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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
New Microsoft Browser Raises Google's Hackles — With a $10 billion advertising market at stake, Google, the fast-rising Internet star, is raising objections to the way that it says Microsoft, the incumbent powerhouse of computing, is wielding control over Internet searching in its new Web browser.
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Nick / Rough Type:
Google and choice — I've been thinking some more about Google's attack on Microsoft for allegedly making its search engine the default engine on its new browser (see prior post). As Google's Marissa Mayer puts it, "We don't think it's right for Microsoft to just set the default to MSN.
IEBlog:
Search in IE7 (Part 2) — I posted previously that in IE7, the user is in control of search, and that changing the default search provider (as well as modifying the list of search engines in IE7's list) is easy. In this post I'll describe some of the specifics and recap feedback we've gotten from users.
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Yahoo Introduces a Site on Consumer Technology — In one of its first major efforts to build a Web site with original material, Yahoo will introduce today a site devoted to consumer technology. — The site, called Yahoo Tech (tech.yahoo.com), will feature blogs on technology and a weekly video program.
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Read/WriteWeb:
Review of Yahoo Tech - by The Gen X Web 2.0 Geek — The big news of the night is Yahoo's release of a new technology portal, aimed squarely at non-geeks (see site tour). To make the point it's not for geeks, the site features 4 stereotypical "advisors" (aka bloggers): The Boomer, The Mom, The Working Guy, The Techie Diva.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Yahoo Tech Not Really A Threat to CNet — There is this meme spreading around the web that Yahoo's newly launched technology site is a big threat to C/Net and its properties. It is getting a lot of press - WSJ and NYT are all dutifully reporting what Yahoo is preaching.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Guns for CNET Reviews — Yahoo Tech launched tonight, taking clear aim at the massively popular CNET Reviews property. — The best way to get a quick understanding of the site is to take the tour, also linked from the home page. Yahoo Tech is providing content about technology products …
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:NEWS: YAHOO LAUNCHES TECH NEWS CHANNEL
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Dsifry / Sifry's Alerts:
State of the Blogosphere, April 2006 Part 2: On Language and Tagging — Late last month, I gave a high-level overview of the growth of the blogosphere, covering the overall size of the data sets that Technorati tracks, the number of new blogs created each day, the number of posts per day, and the issue of splogs or spam blogs.
PC Magazine:
Samsung Q1 … next > — Get PCMag.com's FREE email newsletters delivered to your inbox. — Its easy, just follow the steps. — Want more? Check out our other newsletters here. — Manage your newsletter subscriptions here.
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Associated Press:
Viruses catch up to the Mac — Experts debate just how susceptible Apple is becoming — SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) — Benjamin Daines was browsing the Web when he clicked on a series of links that promised pictures of an unreleased update to his computer's operating system.
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Visto wins patent suit, sues BlackBerry maker — update Wireless e-mail vendor Visto has prevailed in a long-running patent infringement suit against rival Seven Networks, prompting a new legal challenge against Research In Motion and potentially strengthening Visto's position in a pending spat with Microsoft.
Steven Page / canada.com:
A Barenaked guide to music copyright reform — The Canadian music scene has been riding a remarkable wave in recent months, with packed clubs, breakout artists, and international acclaim. While that success has garnered considerable attention, last week a group of well-known Canadian musicians took centre stage for another reason.
Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Eye-Fi Builds WiFi into Flash Memory — Sure, there are digital cameras with WiFi capability, letting you send your photos directly to the mothership with no muss or fuss, but now Eye-Fi has found a way to retrofit anything using a flash memory device for WiFi goodness …
paulgraham.com:
The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn — The startups we've funded so far are pretty quick, but they seem quicker to learn some lessons than others. I think it's because some things about startups are kind of counterintuitive. — We've now invested in enough companies that I've learned …
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Sara Kehaulani Goo / Washington Post:
Five Months After Its Debut, YouTube Is a Star — Online Video Site Could Help Create Old-Media Celebs, Too — The closest Terry Turner comes to Washington politics is his job as a bureaucrat at the Pentagon — until, that is, he fires up the camcorder pointed at a makeshift TV studio in his Arlington apartment.
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Jason D. O'Grady / The Apple Core:
Thermal grease theory — There's a theory making the rounds that the MacBook Pro's high temperatures are attributed to a misapplication of "thermal grease" that's applied to the CPU and GPU chips during the manufacturing process. — A post by Interrupting Moss on the Something Awful forums mentions that …
