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San Francisco Chronicle:
Wi-Fi plan stirs Big Brother concerns — Log-on rule would allow Google to track users' whereabouts in S.F. — Privacy advocates are raising concerns about Google Inc.'s plans to cover San Francisco with free wireless Internet access, calling the company's proposal to track users' locations …
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Associated Press:
Google's Wi-Fi network in San Francisco raises privacy concerns — SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc.'s plan to provide free wireless Internet access throughout the city is raising concerns among privacy advocates worried about the prospect of "Big Brother" monitoring how and where users surf the Web.
Loren Heiny / Inkineer:
Running the Tablet PC OS on an iMac — Yep, this post is being written on an iMac. — I successfully installed the Tablet PC OS this morning using Apple's Boot Camp and the Tablet PC OS from my MSDN subscription. I'm using a Wacom Graphire3 Tablet for the digitizer.
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Dennis Rice / GottaBeMobile.com:
Oh how the Tablet faithful have fallen ....! — Loren, oh Loren (Heiny). It is a sad day when the Tablet faithful fall away. Especially when it is one of the members of the First Family of Tablet! Loren Heiny is in serious danger of being lured to the Dark Side (Macintosh of course).
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Life On the Wicked Stage
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
This Boring Headline Is Written for Google — JOURNALISTS over the years have assumed they were writing their headlines and articles for two audiences — fickle readers and nitpicking editors. Today, there is a third important arbiter of their work: the software programs that scour the Web …
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Now Starring on the Internet: YouTube.com — YouTube.com Seems Like a Startup Straight Out of Silicon Valley Central Casting — SAN MATEO, Calif. (AP) — Internet video sensation YouTube.com seems like a startup straight out of Silicon Valley central casting.
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GigaOM
Charles Piller / Los Angeles Times:
How Piracy Opens Doors for Windows — Bill Gates may not be entirely dismayed by software thieves. They seed the world market and make Microsoft a standard. — Microsoft Corp. estimates it lost about $14 billion last year to software piracy — and those may prove to be the most lucrative sales never made.
Schuyler / Mapping Hacks:
Web Map API Roundup — Yesterday, Tim O'Reilly emailed us to ask the following: … My response ran something like this: — Early on — i.e. last summer — there was a huge gap between Google Maps and the rest. In particular, Google offered a JavaScript API, which offered wide latitude …
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Michael Kwan / mobilemag.com:
Lenovo makes touchscreen smartphone — Owning the "ThinkPad" badging just doesn't suffice anymore for Lenovo, and that is why the company is launching the all new i921 smartphone to take on giants in the industry like PalmOne and HTC. — Lenovo is already known as a phonemaker in China …
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Engadget Mobile
Dean / UBC Google Scholar Blog.folio:
WHY TITANS LIKE MICROSOFT WANT TO TALK TO LIBRARIANS — Search is a huge part of the Web's future, and Microsoft - currently the 3rd most popular search engine - knows it. Bill Gates, the world's richest man, dragged his heels on search until about fifteen months ago when he decided …
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Windows Expertise:
Robert X. Clueless — Mark Stephens, the PBS pundit who goes by the pseudonym Robert X. Cringely, is modestly famous for his bomb-throwing anti-Microsoft screeds. He's also famous for being flat-out wrong, often, even when it comes to his own professional credentials.
Marc Canter / Marc's Voice:
Its time Google Base made their intentions clear — Richard MacManus has a great piece on Google Base. — What's especially exciting to me are 'people profiles'. The question is: "will this data be available in FOAF or XFN/hCard?" And will it be available at all?
Oded Yaron / Haaretz:
Google buys search algorithm invented by Israeli student — Search engine giant Google recently acquired an advanced text search algorithm invented by Ori Alon, an Israeli student. Sources believe Yahoo and Microsoft were also negotiating with the University of New South Wales in Australia …
TDavid / Things That:
Inking in Second Life, sort of — I haven't been very good about Tablet PC updates lately. Guess I'm in what you'd call the second year Tablet PC owner hardware blues mode. I can just see and hear somebody inking virtual violins in the distance. — However, this mode hasn't prevented …
thealarmclock.com:
Canadian Blog Network B5 Media Looking for VC Backers — It will be interesting to see if B5 succeeds in its endeavor to raise funding. Rival Creative Weblogging was able to raise funding so we suspect B5 has a shot. The blog network has managed to launch a large number of blogs that cover tech, entertainment, sports and more.
Lisa Belkin / New York Times:
Overly Wired? There's a Word for It — WAS there gridlock before there were automobiles? Was there jet lag before there were airplanes? Who was the first person to say "I Googled it" or "he's cyberstalking me"? At what moment did a "web log" turn into a "blog"? — Language makes things official.
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IP Democracy
mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp:
'Female' robot 'models' in Kyoto — KYOTO — Robo Garage, a venture company formed by prestigious Kyoto University, has unveiled "Female Type," a bipedal robot modeled on a woman. — Weighing in at a tiny 800 grams and standing 35 centimeters tall, Female Type, or FT for short …
