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Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
Googling Literature: The Debate Goes Public — If there was any point of agreement between publishers, authors and Google in a debate Thursday night over the giant Web company's program to digitize the collections of major libraries and allow users to search them online, it seemed to be this …
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Michael / michael parekh on IT:
ON PRICE SIGNALS FOR CONTENT AND ATTENTION — Three things I read today and yesterday got me thinking about the changing relationship between Attention and Content. — First was a New York Times article on the on-going tussle between Google and Book Publishers titled "Googling Literature …
Fred / A VC:
A Match Made In Heaven — Seth Goldstein has finally made public (on his blog of course) his partnership with Lew Ranieri. The two of them are building a company together called ROOT Markets. — For those of you who don't know who Lew is, he's the father of the collateralized mortgage market …
Arshad Mohammed / Washington Post:
Herndon Wired, Ready for Cable TV From Verizon — It took six hours to hook up Jeff Dorman's 50-inch set to Verizon's new TV service but, in the end, he was pleased. — "Drag racing in high-def — I'm in heaven," the Herndon resident said as he watched Formula One cars zip down a track in crisp color.
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Om Malik / On Broadband, VoIP …:
Babble not Bubble 2.0* — John Battelle in an op-ed for The New York Times argues that we are not in a bubble, but instead we are building a better boom. Looking back over past few years, John argues that things have changed for the better. Open source software, commodity hardware …
Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Questions surround Xbox 360 shortage — Microsoft's global launch strategy will limit supply — Video-game consoles will be scarce and lines could be long upon next week's North American launch of Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 — with some retailers warning that they won't even have enough …
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gameshout.com:
Wal-Mart only has three Xbox 360 units per store — According to some latest information, Microsoft has only sent three Xbox 360 units to smaller Wal-Mart stores, while the super centers only got 10. — The information comes from various GameSHOUT users and members who went around to each store from their own local cities and state.
Om Malik / On Broadband, VoIP …:
Now its Cisco versus Motorola, Microsoft — Cisco had data, Cisco had voice, and what it needed was video to complete the triple play. So they bought Scientific Atlanta for $6.9 billion. … The reasons for the deal are many, the most important being that the company the size of Cisco might …
Shankar Gupta / MediaPost Publications:
Budget Sends Blog Readers On Scavenger Hunt — TODAY, THE LAST OF A series of stickers—on signs, drainpipes, and throughout major American cities—will be found by a persistent "hunter," who will win $10,000, courtesy of rental car firm Budget. — Although the stickers are offline …
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Phil Hochmuth / Techworld.com:
Cisco in space — IS IT A BIRD? IS IT A PLANE? NO, IT'S AN IP-ENABLED SATELLITE. — If you are a router company with as much as 80 percent market share and a $3.2 billion R&D budget to play with, why not bolt a router to a rocket and shoot it into orbit?
Jay Greene / Business Week:
Microsoft's New Word: Accountability — Redmond has set a target date for shipping its upcoming Vista operating system — the latest entry in a growing list of firm goals it is pledging to meet — When it comes to closely guarded secrets at Microsoft (MSFT), the crown jewel is the shipping date …
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Will small publishers still have game? — At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco seven months ago, there was an undercurrent of fear. — Would sharply rising development costs, game developers worried, make designing games for the impending next-generation consoles …
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Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Calendar company Trumba gets $8 million. Yep, it's crowded. — Trumba, a Seattle start-up that lets you share your calendar with others online, has raised $8 million in Series B funding, according to PEW (scroll way down). — But with Silicon Valley companies like Zimbra (which has raised $16M) …
Phone Scoop:
FCC Shows Rugged Pocket PC Phone From Panasonic — The FCC approved a new ruggedized Pocket PC Phone from Panasonic. The Toughbook CF-P2 has both GSM/GPRS 850/1900 as well as 802.11b Wi-Fi and Blutooth. It also features n full numeric keypad, LCD screen with light sensor for automatic backlight adjustment and SD slot.
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