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10:35 AM ET, May 7, 2007

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Microsoft:
Microsoft Launches Windows Live Hotmail Worldwide  —  Built from the ground up, the new Windows Live Hotmail is now safer, more powerful and available virtually anywhere.  —  Microsoft Corp. today announced that Windows Live™ Hotmail®, the successor to MSN® Hotmail, is launching globally in 36 languages.
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Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
Windows Live Hotmail launches; "Windows Live Mail" to succeed Outlook Express and Windows Mail  —  Microsoft just announced that Windows Live Hotmail is launching globally in 36 languages, double the number of languages offered by its predecessor MSN Hotmail.  You can read the press release here.
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Windows Live Hotmail Debuts  —  Hotmail, perhaps the first major success of Web 1.0, has evolved.  —  Microsoft has announced the launch of Windows Live Hotmail globally in 36 languages, complete with AJAX goodness.  —  The new service has been built to be a vast improvement …
Discussion: rexduffdixon.com
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:   MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Microsoft had been tinkering with Windows …
Elsa Wenzel / Webware.com:
A FRESH, FASTER HOTMAIL
Discussion: Mashable!
Eric Auchard / Reuters:
NBC Universal sides against YouTube in piracy suit  —  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - NBC Universal is taking sides with fellow media conglomerate Viacom Inc. over a piracy lawsuit filed against Google Inc.'s online video sharing site YouTube, according to papers filed in court.
Discussion: Podcasting News and Beet.TV
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Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Hollywood Loves the Tiny Screen.  Advertisers Don't.  —  Superman has the power to leap tall buildings.  But leaping onto a cellphone screen is proving a little trickier.  —  Warner Brothers recently created a six-episode series of short videos for mobile devices based on the popular Superman television show, "Smallville."
Nik Cubrilovic / New Web Order:
Switching Back  —  I have been using Mac OSX as my primary OS for almost a year now, but last night I switched back.  What spurred it is that my Mac OSX partition crashed and it wouldn't boot back into the OS - I used rescue tools and drive scanners but it appears that the partition just dissapeared.
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Comcast goes with Zimbra for new collaboration suite  —  Comcast plans to launch SmartZone, a major replacement for its current and uninspired consumer email service.  At the core of SmartZone is a new version of Zimbra's open source, brower-based collaborative suite that includes email, instant messaging and voice mail access.
Ouriel Ohayon / MYBLOG by Ouriel:
LGiLab invests in OutBrain and Timeless Cities  —  Today we are announcing two new investments with the Internet Lab of LightSpeed and Gemini.  Number 3 and Number 4.  —  The news just broke on TheMarker by Raphael Fogel (website and newspaper).  —  Unfortunately there are some imprecisions i will try to highlight here.
Discussion: alarm:clock and Mashable!
Jason Fry / Wall Street Journal:
A Reality Check for Newspapers  —  In Pursuing Google, Belgian Publishing Group  —  Dreams of Vanished Past for Content Creators  —  An association of Belgian newspaper publishers is at war with Google over the search-engine giant's linking to local newspapers' articles …
Discussion: The Media Age
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
America: The Growing Digital Divide  —  A new study (pdf) published by the Pew Internet & American Life Project has found that there is a growing digital divide across America.  —  John B. Horrigan's analysis of America's use of Web 2. and information and communications technology …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Fear of Google  —  Yesterday, during his speech at the Forbes shindig I attended, Geoff Ramsey, CEO of eMarketer's funniest remark was when he told us that the "Fear of Google" was so prevelent that it even had a three-letter acronymn: FOG.  —  Anyway, I've been hearing more and more about FOG …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Silverlight Poll Results: Majority Impressed, But Not a Flash Killer Yet  —  Last week's Read/WriteWeb poll asked what you thought of Silverlight, Microsoft's newly improved rich internet app plug-in that was launched to (unusually) rave blog reviews at MIX on Monday.
Andrew Adam Newman / New York Times:
Book Not Ready for Print?  You Can Whip Up an Audiobook for a Podcast for Now  —  When you are a budding author and you appear on television, it is sure to enhance book sales.  —  But what do you do if your book is not even written, never mind in stores?  —  For Mignon Fogarty …
Discussion: thoughtsignals
Sunday Times:
Name and shame offensive bloggers  —  If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then Fred Khumalo and I should feel very flattered indeed.  —  Every day there are 120000 new blog sites registered — a staggering 43 million a year.  According to blog search engine Technorati …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Obscure mobile company Mig33 grows quickly, raises $10M  —  Unheard of mobile service company Mig33 is showing explosive growth — by offering a simple way to text, IM and make cheap voice calls.  —  The company has gained four million subscribers in less than eighteen months …
Discussion: Mashable! and rexduffdixon.com
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Do standalone boxes have a chance?  —  Akimbo, the San Mateo, Calif.-based start-up, was one of the first to develop a new Internet video on demand box, betting that is content package service will benefit from the integrated hardware+service experience.  —  The company is throwing in the towel …
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Om Malik / NewTeeVee:
Akimbo Changes Course, Switches Off Boxes
Discussion: Engadget
 
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Damon Darlin / New York Times:
Journalists Intend to Sue Hewlett-Packard Over Surveillance
Discussion: WSJ.com
Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
HP screws Presario buyers
Discussion: Hardware 2.0 and TechBlog
Antony Bruno / Reuters:
Yahoo untangles licensing web for lyrics service
Conrad Quilty-Harper / Engadget:
HP Compaq 2710p tablet PC coming in July?
Discussion: jkOnTheRun
RSnake / ha.ckers.org web application security lab:
Do We Need a Security Industry
Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:
Alexa Traffic Charts Now Include Advertising
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
A million downloads in 49 days
Discussion: duncanriley.com and Roam4free
 Earlier Items: 
New York Times:
About.com Buys ConsumerSearch.com
Heather Timmons / International Herald Tribune:
Wireless: For the rural poor, cellphones come calling
Discussion: textually.org
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Sphere focuses search on time and connections
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Attack of the Advertising Widgets
3lib.ukonline.co.uk:
The Carnival of the Mobilists #72
Discussion: mTrends
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Tech Investors Cull Start-Ups for Pentagon
Discussion: CenterNetworks
Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:
After Flickr Pictures, MyBlogLog Adds Twitter
 

 
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Kamala Harris, who mostly avoided interviews over the past few months, sets out on a media blitz, including the Call Her Daddy podcast, The View, and 60 Minutes

Financial Times:
Sources: New York Sun owner Dovid Efune is close to striking a deal to buy The Telegraph for £550M+, more than what others like National World offered

Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers:
[Thread] CBS News leaders told staff that Tony Dokoupil's interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates about the Israel-Hamas war did not meet impartiality standards

 
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