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Stefanie Olsen / CNET.com:
Why Google hired Vint Cerf — news analysis What will Internet visionary Vint Cerf do for Google? — Whether he meant to or not, Cerf hinted at one area he was interested in six weeks before he joined the search giant, and it deals with a wireless device near you.
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Search Engine Journal, The Tao of Mac, SearchViews, ClickZ Internet Marketing … and Joseph Scott's Blog
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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:Internet Pioneer Vinton Cerf Joins Google
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Fast Company Now
Armed and Dangerous:
Microsoft tries to recruit me — The following is, verbatim, a letter I received a few minutes ago from a Microsoft recruiter. — From: "Mike Walters (Search Wizards)" <v-mikewa@microsoft.com> To: <esr@thyrsus.com> Eric, I am a member of the Microsoft Central Sourcing Team.
Jwelch / bynkii.com's Mac Matters:
iDevelopers! iDevelopers! iDevelopers! — Let me apologize if the title of this post brings to mind the disturbing image of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's infamous "MonkeyBoy" dance, but for this article, it applies. With the release of the iPod Nano, iTunes 5.0, the Motorola Rockr …
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PR Newswire:
ACCESS to Extend Leadership in Mobile Device Software with Acquisition of PalmSource — Acquisition Broadens ACCESS Product Portfolio — TOKYO, Japan and SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — ACCESS Co., Ltd., (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 4813), a global provider of mobile content delivery …
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Russ / Russell Beattie Notebook:Wow! Access Buys PalmSource
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Scobleizer / Channel 9:
My coworkers impress, letter about Katrina efforts — This is why I love working here. I am taking a risk here by printing this (it was an internal email that I thought would be interesting to print here), but this is an email from Lisa Brummel, director of HR.
Joris Evers / CNET.com:
Unpatched Firefox flaw may expose users — A new, unpatched flaw in that affects all versions of Firefox could let attackers surreptitiously run malicious code on users' PCs, a security researcher has warned. — The problem lies in the way Firefox handles Web links that are overly long and contain dashes …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
More Scoble hype — I'm way behind on my blogging. Still at work at 2:40 a.m. I've been editing videos and doing a bunch of work. You know, even inside Microsoft people have no clue as to what's coming next week. I was just showing some people here the videos of what's coming next week and they said simply "wow."
Marty / Network-Centric Advocacy:
Need help distributing ASAP: VOLUNTEERS SURF and SCRUB THE WEB TO HELP RECONNECT FAMILY AND FRIENDS — VOLUNTEERS SURF and SCRUB THE WEB TO HELP RECONNECT FAMILY AND FRIENDS — Contact: Sue Cline: Volunteer : Katrinalist.net : Communications & Media Phone: (804) 230-3456
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Smart Mobs
Arshad Mohammed / Washington Post:
Wireless Networks Give Voice To Evacuees — Hurricane Katrina survivor Caprice Butler had been at a church shelter in rural northeastern Louisiana for nearly a week when she finally heard her husband's voice on an Internet phone running on an improvised wireless network.
lightreading.com:
SunRocket Misfires Again — SunRocket Inc. is undergoing a "system-wide" service outage that began Thursday and had not been resolved at the time of this writing at 5:15 EST Friday (see SunRocket Smolders During Stall). — A SunRocket telephone support person told Light Reading Friday …
Center for American Progress:
A Better Communications System for Emergency Workers — Katrina overwhelmed the nation's complex communications system, raising serious questions about whether federal and local governments need new powers to organize a rapid response by the wireless, wire, cable, satellite, and broadcast industries.
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Mnemonic / Godwin's Law:
RIAA's Big Push to Copy Protect Digital Radio — Never mind that digital audio broadcasting is not significantly greater in quality than regular, analog radio. Never mind that its music quality is vastly less than than that of audio CDs. In spite of these inconvenient facts …
Ramesh Kumar / mobilemag.com:
Creative DiVi CAM 428 does it all — Rated: 100% by 3 user(s). — Source: DCViews — Creative Technology has put out an affordable multi-format digital camcorder that aims to replace the clutter of gadgets in your pocket, it offers a video recorder, digital camera, voice recorder and MP3 player all-in-one.