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Harry McCracken / PC World's Techlog:
Riya's Amazing Face-Recognition Photo Search  —  DEMO is less than half over, so it's too early to talk about my own unofficial Best of Show award...but so far, I haven't seen anything that impressed me more than Riya.  This photo sharing/search site does something quite remarkable …
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Erick Schonfeld / B2Day:
Slurping Up the Buzz at Demo  —  B2.0's Michael Copeland files the following report from Demo:  —  The bad skits, the technical flubs, the cool products and services, it's all here again at Demo 2006.  For those who aren't familiar with the twice a year conference, Demo is sort …
Miss Rogue / HorsePigCow:
DEMO 06: Morning Report  —  Quickie notes from DEMO 06...more detailed reporting can be found at Conferenza...  The theme for this year's conference is:  —  Simplify Simplify - Thoreau  —  Nice.  Simple is good...  Presenter #1 - MooBella  —  Ice Cream vending machine.  Linux based.
Business Wire:
A9.com Names David Tennenhouse Chief Executive Officer  —  PALO ALTO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Feb. 7, 2006—A9.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMZN - News), today named Dr. David Tennenhouse the company's new Chief Executive Officer.  —  Tennenhouse is a renowned technologist and seasoned executive.
Discussion: InsideGoogle
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
UPDATED: UDI MANBER TO LEAVE AMAZON'S A9 FOR GOOGLE  —  A reader tipped me to this over the weekend, but I could not confirm it till just this afternoon, and out of respect for the folks who worked with and for Udi, I decided not to post without confirmation.  I pinged five other sources since, and Udi confirmed this afternoon.
Harold / wetmachine.com:
STOP THE WIFI TAX RUMOR  —  Freaking trade press should know better, or at least learn to read more carefully.  There is a steady drum beat of reports, starting I think with this one at RCR Wireless News that the President wants a "wifi tax."  This is, bluntly, a misreading of the plain language of the President's budget proposal.
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Official Google Blog:
Chat + Email = Crazy Delicious  —  When we launched Google Talk, some people told us what a great idea it'd be to add chat to Gmail.  True that.  So a couple of us Google Talk engineers approached the Gmail team.  They were excited about the idea, and we got to work immediately …
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Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Net Neutrality Not An Optional Feature of Internet  —  The Senate Commerce Committee is currently holding hearings on Net Neutrality.  Webcast .  The Bells are not be directly represented, cable companies views will be shared by Kyle McSlarrow, NCTA President and CEO.
Marco Iacoboni / edge.org:
The Story of an Instant-Science Experiment  —  Science has generally a very slow pace.  It typically takes months — if not years — to complete an experiment.  Today, at the UCLA Brain Mapping Center, my associates Jonas Kaplan, Eric Mooshagian, and Stephen Wilson performed under my supervision …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
CableCARD: a primer  —  Introduction  —  We know that you'd like nothing better than to get rid of that set-top box sitting on your DVD player.  It's ugly, it's clunky, and it has its own remote.  Extra cables snake about the back of your entertainment center, providing ideal conditions …
Discussion: eHomeUpgrade
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Is a blog without comments still a blog?  —  Blogger and Yahoo employee Russell Beattie has been taking a fair bit of flack for removing comments from his blog - and seems more than a little defensive about it, from what I can see.  Fair enough.  As he points out, it's his blog and he can run it however he wants to.
Ryan Block / Engadget:
The winners of the 2005 Engadget Awards!  —  Ah yes, the Engadget Awards!  All the glitzand glamor of the Oscars, but without all that Best Acting stuff — only technical achievements here, people — themost interesting, innovative, feature-rich gadgets 2005 had to offer.
Cisco Cheng / PC Magazine:
Toshiba Announces New Line of Business Notebooks  —  Toshiba is set to tackle the mobile workforce by launching a set of new business notebooks.  They will feature the highly anticipated Intel Core Duo and Core Solo processors, along with all the technology that goes with the Intel 945GM chipset.
Discussion: Gearlog and Engadget
Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Dell testing preinstalled Google software package  —  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Dell Inc. and Google Inc. confirmed on Tuesday they are testing a pre-installed package of Google software on Dell computers, in a potential blow to Microsoft Corp.'s dominance of desktop software.
Discussion: Guardian Unlimited
Seth Godin / Seth's Blog:
Making your numbers  —  See the woman on your right?  She's cheating.  —  When you use a Stairmaster, you can score higher numbers by using your arms for support.  This technique allows you to work out at a higher number.  —  Ridiculous.  —  Ridiculous because the number has nothing to do with her fitness.
Discussion: A VC and Geek News Central …

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