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AP – WHAT’S HAPPENING: Verizon has stopped extending the reach of its fiber-optic TV and Internet service, FiOS. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News
Deadline nears for top CTO, enterprise architect awards (InfoWorld)
March 26th, 2010 
Vince InfoWorld – Is your CTO one of the best? If so, nominate him or her for the 2010 CTO 25 Awards presented by InfoWorld.com, the Web site focused on modernizing IT through effective use of business technlogy. Nominees may have the CTO title or an equivalent title such as IT director, VP of technology, or — if there is not also a CTO-equivalent position in the organization — CIO. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News
Apple iBooks Sets $9.99 Price Point; Adds 20,000 Freebies (PC Magazine)
March 26th, 2010 Vince PC Magazine – In the ongoing war between online bookstores, price is key. And Apple’s iBooks electronic bookstore is apparently wading into battle, according to a report, with $9.99 bestseller pricing and easy access to the Project Gutenberg online book repository. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News
US cities vie to win Google’s broadband favor (AFP)
March 26th, 2010 Vince 
AFP – A city in Kansas renamed itself “Google.” A Florida mayor hopped into a tank full of sharks to impress the Internet titan. Baltimore named a “Google Czar” and scores of towns held “Google Days.”
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Improve Your 3G Connection with an AT&T MicroCell (PC World)
March 26th, 2010 Vince PC World – AT&T announced this week at the CTIA show in Las Vegas that it will soon make its femtocell device available to subscribers nationwide. The femtocell–which AT&T has dubbed the MicroCell–creates a mini 3G cell tower in your home or office, and leverages your existing broadband network to resolve slow or spotty 3G coverage. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News
Will the iPad be Jailbroken at Launch? (PC World)
March 26th, 2010 Vince PC World – iPhone hacker George Hotz claims he has developed a new untethered software jailbreak method for the iPhone and iPod Touch that may also work on the iPad. Hotz, also known online as Geohot, says in a recent blog post that his new unnamed jailbreak method is as simple to use as his previous iPhone software jailbreak, blackra1n. The new software will purportedly work on all currently jailbroken iPhone and iPod Touch models. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News
UK, French Newspapers to Charge for Content (PC World)
March 26th, 2010 Vince PC World – British newspapers The Times and the Sunday Times will charge for content on their Web sites, a move following other major papers seeking to profit from online readers amid falling print revenues. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News
Microsoft Failed To Grab the Long Tail, Exec Concedes (NewsFactor)
March 26th, 2010 Vince NewsFactor – When Chris Anderson, editor in chief of Wired, first penned an article in 2004 called The Long Tail, he was thinking about e-commerce. The article — and later a book by the same name — showed that web-based sellers like Amazon and Netflix had much larger sales potential than mass-market vendors like Barnes & Noble and Blockbuster. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News
Verizon winds down expensive FiOS expansion (AP)
March 26th, 2010 Vince AP – If Verizon Communications Inc. hasn’t already started wiring your city or town with its FiOS fiber-optic TV and broadband service, chances are you won’t get it. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News
Afghan enemies using iPhone as a weapon
March 26th, 2010 Vince Australian Department of Defense chief technology officer Matt Yannopoilos today said defenses were being beaten in Afghanistan by enemies accessing information quickly via iPhones. by Ben Grubb ZDNet Australia View full post on News items | ZDNet
Outages Take YouTube, Wikipedia and Twitter Off-Line (NewsFactor)
March 26th, 2010 Vince NewsFactor – Many years after the Y2K scare that left the world wondering if the Internet would crash as we entered the 21st century, two of the web’s most popular sites have gone off-line this week alone. YouTube and Wikipedia both went dark on Thursday. Twitter went down last week. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News
UK’s Times newspapers to charge for Web access (AP)
March 26th, 2010 Vince AP – The Times and The Sunday Times newspapers will begin charging for Internet access to content in June, offering subscriptions at 1 pound ($1.48) a day or 2 pounds a week, News International announced Friday. View full post on Yahoo! News: Internet News
The Times of London to charge for website (AFP)
March 26th, 2010 Vince 
AFP – The Times of London and its sister paper The Sunday Times will charge readers to access the titles online from June, Rupert Murdoch’s News International announced on Friday.
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China issues rules on reporting Google moves
March 26th, 2010 Vince A Chinese government ministry ordered Chinese media companies to toe the government line this week in their reporting on Google’s decision to move its search operations to Hong Kong. by Tom Krazit CNET News View full post on News items | ZDNet
Traffic from major sites redirected to China
March 26th, 2010 Vince Workers at Internet network operation centers around the world are trying to figure out why traffic to sites such as YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook was redirected to servers in China this week. by Elinor Mills CNET News View full post on News items | ZDNet
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