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iGoogle Limbers Up With New Flexibility Features

Google has rolled out a new, bigger viewing feature to its iGoogle custom home page builder app. iGoogle basically lets users select and move little gadgets -- which are miniature, modular applications that provide news feeds, comics, Gmail access, games, weather, movie listings, etc. -- anywhere they want on their iGoogle home pages. The new feature is called "canvas view," and users to take an application from a simple list or snippet to an entire page.

Broadcasters Air White Space Grievances

The Federal Communications Commission continues to receive plenty of static from both sides of the television white space debate. Last month it was Google cofounder Larry Page raising allegations of rigged FCC testing of white spaces prototype devices. Now, the National Association of Broadcasters is upset that FCC chairman Kevin Martin threw his support behind such devices.

Scooping the Competition in the Digital Age

One of the books that had a big impact on me during my larval stage as a journalist was Dan Rather's "The Camera Never Blinks." The memoir was of Rather's experiences as a truly trailblazing and courageous TV reporter, not Rather the lightning-rod anchor with the southern-fried election night phraseology.

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