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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Exclusive Screenshots: Google Calendar — I've gotten possession of screenshots from Google's long delayed new Ajax calendar application, which will be called "CL2″ (the CL2 login screen is here). It was only a matter of time before someone broke down and leaked these …
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Chris Sherman / Search Engine Watch:
Microsoft Launches Windows Live Search Beta — Microsoft has added search to its suite of online services dubbed Windows Live, introducing a number of new features and enhancements including an updated version of Live.com and a Windows Live Toolbar. — Windows Live Search complements MSN search …
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Ben Charny / PC Magazine:
Microsoft Revs Up New Search Engine — Microsoft said it will soon offer a search engine that is better, faster and more curious than previous versions. — The beta version debuts at Microsoft's www.Live.com on March 8. The beta, and a revision expected in a few months …
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Cameron's Brain
Macworld:
Cebit: Samsung shows its first Origami device — Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is showing the first device designed around Microsoft Corp.'s Origami project at the Cebit electronics show in Germany. It is a handheld computer that falls somewhere between a tablet PC and a PDA and runs a special edition of Windows XP.
Wall Street Journal:
Verizon Hits Hurdles in Fiber-Optic Bet — Verizon's plan for a new network of fiber-optic cable has hit hurdles, but CEO Seidenberg remains certain that the high-speed lines are crucial to win the race to supply TV, Internet and voice services bundled into one package. — GM Slid as Bosses Misjudged Urban Tastes
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VoIP & Gadgets Blog
Marc / O'Reilly Radar:
Entrepreneurial Proverbs — I gave a talk at ETech on Monday called "Entrepreneuring for Geeks." I've given this general talk a few times now — how can the more technically minded among us move into making companies of our own? I really enjoy the talks because I really enjoy entrepreneurs …
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Signal vs. Noise
Dave Caolo / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Colbert Report, Daily Show in iTunes — As of earlier thismorning (8:00 AM EST), there is a page for both The Colbert Report [iTunes link] and theDaily Show [iTunesLink] in the iTunes Music Store, though they still do not contain any available episodes. — The sale ofthese shows is being handled a bit differently.
Wall Street Journal:
A New Way to Avoid the Video Store — We Review Digital Gadget — Prestocked With 100 Films; — Selection Is a Drawback — After a long day at work, there's something calming about filling a bowl with popcorn and watching a movie at home. But the experience can be diminished …
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IPcentral Weblog
Mail&Guardian:
Brain-controlled device could help the disabled — Researchers in Berlin have come a step closer to developing a device that will enable people to write and manipulate objects by reading their mind. — The so-called mental typewriter that translates thoughts into cursor movements …
Shel / a shel of my former self:
What I said — 3:40 a.m. is an ungodly time to be answering questions fired at your through and earpiece while staring into the bright lights of a camera. Intrepid communicator that I am, though, I undertook the challenge—with only one cup of coffee in me, no less—when I answered questions this morning on CNBC's Squawk Box.
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gizmag.co.uk:
Hot-swappable micro Fuel Cell System can run laptop for two days — March 8, 2006 UltraCell demonstrated its UltraCell XX25 micro fuel cell system at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco today. Powered by a reformed methanol fuel cell technology, the UltraCell XX25 is a pre-production unit designed for the military.
Fred / A VC:
The Future of Media (continued) — I said in my Future of Media post that they key to media in the online world was four things: — 1 - Microchunk it - Reduce the content to its simplest form. — 2 - Free it - Put it out there without walls around it or strings on it.
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft readying Vista marketing blitz — SAN FRANCISCO—Aiming to re-create the excitement that accompanied the launch of Windows 95, Microsoft is gearing up for a massive campaign to launch Windows Vista. — Chairman Bill Gates has tasked the Windows marketing team with repeating …
Ryan Singel / Wired News:
Build Your Own PVR, Then Trash It — First, the good news. Plummeting storage costs and the availability of special hardware have finally made it cheap and easy to shrug off the shackles of TiVo and build your own personal video recorder out of an old PC.
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PVR Wire
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
ETech 2006 Trip Report: Simple Bridge-building — These are my notes from the Simple Bridge-building session by Ray Ozzie. — Ray started of by talking about how he sees RSS as having the potential to be the connective tissue between web sites. The increased usage of RSS and mashups …
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Tim Oren / Due Diligence:
Cui Bono? A Case in Point: Yahoo! — Earlier I concluded that the beneficiaries of the 'Web 2.0' movement would be Yahoo!, Google, and other large services platforms. I had not anticipated how well some of today's events at the eTech '06 conference would make the point for me.
Jennifer Slegg / Search Engine Watch Blog:
TeraGoogle, Google's Social Search Aspirations & More From Accidentally Released Analyst Day Notes — Imagine Google "as ubiquitous as brushing your teeth." That's how Google would like you to think of them, at least according to notations accidentally released in their Analyst Day PowerPoint slides.
Melanie Tan / mobilemag.com:
Seagate launches new hard drives at IDF — It's raining hard drives from Seagate folks. — At the upcoming Intel Developer Forum in the United States, Seagate is all set to launch not one or two, but four different types of hard drives. Let' get to it shall we?
IGN:
Top 10 Tuesday: Most Memorable Villains — Meet the faces of evil. — March 7, 2006 - Welcome to IGN's weekly countdown of the exceptional, fascinating, and absurd: something we like to call Top 10 Tuesday. Every week we'll feature the top ten games, characters, fashion statements …