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Tom's Hardware Guide:
Top Secret Intel Processor Plans Uncovered — Intel Focusing On 45 nm Now — Intel was surprisingly talkative when it came to future technologies and products this year. As a result, most of the technical audience is up to date regarding the upcoming micro architecture based on the 65 nm Merom design.
Timothy L. O'Brien / New York Times:
Gone Spear-Phishin' — ABOUT a year and a half ago, Amnon Jackont, an Israeli mystery novelist and Tel Aviv University history professor, became ensnared in a mystery of his very own: friends and students were receiving e-mail messages from him that he had never written.
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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Kathy Sierra / Creating Passionate Users:
Have you updated your buzzwords? — You may think you're appropriately buzzword-compliant, but this is internet time, baby, and last month's 2.0 buzzwords are outdated (but not in that retro-cool way). If you're doing a VC pitch and building to flip, it's crucial that you sound as current as possible.
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Life On the Wicked Stage
Robert Hof / Business Week:
Froogle: Shopping Made Complex — It's not hard to see why the test version of Google's shopping service has yet to gain widespread acceptance — but it does show promise — THE GOOD Fast searches, nice integration of local searches with Google Maps — THE BAD Limited filtering tools, sparse local product listings
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ComparisonEngines.com
Heather Timmons / New York Times:
Branson in Talks to Sell Virgin Mobile Stake — LONDON, Dec. 4 - Sir Richard Branson is in talks to sell his stake in Virgin Mobile's British business to a British cable and phone provider, NTL, an executive involved in the negotiations said today. A deal would create a one-stop shop …
Geraldine Geraldine / LES BLOGS 2:
Opening remarks: welcome to Les Blogs 2.0 ! — On behalf of Six Apart, the entire team who organized les blogs that I will introduce you in a few minutes and all our partners, welcome to Les Blogs 2.0, welcome to Paris. — I can't believe you have made it all here today ! Here is where you are from to begin with.
Cheryl Isen / bizjournals:
Churchill's words guide 180Solutions — Editor's note: This is the first monthly column written by Seattle marketing and public relations firm founder Cheryl Isen. It's based on monthly presentations by local entrepreneurs at Northwest Entrepreneur Network events. — To know 180Solutions is to have an opinion.
Newsweek:
Google: Ten Golden Rules — Getting the most out of knowledge workers will be the key to business success for the next quarter century. Here's how we do it at google. — By By Eric Schmidt and Hal Varian — Issues 2006 - At google, we think business guru Peter Drucker well understood …
Anina .Net / LIFEBLOG.anina.net:
FASHION BLOGGER! — tonight i met with marc canter for dinner. it was supposed to be a simple, small, dinner, and instead it exploded into a full 20 person + dinner! robert scobble showed up with his wife, hugh was there, suw with kevin, and many more! it was fascinating pre-blog conversation.
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Scobleizer
Harry Hurt Iii / New York Times:
A Cellphone Just Made to Be Run Over by a Porsche — I DROPPED down on all fours and crawled across Denise Salomon's loose-gravel driveway, clutching a Styrofoam pad and one of the world's most expensive cellphones - a $5,700 Vertu Ascent Motorsport. — Denise was already behind the wheel …
Reuters:
NEC reportedly develops 55-nano technology … Japan's NEC Electronics has developed a technology to make advanced microchips with circuitry width of 55 nanometers, or billionths of a meter, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun business daily reported Sunday. — Finer circuitry decreases the size of a chip and cuts per-unit production costs.
Scott Adams / The Dilbert Blog:
Best and Worst Jobs — Yet another "third highest ranking al-Qaida leader" has been killed, this time by a rocket attack from an unmanned drone. There are a lot of jobs that I wouldn't want, and "third highest ranking al-Qaida leader" is right at the top.
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Life On the Wicked Stage
James Fallows / New York Times:
Mac Programs That Come With Thinking Caps On — IT'S time for another look at "thinking tools" - software for storing, retrieving and generally making the best use of information. Today the focus is on programs for the Apple Macintosh. — These programs are of obvious interest to the Mac community …
Peter Burrows / Business Week:
McNealy: Why "Sun Is Back" — The CEO believes giving away software will attract developers and customers alike. Still, Sun is under pressure to "put up the numbers" — In recent years, Sun Microsystems (SUNW) Chief Executive Scott McNealy was widely criticized for sticking too closely to Sun's longtime business model.
