Archive for March 25th, 2008

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could find interesting things to read on the mobile Web much more quickly and easily?

Now, CBS Mobile says that it has just the feature on its mobile WAP site to help readers dig deeper into mobile Web sites and to find the …

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Digg co-founder, media darling, and geek heartthrob Kevin Rose co-hosts Diggnation.

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Revision3, the edgy MTV-style “TV network for the Web” owned by the founders of Digg, will soon have its shows syndicated on Blip.tv.

That means Kevin Rose, Digg co-founder and co-host of Diggnation, will be appearing

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For the second year in a row, Google shareholders will be asked to hold the Web search giant accountable for protecting free speech, regardless of international borders.

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One of the proposals to be submitted at the annual shareholder meeting scheduled for Might 8, would require Google to create policies to …

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Most folks recall the story about the Tacoma, Wash., home that was trashed after a woman posted an ad on Craigslist telling people to “please help yourself to anything on the property.”

Well, some mischief maker in Jacksonville, Ore., apparently decided to re-enact the Tacoma house-trashing scheme. According to this Associated Press story, …

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Update 1:33 p.m. PDT: Netflix has apparently fixed the site’s suggestions and ratings.

Netflix customers saw only minor glitches a day after the motion picture rental service suffered an 11-hour Web site outage because of an undisclosed systems malfunction.

Customers were unable to access ratings and recommendations on …

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Typhoon Touch is working its way down the tablet Computer food chain.

After suing Dell and Motion Computing for allegedly infringing on two of its patents for portable computers with touch-screen technology, Typhoon, and licensing partner and co-plaintiff Nova Mobility Systems, said Tuesday they’re targeting three more potential infringers: …

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Space scientists and the Mars rover-loving public had quite a scare this week.

On Monday, scientists behind the solar-powered rovers Spirit and Opportunity stated that they were planning to put the robots to sleep because of a NASA recommendation to trim $4 million from the program’s budget. But a …

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The book’s opening line is: “Helen has just registered on Facebook.”

Sentence two, if it gets enough votes by Facebook users, would be: “Friends have been telling her for a long time to do this, but for some reason she had continually postponed this moment. Why? She couldn’t …

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Looks as if the battle for elbow room in the music subscription market could get a tiny bit tougher if Sony BMG Entertainment follows through on plans to offer its digital catalog to subscribers.

In a story published Monday, the company’s CEO, Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

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The largest phone company in the U.S. AT&T and Japan’s NTT stated Tuesday that they joined an international consortium to build a new undersea network underneath the Pacific Ocean.

As more businesses expand internationally, phone companies such as AT&T are trying to diversify their networks to …

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