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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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Jeff Clavier's Software Only, down the avenue, Washington Post, Scobleizer, the j. botter weblog and Conferenza
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Jeff Clavier / Jeff Clavier's Software Only:DEMO 2006: Day One - Morning — Since the WIFI network …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:A Taste of DEMO 2006 — DEMO 2006: 70 companies gather …
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Rex Hammock's Weblog
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.
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InsideGoogle
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Allison Linn / Associated Press:
Amazon.com Unit Exec Takes Post at Google — Udi Manber Leaves Post at Amazon.com Subsidiary to Become Google's Vice President of Engineering — SEATTLE (AP) — The head of Amazon.com Inc.'s online search effort is leaving to join Google Inc., the latest in a series of high-profile hires for the search engine leader.
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Silicon Valley Sleuth
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.
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.
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May Wong / Associated Press:
Apple Expands IPod Line, Cuts Some Prices — Apple Computer Adds to IPod Products With New 1-Gigabyte Version of Nano, Lower-Priced Shuffles — SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — As competitors continue leaving the portable audio player market, Apple Computer Inc. beefed up its iPod product mix Tuesday …
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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.
Steve Friess / Wired News:
Podfading Takes Its Toll — Ryan and Jen Ozawa were riding high on the iTunes charts, enjoying a much-envied following of more than 15,000 listeners for their weekly Lost-themed podcast, The Transmission. — Then, in a plot twist worthy of the hit TV show itself, the Hawaii-based couple suddenly marooned …
BBC:
Google takes aim at chat rivals — Google is to integrate its popular e-mail service with instant messaging, allowing users to chat and send e-mails from the same web browser window. — The company hopes the new feature, known as Gmail Chat, will attract users by offering instant messaging without having to use a separate program.
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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 …
Tim Wu / Slate:
Weapons of Business Destruction — How a tiny little "patent troll" got BlackBerry in a headlock. — What would happen if a rogue actor managed to get hold of a powerful patent and threatened to detonate it and destroy e-mail as we know it? You'd have the BlackBerry NTP v. RIM case—the tech world's very own Dr. Strangelove.
microsoft.com:
Microsoft Announces Pricing and Licensing Details for Windows OneCare Live — Promotional price offered to early testers of all-in-one PC care service slated for June 2006 release. — REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 7, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced final licensing and pricing information …
Fred Wilson / Union Square Ventures:
Why We Invested in FeedBurner — Last October, I wrote a post called "The Lady Doth Protest Too Much" in which I told the following story: … The company in that story is FeedBurner, a company that I have been a customer of, a fan of, and a believer in for over two years.
John Cook / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Zillow unveils home values — Online startup's tool will estimate worth of properties — The mystery is over. — After more than a year of keeping tight wraps on his heavily funded startup, former Expedia Chief Executive Rich Barton today will disclose how his 75-person company …
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.
