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Leslie Walker / Washington Post:
Forgot What You Searched For? Google Didn't — The Justice Department may have done us all a big favor by issuing subpoenas to Internet search engines to find out what people are researching online. — Not because that data could help shield children from online porn …
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IP Democracy
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Dan Sabbagh / Times of London:
Google in court over refusal to let US examine search requests — GOOGLE users will face US government monitoring if the American authorities win a court case aimed at getting the website to hand over copies of every search conducted. — The world's most popular search engine …
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Smart Mobs
Google Blogoscoped:
In Google vs Government, It's Not About Child Porn — It's interesting to see how many news sources mistakenly report that the current government vs Google case is about child porn. It's not. If anything, it's about children looking at pornography - i.e. webmasters not ensuring their sites …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:FAQ: What does the Google subpoena mean?
Discussion:
Darwinian Web
TDavid / Things That:
MSN responded and complied with DOJ request ... last summer! — MSN General Manager Ken Moss explains what they really provided the DOJ when asked (emphasis mine): … What bothers me most about the MSN response to this whole DOJ situation was brought up by one of the anon's in their post …
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
How to Fix RSS — RSS sucks. I'm with Paul Kedrosky. Let the technodweebospehere rain fire and brimstone. I could add to Paul's rant, but instead here's a Really Simple three-step Solution (of course, the real first step is admitting that you have a problem): — 1. Call it "subscribing"
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larry borsato, IP Democracy, Message, Randy Holloway Unfiltered 2.0 and Smalltalk Tidbits …
Gregg Keizer / PC World:
Busting the Biggest PC Myths — We expose the bad advice that wastes your time and money. — From the August 2004 issue of PC World magazine — « Previous Page 1 2 3 4 5 Next » — Magnets zap your data. — For venerable floppies, this statement holds true.
Business Week:
AOL: MySpace Invader — Launching a social network off its instant messenger — Did you think MySpace (NWS ) could blow up this big, this fast without anyone else noticing? Time Warner's (TWX ) AOL is readying its bid for the MySpace.com, um, space. — It won't be a site per se.
Burtonator / Kevin Burton's Feed Blog:
RSS came from the publishing industry? — Dave's a smart guy so I'm sure I'm not following here: … If wouldn't have eventually come unless it was pushed. — If the MSM was left to their own accord there would never be feeds. There would be forced registration, robots.txt which blocks everything …
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Scripting News, The Doc Searls Weblog, ben barren, Smalltalk Tidbits …, rexblog.com and Geek News Central …
Google Blogoscoped:
Google News Adds Most Popular, Recommended — Google News has two new sections to the left; Recommended, and Most Popular. It's interesting to see Google work on improving their news homepage, even though its lack of ads make it a site with no direct revenues. — Most Popular
Diego / d2r: diego's weblog:
nothing like a trashing to get the day started — Picture this: it's a Friday, early in the morning. The office is quiet, there's a smell of fresh coffee in the air. You're still a bit sleepy, and as you're booting up your brain for the day ahead you end up reading a blog post where the writer …
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Broadcast Flag is back, this time it covers iPods and PSPs, too — Update: Here's EFF's action-center item for writing to your Senator about this. — The Senate has introduced the "Digital Content Protection Act of 2006," a bill that will create "Broadcast Flags" for all digital radio and television …
Discussion:
Smart Mobs
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Surveys show open source popularity on the rise in industry — A survey conducted by IT consulting firm Optaros and InformationWeek magazine shows that American companies and government organizations are saving millions of dollars with open source software.
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft looks beyond Vista, sees Vienna — update Although Microsoft is hard at work trying to ship Windows Vista this year, the company is beginning to set its sights on the next horizon, Vienna. — Vienna, once labeled Blackcomb, is the new code name for the successor to Vista.
Jaanus / Share Skype:
Skype 2.0.0.73 for Windows: DEP crashing fix — Skype 2.0.0.73 for Windows is now out. Get it here. — The detailed list of changes is in the change log. Most fixes are minor, but one deserves attention — the DEP crashing fix. — A story has been going round on this.
Discussion:
IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband
Erick Schonfeld / CNN:
Spy on yourself online — Forget spyware. Here comes myware. Soon you'll collect data on your own Web use for fun and profit. — NEW YORK (Business 2.0) - For a nice dose of paranoia, open up your Web browser preferences and take a look at your cookies.
