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John Markoff / New York Times:
Microsoft Would Put Poor Online by Cellphone — DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 29 — It sounds like a project that just about any technology-minded executive could get behind: distributing durable, cheap laptop computers in the developing world to help education.
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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
Arguing about how to bring computing to poor — Interesting article in New York Times today about Microsoft's efforts to bring computing to the poor. One of the images that still stick in my head of visiting China eight years ago was a guy riding down the street on a rickety bike talking on a cell phone.
Chris Sherman / Search Engine Watch:
Google Releases Upgraded Toolbar — Google has enhanced its toolbar for Internet Explorer, introducing several new features that will appeal to regular users of the program. — The new features include enhanced "suggestions" that appear on the fly as you type a query …
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Bubble 2.0 Is a Bubble in Media — There is a bubble in the tech industry, but it has nothing to do with the behavior of venture capital, as so many people are discussing. There's a bubble because the tech industry is trying to be the new media industry, and very few people …
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Paul Kedrosky's …, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, Mark Evans, The Blackfriars Blog, Lloyd@work and Weblogsky
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Alexbarn / Alex Barnett blog:ATTENTION ENGINES NOT JUST FOR THE GEEKOSPHERE
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NoahBrier.com
neosmart.net:
Dual-Booting Windows XP on a Macintel — The Problems — The modified Darwin Bootloader is made for EFI w/ EFI supporting operating systems — OK... So step by step. — Where is the BIOS used? For what? How? — The OS sends low-level calls to the BIOS that tell it exactly how to deal with the hardware.
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
The Resurgence of E-Cards — THE online greeting card industry is starting to make some noise again. Just ask the screaming banshee. — The highly freaked-out woman, known by millions from an animated Halloween e-card from Hallmark.com, is back, this time in a Valentine's Day revival of her hair-raising neuroses.
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Techdirt
Business Week:
Steve Jobs' Magic Kingdom — How Apple's demanding visionary will shake up Disney and the world of entertainment — Early on a July workday in 1997, Jim McCluney, then head of Apple's worldwide operations got the call. McCluney was summoned with other top brass of the beleaguered company …
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Sarah McBride / Wall Street Journal:
Warner Bros. to Try File Sharing Of Films, TV Shows in Germany — In a move that shows Hollywood is examining the benefits of a technology it long reviled, Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros. is expected to announce today that it will sell movies and television shows online in Germany using peer-to-peer technology.
Ryan Singel / Wired News:
Science Puts Enron E-Mail to Use — In March 2001, just a few months before Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling resigned, an employee e-mailed him a joke about a policeman pulling over a speeding driver, whose wife subsequently rats him out to the cop for other offenses, including being drunk.
Brier Dudley / Seattle Times:
Q&A with Jim Allchin of Microsoft — Talk about a swan song. — Retiring Windows boss Jim Allchin is putting final touches on software that could finally help people start feeling safe and secure using a PC, if all goes according to plan. — Allchin gave an overview last week of Windows Vista …
Marc Perton / Engadget:
Behind the scenes in the RIM/NTP patent war — If you thought theBlackberry patent battle between RIM and NTP was just a fight between a successful wireless company and a greedy patentfarmer, this lengthy article from the Toronto Globe and Mail may be an eye-opener.
Peter Rip / EarlyStageVC:
Traditional Venture Capital Sure Seems Broken - It's About Time — The traditional venture capital model formula in technology was simple from 1945 to 1995. It was a form of arbitrage based on two scarcities — risk capital and understanding of technology. — Starting in 1995 the scarcity of both these drivers began to disappear.
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Doc / Doc Searls' IT Garage:Disrupting Venture Capital with UDDT
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Anne 2.0, Ensight, Techdirt, Venture Chronicles, The Doc Searls Weblog, Newsome.Org and imajes.info
Martin LaMonica / ZDNet:
IBM sets DB2 database free … IBM on Monday introduced a free version of its DB2 database, a move designed to win software developers over to its products. — DB2 Express-C is the same database as IBM's commercial offerings but the company places limits on what kind of hardware it can run on.
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Microsoft News Tracker
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
A Picture Says 1000 Words About Google's Censorship In China — Plenty are writing and writing about Google's agreement to censor results for China. But pictures perhaps better illustrate the differences that Google now endorses. — Google Images Censors Too in China from Google Blogoscoped shows …
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Search Engine Roundtable
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Google Blogoscoped:
How Much Did Google Agree to Censor? — How much does Google self-censor (or "filter", as they call it) in China? We don't know exactly, as Google doesn't tell us so far. — What we do know is that the Chinese gov't handed Google some sort of list of sites which should be censored.
tmcnet.com:
FOCUS: Blogs by Olympics participants to be banned+ — (Japan Economic Newswire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)TOKYO, Jan. 30_(Kyodo) _ The Japanese Olympic Committee is telling athletes competing at the Turin Winter Olympic Games not to open web logs because the Olympic Charter bans athletes …
Wikinews:
Congressional staff actions prompt Wikipedia investigation — Edits by Massachusetts congressman Marty Meehan's staff on his Wikipedia article spurred a Lowell Sun story and a subsequent Wikipedia investigation of all Internet addresses assigned to the Congress of the United States.
Computerworld:
Exemption for government BlackBerry users riles others facing shutdown — 'They're sticking it to private business,' says one CIO — JANUARY 26, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Government workers and emergency personnel would be exempt from a possible shutdown of BlackBerry wireless e-mail service in the U.S. …
