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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Suit accuses Google of profiting from child porn — Google has made child pornography an "obscenely profitable and integral part" of its business and must be stopped, a new lawsuit claims. — Jeffrey Toback, a representative in New York's Nassau County Legislature, charged …
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Houston Chronicle:
(PZ) Nassau County Legislator Sues Google for Promoting and Profiting from Child Pornography — Suit Charges Google as World's Largest Facilitator and Distributor of Child Pornography — WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., May 4, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) — Meiselman, Denlea, Packman, Carton & Eberz, P.C. …
Frank Eltman / Associated Press:N.Y. Lawmaker Sues Google Over Child Porn
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The Technology Chronicles
New York Times:
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 …
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Alec / Alec Saunders .LOG:
AOL to Offer Free Inbound Calling — USA Today reports that AOL will introduce a service that gives any AIM user a free phone number for incoming calls. Called AIM Phoneline, it will be the first service to offer a free phoneline. AIM Phoneline Unlimited, at $14.95 per month …
Phil Windley / Between the Lines:
Unconferences and the value of participatory events — The Internet Identity Workshop ended Wednesday afternoon and I've had a day to decompress. This was really an outstanding event and one I'm proud to have been a part of. Even though I was one of the organizers, along with Kaliya Hamlin …
Michael V. Copeland / Business 2.0:
A car that could save the planet—fast — Silicon Valley's big brains think they can beat Detroit and Tokyo and save the planet - all while doing 0 to 60 faster than almost anything on the road. — SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2. Magazine) - Ian Wright has a car that blows away a Ferrari 360 Spider …
Peter Pollack / Ars Technica:
CBS jumps with both feet into online broadcasting — Another day, another way to watch TV sans rabbit ears. This time, CBS has joined the party by unveiling a service called "innertube"—an ad-supported video channel available directly from their web site.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Microsoft doesn't support Firefox? — Darren Barefoot notes "I guess Microsoft doesn't want my money." — This pisses me off. — If I were Bill Gates I'd issue a memo that said "any team that ships without Firefox support automatically gets 3.0s for all members." — "Huh?"
Jennifer A. Kingson / New York Times:
Going Online for Savings — The offers sound almost too good to be true: "Earn more than 5x the national average," screams the envelope from ING Direct, advertising the Orange savings account; "The best rate, no fees, no risk," shouts a similar offer from HSBCdirect.com.
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Payments News
Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
CIA in Silicon Valley invests in — shocker — a tiny photo lens — The CIA's venture arm, In-Q-Tel, may have lost its lead Silicon Valley operator, Gilman Louie, but the group is still working away on deals here. — Gilman has since launched a venture capital firm, and has gone quiet for now.
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Reiter's Camera Phone Report
Reuters:
Bill Gates wishes he weren't so rich — The corporate leader says he doesn't like the attention of being the world's richest man. — REDMOND, Wash. (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Wednesday he wished he were not the world's richest man. — "I wish I wasn't.
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Shoemoney
Bloomberg:
Microsoft to Put More Money Into MSN — REDMOND, Wash., May 4 (Bloomberg News) — Microsoft will increase investments in MSN and its other online businesses to $1.6 billion next year as it escalates a battle with Google, its chief executive said Thursday. — Capital spending and research outlays …
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Google Operating System
Nick / Rough Type:
Google's grand ambition — In the wake of my last post about Google's aspirations in the enterprise market, I came across (thanks to a reader) another, even more interesting interview with Dave Girouard, Google's top enterprise guy. This one was done by Dan Briody, of CIO Insight …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Microsoft QnA Enters Crowded Market — More Microsoft news today: Live.com has announced the upcoming launch of QnA, and a few screen shots have been conveniently leaked as well (see end of post). — QnA is a question and answer service that looks like it will be a very close copy of Yahoo Answers.
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John Romero / planet rome.ro:
Oblivion Re-Rated = Bad News — The ESRB just re-rated Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion from Teen to Mature. On the surface the bad news for Bethesda is that fewer units will be sold to an M audience and it's a little bit of a black eye as well because of the "nude content introduced into the game from a third party mod".
Yahoo! Publisher Network:
Maintaining a Quality Network — As noted on certain message boards, some publisher accounts have been recently closed. These account closures were based solely on traffic quality issues. — Yahoo! Publisher Network is still an invite-only beta program.
Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
Cox Communications and TiVo Sitting in a Tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G, Is a Cox Communications and TiVo Deal Looming? — Cox is asking a lot of questions about TiVo... - TiVo Community: "As you may or may not know, Cox offers DVR service. The DVR is built into the Cox digital receiver box …
