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Benjamin J. Romano / Seattle Times:
Vista feature will enhance online newspaper reading — Even if you're reading All the News That's Fit to Print on an ultra-mobile computer, it may soon look and feel the same way it does spread out with your morning coffee — minus the ink-stained fingers, perhaps.
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The New York Times to Enhance Online and Offline Reading Experience With Times Reader — New application uses Microsoft software to benefit readers. — SEATTLE — April 28, 2006 — Today at the American Society of Newspaper Editors convention, The New York Times and Microsoft Corp. unveiled …
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft, NYT partner on newspaper software — Aiming to offer newspapers a new digital publishing alternative, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Friday touted a software program that tries to make publications easier to read on a computer screen. — As part of a speech …
Washington Post:
The Web's Million-Dollar Typos — Google Inc., which runs the largest ad network on the Internet, is making millions of dollars a year by filling otherwise unused Web sites with ads. In many instances, these ad-filled pages appear when users mistype an Internet address, such as "BistBuy.com."
Richard Siklos / New York Times:
AOL: A Punching Bag in Need of a Big Hit — TIME WARNER will announce its first-quarter results on Wednesday, the first since the Icahn Insurgency against the company fizzled. Aside from a renewed enthusiasm for cable television — one of Time Warner's myriad businesses …
Kathy Sierra / Creating Passionate Users:
The myth of "keeping up" — Do you have a stack of books, journals, manuals, articles, API docs, and blog printouts that you think you'll get to? That you think you need to read? Now, based on past experience, what are the odds you'll get to all of it? Half of it? Any of it? (except for maybe the Wired magazine)
Dan Frommer / Forbes:
Your Tube, Whose Dime? — NEW YORK - — The Web lets users watch whatever they want, whenever they want to watch it. So what do they want to see? A home-made video of two boys lip-synching along to the Pokémon television theme song. Internet video site YouTube has streamed …
Henry Blodget / Internet Outsider:
MSN: Another Quarter Closer To Irrelevant — As shown by yesterday's numbers, MSN's financial performance continues to deteriorate. With each passing quarter, in my opinion, the chance that the division will ever mount a serious challenge to Google and Yahoo in search (or any web business) gets slimmer and slimmer.
Dan Gillmor / Center for Citizen Media:
What I Said at Columbia University … I'm honored to have been invited. I'm also grateful. During the past few years I've had the privilege of working in a field that really led to this conversation we're going to have tonight. There have been ups and downs along the way. But it's been a great ride so far.
Mike Musgrove / Washington Post:
For Nintendo, The Glory Is In the Game — While Rivals Make Multimedia Hubs, Company Focuses on the Primary Purpose — It's almost a radical thought in the video game industry these days: What if a new game console were actually just about the games — and not about having a zillion other multimedia features?
Keith Reed / Boston Globe:
Dial-up provider loses Net access amid fee dispute — Service to thousands of dial-up Internet users in Massachusetts was disrupted this week after a federal court ruled against a Quincy company in a lawsuit that could have broad impact on the cost of dial-up service.
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Daniel Bernstein / Silicon Valley Watcher:
Guest Column: Who shouldn't blog in the PR industry? — Richard Edelman totally spoiled 'Fun with Dick and Jane' for me. — Edelman, well-respected president and CEO of Edelman PR Worldwide, wrote a blog post this last Monday recommending a few ways our industry can work towards improving how we're portrayed in film and television.
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Some AMD Opterons suffer heat issue — update Advanced Micro Devices is trying to track down and replace as many as 3,000 Opteron processors that could produce "inconsistent results" under an unusual, high-temperature circumstance. — The potential problem affects a number of single-core Opteron 152 …
