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AOL's 'AIM Phoneline' offers free local phone number — DULLES, Va. — AOL is close to unveiling a voice-over-Internet service, based on its AIM instant messenger, that would give any AIM user a local phone number for free. — Dubbed AIM Phoneline, the free number would only allow for incoming calls from any phone.
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Ben Charny / eWEEK.com:
Google's Mountain View Wi-Fi Network Hits a Snag — There's a chance that Google may miss the June launch date for a wireless network its building in Mountain View, Calif., or make the deadline, but with a network that doesn't have the promised coverage. — Google's begun testing the network and …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:More MuniFi Woes? — It was only a couple of days back we heard …
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Jim Dalrymple / Macworld:
Apple responds to rumors of Aperture's demise, releases update — Apple on Thursday responded to rumors that the company has asked the engineering team for its professional photography workflow application Aperture to leave. The rumors, which started late last week, are completely false, according to Apple.
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Roy Mark / internetnews.com:
Spyware Hustler Hit With $4M Penalty — Justice was finally downloaded Thursday on Sanford Wallace, a notorious spammer of the 1990s who moved on to illegal spyware operations that installed adware, spyware and other unsolicited software programs on users' computers.
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Inside AdSense Team / Inside AdSense:
New referrals for Google Pack and Picasa — We're happy to announce that, in addition to AdSense, AdWords, and Firefox with Google Toolbar, you can now refer your users to Google Pack and Picasa. You'll earn up to $2 for each time a user installs Pack and up to $1 for each Picasa install.
David Pogue / New York Times:
A Big Question Unanswered by a Tiny PC — ACCORDING to legend, they teach you in journalism school to remember the five W's: who, what, when, where and why. — This week, Microsoft unveiled a new kind of computer called the Ultra Mobile PC — and has good answers to four of those questions.
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Full-up Google choking on web spam? — Buddy, can you spare a server? — Webmasters have been seething at Google since it introduced its 'Big Daddy' update in January, the biggest revision to the way its search engine operates for years. — Alarm usually accompanies changes to Google's algorithms …
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Windows Expertise:
Corel completes destruction of WinZip — Sometime in the past few years, I stopped using WinZip. That's after ten years of enthusiastic use of what used to be an essential utility. It helped that basic support for the non-proprietary and widely used Zip format was built into Windows Me and then Windows XP.
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BridgePort Networks and Seimens in the News — This is fortuitous timing. I knew BridgePort had a cool announcement coming shortly. I recently traded email with someone from Siemens that started from my post, Siemens Gets It. What could be next? A joint announcement -
PR Newswire:
abazab Launches to Provide Personal Expression Tools for Social Networking Sites — First Product Lets People Instantly Share Video Snippets of Their Lives Using Mobile Phones — CAMPBELL, Calif., May 4 /PRNewswire/ — abazab, Inc., a provider of personal expression and communication products …
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Microsoft to Acquire In-Game Advertising Pioneer Massive Inc. — Massive's Technology for Weaving Dynamic, Relevant Ads into Video Games Will Extend Next-Generation Advertising Across Microsoft Properties and Beyond — REDMOND, Wash., May 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Today …
Nanko Roussev / phonearena.com:
Pantech is preparing Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone for Verizon — It seems that Pantech, the second largest manufacturer in Korea really wants to get a piece of the US market share - we've already showed some of its low and mid-level models targeted to Verizon and Cingular (CDMA and GSM) …
Joanna Glasner / Wired News:
Spam War Knocks Out Blogs — An Israeli antispam company said Thursday that a junk e-mailer's vendetta is behind attacks this week that took down its site, five hosting providers and one of the internet's largest blog networks. — The website of Blue Security, a service that sends automated opt …
Mark Ward / BBC:
Net censorship spreads worldwide — Technology Correspondent, BBC News website — Repressive regimes are taking full advantage of the net's ability to censor and stifle reform and debate, reveals a report. — Written by the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) pressure group the report highlights …
Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Thermal Greasy: Apple Sics Lawyers on Something Awful — Thermal Greasy: Apple Sics Lawyers on Something Awful — READ MORE: APPLE, LAPTOPS, MAC, MACBOOK PRO, COPYRIGHT, LAWYERS, SOMETHING AWFUL, THERMAL GREASE — After a Something Awful denizen took apart his MacBook Pro and discovered …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Cingular Vs AT&T: The Name Game — The changing pieces on the great telecom chess board has brought the grand old name, AT&T, into the lime light again. SBC, which had acquired AT&T quickly renamed itself AT&T. Now post BellSouth merger, even Cingular is going to go with AT&T brand name.
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