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A Pittsburgh couple is suing Google because photographs of their home are appearing on the company’s street view service.

The lawsuit, filed in Allegheny County court on April 2, claims there was a private road sign on their street that Google should have honored. It claims that Google’s “reckless conduct” has “exposed plaintiff’s private [...]

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You don’t mess with Craigslist, apparently.
A fan-run blog called Craigslist Blog has been served a takedown notice from the massive classifieds site, according to a post from blogger Tim White on Thursday.

Jim Buckmaster, Craigslist CEO
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White posted the e-mail he’d received from Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster, which claimed that White’s URL “craigslistblog.org” was “infringing” and [...]

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There’s no real killer app yet for retrieving listings information on your mobile phone, but there could be soon.
On Aptil 11, Free Mobile411 launches the consumer version of its carrier-offered services. Visting FreeMolie411.com from your mobile browser gets you a decent-looking ad-supported WAP site that simplifies directory search and helps you avoid long [...]

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At CTIA 2008 in Las Vegas, I took a look at LiveContacts BuddyFinder, Web app that launches on April 15.

I tried it out with a non-GPS phone, and in the process moved to Germany.

To clear a little confusion, BuddyFinder and LiveContacts are two sort-of related names for the app, which is itself the free branch [...]

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I’m looking at a cell phone screen and four faces are looking back. It’s CTIA 2008, the biggest wireless and cell phone trade show of the year, and the CEO of iVisit, a multiparty video conferencing app for PCs, Macs, and mobile phones, is demoing the product, iVisit Teleport. I must say, the slick, feature-rich [...]

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