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MSNBC:
Vonage weighs up possible sale  —  Move comes amid plans for IPO  —  NEW YORK - Vonage, the private internet telephony start-up, is being encouraged to consider a sale while it presses ahead with plans for an initial public offering.  —  UBS and Deutsche Bank, the investment banks chosen …
Discussion: Techdirt and Broadband
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lightreading.com:
Earthlink Joins VOIP Parade
Discussion: VoIP Watch
Jenstar / JenSense:
Enhanced AdSense interface launched on Blogger  —  Blogger has just launched a new AdSense interface for bloggers on the Google Blogger/BlogSpot network, announced today on the official Blogger Buzz.  —  It features a new tab within the control panel where bloggers can sign up for AdSense …
mobile-review.com:
Exclusive.  New PDAs by Palm - full information and photos  —  Officially, new Palm models are to be announced on the 12 of October 2005.  Following its tradition the company of Palm tries to launch new models in the beginning of October.  So, Palm Tungsten T was officially launched on the 1 …
Technology News, Science News:
Google's Lackluster Blog Search  —  The long-awaited tool is fast and sorts by relevance.  But it misses results and lets in too much spam  —  EDITOR'S REVIEW  —  THE GOOD Lets users pick between most relevant and most recent blogs.  And it's fast  —  THE BAD Doesn't provide complete results, and includes too many spam blogs
Si_man / appletalk.com.au:
Setting Up And Running Kde And Xfree86 With Fink  —  This simple guide will go over the basics of setting up and running KDE on MacOSX.  —  First a simple introduction.  —  What is KDE?  —  KDE stands for the K Desktop environment.  —  KDE is a graphical user interface much like OSX or Windows …
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Search Engine Blogs as Public Relations Tools  —  Search Engine Blogs as Public Relations Tools  —  Blogs are used for various reasons including reporting news, communicating with specific groups of readers, and as Mark Cuban may tell you, spamming.  With millions of active blogs …
sixapart.com:
Six Apart Ups the Ante for Weblogging  —  PROJECT COMET, PREVIEWED AT DEMO FALL, AIMS TO BRING WEBLOGGING INTO THE MAINSTREAM WITH ADVANCED EASE OF USE, RICH FEATURES AND FINE-GRAINED PRIVACY  —  San Francisco, CA— September 22, 2005 — A new platform for weblogging, intended …
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Wolfgang Gruener / Tom's Hardware Guide:
Vista graphics drivers to be more stable than XP drivers, ATI says  —  San Francisco (CA) - Graphics drivers developed for Vista, Microsoft's next generation operating system, will be far more stable than their Windows XP-based counterparts, and not crash the operating system anymore …
Cameron / overstated:
Goodbye MIT, hello Yahoo!  —  This message has been a long time in the coming, but thanks to the ubiquity of the internet I've been outed.  Sometime in late august I turned in a final draft of my thesis which afforded me this wonderful scrap of paper:  —  Since I won't technically …
Discussion: pc4media
Chris Pratley / Chris_Pratley's OneNote WebLog:
More OneNote 12 Goodness  —  I thought I would discuss a few new capabilities of "OneNote 12" that I think many current users are dying to see appear.  Certainly each of these has appeared many times in our newsgroups and in our suggestion lists in the OneNote community site.
Discussion: jkOnTheRun
Official Google Blog:
New, improved, and out of beta  —  After two months in beta we are officially releasing our Firefox Toolbar with a couple of nifty Firefox-only features.  One of these is the addition of Google Suggest, which shows useful query suggestions as you type in the Toolbar search box.
Russell / MobHappy:
Mobile Manga  —  When an industry starts to change, it's like a large tree being felled.  It starts off imperceptibly, but rapidly accelerates until it comes crashing down.  As an example, the world's first camera phone was only launched in Japan in November 2002.
Discussion: MocoNews.net
Tom Coates / plasticbag.org is a weblog:
A response to the rhetoric of weblog marketing...  The story so far... Ben Metcalfe takes a vague swipe at the Stormhoek wine that Hugh MacLeod is marketing through the blogosphere.  The approach Hugh is taking is to offer free bottles of the wine to webloggers on the understanding …
BBC:
Authors sue Google over book plan  —  A US writers' group is suing internet search engine Google, claiming that its plan to digitise major library book collections infringes author copyright.  —  The Authors Guild has filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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Guardian:   Jamie Wilson in Washington
microsoft.com:
Q&A: Members of Microsoft's "20-Year Club" Reflect on the Past and the Future  —  As Microsoft celebrates its 30th anniversary, long-time employees reveal why they keep showing up for work each day.  Hint: There's more to it than the technology.  —  REDMOND, Wash., Sept. 21, 2005 …

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