Check out Mini-Techmeme for simple mobiles or Techmeme Mobile for modern smartphones.
1:05 PM ET, May 21, 2007

Techmeme

 Top Items: 
Vauhini Vara / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Opens Its Pages As a Way to Fuel Growth  —  Facebook Inc. has bucked the Silicon Valley acquisition trend, remaining independent of larger technology companies.  Now the social-networking start-up is seeking ways to reach the big leagues on its own.
RELATED:
Tony Hung / Deep Jive Interests:   Facebook Builds "Reverse-API" — Will Get *Others* To Build *Its* Mashups!
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:   Facebook Moving to An Open Platform Strategy
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Slippery Slope: Is Google Now Paying More Newspapers To Link To Them?  —  We were surprised last month to hear that Google had backed down in its dispute with news agency AFP, agreeing to pay up in order to link to AFP articles in Google News.  As has been explained repeatedly, Google is increasing traffic and attention to their sites.
Discussion: franticindustries
RELATED:
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Denies New UK News Search Deal  —  Google reach deals with news websites from the Sunday Herald reports that Google has reached a dead with several large UK newsgroups to carry content on Google News, but Google tells me no such deals have been agreed.  —  "It is categorically no," said spokesperson Jessica Powell.
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Google News: The End of News Indexing As We Know It?
BBC:
'$100 laptop' sparks war of words  —  Chip-maker Intel "should be ashamed of itself" for efforts to undermine the $100 laptop initiative, according to its founder Nicholas Negroponte.  —  He accused Intel of selling its own cut-price laptop - the Classmate - below cost to drive him out of markets.
Discussion: Hardware 2.0, p2pnet and Gadget Lab
RELATED:
CBS News:
What If Every Child Had A Laptop?  —  Lesley Stahl Reports On The Dream And The Difficulties Of Getting A Computer To Every Child  —  (CBS) Nicholas Negroponte, a professor at MIT, had a dream.  In it every child on the planet had his own computer.  In that way, he figured …
BBC:
Wi-fi health fears are 'unproven'  —  Scientists have said there is no evidence to suggest a link between the use of wi-fi and damage to health.  —  BBC programme Panorama found that radiation levels from wi-fi in one school was up to three times the level of mobile phone mast radiation.
Discussion: Engadget and broadbandreports.com
RELATED:
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google May Launch Mobile Service In UK  —  We've heard from a good source in the mobile industry that Google may be preparing to launch its own branded mobile network in the UK in the next few weeks.  If our source is accurate, Google will become a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) via a deal with UK mobile phone company O2.
Alltel.com:
Alltel to be acquired by TPG Capital and GS Capital Partners for $71.50 per share  —  Little Rock, AR - Alltel Corp. (NYSE: AT) today announced that it has signed a definitive merger agreement to be acquired by TPG Capital and GS Capital Partners ("GSCP"), in a transaction valued at approximately $27.5 billion.
Discussion: GigaOM
RELATED:
Xinhua News Agency:
Computers accidentally "attacked" by Norton AntiVirus  —  www.chinaview.cn 2007-05-20 14:22:04  —  An error occurring in the update of Norton's virus database on Friday has caused millions of PCs and computers to crash-a heavy blow to people's daily work and ongoing business.
Discussion: PC World
Ellie Gibson / GamesIndustry.biz:
No plans to bring 80GB PS3 to Europe, says Sony  —  Information on Korean site confirmed  —  A Sony spokesperson has confirmed to GamesIndustry.biz that an 80GB PlayStation 3 is to go on sale in Korea - but said there are currently no plans to launch the model in Europe.
Jose Antonio Vargas / Washington Post:
Online, GOP Is Playing Catch-Up  —  When David All, a former Republican congressional aide, launched a blog recently that he hopes will spur his fellow Republicans to bridge the digital divide, he did his best to sound upbeat.  "Today our Revolution begins," he wrote.  "Tomorrow we fight."
Paul Buchheit:
Amazingly bad APIs  —  I actually don't hate the Java language (at least it's killing off c++), but every time I use it I'm blown away by how hostile the APIs are.  —  For example, let's say that we want to scale an image file.  That's a fairly common thing to do, so it's probably only one line of code, right?
Discussion: JD on EP
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Don't look now, but Tablet PCs are on the rise  —  Derided by some and purchased by even fewer, the Tablet PC concept has had a rough go of it since its formal blessing by Microsoft in the form of Windows XP Tablet Edition in 2002.  Pen-based computing is significantly older than that …
Ben Edelman:
Spyware Still Cheating Merchants and Legitimate Affiliates  —  Spyware vendors are trying to clean up their images.  For example, Zango settled a FTC investigation, then last week sued PC Tools for detecting and removing Zango software.  Meanwhile, Integrated Search Technologies …
Discussion: Donna's SecurityFlash and Slashdot
 
 Archived Page Info: 
This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 1:05 PM ET, May 21, 2007.

View the current page or another snapshot:


 
 Techmeme Sponsor Posts: 
Airtable:
3 bold predictions for the future of Product Management  —  Do you know how to set up your product organization for success as you embrace AI transformation to supercharge your operations?  Learn how to win with Airtable.
Tribe AI:
Build AI products that matter  —  Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact.  We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.
Zoho:
ProTips: 5 strategies to enhance your customer engagement with an SMS extension  —  It's crucial for every business to stay connected with customers and leads in every medium.  Maximizing the potential …
Notion:
Get up to 6 months free of Notion with unlimited AI  —  Notion is trusted and loved by thousands of startups as their connected workspace—from building product roadmaps to tracking fundraising.  Build and scale your company with one tool!
Sponsor Techmeme
 
 See Also: 
Techmeme: site main
Techmeme River: reverse chronological Techmeme
Techmeme Mobile: for phones
Techmeme Leaderboard: Techmeme's top sources
 
 Subscribe: 
Techmeme RSS feed
Techmeme on X
Techmeme on Mastodon
 
 
 More Items: 
Robin Hamman / cybersoc.com:
inside the new plazes (closed beta)
Discussion: Adaptive Path and Web Strategy
Dan Nystedt / PC World:
BenQ Sells Digital Camera Division (PC World)
Discussion: Engadget
DealBook:
Yahoo Said to Consider Bid for Britain's Bebo
Discussion: Epicenter and Unit Structures
Scott Martelle / Los Angeles Times:
YouTube and MySpace campaign for political positions
Chris Pirillo:
Open Source Web Browser
USA Today:
Ad Track: KFC mines consumers' videos for ads
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Woz on the magic of electronics and computers
Discussion: Macsimum News
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Telco dogs need to learn software tricks
 Earlier Items: 
Robert L. Mitchell / Computerworld Blogs blogs:
An iMac phones home
Discussion: MacDailyNews
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Welcome to the era of gullibility 2.0
Luigi Lugmayr / I4U News:
New Sony PMX-U50 PMP
Discussion: Engadget and Anything But iPod
BBC:
Blaze ravages historic Cutty Sark
Discussion: digg
Thomas Crampton / New York Times:
Much Ado About Apple's iPhone
Discussion: 21talks and MacDailyNews
Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:
Goodbye Cingular, Hello to the New Bell, AT&T
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Free Subtitles = Two Years In Jail?
Eric Knorr / InfoWorld:
Salesforce.com launches SOA in the cloud (InfoWorld)