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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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Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
NEW GOOGLE TOOLBAR - VERSION 4 — Google is about to release a new version of its toolbar. According to this features page, it will include: — Enhanced search box - will suggest spelling corrections, popular searches, bookmarks and search history as you type into it
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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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Alexbarn / Alex Barnett blog:ATTENTION ENGINES NOT JUST FOR THE GEEKOSPHERE
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Is TiVo next on Cisco's push into homes? — news analysis If its history of acquisitiveness is a guide, computer networking king Cisco Systems will likely buy a number of companies as it expands into the consumer electronics market. — Already Cisco has announced plans to spend $6.9 billion on cable set-top maker Scientific-Atlanta.
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.
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.
USA Today:
Bowl marketers think small — NEW YORK — This year, Super Bowl ads will be anywhere you want them to be: on TV during the game, on the Web, on your iPod, even on your wireless phone. — Many Super Bowl advertisers, looking to get more bang for their bucks, will take their ads from the Big Game to a lot of small screens.
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.
Anne 2.0:
Why Venture Capitalists Are Doomed — Dave Winer offers his suggestions for reforming the VC industry. Mathew Ingram disagrees with Dave and says "venture capital didn't create the bubble." Other opinions from the bloke-o-sphere can be found here, here, here and... oh, why don't you just go look on tech.memeorandum for the latest.
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Techdirt, Venture Chronicles, Doc Searls' IT Garage, Message, Newsome.Org and Fractals of Change
Matt / geekpatrol.ca:
Geekbench Comparison — Introduction — A while ago we (finally) released a preview version of Geekbench, our cross-platform benchmarking tool. I thought it was about time we put Geekbench to use and compare the performance of a variety of machines. Even though the tests in Geekbench …
Sandy Brown / TheStreet.com:
DirecTV, EchoStar Bundle Up — Rupert Murdoch's DirecTV (DTV:NYSE - news - research - Cramer's Take) is linking up with rival EchoStar Communications (DISH:Nasdaq - news - research - Cramer's Take) to launch a nationwide wireless broadband network, TheStreet.com has learned.
InsideGoogle:
SUPER RSS TOOLS — Today I had to dig a little deeper into the world of RSS. I'm preparing a Live.com environment for a potential customer and I needed tools to convert dynamic HTML pages (search queries) into RSS feeds so I could add them into Microsoft's feed collector.
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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Vcmike / Mike's Blog:
Why Polaris is backing Heavy.com — I recently made an investment in Heavy.com, one of the leading broadband video sites. Why did we invest? — Although pure "content" deals like this are a little atypical in the VC world, my partners and I found Heavy to be a pretty compelling investment opportunity.
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.
biosmagazine.co.uk:
Grandstream Networks IP Video Phone — This new video phone by Grandstream Networks is powered by Texas Instruments' programmable DSPs and promises to deliver crisper images and better usability. — The GXV-3000 is based on the SIP standard. It features the latest H.264 real-time video codec …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
HP debuts water-cooling system — Hewlett-Packard plans to begin selling a water-cooling system next week to address the power and heat problems that new technology inflicts on computer administrators. — The Modular Cooling System attaches to the side of an HP rack of computing gear …
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
The Voices in My Headset — It's become something of a running joke in our apartment: when my girlfriend Amy returns home to find me sitting on the couch, she inevitably asks, "Who are these friends that you're talking to?" But no one is there - I've been talking to the voices piped …
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