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As US technology giants including Google place a multi-billion dollar bet on WiMAX, backers of the wireless data-streaming format say it will radically change mobile Internet use. A WiMAX network of the kind to be deployed across the United States by a joint venture dubbed Clearwire may render cable ...
Lost E-Mails Obscure ‘Plame-gate’
Consortium News - By Jason Leopold - May. 9 (Opinion) - But David Gewirtz, an expert on e-mail, and the author of the book Where Have All the Emails Gone? believes the loss of e-mails covering the March to May 2003 period is suspicious. "Sadly, neither elected nor appointed officials in Washington are making the situation any better," Gewirtz wrote in a technical column about the issue. "In fact, it's getting worse. I've reached the conclusion that it's time to call for a special prosecutor...NewsTrust Rating: 3.8 from source rating - Review It
Facebook Responds To MySpace With Facebook Connect
TechCrunch - By Michael Arrington - May. 9 (News Report) - Facebook will announce later today Facebook Connect, which has similar functionality to MySpace Data Availability, announced just yesterday. The actual product won't be released for at least a few weeks, so the timing on this, coming immediately after MySpace, is somewhat suspicious. It is essentially a new version of their API for third party websites, which was first launched in August 2006...NewsTrust Rating: 3.3 from source rating - Review It
Conservationists make most of real estate crisis
USA Today - By Haya El Nasser - May. 9 (News Report) - Plummeting real estate values and demand for new housing are hammering developers but helping conservationists, enabling land trusts to buy thousands of acres that were slated for development and preserve them as open space.NewsTrust Rating: 3.5 from source rating - Review It
Review posted for Sony S750!
The 7.2-megapixel Sony Cyber-shot DSC-S750 is small, trim, and compact, with a 2.5-inch LCD and a 3x optical zoom lens. The Sony S750's straightforward interface is reminiscent of older Sony Cyber-shots, without the new Home menu we find so confusing on other Sony digital cameras. ...
Gore Verbinski to direct ‘Bioshock’
Universal and Gore Verbinski are going into "Bioshock. The "Pirates of the Caribbean" helmer is attached to direct and produce. Zelnick, who was president of Fox in the early '90s, led the dealmaking for his company, rather than set the project up with a producer.
AT&T WiFi access now listed as “included” with iPhone
May 8, 2008
Engadget Mobile / Darren Murph
Filed under: ATT, GSM, EDGE, Misc, Apple, OS X We're not exactly sure what was going on with that whole on-again / off-again love affair with iPhones having gratis access to AT&T WiFi hotspots, bu ...
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Google plugs open-source security holes with oCERT
May 8, 2008
CNET News.com - Security
Google has launched a security response team called oCERT to help improve open-source security. It's a welcome addition to Google's portfolio of open-source efforts. ...
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Doom and Gloomers…Screw You!
May 8, 2008
Howard Lindzon / Howard Lindzon
No doubt that negativity sells and we are all in the business of sales. It’s just I won’t buy your dumb ass ‘Armageddon’ book because you are a cheap salesman. There are a thou ...
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Do we need to protect open-source from the cloud?
May 8, 2008
CNET News.com
The debate over whether we need to explicitly adapt open-source licenses for a network computing world keep cropping up. ...
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NBC: Dumber than I thought
May 8, 2008
Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants
And Microsoft may be developing a deep case of the stupids as well. Here's what it looks like they might allow NBC to get from the Zune store: The second story is about NBC shows coming to the Micro ...
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Pownce becomes more useful
May 8, 2008
Scripting News
Twitter is still my mainstay in microblogging, but I'm using FriendFeed more, and today Pownce removed an important limit that will make it useful in a way that neither Twitter or FriendFeed are. And ...
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Google may run display advertisements with image-search results
May 8, 2008
Business / editor@mercurynews.com (Bloomberg News)
Google is considering running illustrated advertisements alongside the results of Web queries for pictures, moving beyond its text-based ad business. ...
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EBay opens building with largest solar roof in San Jose
May 8, 2008
Tech News / mnauman@mercurynews.com (Matt NaumanMercury News)
Today eBay burnishes its green credentials, dedicating an energy-efficient building on its North First Street campus. ...
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RIAA: DRM not dead and likely will make comeback
May 8, 2008
CNET News.com
David Hughes of the RIAA told conference audience subscription services will usher in new DRM era. ...
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Ballmer’s Facebook Lust: It’s Just Like High School
May 8, 2008
Wired Top Stories / Kevin Maney, Portfolio.com
News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Media Marvel: Saavy Iron Man Clips Press Meebo CEO and His 'Live Web' Strategy Multimedia: A Look at the Growing Food Crisis Subscribe to Portfolio m ...
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Weakness At MySpace
May 8, 2008
TechCrunch / Erick Schonfeld
During yesterday’s News Corp. earnings call, Rupert Murdoch and COO Peter Chernin talked a little bit about the weakness at MySpace. They expect Fox Interactive Media (which includes MySpace, P ...
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Cablevision Plans Wireless Network
May 8, 2008
WSJ.com: Telecommunications
Cablevision disclosed plans to build a wireless broadband network to serve its subscribers in the New York area. The cable company posted a quarterly loss, but revenue rose 10%. ...
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China refuses to guarantee open Internet during Olympics
May 8, 2008
Ars Technica / jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng)
Just over a month after the International Olympic Committee "insisted" with China that the Internet must be open during the Games, officials have said that it won't be entirely open, because it must s ...
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