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2:25 PM ET, February 28, 2008

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Sprint:
Sprint Launches Revolutionary $99.99 “Simply Everything(SM)” Plan  —  Plan Defines Simplicity, Offers Customers Unlimited Voice and Data  —  In an industry-defining move, Sprint (NYSE:S) today announced it will launch a domestic unlimited pricing plan that gives customers unlimited voice …
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:   Sprint raises stakes in the $99.99 unlimited battle
Crayton Harrison / Bloomberg:
Sprint Posts $29.5 Billion Loss on Nextel Writedown
Discussion: GigaOM
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
It Took 16 Months, But Google Relaunches Jotspot  —  Google acquired hosted wiki service Jotspot in October 2006.  The service immediately stopped taking new users, although existing users were supported.  Now, nearly sixteen months later, Jotspot has been relaunched under the Google Apps team, as Google Sites.
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Miguel Helft / Bits:
Google Goes After Another Microsoft Cash Cow  —  Google is adding a new front to its assault on Microsoft's software applications business.  —  The Internet search giant on Wednesday is rolling out a rival to Microsoft's SharePoint, a program used for collaboration among teams of workers.
Dan Farber / CNET News.com:
Google Sites: What's all the fuss?  —  The launch of Google Sites is like the opening of a movie or play.  The critics (including myself) feast on it, churning out copy and opinions as to whether Google Sites is a Microsoft SharePoint killer or merely the McDonald's of wikis …
Discussion: Zoli's Blog
Rob Hof / Tech Beat:
Jotspot Returns As Google Sites: Wiki-Style Collaboration
Dennis Howlett / AccMan Pro:   Google Sites - a ball dropped
Dan Farber / CNET News.com:
JotSpot reincarnated as Google Sites
Official Google Blog:
Google Health, a first look  —  It's been a busy week for the Google Health team.  Last week we announced our partnership and pilot with the Cleveland Clinic.  This week, the team has been at the HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) conference in Orlando, Florida, where Eric
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
More Vaporware From Google Health.  Just Launch It Already.  —  Google's Marissa Mayer put out another teaser today about its long-anticipated, much-delayed Google Health service.  The post on the Official Google Blog offers some screen shots (below) and lays out what consumers can expect.
Discussion: WebProNews
Julian Guthrie / sanfranmag.com:
Googirl  —  The serious power and glam passions of Marissa Mayer, the gorgeously geeky Googler who's generating a new kind of Silicon Valley notoriety.  —  A week before Christmas, Marissa Mayer, the most closely watched woman in the most closely watched company in the world …
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Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Marissa Mayer gets the cupcake treatment  —  The only shocker in Julian Guthrie's profile of Marissa Mayer for San Francisco magazine: That the “gorgeously geeky Googler” is well-respected within the Googleplex.  Perhaps among the executives Google PR trotted out for the ritual encomiums, but not among the rank and file.
Darren Waters / BBC NEWS | dot.life:
Under the bonnet of Android  —  I had the chance this week to meet Andy Rubin, Google's director of mobile platforms.  —  He's the man behind Android, the open source operating system that is at the heart of the Open Handset Alliance.  —  He was kind enough to give me a demo of Android running on a handset and the video is here.
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Darren Waters / BBC:
Robot dreams  —  Technology editor, BBC News website, in San Francisco
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Apple: All signs point to a more business friendly iPhone  —  Apple has dropped some serious hints that its iPhone strategy will at least be tweaked-mostly in ways that will court business users.  —  First up, Apple has sent invitations for the launch of the iPhone SDK next week …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
iPhone boosts O2's earnings, heads for Ireland
CNN:
3G iPhone To Include Infineon Chip, Launch By Mid-Year: UBS  —  German chipmaker Infineon Technologies AG (IFX) likely will be supplying the new systems solution to Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) next-generation iPhone, UBS analysts told clients in a note published Thursday.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Wikia Open Sources Social Networking - Focused Networking Now Open to All  —  Wikia, the independent commercial wiki site founded by Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley, is releasing components of its very nice social networking toolset under the GNU General Public License 2.0.
Discussion: CenterNetworks and Marketing.fm
 
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Elliot Shmukler / The LinkedIn Blog:
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
EU may begin treating 'Net censorship as a trade barrier
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Agam Shah / Network World:
McNealy: Telcos falling behind in Internet race
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Disney Launching Its Separate Digital Production Unit Stage 9 With “Squeegees”
Peter Lauria / New York Post:
ARTISTS SAY THEY WANT THEIR MUSIC SITE DOUGH
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Doug Caverly / WebProNews:
Salesforce.com Reports Strong Fourth Quarter
Discussion: Between the Lines and eWeek
Bill Ray / The Register:
Tablet users jump for joy over K-Sketch
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Web desktop targets ‘cybernomads’
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US gov now says Eye-o-Sauron™ border masts are crap
Guardian:
Laptop sold on eBay hid confidential Home Office disc
Discussion: The Register
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