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USA Today:
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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Globe Investor / Globe and Mail:
INGRAM: Apple wins, but who loses? — Steve Jobs, benign dictator: It's funny how our view of what is right changes depending on whether we like the person who is making the rules. Take Apple and iTunes for example. After months of negotiations — and months before that filled with sniping …
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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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Microsoft:
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, 2006 — Today at the seventh annual MSN® …
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.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
MuniFi No Woes! — My previous post on MuniFi woes resulted in a torrent of private email from many folks in the "business." Actually most reminded me of the point I was trying to make - its about how the network is designed and architect and not about WiFi, the technology.
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Thomas F. Anglero / Telecom's Tsunami:
The State of MobileIP (Mobile VoIP) in Norway (reflections of the Nordic market) — Yesterday, Telenor AS announced another set of great results for Q1'06 but these results might be the last good news to come out of the Nordics. Moments later, Telenor Venture (Telenor's external VC group) …
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.
Mihai Parparita / Official Google Reader Blog:
There's some Reader in my Homepage! — Reader and the Google Personalized Homepage have always been kindred spirits, seeing as both deal with feeds (and the teams sit 10 feet apart). We're therefore very happy to announce that your Reader reading list (or any label of your choosing) can now be added as a module to the homepage.
Kcamp-Voip / Realtime-VoIP:
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 -
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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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 …
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 …
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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 …
Simon Perry / digital-lifestyles.info:
OpenStreetMap To Free The Isle of Wight (Map) — OpenStreetMap, an organisation that is using consumer technology to create copyright-free maps, is meeting this weekend (5-7 May) on the Isle of Wight - to map the whole Island and give the data away under a Creative Commons license.
