After a few weeks in the arms of Firefox 3 betas, I've returned to Safari as my daily browser. Unsurprisingly, it's the interface that drove me back. But I'm not talking about cosmetic issues -- or at least not only about cosmetic issues. ...
Frank Bruni, the food critic for the NY Times, wrote yesterday about the difficulty of getting a reservation at David Chang's new Momofuku Ko restaurant . Ko's online reservation system is the *only* way of procuring a seat at the tiny Manhattan restaurant. ...
April 4, 2008
Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants
I noted a few days ago that Creative was trying to irritate its customers by threatening a developer who - unlike Creative themselves - was providing a solution for people using Vista. Well, it seems ...
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April 4, 2008
The Register
'File-sharing is a right, not a privilege'
Carphone Warehouse has called the government's bluff by stating that it will not cooperate with the record industry to clamp down on copyright infringement o ...
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April 4, 2008
The Boy Genius Report / Joshua Karp
Yeah, this one sounds pretty strange to us as well. Apparently Sprint’s new CEO, Dan Hesse, let slip at his CTIA 2008 keynote that Nextel would be the recipient of a Wi-Fi-equipped BlackB ...
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- PHONE Magazine: Nextel getting WiFi BlackBerry this year, confirms ...
- Engadget Mobile: Nextel getting a WiFi iDEN BlackBerry this year
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April 4, 2008
The Blog Herald / Thord Daniel Hedengren
No, ladies and gentlemen, blog networks aren’t dead, they’re just a bit more anonymous than they used to. Not counting b5media of course, they’re doing their thing as usual… Th ...
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- VentureBeat: Rumor: Ad network Federated Media raises $50M from ...
- Planet Web 2.0: Rumor: Federated Media Takes $50 Million On A $200 ...
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April 4, 2008
WSJ.com: Gadgets
Deutsche Telekom slashed the price of Apple's iPhone in Germany by 75% to €99 in a two-month campaign to boost sales of the handset. ...
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- MacDailyNews: T-Mobile Germany cuts 8GB Apple iPhone prices up t ...
- BARRONS.com: Tech Tr ...: Apple: German iPhone Glut? T-Mobile Cuts 8 GB iPho ...
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April 4, 2008
Pipes Output / Katie Fehrenbacher
If you’ve ever tried to use one of those carbon footprint calculator web sites, then you’ll likely understand why mobile entrepreneur Andreas Zachariah would try to build a better way. Most on ...
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- GigaOM: gigaomeditor
- Pipes Output: Carbon Hero to the Rescue [GigaOM]
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April 4, 2008
CrunchGear / John Biggs
Photos like these (check out the accompanying multimedia presentation) make me rethink my entire career as tech journalist. This is a mess. In Guiyu, China, the electronics recycling industry has dest ...
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- Gizmodo: China's E-Waste Problem Poisons Children, Destroys ...
- Planet Web 2.0: CrunchGear This Week
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April 4, 2008
ZDNet Blogs / Ed Bott
Software licensing is often hard to understand. But that's no excuse for so-called Windows experts to deliberately publish sensational stories that turn the facts upside-down. I'm talking about the fu ...
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- GottaBeMobile: Vista Upgrade Licensing Loophole
- WinBeta: The Vista license “loophole” that isn’t
- Ed Bott's Windows Ex ...: More nonsense about Vista upgrades
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April 4, 2008
GigaOM / Om Malik
Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur outlines 20 reasons why his company bought Twhirl, an Adobe AIR-based Twitter client that is preferred by the self-obsessed net-set (including yours truly). Some see it as ...
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- Tech Confidential: It's too early to judge Seesmic
- Scripting News: Why did Seesmic buy Twhirl?
- Scripting News Annex: scripting
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April 4, 2008
BBC News | Technology | UK Edition
Sex offenders' e-mails are to be passed on to social networking sites, under new government guidelines. ...
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- Cornell Finch: Oi! Paedo - Give Us Yer Email!
- Internet Psychology: Here we go again - another Government Internet blu ...
- Longrider: Stupid Things People Say
- the albert memorial ...: Sex offenders face website bans
- Cynical Chatter From ...: Spot The Cretin!
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April 4, 2008
A VC / Fred
Having ceded the file based music opportunity (mp3s and drm’d file formats) to Apple, the recorded labels are now getting hip to the much bigger opportunity, streaming music. Yes, it’s true that l ...
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- Silicon Alley Inside ...: Something Important Is On The Horizon In The Music ...
- SmoothSpan Blog: Bob Warfield
- PDA: links for 2008-04-04
- Portfolio.com: Tech ...: A Big Thank You for Music Industry Chaos
- robhyndman.com: “Something Important Is On The Horizon In The Mu ...
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University of Florida professor Michael Moulton thinks copyright law protects the lectures he gives to his students, and he's headed to court to prove it. Moulton and his e-textbook publisher are suing Thomas Bean, who runs a company that repackages and sells student notes, arguing that the business ...
Baltimore Sun - By Stephanie Desmon - Apr. 5 (News Report) - Johns Hopkins officials restored full access yesterday to a reproductive health Web site funded by the government, after learning that searches containing the word "abortion" were being intentionally restricted and that thousands of studies were being hidden from easy view. The change came after librarians and women's health advocates flooded the blogosphere - and e-mail boxes at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - with complaints of censorship......
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Science - By Mitch Leslie - Apr. 5 (News Report) - Geneticist George Church of Harvard Medical School in Boston and colleagues had not planned to dig up more grim news about antibiotics. These researchers were hunting for microbes that could convert agricultural waste into biofuels and were using antibiotics in their control studies. But for some bacteria, they learned, antibiotics provide a meal...
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Wired News - By Mary Catherine O'Connor - Apr. 5 (News Report) - Carrotmob organizes a staged buying spree at a particular business. In return, that business puts a percentage of the revenue toward energy-saving business renovations. The business wins through a boom in sales, a green reputation and lowered energy costs, while the consumers also benefit, by putting an ecological bang behind their bucks for stuff they need to buy anyway.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's unique tree-dwelling koalas may become a victim of climate change, new research reported on Saturday shows. ... Australian scientists say that eucalyptus leaves, the staple diet of koalas and other animals, could become inedible because of...
The CTIA wireless trade show grabbed the bulk of headlines, but the big stories were less about handsets and more about network openness and resulting new features. Also, music industry mixes it up.(By CNET News.com's Michelle Meyers) The wireless industry's CTIA trade show grabbed the bulk of...
Verizon Wireless and AT&T said they plan to create faster and more robust networks with a new chunk of radio spectrum they won at a recent federal auction of airwaves. They also talked about moving toward more "open" networks, offering consumers the ability to use a greater number of devices and ...
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