Google starts letting users edit documents offline / Google Announces Offline Docs

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN3145153220080401
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3660445.ece
http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20080331/googledocs/
http://www.fastcompany.tv/video/google-announces-offline-docs (video interview with Google's Ken Norton)
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080331-google-docs-pulls-head-out-of-the-cloud-goes-offline.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/01/google_apps_offline_access/
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2213234/google-gears-offline-word
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207000796
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-microsoft-decides-not-to-bid-against-itself-no-to-price-rise-on-yahoo-r/
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_docs_offline_support.php
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080331/tc_pcworld/143987
(related) http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/01/build-your-very-own-google-airplane/

Amid Weak Economy, Microsoft Unlikely to Raise Yahoo Offer

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN3145265120080401
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120701820580579519.html
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/01/microsoft-stands-firm-on-yahoo-bid-there-is-no-reason-to-bid-against-ourselves/

Magazines Join Digital-Ad Wave

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120700543858178563.html

Microsoft Previews Desktop Search Update

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,143992-c,utilities/article.html

Google searchers could end up with a new type of bug

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-31-javascript-hackers_N.htm

Web surfers know advertisers are watching—and don’t like it / TNS Global survey

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080331-web-surfers-know-advertisers-are-watchingand-dont-like-it.html

Google, Garmin To Partner for Send-to-Garmin GPS Mapping Feature

http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9906370-1.html

BT and Phorm secretly tracked 18,000 customers in 2006

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/01/bt_phorm_2006_trial/

Google and Virgin announce Mars expedition and colony

http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/20080401_virgle.html
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/04/google-and-virg.html

WEB / OTHER

CareerBuilder, Facebook in job ads venture

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN3140244820080401

Pay-per-view funerals go live online in Britain

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSL0192261920080401
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/04/01/southampton_crematorium_online_funeral/

Spam blights e-mail 15 years on / Canning The Real Spam Kings

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7322615.stm
(related) http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/03/31/cybercriminals-hacking-jail-cx_ag_0331cybercrime.html

Social Networking Site Hi5 Launches OpenSocial Platform

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/hi5_launching_opensocial.php

Norway seeks to reverse Open XML vote at ISO

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9907542-7.html
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/04/01/ooxml_iso_announcement_delayed/
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207000830
http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSL3118783520080331
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2211