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Google Real Estate - beta Launched — Thanks to my friend Avi from Promediacorp who alerted me to this immediately. — Google has silently released: Google Real Estate. I don't know if that is the official name, but that's what I'm calling it until I hear otherwise.
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Software 2006 — I'm at MR Rangaswami's big event, Software 2006 …
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Laptop Detractors Shrugged Off — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who hopes to give $100 laptops to the world's children dismissed recent criticisms Tuesday and said his project could begin distributing the computers by early next year. — Kicking off the LinuxWorld conference …
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Negroponte: Slimmer Linux needed for $100 laptop — BOSTON—The One Laptop Per Child organization will use Linux on its inexpensive machines, but the operating system suffers the same code bloat as Windows, the project's leader said Tuesday. — "People aren't thinking about small, fast …
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Software Out There — THE Internet is entering its Lego era. — Indeed, blocks of interchangeable software components are proliferating on the Web and developers are joining them together to create a potentially infinite array of useful new programs. This new software represents …

Death to User-Generated Content — Can I make a suggestion? Let's all stop using the phrase "user-generated content." I'm serious. It's a despicable, terrible term. Let's deconstruct it. — User: One who uses. Like, you know, a junkie. — Generated: Like a generator, engine.

Podcasting Roils NPR Fund Raising — JoAnna Michaels is an inveterate listener of National Public Radio, but she won't be tuning in as much this month. — Her local Las Vegas affiliate, KNPR, kicked off its spring membership drive last week with program interruptions pleading for donations …

Census to Use Mobile Devices for Survey — SEATTLE - To compile data for its 2010 survey, the Census Bureau is putting down pen and paper and picking up handheld computers. — The portable devices are being designed to allow census workers to immediately record information they gather …
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A Pretty Good Way to Foil the NSA — How easy is it for the average internet user to make a phone call secure enough to frustrate the NSA's extrajudicial surveillance program? — Wired News took Phil Zimmermann's newest encryption software, Zfone, for a test drive and found it's actually quite easy …


How I Work: Bill Gates — Not much of a paper chase for Microsoft's chairman, who uses a range of digital tools to do business. — NEW YORK (FORTUNE) - It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft (Research) was starting and realize how work has been transformed.
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Antisocial Networking Gets Hip — Online social networks are usually all about bringing together people who like the same things. — The founder of a new anti-social networking site, however, is finding that shared hates can be an equally effective bonding tool.

Reasons to Love Open-Source DRM — I acknowledge that the title of this column is strange. Aside from the fact that most savvy music listeners (justifiably) hate DRM, the very idea of using open-source software to enforce digital rights management runs counter to everything commonly assumed …


Perspective: Bumps in the road for AT&T-BellSouth merger? — The conventional wisdom in Washington is that regulatory approval of the proposed AT&T-BellSouth merger is a done deal. The consensus is that this deal will sail through with flying colors—and a few not very onerous merger conditions.
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Making Your Apps work with Internet Explorer 7 — Microsoft is under increasing pressure to do something with Internet Explorer 7 (IE7). Like little dogs nipping at its heels, other browsers have raised the bar of user expectations. Microsoft has had to respond.
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MTV's Logo Launches Programs for Cellphones — Logo, an MTV entertainment channel that reaches a estimated 20 million viewers, has launched a cellphone video programming service targeted at the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered audience. — Logo, which launched on cable television last June …


I'm Canceling My Times Subscription — Why you should, too. — Hello, New York Times? I'd like to cancel my subscription today. No, I'm not protesting your Middle East coverage, your treatment of any ethnic minority or weird religion, and I am certainly not upset about some petty delivery problem.

Payment processor fears credit card crooks — A major online payment provider said Monday that its processing service had been used in an attempt to charge money to stolen credit and debit cards. — Several Web hosting companies that use the Authorize.Net service to accept credit cards online saw …