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4:50 PM ET, March 27, 2007

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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Chorus of cowardice  —  Chris Locke explains the "Mean Kids" site that's getting so much attention on TechMeme.  —  I don't know Kathy Sierra, but I do know and have been abused by Chris Locke, Frank Paynter and Jeanne Sessum (and quite a few other people).
Speakeasy:
Best Buy Acquires Speakeasy  —  Addition of VoIP Communications Provider Gives Small Businesses  —  a Single Source for All of Their Technology Needs  —  Best Buy Co., Inc. (NYSE: BBY) has agreed to acquire Speakeasy, Inc., one of the largest independent broadband voice, data and IT service providers in the United States.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Can Best Buy become your IT shop?
Discussion: Epicenter and Howard Lindzon
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
John McCain's MySpace Page Hacked  —  Someone on Presidential hopeful John McCain's staff is going to be in trouble today.  They used a well known template to create his Myspace page.  The template was designed by NewsVine Founder and CEO Mike Davidson (original template is here).
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Newsvine:
Hacking John McCain  —  politics, humor, myspace, gay-marriage, mccain, john-mccain, hacks  —  If you visit John McCain's MySpace page (as of 9am PST Tuesday morning), you will notice an interesting announcement from him.  He's apparently reversed his position on gay marriage as well as revealed a bias towards attractive lesbians.
Discussion: Lost Remote
Steve Poland / TechCrunch:
Web Services Coming To Twitter  —  Earlier this year we talked about the usefulness of a simple command line to query multiple web services via a set syntax.  Yubnub, one of the web services we discussed, does just that.  Enter "Weather 90210″ into Yubnub and get the weather from Weather.com.
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Nik Cubrilovic / New Web Order:   Twitter as a Communications Platform
bizjournals:
Netflix CEO joins Microsoft board  —  Netflix Inc. Chief Executive Reed Hastings joined the finance committee of Microsoft Corp.'s board of directors, the company said Monday.  —  The addition of Los Gatos-based Netflix's (NASDAQ:NFLX) CEO expands to 10 members the size of Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) board.
Discussion: CrunchGear and Engadget
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Gizmodo:   Netflix Founder Joins Microsoft Board
Microsoft:
Microsoft Backs New Technology Company: ZenZui Aims to Change the Way People Use Mobile Devices  —  Microsoft's IP Ventures invests key technology from Microsoft Research to launch startup focused on mobile device content.  —  Microsoft Corp. today announced the launch of ZenZui …
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Mike / Techdirt:
The Patent Thicket That May Destroy VoIP  —  from the helping-spur-innovation,-huh?  dept  —  You have to wonder how many times fans of the patent system have to repeat the mantra that "patents encourage innovation" before they can actually believe it.  There continues to be new evidence …
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Carol Wilson / TELEPHONY Magazine:   More VoIP patent suits likely
Molly Graham / Official Google Blog:
Walking, Talking, Searching, Finding.  —  Posted by Yael Shacham, Product Manager, Mobile Team  —  For the last few weeks, some of our users have been test-driving our new mobile search and providing us with feedback so we can make it better.  Now, we've actually been using your feedback to improve our mobile search since 2001.
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Yahoo click fraud settlement gets final OK  —  A federal judge in San Jose, Calif., has given final approval to a settlement in a class action lawsuit over click fraud that requires Yahoo to pay nearly $5 million in attorney fees and give full credits to advertisers dating back to 2004.
Business Wire:
Yahoo! Launches Yahoo! Mobile Publisher Services  —  New Services Designed to Enable Publishers Across 19 Countries to Increase Discovery, Distribution and Monetization of their Content on Mobile  —  SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) today announced the launch of Yahoo! …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google's Orkut Gets Polls; Answers Next?  —  The wisdom of orkut from the Official Google Blog covers how Google's social networking site Orkut now allows people to post polls.  No big deal?  Perhaps not.  But it also makes me wonder if it's a first step toward trying to give Orkut an answer search roll for Google.
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Karen / Official Google Blog:
The wisdom of orkut  —  Wish you could use the wisdom of crowds …
Discussion: Google Watch
Business Wire:
InfoSpace Announces Availability of InfoSpace Find It! for BlackBerry  —  Easy-to-Use GPS-Enabled Local Search Application is Now Free for BlackBerry Smartphones  —  BELLEVUE, Wash.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—InfoSpace, Inc. (Nasdaq: INSP) announced the launch of InfoSpace Find It! for BlackBerry® smartphones in North America.
Discussion: Search Engine Land and Screenwerk
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Intel modifies Wi-Fi to add mileage  —  BERKELEY, Calif.—Intel has come up with a form of Wi-Fi that would let a laptop in San Francisco connect to the Internet from a base station in San Jose, Calif.  —  And there would still be about 10 miles of wiggle room to spare.
Discussion: Engadget and Macsimum News
Samsung:
SAMSUNG Introduces 1.8" - Type 64GB Flash-based Solid State Drive  —  Taipei, Taiwan - March 27, 2007: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the leader in advanced semiconductor technology, announced at its annual Mobile Solution Forum in Taipei that it has developed a 1.8"-type 64 Gigabyte (GB) flash-solid state drive (SSD).
BBC:
PlayStation breaks sales records  —  The PlayStation 3 console has broken UK sales records with more than 165,000 machines sold in the first two days of release, say analysts Chart Track.  —  More than a million consoles were shipped across Europe on launch day last week with 600,000 sold.
Discussion: Joystiq and Opposable Thumbs
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
YouTube to launch mobile website soon  —  CTIA 2007 — YouTube will launch its mobile website in June 2007 for U.S. users, according to a spokesperson.  The mobile YouTube site will go live once the exclusivity clause on the company's mobile video deal with Verizon Wireless expires.
Discussion: Google Watch and NewTeeVee
Apple TV Hacks:
Apple TV running on a Macbook  —  Apple TV OS can now run on a Macbook!  AppleTVHacks.net was able to patch to the Apple TV Finder.app, and now has an operating Apple TV:  —  You can use your remote as normal, it shows up in iTunes on other computers:  —  The method
Discussion: Engadget, eHomeUpgrade and digg
 
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Bertelsmann Reaches Deal With EMI Over Napster
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Power Of Mobile Music Now More Accessible Than Ever To Sprint Customers
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Did Murdoch just KO Google?
 

 
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