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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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AOL to Add Free Phone to Instant Messaging Feature — AOL is preparing to offer the 41 million users of its instant messaging system a free phone number that will allow people to call them from regular phones while they are online. — The move is part of a broad effort by AOL …
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® …
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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Mike / Techdirt:
Misplaced Blame Over iTunes Pricing — With the news coming out that, as expected, Steve Jobs wouldn't back down and convinced the labels to sign new contracts that keep the price of songs at $0.99, some are wondering if that's really a good thing. Mathew Ingram is the latest to suggest that …
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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.
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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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.
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 …
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Marc Orchant / Office Evolution:
Free Vista (and Office) for holiday shoppers? — Jupiter's Michael Gartneberg has a great suggestion for Microsoft: give holiday season PC purchasers a free copy of Vista. And Office. It's a terrific idea that would spur a lot of fence-sitting potential PC purchasers to spend their holiday bucks …
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) …
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 -
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.
Erick Schonfeld / B2Day:
Battelle's Federated Media is Open For Business — While everyone is talking about the launch of Microsoft adCenter, another online advertising network that is exclusively for blogs also just launched in a quieter fashion. John Battelle''s Federated Media Publishing came out of beta yesterday.
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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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.
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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