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Google announces free in-home wireless broadband service — "Dark porcelain" project offers self-installed plumbing-based Internet access — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the launch of Google TiSP (BETA)™, a free in-home wireless broadband service that delivers online connectivity via users' plumbing systems.
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Karen / Official Google Blog:
Project Teaspoon — Posted by Michael Krantz and Marissa Mayer, TiSP Product Team — That's what we call it here at Google, anyway. What you'll call it is a godsend: free wireless broadband throughout your home, a host of optional breakthrough applications — all with just one quick, easy self-install.
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Mashable!, Information Overlord, PalmAddicts, The Software Abstractions Blog, Paul Mooney and digg
Ionut Alex. Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Writer — Google launched in October 2005 a feed reader, which became popular a year later. The company also offered publishing tools like Blogger, Page Creator and Google Docs, but even if they make your job easier by letting you focus on the content, you still have to come up with the text and the ideas.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Really Takes April 1 Seriously — Google takes a lot of time with its April Fools jokes, and they generally center around new products. Last year we saw the launch of Google Romance. This year, they have two solid fake product launches: Google TiSP (free broadband service) …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch Has Acquired F**kedCompany.com — Tomorrow we will announce that we have acquired Philip "Pud" Kaplan's F**kedCompany.com in a stock for assets transaction. The basic details of the transaction are included in a press release that will go out around 9 pm PST tonight, and Pud has also mentioned this on his personal blog.
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Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Apple, Google join forces for 'ultimate phone' — Exclusive Apple and Google have abandoned their individual mobile phone projects for a joint venture, The Register has learned. — Apple will mothball its iPhone, announced in January, in favour of a new device that serves as a platform for Google's contextual advertising business.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Apple collaborating with Amazon, Google, and Cingular on new iReader? — I was going to not blog until Monday, but I saw something today that just has to be blogged about. Seriously, on Monday I'll be on CNN with Kathy Sierra and Chris Locke talking about this week's events.
Richard Siklos / New York Times:
Push Comes to Shove for Control of Web Video — FOR now, the biggest news in the exploding realm of online video is not much more than a news release. Still, the recent announcement from the News Corporation and NBC Universal of a new online video venture shows a big change …
New York Times:
New Bar Codes Can Talk With Your Cellphone — It sounds like something straight out of a futuristic film: House hunters, driving past a for-sale sign, stop and point their cellphone at the sign. With a click, their cellphone screen displays the asking price, the number of bedrooms and baths and lots of other details about the house.
Kristen Nicole / Mashable!:
Workspace Launches Web-based Access to FTP — Workspace, which puts out its sandbox release today, is offering an online space to work on web-based applications, with no plug-ins necessary. You can gain direct access to your own ftp space or use the server space provided.
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Randall Stross / New York Times:
If at First You Don't Succeed, Write a Check — SIX months ago, Microsoft stood in front of the world and rather bravely stated the question on everyone else's mind: Why on earth does the world need another search engine? — Before supplying the answer, the company acknowledged …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
The Matt Cutts Blog Gets Hacked — The Matt Cutts Blog Gets Hacked — The Dark SEO Team has had a bit of a beef with Google's Matt Cutts from back in 2005 over URL hijacking. Looks like they've pulled a prank on him today. Matt's blog is down, hacked — and archives wiped out as well.
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Apple TV Hacks:
Mac OS X running on Apple TV — semthex from Hackint0sh.org, in collaboration with AppleTVHacks.net has done it again! A complete replacement to the Mac OS X kernel has been built which allows the full version of Mac OS X to be run on an Apple TV. — Semthex wrote a processor emulation …
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UNEASYsilence, PaulStamatiou.com, George Ou, Engadget, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, AwkwardTV and digg
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Why Journalism Matters — By now we are all quite familiar with the upside of blogging — free, easy-to-use software and the powerful network effects of the web have enable thousands of people who might never have had a voice back in the days of scarce publishing resources to have their voices heard far and wide.
