Dave Aiello explains how "Roogle" came into existence. [Scripting News]
7:59:07 PM    

As Cellphones Become Cuter, Clarity Suffers. Industry analysts, researchers and consumers say that many of the small, versatile new models are not as good as the old ones. By Matt Richtel. [New York Times: Technology]
7:58:34 PM    

Invention Tests Water Safety. Two inventors received a patent for a system that sends a beam of light through water to make sure it is safe to drink. By Sabra Chartrand. [New York Times: Technology]
7:57:27 PM    

Songs to Start Out on Video Games. In a first for the music industry, a big record label will introduce songs on a new video game, Vendetta, not the radio. By Lynette Holloway. [New York Times: Technology]
7:56:46 PM    

Argentina Makes Its Software Play. Driven by peso devaluation and a domestic downturn, Argentine technology companies are marketing the country as a great place for other nations to outsource software programming. Eleonora Rabinovich reports from Buenos Aires. [Wired News]
7:55:12 PM    

Tech to Help Drivers Brake Sooner. Researchers are working on a range of technologies to help drivers avoid crashes. One MIT professor's concept involves GPS, wireless, advanced traffic-flow models and -- of all things -- a flashing red light. By Katie Dean. [Wired News]
7:54:25 PM    

Can geo-location services find the way?. Services that pinpoint locations for cell phone users and others could nearly be ready for the masses, giving wireless carriers a lift. But the services could still get lost. [CNET News.com]
7:53:47 PM    

Tech's love-hate relationship with the DMCA. CNET News.com's Declan McCullagh uncovers a real divide between software and hardware manufacturers when it comes to the subject of what to do about legislation to combat Internet piracy. [CNET News.com]
7:53:12 PM    

One printer, one virus, one disabled Iraqi air defence. You can't keep a good April Fool's down [The Register]
7:52:33 PM    

BT staff protest jobs-to-India move. You have nothing to lose but your lunch breaks [The Register]
7:51:54 PM    

Wireless net offered with a pint. Wireless hotspots are coming to pubs, offering a whole new meaning to the idea of a working lunch. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
7:50:11 PM    

Browsers fight it out. Millions use Microsoft's Internet Explorer to surf the web, but there are alternatives. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
7:49:36 PM    

Net pirates outsmart record labels. The music industry needs to radically change the way it offers music online if it is to defeat net pirates, say experts. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
7:49:10 PM    

Toon army recruited in net drive. Newcastle residents are offered football goodies as part a UK Government campaign to get people online. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
7:48:52 PM    

Digital voting to fight apathy. An e-voting pilot project may encourage 18 to 30-year-olds to cast their votes in the May local elections. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]
7:48:17 PM    

IBM teams up for life-science deals. Big Blue says more than 30 analytical instrument and tool companies are using its technology in products aimed at the life sciences industry. [CNET News.com]
7:47:10 PM    

Intel backs four Wi-Fi networks to boost Centrino demand. To push demand for computers equipped with its new Centrino chip, Intel is backing four Wi-Fi networks and has invested in a vendor of long-range Wi-Fi hardware. [Computerworld News]
7:46:03 PM    

E-mail scams continue to target PayPal users. Scam artists are again trying to steal users' personal data, including their names, addresses and credit card information [Computerworld News]
7:45:30 PM    

New Deloader worm targets weak passwords. Virus infects Windows machines [InfoWorld: Top News]
7:44:20 PM    

Useit.Com: PR on Websites: Increasing Usability. A company's website must clearly be a key component in any modern PR strategy. Luckily, many companies seem to be recognizing this, and corporate PR areas have improved significantly during the two years since our previous study. [Tomalak's Realm]
7:42:52 PM    

How would we market our landscape architecture if the marketing was based upon user experience of our built projects?

Good Experience: Google and Branding. Google has done none of these things. Instead, it has focused on the EXPERIENCE. The user experience, customer experience, searcher experience, whatever you want to call it - Google knows that online, the brand is the EXPERIENCE. [Tomalak's Realm]

7:42:18 PM    

Clay Shirky: Social Software and the Politics of Groups. Our centuries of experience with printing presses and telegraphs have not prepared us for the design problems we face here. We have had real social software for less than forty years (dated from the Plato system), with less than a decade of general availability. [Tomalak's Realm]
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