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Tom Yager / Macworld UK:
Apple closes down OS X — Thanks to pirates, or rather the fear of them, the Intel edition of Apple's OS X is now a proprietary operating system. — Mac developers and power users no longer have the freedom to alter, rebuild, and replace the OS X kernel from source code.
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Ken Belson / New York Times:
Cablevision to Offer Flat Rates for International Phone Calling — Cablevision, one of the largest cable companies in the metropolitan area, will announce today a flat-rate plan for international calls, the latest example of how digital and Internet-based phone services from cable companies …
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Houston Chronicle:
Cablevision to Unveil New Calling Plan — NEW YORK — Cable operator Cablevision Systems Corp. is preparing to unveil a new international calling plan that lets users make calls to anywhere in the world for a flat fee of $19.95 a month. — Under the plan, customers get 500 minutes …
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Gates to demonstrate new search software — Microsoft is hoping that social networking techniques will help win a few friends for its enterprise search technology. — On Wednesday, as part of a keynote speech to executives gathered in Redmond, Wash., for Microsoft's annual CEO Summit …
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Microsoft Enterprise Search Solutions Help Enable Effective Information Management — New technologies such as Windows Live Search and innovations in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 will help people create, find, use and share information. — REDMOND, Wash., May 17, 2006 …
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Brian Krebs / Washington Post:
In the Fight Against Spam E-Mail, Goliath Wins Again — Eran Reshef had an idea in the battle against spam e-mail that seemed to be working: he fought spam with spam. Today, he'll give up the fight. — Reshef's Silicon Valley company, Blue Security Inc., simply asked the spammers to stop sending junk e-mail to his clients.
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Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
AOL's Uncut Video; a YouTube copycat, but history suggests it's a long-shot — AOL releases UnCut Video, a complete YouTube copycat. — The only difference is that UnCut doesn't support tagging (via TechCrunch). Too bad it's such a blatant clone. These sorts of moves rarely succeed.
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plantronics.com:
PLANTRONICS ANNOUNCES WORLD'S FIRST VOIP-OPTIMIZED BLUETOOTH HEADSET SYSTEM — Multipoint Technology, Easy Install Provide Road Warriors with Single Headset for Numerous Devices — SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — May 17, 2006 — Plantronics, Inc. (NYSE:PLT) today introduced the Voyager 510-USB …
Jeremy Pelofsky / Reuters:
Silicon Valley backs US wireless broadband plan — WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) - Three Silicon Valley venture capital firms are backing a project to grab a slice of valuable U.S. wireless airwaves to offer nationwide high-speed Internet service, according to a recent regulatory filing.
Google Blogoscoped:
Suing Google Suggest — Oh my - someone's apparently suing Google for the Google Suggest feature, which suggests cracks of a certain software. As you may know the Google Suggest feature, as used in the Google Toolbar, is a (slightly moderated) approach of offering suggestions based on popular searches, as you type.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Congress may make ISPs snoop on you — A prominent Republican on Capitol Hill has prepared legislation that would rewrite Internet privacy rules by requiring that logs of Americans' online activities be stored, CNET News.com has learned. — The proposal comes just weeks …
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Fred / A VC:
VC Cliché of the Week — There is one thing I know for sure about raising money from investors. If you don't want the investor's money, they will want to invest even more. It is a sure thing. — Lately I've been taking a lot of meetings with entrepreneurs I've known for years …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Tim Cadogan Talking At Yahoo Analyst Day — Tim Cadogan, vice president of search, up now at Yahoo Analyst Day, talking about search monetization. He starts by saying the consumer is always first in consideration, then explains the search food chain/cycle, how questions can be answered by advertisers.
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BBC:
Gamers to help create web record — A website that aims to record the history of videogame innovation is calling on games fanatics for help. — The Game Innovation Database (GIDb), as the website is known, has been developed by a team at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University.
Mark Wallace / 3pointD.com:
3D Milling Service Offered for SL Residents — Second Life residents will soon be able to order up physical versions of their avatars, their builds or their favorite Second Life objects in full 3D, and in a variety of materials, thanks to a pair of students at the Art Institute of Chicago.
