12th
April
2007
News Roundup From Around The Web
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- Green is gold at Cool Products Expo [CNET]
"In the midst of some of the most innovative new products around, sustainability was the guiding principle. " - Ubuntu's new Linux sports debugging tool [CNET]
"'Feisty Fawn' version of Ubuntu, due April 19, can automatically report crashes to help programmers stamp out bugs." - Comcast to acquire movie tickets site Fandango [CNET]
"Cable operator plans to build a new entertainment site called Fancast.com, coming this summer." - MySpace blocks Photobucket videos and slide shows [CNET]
"Will the decision to ban content from photo-sharing site spill over to the scores of companies catering to MySpace users?" - Basics: Feel the Vibe, Literally [NYT]
"Games add body-shaking chairs and puffs of wind." - A Navigation System Shows a Good Listener Isn't So Hard to Find [NYT]
"Most navigation systems talk to you. The Magellan Maestro 4050 also listens." - State of the Art: A Faster Wi-Fi World Is Coming [NYT]
"Makers of Wi-Fi routers boast of 5 times the speed and 15 times the range, but be sure to read the footnotes." - The Blogosphere, Where a Tawdry Culture Goes to Die [Wired]
"The Luddite: Incivility in the blogosphere? What do you expect from a bunch of navel-gazing narcissists?" - Microsoft, Google trade barbs on enterprise search [InfoWorld]
"Officials of Microsoft and Google traded comparisons of their enterprise search products to their rival's during a technology conference in San Francisco Wednesday." - The Army's looking for a few good online gamers [USATODAY.com]
"Starting in June, the Army will sponsor a "national gaming" area as a way to tap into the site's 9.2 million players per month of everything from shooter games to pro baseball. It hopes to find candidates for recruitment among the 17- to 24-year-old males who are 80% of the gamers on the site - young men hard to reach with advertising."