
New York Times:
Microsoft and Google Set to Wage Arms Race  —  Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft, described Google in an interview late last year as a worthy adversary, a company to test Microsoft's mettle.  "This is hypercompetition, make no mistake," Mr. Gates observed.
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Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
Google's Double Standard
Gwen Hinze / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Blogging WIPO: The Broadcasting/ Webcasting Treaty Hits the Fast Track - SCCR 14, Day 1  —  The U.N. World Intellectual Property Organization's Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights Committee meets this week to discuss the latest redraft of the contentious new Broadcasting Treaty.
Discussion: Techdirt
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:   UN cooking podcast-killing treaty
Seth Schiesel / New York Times:
Entropia Universe Players Can Cash Their Online Earnings at the A.T.M.  —  When you put your card into an automated teller machine, view your balance on the screen and then receive money from the dispenser, you probably understand that a merely electronic notion — your bank account …
Discussion: VTOR
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Sphere Blog Search is a Contender  —  TechCrunch demonstrates the cool features in Sphere, a brand new blog search engine that opened widely to the public today.  Sphere includes a number of nice features and tools:  —  * custom range histogram;  —  * a "sphere it" bookmarklet
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
New Blog Search Engine Sphere Launches
mozilla.com:
What's New in Firefox 1.5.0.3  —  Firefox 1.5.0.3 is a security update that is part of our ongoing program to provide a safe Internet experience for our customers.  We recommend that all users upgrade to this latest version.  — Security fix for denial of service vulnerability.
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mozilla.org:   Description  —  Martijn Wargers and Nick Mott each described crashes …
CNET News.com:
Net neutrality missing from sweeping telecom bill  —  update The U.S. Senate took the first serious step on Monday toward rewriting the nation's telecommunications laws, a move that raises politically sensitive questions about digital copyright and Net neutrality and that could take years to complete.
John Markoff / New York Times:
Intel to Offer Its Own Plan for Global Internet Access  —  SAN FRANCISCO, May 1 — Aiming to help close the so-called digital divide, the Intel Corporation plans to announce a design for a sub-$400 educational laptop and a five-year, $1 billion program to train teachers and to extend wireless digital Internet access worldwide.
Discussion: IP Democracy
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Dean Takahashi / siliconvalley.com:   Intel, AMD power up the push for a cheap PC
Jenstar / JenSense:
MySpace.com and Yahoo Publisher Network apparently don't mix  —  MySpace has long been a marketing tool and a great way to drive traffic to other sites or advertising.  But if you happen to be monetizing with MySpace and using Yahoo Publisher Network, you may get your account suspended …
Discussion: Clickety Clack and YHOO
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
A New Look at Personalized News  —  Israeli startup Spotback, which I've been tracking for a while, will launch tonight (Monday) at 10 PM PST.  Spotback is a personalized news portal that learns from user behavior over time to deliver the news that's just right for them.
Leander Kahney / Wired News:
The Genius of Apple's Stores  —  Apple Computer is firing on all cylinders these days, but of all the things contributing to its success, hardly anyone mentions its chain of retail stores.  —  The stores are as important to Apple as the iPod or OS X when it comes to driving …
Discussion: AAPL
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Newsmaker: Asking more of Ask.com than of Jeeves  —  Ask.com relaunched earlier this year with new features and a new logo as part of an attempt to shake off its old Ask Jeeves image.  Now it also has a new chief executive—Jim Lanzone, who was promoted this week to replace Steve Berkowitz.
www-306.ibm.com:
IBM acquires BuildForge  —  Organizations are increasingly under pressure to deliver enterprise products and services faster.  Development organizations are hard pressed to manage complex applications, coordinate globally distributed development and production teams while maintaining high software quality.
Steve Rosenbush / Business Week:
News Corp.'s New Net Bets  —  Its Fox Interactive Media has picked up two small Web companies to complement earlier Internet acquisitions such as MySpace  —  The Fox Interactive Media unit of giant News Corp. (NWS) said on May 1 that it had acquired two small Internet companies to help expand …
Discussion: Barnako.com
 
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John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
What's the word for lap dog?
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
French DRM law gutted
Ryan Block / Engadget Mobile:
Helio launches  —  Alright kids, it's the moment we've …
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SANS notes sharp increase in Mac OS X flaws
Om Malik / Business 2.0:
File-sharing is the new email
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Yahoo Woos the Tech User
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PDA popularity triggering eyestrain
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 Earlier Items: 
Microsoft:
SAP and Microsoft Introduce Duet Software; Bringing Together …
Cisco Cheng / Gearlog:
Samsung Q1: First UMPC Hits Our Labs
Tony Smith / The Register:
Intel: 90% of Cores to be Duo by year end
Sara Kehaulani Goo / Washington Post:
Amazon Search Finds Microsoft
Ryan Singel / Wired News:
Feds Go All Out to Kill Spy Suit
Discussion: dailywireless.org and Etcetera
Mike / Techdirt:
Senate Telecom Bill More About Granting Favors Than Improving Telecom?
Discussion: Boing Boing and B2Day
samsung.com:
SAMSUNG's D520: Stylish Simplicity and Stunning
Discussion: Gizmodo and MobileWhack.com