May 4th, 2007
News to know: Yahoo Photos out; Google vs. Sharepoint; Microsoft patches coming
Notable headlines:
TechCrunch: Yahoo To Shut Down
Yahoo Photos In Favor Of Flickr.
Dan Farber: Yahoo Photos out, Flickr in, Flickr video coming soon.
NewTeeVee: YouTube starts paying star users. Dan Farber and Donna Bogatin on YouTube
Matthew Miller: T-Mobile offers free Windows Mobile 6 upgrade to Dash owners. Gallery (left).
David Berlind: Using Google to replace Sharepoint. LimitNone's gShare offering bridges the MS-Office/Google Apps divide. Against the growing tide of spam, here's one anti-spam standard we desperately need. Now.
Review: SimpleTech SimpleDrive External Hard Drive (1TB, Pininfarina, right).
Ryan Naraine: Microsoft to ship critical Windows, Office patches. Microsoft to patch zero-day DNS flaw. Microsoft's bulletin.
Zimbra to offer Ubuntu Linux support.
FCC chairman OK with expanded airwave auction plan.
Senators voice alarm over terrorist Net presence.
Senate committee OKs bills on personal data breaches.
Photos (left): Bringing wireless connections home.
Mary Jo Foley: Meet Microsoft, the advertising company.
TheStreet.com: Google Stock Stuck in Neutral.
James Governor: If markets are conversations then Twitter is money.
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: OLPC–No Windows and Office for you. OLPC focus.
Court rejects Vonage bid for patent case retrial.
ValleyWag: This (Google) NDA never existed.
Garett Rogers: Google Gadget Designer still sucks.
Yahoo Pipes adds interactive maps. John Battelle: Yahoo Testing New Search Look?
AP: EDS earnings rise.
TechCrunch: Guy Kawasaki’s Newest Venture: Truemors.
Nokia unveils slim Barracuda. Gallery (right). Yahoo cranks up cell phone search.
Read/WriteWeb: The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines, April 2007.
Netgear buys network storage company.
Donna Bogatin: MySpace and the user control fairy tale.
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