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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
The danger of not letting your bloggers know...  (more Origamisms)  —  What's the danger of not letting your internal bloggers know about your product release plans?  They might not be able to help keep your announcements in proper perspective.  But, that's OK.
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Marc Perton / Engadget:
Microsoft Origami tale continues to unfold
Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Microsoft mystery device is like iPod, and then some
Discussion: Joystiq and Lost Remote TV Blog
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Richard Siklos / New York Times:
CBS Intends to Ring In With Breaking News for a Subscription Fee  —  The CBS Corporation is expected to announce today the first subscription services that send news and entertainment alerts that include video clips to mobile phones.  They are part of a broad new strategy to sell wireless media products directly to consumers.
Gary Price / ResourceShelf:
Ask Jeeves Is Now Ask.com: New Look and New Features  —  So Long Mr. Jeeves, Ask.com is Here  —  Director of Online Information Resources, Ask.com  —  The big news today is that Ask Jeeves is relaunching their service with a new name and some new services.
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Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
Edgeio Launches  —  After much anticipation and a period of being available to a private audience the team at Edgeio took the covers off of their creation tonight and launched to the general public.  Edgeio takes listings (classifieds) from RSS-enabled sources and organizes them in a central location …
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Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
Exclusive Look At Google Payments  —  Google announced last week on their blog that they will begin to facilitate payments on Google Base in the near future.  The blog post from Google pointed out that Google are already accepting payments on their video service as well as when users purchase software …
Russ / Russell Beattie Notebook:
WTF 2.0  —  The worst thing about all the Web 2.0 hype is the complete loss of business perspective.  There's a few companies out there that seem to get it but just about every other new website I've seen lately is nothing but features parading as businesses.
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Jason / Signal vs. Noise:
Russell makes sense this time
Discussion: Business Logs
John Markoff / New York Times:
He Helped Build the iPod; Now He Has Built a Rival  —  PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 23 — When Samsung, the consumer electronics giant, decided to mount a serious challenge to Apple Computer's iPod music player early last year, it turned to a little-known Silicon Valley software start-up with a cluttered …
Computerworld:
Accidental e-mail congratulates 7,000 on admission to UC Berkeley law school  —  Lesson learned: Always be careful when hitting the 'send' button  —  FEBRUARY 24, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Edward Tom, director of admissions at the University of California, Berkeley, law school, was training a new office worker last week when it happened.
Ryan Block / Engadget:
WWJD 3 - Results!  —  So, what would Steve Jobs do?  We asked last week, and we took your answers in the form of over three hundred and fifty photoshopped mockups.  We had acouple of Newtons, a ton of tablets, and a huge swarm of video iPods — and a ton of miscellaneous stuff that bothamused …
Discussion: HD Beat and The Tao of Mac
Wired News:
The Money Shot  —  What's cooler than seeing a giant sea turtle up close in the wild?  Watching a giant sea turtle in 3-D on a nine-story-tall Imax screen while sucking down popcorn and a Sprite.  This shot required the makers of Deep Sea 3D to lug a special 1,200-pound stereo-vision camera 150 feet below the surface.
Tim Doyle / Forbes:
No Go For TV-To-Go?  —  The creators of Slingbox, a nifty gadget that lets consumers watch their home TV on any computer screen with an Internet connection, have another clever idea: Let consumers watch their home TV on handheld devices.  —  One catch, though: In order for Sling Media's mobile service …
Discussion: MobHappy
Cisco Cheng / Gearlog:
Art Lebedev's Mus2 Wireless Mouse  —  Some of you probably heard of the cool new Optimus OLED keyboard from the famous Russian designer.  But if expensive keyboards aren't your cup of tea, try the sleek looking Mus2 mouse from Art Lebedev's studio.  —  It's a two button mouse …
Discussion: Gizmodo and Engadget
Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Huge Honking Display Array  —  The Zenview Command Center Elite by digitaltigers straps together six 24-inch 1920x1200 Samsung LCD panels, giving you a gigantic combined display that's 66 inches wide and 29 inches high with a honking 5760x2400 resolution.  However, there is a catch to creating such supreme graphiosity.
Discussion: Engadget and HD Beat
Mitch Ratcliffe / Rational rants:
Network Neutrality: The PR blitz is underway  —  The network neutrality war is just starting to heat up.  A campaign to make new fees for existing Internet services palatable is underway.  At stake is the ability of the Internet to scale from the edges or a surrender and return …

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