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Microsoft Introduces New Version of Windows Live Local — New capabilities include real-time traffic reporting, new ways to collect and share search results, tight integration with Microsoft Office Outlook and Windows Live Messenger, and geographic expansion to Canada and the U.K.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:New Features at Live.com Local Maps
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Alan Saracevic / The Technology Chronicles:
Would you pay $100 for this laptop? — MIT unveiled the first working prototype of its $100 laptop today at something called the Seven Countries Taskforce Meeting, which is apparently a subset of the G8. 10-4. — Anyway, Photos of the mini-machine made their way to Flickr PDQ.
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MIT's $100 Laptop Photos — Pictures of the working One Laptop Per Child prototype have turned up following the first showing today. We're not so sure about the orange and yellow color scheme, but everything else looks good. — If we were a child in a developing country …
Wall Street Journal:
Should the Net Be Neutral? — The "net neutrality" debate has reached a fever pitch as Congress mulls legislation that would allow Internet service providers to charge Web sites for preferred delivery of digital content. — Net neutrality advocates, including Internet giants like Google and Amazon.com …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Morpheus makers file suit against eBay — StreamCast Networks, the creators of the Morpheus file-sharing software, is alleging in a lawsuit that auction house eBay is profiting from peer-to-peer technology that rightfully belongs to it. — StreamCast claims in a lawsuit filed Monday …
Jason D. O'Grady / The Apple Core:
Apple partners with Nike on iPod for runners — Nike and Apple announced a partnership targeting runners and iPod users. Tune your run is a way to use the iPod to track data captured in the soles of new Nike running shoes. … Nike+ compatible running shoes range from US$85 (Air Max Moto+ …
Henri Poole / DefectiveByDesign.org:
Seattle anti-DRM flashmob — Sign up here to find out about the next event.
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Richard Whitt / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Spam filter gobbles up phone bid for Cobb schools — There it was in the e-mail spam filter, along with offers to invigorate both your bank account and your sex life: an offer to save the Cobb County schools $250,000. But this message was for real. — School officials are blaming …
Ephraim Schwartz / InfoWorld:
Imagining a day without Microsoft — If the company we love to hate disappeared tomorrow, we'd be in for still more headaches — Did you ever hear the warning, "be careful what you wish for, it might come true?" Well, because Microsoft is the company most people love to hate …
CNET News.com:
Plaxo gets hip to VoIP — Plaxo, the company that drove some people nuts with e-mail invitations to its service, is getting on the voice over Internet Protocol bandwagon. — On Tuesday, the Mountain View, Calif., company unveiled plans to move beyond the synchronized and centralized online address book …
Bruce Gain / Wired News:
Doom 3 Like You've Never Seen — Plummeting prices and advances in motherboard technologies are making dual-card graphics a must-have for serious gamers. — Two competing technologies, ATI Technologies' CrossFire platform and Nvidia's Scalable Link Interface, or SLI …
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Politicos ponder patent system changes — WASHINGTON—In the wake of high-profile lawsuits involving BlackBerry and eBay, Congress is once again talking about fixing what the technology industry says is a thoroughly broken patent system. — While much of the U.S. Senate was occupied …
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Tim Lee / The Technology Liberation Front:
The Future of Music? — Ars profiles eMusic, the world's number 2 online music retailer. And they don't use digital rights management, choosing instead to sell their songs in unprotected MP3 format. Yes, you read that right: the world's #2 music download service doesn't use DRM technology.
John Oates / The Register:
World's most expensive mobile number is 666 6666 — The world's most expensive phone number was auctioned for charity yesterday in Qatar. — The number, 666 6666, sold for 10m Qatari riyals or £1.5m. — The previous record holder was Chinese number 8888 8888, which sold for £270,000.
Russell Buckley / MobHappy:
Khosla Ventures Sponsors Carnival of the Mobilists — I'm really happy to announce that Khosla Ventures have agreed to sponsor the Carnival of the Mobilists from June 2006 until the end of the year, which will help us extend our presence and profile in the Blogosphere.
Jonathan Fildes / BBC:
Web inventor warns of 'dark' net — BBC News science and technology reporter in Edinburgh — The web should remain neutral and resist attempts to fragment it into different services, web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has said. — Recent attempts in the US to try to charge for different levels …
Rustybrick / Search Engine Roundtable:
Google AdWords Experiments With New Ad Layout at Google.com — A WebmasterWorld thread is reporting Sporadic Reports of Google Testing New Ad Layout. The new ad layout shows two ads at the top, and then four ads on the bottom, but none on the right hand panel.
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
News.blog: Mac Mini is my most 'Vista Ready' PC — Last week, Microsoft released a test version of its 'Upgrade Advisor', a downloadable tool that aims to tell users how Vista-ready their system is. — I decided to run it on all the systems I had at my disposal and found some interesting results.
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Read/WriteWeb:
Microsoft acquisitions and product strategies — The Microsoft VC Summit 2006 happened a week or two ago, but I've only just had a chance to review the posts that came out of it. If you're interested in where Microsoft is headed with its product range and general Web strategy, there are some nuggets in the coverage.
Scott Matulis / irconnect.com:
United Online Announces New PrivatePhone Service — PrivatePhone is the First Service to Offer a Free Phone Number — and Voice Mail That Can be Used Completely Independent of a Computer — Company Also Signs Actress and Recording Star Christina Milian to
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