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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Finally! Bloglines Blog Search — Ask.com, which owns the most popular stand alone web based feed reader, Bloglines, has just rolled out its long awaited new blog search engine. — Ask/Bloglines has been the subject of a considerable number of jokes over the last year, after promising a blog search engine last summer.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Battles YouTube, But Forgets to Bring Flickr — The new Yahoo Video product is launching tonight (Wednesday) at 9 pm PST. The big change? Yahoo Video is targeting YouTube by allowing user-generated videos on the site. The biggest disappointment? The product is not being integrated (yet) into Flickr.
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Alan Stafford / PC World:
The 100 Best Products of the Year — Powerful computers, handy services, tiny utilities, mammoth HDTVs—our editors' top picks include all these and a whole lot more. Plus: the worst products of all time. — You know how many new-product pitches we get every year?
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Red Hat creates social networking site — Prominent Linux distributor Red Hat has revealed a new open source social networking service called Mugshot. Designed to facilitate integration of live social interactivity into the desktop computing experience, Mugshot emphasizes communication and entertainment.
Paul Kallender / BBC:
Fuel cells in laptops edge closer — Electronics companies are promoting fuel cells as an environmentally-friendly and convenient alternative to traditional lithium ion batteries. — The technology promises to supplement or replace today's batteries in laptops.
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Peter Wayner / New York Times:
PC's That Are a Lot Smaller Than a Breadbox — An OQO-01 PC running Windows XP weighs 14 ounces and is not much bigger than a BlackBerry. The OQO above is being used with a foldable keyboard. Chris DiBona carries his BlackBerry for phone calls, and as he put it, "the whole mobile dude look."
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Skype software to ship on Dell laptops — Skype's voice over Internet Protocol software that allows people to talk for free over the Internet will ship on Dell's new XPS notebooks. — The Skype software will be offered as part of Dell's audio/video communications package on the new XPS M1210 …
Carlo Longino / MobHappy:
Should We Just Give Up On Mobile Data and Content? — If you look past Vodafone's huge paper loss last year, and take a look at their otherwise fairly satisfying results, you'll see that data, excluding SMS, accounts for less than four percent of its revenues.
Think Secret:
Briefly: Intel-based Xserve due this summer — May 31, 2006 - Apple's Xserve may find Intel processors inside of it ahead of any Power Mac upgrade, sources report. Intel is currently on track to deliver Woodcrest, the code-named successor to its Xeon processor targeted at servers, in June …
Caroline E. Mayer / Washington Post:
Banks Honor Bogus Checks and Scam Victims Pay — Trying to sell his 1968 Mustang online, John Schaefer received what appeared to be a firm offer from an overseas classic-car dealer. The buyer sent Schaefer a check for $14,000 even though Schaefer was asking only $8,000.
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Thomas Mennecke / slyck.com:
ThePirateBay.org Raided - Servers Seized — In their native Sweden, ThePirateBay.org enjoyed a level of immunity from copyright prosecution rarely seen in the file-sharing world. Often defiant in the face of those wishing to enforce their intellectual property rights …
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John Borland / CNET News.com:
How Sony failed to Connect, again — Early in 2005, more than a dozen Sony employees from the company's consumer electronics divisions gathered for an unusual meeting in the tiny Palo Alto, Calif., headquarters of digital media start-up Kinoma. — Kinoma Chief Executive Peter Hoddie …
Daniel Schuhmann / Tom's Hardware Guide:
500 Hour Test of Tomorrow's Windows "Vista" — Only Nine More Months Until Windows Vista Goes Live? — Many publications don't take the time or trouble to look behind the scenes when writing about new operating systems or other software. Users who specialize in software matters …
Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
AMD Live! PC Launch Backed By Free Media Apps — Platform Push Backed By Gateway, HP, Orb Networks, Streamload — AMD's partners are expected to announce the first PCs based on the AMD Live! entertainment platform on Tuesday, the day that AMD will begin to make available a number of specialized …
Michael Bazeley / SiliconBeat:
Unshackling your digital media player with Zing — How often have people wished their iPods were wireless, so they could download their digital content on-demand, wherever they were? — Although Zing can't solve that problem for iPod owners, the new Bay Area company is hoping to provide always …
James Temperton / cubed3.com:
Cubed3 Exclusive | Nintendo Wii to Launch on November 6th in USA — Rest of world to see console during surrounding weeks... According to an industry source speaking to Cubed⊃3;, the Nintendo Wii is set to launch in the "Thanksgiving period in the USA" (Thanksgiving falls on November 23rd this year) …
