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Rob Hof / TechBeat:
Why eBay Is Buying Skype — Here's my quick take, below, an edited version of which will appear in a few hours at businessweek.com. CEO Meg Whitman & Co. gave an impassioned rationale for the deal. I can certainly see that if Skype meets its ambitious goals, the deal could pay off eventually.
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Staci / PaidContent.org:
Ebay-Skype: Mixed Reaction Puts It Mildly : One more thought popped up while I was reading through the plethora of ePaySkype react and coverage: usually when a company acquires a site, a small duplication number shows room for growth. In this case, could it mean a lack of interest? Just a thought.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Announcing Memorandum to track Tech and Politics/News blogs — Here's some very cool non-Microsoft news that I'm proud to announce (I am the first site to report this news). — I'm on the phone with Gabe Rivera, emperor of Memeorandum. He is, at this very moment, turning on major …
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Times of London:
New legal threat to Google over GMail — Google, the internet search engine, is facing a renewed threat of legal action from a company that claims to own the intellectual property rights to its GMail e-mail service. — Independent International Investment Research, a British company …
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Chris Kohler / Wired News:
Game Boy Micro Goes Big on Style — Honey, Nintendo shrunk the Game Boy. Again. — Ever since the company launched its original black-and-white portable gaming console in 1989, Nintendo has striven to shrink each successive iteration of the Game Boy. In the early '90s …
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Jeremy Wagstaff / loose wire:
iTunes and Your Vulnerable MP3 collection — My friend and fellow columnist Phil Baker writes about Apple's new iPod in his San Diego column, but he also points out a serious problem with the company's new iTunes software, something I have experienced myself.
Yahoo! News:
Tech Notebook: We hear VoIP gets excellent mileage — All the major tech companies — including Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google — have been investing millions of dollars in VoIP, an acronym for Voice over Internet Protocol, which is a fancy term for making phone calls over the Internet.
Alan Reiter / Wireless Muse:
First impressions: IBM X41 Tablet PC — A mere seven weeks (less three days) after I ordered an IBM/Lenovo X41 Tablet PC — only four weeks longer than the original estimate — it arrived. — Like so many others who ordered the X41 (and who also have been frustrated by Lenovo's rotten logistics …
Ed Taylor / eastvalleytribune.com:
Motorola develops 'polite' phone to help reduce incidents of distracted drivers — With concerns mounting over the safety of cell phone use while driving, Motorola's Driving Simulator Lab in Tempe is testing mobile phones that can analyze driving conditions and avoid distracting the driver.
Andrew Donoghue / ZDNet:
Novell: Vista will drive users to Linux … Jack Messman claims the tipping point for desktop Linux will come at the end of next year when companies are confronted by the cost of moving to Windows Vista — The high costs of migrating from Windows XP to Windows Vista will be the catalyst …
David Gibbons / poductivity:
Why eBay bought Skype — Amazing marriage today of the 2 most viral solutions online - ebay bought skype. — The pundits have been in a tailspin since rumors leaked a few weeks ago and since then, speculation has been rampant and varied as to whether or not this deal made sense.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Note to Mary Jo: Sparkle is no Flash killer — Mary Jo Foley gives her predictions of what's coming at the PDC: More Developers, More Developers, More Developers! — One thing I gotta correct. I used to think that Sparkle was a Flash killer. Hey, that was good hype cause that team hired …