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Earthling / EarthLink blog:
Helio Detailfest 2006: MySpace Partnership and Two New Phones — I've been begging Helio since I first got their number in November to give me a hint about which phones and services they'd be supporting. Today, they are announcing some of what will be available when they launch their service later this Spring.
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Matthew Maier / CNN:
MySpace unwired — News Corp.'s youth-oriented Web portal extends its influence into the wireless world. — SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0) - MySpace.com, the website that has become a nationwide craze, is headed to a mobile phone near you. — If you aren't familiar with MySpace …
Wall Street Journal:
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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Henry Blodget / Internet Outsider:
Amazon Music Strategy a Wrong Turn — The WSJ reported Amazon's plans to offer an Amazon-branded iPod competitor and digital music download store. I haven't done much work in this area yet, so please weigh in, but this strikes me as a startlingly bad move.
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David Card
Jessica Holzer / Forbes:
Chinese Delicacy — WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yahoo!, Microsoft, Google and Cisco: conduits of free speech or accomplices to torture and oppression? Some folks on Capitol Hill would have you believe the latter. — On Wednesday in a charged hearing before the House subcommittee on human rights …
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InsideGoogle
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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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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 …
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 …
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.
John C. Dvorak / PC Magazine:
Will Apple Adopt Windows? — This would be the most phenomenal turnabout in the history of desktop computing. There's just one fly in the ointment. — Total posts: 15 — The idea that Apple would ditch its own OS for Microsoft Windows came to me from Yakov Epstein …
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.
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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Search Engine Watch Blog
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.
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Office Evolution, Web 2.0 Explorer, mathewingram.com/work, LiveSide and Signal vs. Noise
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.
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 …
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 …
Robert X. Cringely / pbs.org:
BYOB: — Don't be surprised if Apple saves the day for Blockbuster Video — Poor Blockbuster Video hasn't made a profit in years, the stock is down about 90 percent from its 2002 high, NetFlix is cleaning its clock, and nobody - I mean NOBODY - thinks the future looks in any way rosy for this pioneering video rental chain.
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog
