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San Francisco Chronicle:
Laptop thieves descend upon wireless cafes — Grab-and-run robbers find pricey computers easy to resell — A San Francisco finance manager stopped in at a Mission District cafe and was tapping on his laptop as he enjoyed his coffee just before noon on a Thursday. Suddenly, he was under siege.
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Techdirt, jkOnTheRun, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, JD on EP, THE RAW FEED, Guardian Unlimited and Life On the Wicked Stage
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Exploding TV: KA-BLOOM! … TV has finally exploded. And if other media — newspapers, magazines, and even online companies — don't watch out, they may lose the broadband internet to TV companies. — In big news today, Disney said it will make episodes of its shows available online …
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Jenstar / JenSense:
YPN launches their own Yahoo Publisher Network Blog — You heard it here first! YPN has launched their own YPN blog to keep publishers (and want-to-be publishers!) up-to-date and in the loop with the very latest about the program. … I must admit, this is one of the coolest search engine blogs out there.
Dean / UBC Google Scholar Blog.folio:
CRITIQUING MICROSOFT LIVE "ACADEMIC SEARCH" — I've had e-mails from readers asking me about Microsoft Academic Search, and I can at least tell you a little bit along the lines of what's reported in PC World. (A few things are confidential until Tuesday, but not because I signed an NDA).
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Dean / UBC Google Scholar Blog.folio:
WHY TITANS LIKE MICROSOFT WANT TO TALK TO LIBRARIANS — Search is a huge part of the Web's future, and Microsoft - currently the 3rd most popular search engine - knows it. Bill Gates, the world's richest man, dragged his heels on search until about fifteen months ago when he decided …
John Markoff / New York Times:
A Laptop Comes Preloaded With the Web, Abridged — SAN FRANCISCO, April 7 — While Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are busy building legions of data centers to capture the contents of the Web, a fledgling company has decided that it will squeeze the essential Internet onto a single laptop.
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Engadget
Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Software Notebook: Microsoft rival turns sights toward Office — Some people might shy away from head-to-head competition with Microsoft Corp. But Michael Robertson is taking the opposite approach — making a habit of challenging the company in areas it dominates.
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Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google settlement or not, click fraud won't go away — With a planned $90 million settlement, Google could soon dispense with a class-action lawsuit involving so-called click fraud. — But while that may be good for Google, it doesn't mean the problem of bogus clicks on online ads …
Clive Thompson / Wired News:
The Glory of the Shooter — Let us now praise insanely violent first-person-shooters. — Let us praise the joys of double-wielding a pair of Uzis with unlimited ammo; let us delight in the gorgeous fractal carnage of a rocket launcher as it slams into your target.
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Cathode Tan
Josh / Redeye VC:
Bridge Loans vs. Preferred Equity — Over the last few years, my fund has made over 20 seed-stage investments. While we strive to be the "first money" into a company, we recognize that we typically don't provide enough capital to get a company to profitability.
Adam Sherwin / Times of London:
Three-year-olds in frame for the 'iTod' — LEGO bricks no longer cut it for hi-tech toddlers. Digital music players for three-year-olds are the new battleground in the £20 billion toy industry. — Fisher-Price will launch the "iTod", its first MP3 player aimed at infants, this summer.
John Boudreau / Knight Ridder:
Q&A with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak — SAN JOSE, Calif. — Steve Wozniak says he never intended to change the world. That was the other Steve, Steve Jobs. — He just wanted to build computers. Oh, and he really — really — wanted to spend his career as a Hewlett-Packard engineer, a position he reluctantly left.
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Guardian Unlimited
Seo Book / Aaron Wall's SEO Book.com:
Monthly Keyword Research Marketing Data — SEO Question: — Are you aware of a tool or a service that can provide reliable search volume history for certain keywords? Like how many searches there were for "keyword phrase" in each month of 2005. — SEO Answer:
Steffen Fjaervik / Poynter Online:
Headlines: Boring Is Better than Useless — We have covered information in headlines here at E-Media Tidbits before, and I for one have welcomed more informative headlines. I use RSS feeds a lot, and those smart headlines that seem so perfect when connected to a picture or background story …
NEWS.com.au:
Google does deal for Aussie program — A SEARCH-engine tool being developed in Sydney and picked up by internet giant Google will revolutionise the way people retrieve information from the net, its developers said. — The advanced text-search algorithm, Orion, is being developed by University …
Read/WriteWeb:
Structured Blogging Website Re-designed — The Structured Blogging website has been upgraded and went live tonight. I re-designed the website and did the writing for it, under the employ of Marc Canter's Broadband Mechanics and with the help of others in the Structured Blogging community such as Conor O'Neill.
thealarmclock.com:
Canadian Blog Network B5 Media Looking for VC Backers — It will be interesting to see if B5 succeeds in its endeavor to raise funding. Rival Creative Weblogging was able to raise funding so we suspect B5 has a shot. The blog network has managed to launch a large number of blogs that cover tech, entertainment, sports and more.
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BBC:
Phone firm 'plans free broadband' — Mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse is expected to announce the launch of a free broadband service later this week. — The company looks poised to provide free access for customers who sign up to its Talk Talk landline service.
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Vista successfully installed on a Mac — We didn't think it was anything but a matter of time, but hey, for those closely monitoring the progress of Windows on Macs, it looks like peeps on the OSx86 Project forums have fully done the deed with Vista on an iMac.
Dominic Jones / Investor Relations Blog:
Put humans first, not search engines — Interesting article in the New York Times about how the paper's editors are writing different headlines for online stories compared to those appearing in the print edition. — On the face of it, this should be seen as a good thing because people read differently …
Discussion:
Tom Raftery's I.T. views, Search Engine Roundtable, IP Democracy and Open (finds, minds …
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Warner Crocker / Life On the Wicked Stage:
Craig Pringle: Now Is The Time For Tablets — Craig Pringle has a wonderful blog entry, Now Is The Time for Tablets. I couldn't agree more with his thesis that the cosmic forces are moving forward. Craig outlines some reasons why he thinks several key influences are aligning properly.
