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Henry Blodget / Internet Outsider:
$500. $600. $2,000. Do I Hear $10,000? $0? — Yes, the Google price target brouhaha is reminiscent of the 90s—and not just with respect to dotcom stocks. The Dow, too, was the subject of a few heroic hypotheses in those days (Dow 36,000, Dow 100,000), utterances that, in hindsight …
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Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Is Google a Good Candidate for Rational Exuberance? — IS the dot-com bubble reinflating? — Last week, a relatively obscure Wall Street analyst named Safa Rashtchy, from Piper Jaffray, became an overnight sensation among the Internet faithful. He predicted that Google's stock price …
Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Google to launch online video store — LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Google Inc. said on Friday the company is expanding into two new fields with an online video store and a computer maintenance service, moves that mark stepped-up challenges to its biggest computer and media rivals, including Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo.
Washington Monthly:
Let There Be Wi-Fi — Broadband is the electricity of the 21st century—and much of America is being left in the dark. — Two decades ago, the chattering classes fretted about economic upheaval rising from Japan and the Asian Tigers. They feared an invasion of cars, microchips …
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
The word-of-mouth killer product of CES — VIC GUNDOTRA GADGET ALERT!!! — I asked dozens of people "what did you see at CES that you'd spend your own money on?" I also asked "what was the coolest thing you saw?" — Most people stammered on both answers, but yesterday I started hearing …
Paul Boutin / Engadget:
Backstage at the Google press conference — The realaction was in the green room last night. Onstage, Robin Williams had zapped audience members who challenged LarryPage with questions at the company's keynote. But Larry and GoogleCEO Eric Schmidt faced the world's toughest tech journos …
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Jason McCabe Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:CES analysis: Why I know Google will do an office suite and a desktop OS in 2006.
Michael Kinsley / Washington Post:
Black and White and Dead All Over — Somewhere in the forest, a tree is cut down. It is loaded onto a giant truck and hauled a vast distance to a factory, where the trees is turned into huge rolls of paper. These rolls are loaded onto another truck and hauled another vast distance to another factory …
CNET News.com:
Best in Show — Creative Zen Vision:M — iPod killer? With a brighter screen, better battery life, and more features, the Creative Zen Vision:M certainly has the goods to give the iPod a run for its money. In addition to a voice recorder and an FM tuner, the $330 …
Gary Will:
Comments on Reqwireless and Google — I don't intend for this blog to be focused on the day's events, but since the "Google acquired Reqwireless" story unfolded and broke here, I've received a few requests for comments. To save myself some time ... here they are.
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Barb Dybwad / Engadget:
Microsoft blocking MP3s on Verizon Wireless phones? — So there seems to be some fallout from Verizon's music downloadservice — users who choose to "upgrade" their handsets to support the Verizon Wireless music store aredoing so at a tradeoff: you'll no longer be able to play MP3s on your phone.
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Apple walks tightrope with budget iBook strategy — How low can they go? — Last year's MacWorld keynote introduced gave us the Mac Mini. Will this year's deliver the iBook Minus? — An Intel-based iBook has been widely trailed to be unveiled next week.
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Vee see it our vay — So VC Guy Kawasaki has a blog now. What amuses me is that it fits the mold of so many other VCs' blogs — many of which I read and enjoy — for they are filled with abstracted rules of venture life, like these from Kawasaki: "missions vs. mantras," "the art of intrapreneurship …
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asahi.com:
Dial-up bar codes let buyers beware — Cellphones—which already serve as cameras, game ports, phone books, calculators, radio/recorders, dictionaries, alarm clocks, schedulers, TV remote controllers, e-mail and voice mail terminals and e-money dispensers—will soon have another function: comparison shopper.
