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Amazon Plans Music Service To Rival iPod — In recent years, Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Jeff Bezos has explained his company's deliberately paced approach to the digital-music business by saying he wants to avoid simply imitating the dominant player in the field, Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes Music Store.
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Joining the Edelman Me2 Revolution — Change is what life's all about. Sometimes it's planned, other times it falls in your lap. — When I first began to dabble with blogs as a communications tool over two years ago I saw change, but I didn't know what it was.
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Associated Press:
Tech's China Policy a 'Disgrace' — Lawmakers blasted four U.S. tech giants Wednesday, accusing them of willingly helping China suppress dissent in return for access to a booming internet market. — Representatives from Microsoft, Yahoo, Cisco Systems. and Google defended themselves …
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Jessica Holzer / Forbes:Chinese Delicacy — WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yahoo!, Microsoft …
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Alec / Alec Saunders .LOG:
Aliens are Calling Me From Nevada: Area775 Debuts — You've got to hand it to Michael Robertson. He certainly has a sense of humor. Area775 is his new calling service for SIPPhone and Gizmo customers. The press release hit the wire about an hour ago. Sign up today, and you can have …
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Business Wire:
SIPphone Offers Free U.S. Telephone Numbers Which Ring Computer and Mobile Identity; New Area775 Service is First to Link VOIP and Traditional Phone System — SAN DIEGO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Feb. 16, 2006—SIPphone today announced Area775, a new VOIP service where one personal phone number can ring a landline …
Arn / Mac Rumors:
The First Mac OS X Virus? (A New OS X Trojan) — On the evening of the 13th, an unknown user posted an external link to a file on MacRumors Forums claiming to be the latest Leopard Mac OS X 10.5 screenshots. The file was named "latestpics.tgz" — The resultant file decompresses …
microsoft.com:
Customers to Receive Better Solutions and More Product Options With 2007 Microsoft Office Release — New and improved programs, servers and services will give customers unparalleled flexibility. — REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 15, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the lineup …
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Marc Perton / Engadget:
Linux boots on Intel iMacs — If you want to run Windows onyour Intel-based iMac, you may havea long wait. However, if your goal is to just run an OS other than Mac OS X, you're in luck. The enterprising teamat the Mactel-Linux project have claimed at least partial victory …
Enid Burns / ClickZ:
Local Search to Hit $13B by 2010 — The global online local search market, which includes Internet Yellow Pages, local search and wireless, is set to grow from the $3.4 billion it brought in last year to nearly $13 billion by 2010. That's according to a new forecast by the Kelsey Group.
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Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Fakin' It: A Marketer Intends to Tease Consumers — EVEN among the countless bits of gimmickry taking up space on the Internet, the ads for Pherotones did look a little fake. — "Can my ring tones make you sexy?" read one ad posted last month on the Hollywood gossip blog Egotastic.com …
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Wanted: Critical Windows Flaw ... Reward: $10,000 — iDefense, the Reston, Va.-based vulnerability research company recently bought up by Verisign Inc., is offering $10,000 to any hackers who can find a previously unknown security hole in Microsoft's Windows operating system.
variety.com:
A pause in the action — Studios cut PSP titles — Sony's PlayStation Portable isn't turning out to be the hot new movie platform many in the biz had hoped. — With sales falling below expectations, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Paramount Home Entertainment and Warner Home Video are cutting back on movie releases for the PSP.
Russell Shaw / IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband:
So where's the VoIP in Office Live? — I have been touring Microsoft's new kind of hosted Office Live beta. — What a waste of server space. Or, as my colleague Phil Wainewright rightly says: … And to that, I add: where's the VoIP? — Seems to me the Office Live Mail feature could really use a click-to-talk button.
Jason / Signal vs. Noise:
LAUNCH: Campfire, easy group chat for business — Jason Feb 16 — 132 comments Latest by Security... Today we officially announce the launch of Campfire, our simple real-time web-based group chat tool for business. We've been using it internally for the last 45 days or so and it's become …
sev.prnewswire.com:
Walt Disney World Resort Moves Mountains to Celebrate New Expedition Everest Attraction — NEW YORK, Feb. 15 /PRNewswire/ — New York City's famed Times Square was transformed into the legendary Mount Everest on Feb. 15 by Walt Disney World Resort. A 57-story spectacular brought the Himalayas to life …
Walter S. Mossberg / WSJ Personal Technology:
ESPN Cellphone Has Great Sports Content But Many Trade-Offs — When you think of U.S. wireless phone carriers, the name ESPN hardly leaps to mind alongside Verizon, Cingular, Sprint and T-Mobile. But this month, ESPN joined their ranks, sort of. It leapt into the cellphone business …
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I4U News:
P2POD - P2P HDTV Media Player — AHT International based in the Netherlands will demonstrate at the CeBit 2006 the P2POD - a P2P media streaming box. — The P2POD box uses software technology developed by the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft). Their peer-to-peer based solution allows …
Nick / Rough Type:
Wikipedia and open source — While most of the discussion at this week's Open Source Business Conference was refreshingly pragmatic, focused on the commercial role and prospects of open source software, there were a few more cosmic moments. Notably, Mitch Kapor brought a bit of Wikimania …
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Oracle's open source rollup — I had the pleasure of speaking this week at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco (my enigmatic slides are here, if you're interested). The conference was well timed, set against the backdrop of Oracle's audacious rollup of open source firms.
