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Joan Bennett Kennedy has put her oceanfront Cape Cod home on the market for nearly $6.5 million, defying her children who moved last year to take legal control of her assets amid her continued battle with alcoholism.

The house is located on Squaw Island near the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port. According to town of Barnstable property tax records, the 13-room, six-bedroom house sits on 1.18 acres and is valued at $3.7 million. The tax records list Joan B. Kennedy as the owner.

A Cape Cod real estate agent said the house may fetch $6 million because of the Kennedy mystique, but that it is worth closer to the $3 million it is assessed by the town of Barnstable.

‘’Perhaps because of the …

BY Dave Morgan | April 7, 2005

It’s hard to keep up with all the new developments in online advertising these days. We’ve just gotten the hang of selling and delivering Web-based advertising solutions, permission-based e-mail, search, and contextual ads. Together, these constitute over $10 billion in annual ad spending. Yet, the development community continues to deliver an ever-growing array of new interactive consumer channels and touch points.

Some recent developments aren’t surprising. Technologies such as addressable video ads, commercial SMS (define), and broadcast-quality streaming video are relatively straightforward and have been long anticipated. Others, such as blogs, podcasting (define), user-generated tagging, and RSS (define), were far less predictable, and their advertising applications are still much debated. Whether and how each …

Online search engine leader Google has unveiled a new feature that will enable its users to zoom in on homes and businesses using satellite images, an advance that may raise privacy concerns as well as intensify the competitive pressures on its rivals.

The satellite technology, which Google began offering late Monday at http://maps.google.com, is part of the package that the Mountain View-based company acquired when it bought digital map maker Keyhole Corp.

This marks the first time since the deal closed that Google has offered free access to Keyhole’s high-tech maps through its search engine. Users previously had to pay $29.95 to download a version of Keyhole’s basic software package.

A more traditional map will continue to be the first …

By Roberto Belo
BBC News website technology reporter

Web logs or blogs are everywhere, with at least an estimated five million on the web and that number is set to grow.

These online diaries come in many shapes and styles, ranging from people willing to sharing their views, pictures and links, to companies interested in another way of reaching their customers.

But this year the focus has been on blogs which cast a critical eye over news events, often writing about issues ignored by the big media or offering an eye-witness account of events.

Most blogs may have only a small readership, but communication experts say they have provided an avenue for people to have a say in the world …