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Last updated: April 6, 2007 6:15:50 PM Pacific Time
News.Com: Yahoo, Microsoft link IM services. Consumers using the Yahoo Messenger or MSN Messenger programs will be able to exchange instant messages, see the presence of their contacts, share emoticons and add friends from either service, the companies said. Interoperability is expected to kick in during the second quarter of 2006. NY Times: Online Pioneer Sets Out to Shake Up TV. Set in an office building at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brightcove will offer three interrelated online services. It has tools that let television producers load their video onto its servers, arrange them into programs and display them to Internet users. NY Times: Korea's High-Tech Utopia, Where Everything Is Observed. A ubiquitous city is where all major information systems (residential, medical, business, governmental and the like) share data, and computers are built into the houses, streets and office buildings. New Songdo, located on a man-made island of nearly 1,500 acres off the Incheon coast about 40 miles from Seoul, is rising from the ground up as a U-city. InfoWorld: The summer of PKI love. Jon Udell. But as we learned at the summit, there's been progress on both fronts. Growing adoption of hardware tokens is making cryptographic identities independent of machines. And emerging trust bridges are enabling those identities to be federated among universities, the federal government, and industry. NY Times: Marrying Maps to Data for a New Web Service. So far the uses have been noncommercial. But Yahoo, Google and Microsoft are creating the services with the expectation that they will become a focal point in one of the next significant growth areas in Internet advertising: contextual advertisements tied to specific locations. Such ads would be embedded in maps generated by a search query or run alongside them. NY Times: Court Rules File-Sharing Networks Can Be Held Liable for Illegal Use. The United States Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that Internet file-sharing services like Grokster and StreamCast Networks could be held responsible if they encouraged users to trade songs, movies and television shows online without paying for them. PC World: Microsoft Builds Its Own Peer-to-Peer App. Researchers at Microsoft's labs in Cambridge, England, are developing a file-sharing technology that they say could make it easier to distribute big files such as films, television programs, and software applications to end users over the Internet. CNN: Tech will cause a real estate crash. Given the nature of real estate, he warned that even a drop in demand by 20 percent could cause prices to be cut in half. Nielsen said that technology would make it ever more attractive to live in small towns and rural areas, which would undermine many of the advantages currently held by big cities... eWEEK: 'Google Earth' Ready to Travel the World. During a media event at its campus, Google unveiled plans to release Google Earth within the next few weeks. It will replace the current Keyhole desktop software with a client that incorporates Google's local search and driving directions service on top of a bird's eye view of the world. News.Com: VeriSign to put more backbone into the Net. Ultimately, VeriSign intends to have machines handling traffic sent to the "J" DNS server in more than 200 additional locations, a shift from its original strategy of having a few servers in several data centers at key Internet hubs.
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