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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Hands-on with the Samsung Q1 / Origami — So we managed to get our hands on a Samsung Q1 / Origami device set to roll tomorrow here at CeBIT. Don't ask how,but it'll be awhile before we recover from the brutal caning we just received. From the five minutes we spent with itwe can tell you …
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GottaBeMobile.com, Techdirt, Life On the Wicked Stage, Scobleizer, PalmAddicts and Geek News Central …
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Jennifer Guevin / CNET News.com:
Bloggers' Origami dreams crumpled — For weeks, gadget lovers have been dreaming of Origami—and they've been dreaming big. CNET News.com got the chance to tinker with a few prototypes of the highly anticipated series of devices expected from Intel and Microsoft today at the Intel Developer Forum.
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Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Rumors: Origami Just a Glorified Media Player with Nasty DRM? — In the comments for yesterday's Origami revealed post, strangeweather said: … So yeah, minitablet, minischmablet—Origami sounds like a glorified media player to us. So it's got Microsoft's imprimatur on it; big whoop, right?
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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.
Nicole Wong / Official Google Blog:
Update: Lane's Gifts v. Google — You may remember that last February, Google was sued in Arkansas over what is commonly called click fraud. We're very near a resolution in that case, so we thought we'd offer an update. — We've been discussing the case with the plaintiffs …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Agrees To $90 Million Settlement In Class Action Lawsuit Over Click Fraud — Search Engine Watch has learned that Google has agreed to a $90 million settlement fund in the class action lawsuit that by Lane's Gifts & Collectibles that came to light last April (see also this for background).
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Techdirt, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, SEO Consultant Esoos Bobnar and Make Money Online …
Henry Blodget / Internet Outsider:
Google Click-Fraud Settlement VERY Material
Google Click-Fraud Settlement VERY Material
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Quinn Norton / Wired News:
Porn Billing Leak Exposes Buyers — Seventeen million customers of the online payment service iBill have had their personal information released onto the internet, where it's been bought and sold in a black market made up of fraud artists and spammers, security experts say.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Google, Writely In Talks? — So you all know that Google's got designs for a G:Drive and doing an end run around Microsoft? Now what if you can simply store and save data on that drive, but that's not clearly as much fun. What if you could write a document in a browser …
Phil Windley / Between the Lines:
Following the path from intention to attention — I've been sitting in ETech for the past few days being bombarded with ideas about attention. These have ranged from the profane to the profound. Dan Farber described the whole thing as amorphous. While I was busy chronicling what people were saying …
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 …
Phil Sim / Squash:
Poor Web 2.0 fools — Is it starting to become obvious to people yet, that 99.9 per cent of these Web 2.0 consumer plays WILL die? — TechCrunch reviews the upcoming Google Calendar. If you valued one of the squillion of Web Calendering apps on the market at $10 yesterday, write them down to a cent today.
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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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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Andrew / Traffick:
Google Launches Demographic Site Targeting for Adwords — Was the timing of this move affected by all the noise made by MSN AdCenter at the recent SES Conference? (These chicks would probably say yes.) — A box inside your AdWords account announces: "Want to reach 18-24 year-olds, or women with children?
Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
TiVo to Offer Subscription Only Pricing Model, HDTV Series Three TiVo Due Out "After Mid Year" and Lifetime Service Option to be Eliminated — TiVo CEO Tom Rogers, along with CFO David Courtney (who is leaving the company in April) and VP of Finance Stuart West, briefed financial analysts on TiVo's latest quarter this afternoon.
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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Darwinian Web, cubicgarden.com, Software as services, C. Enrique Ortiz … and Guardian Unlimited
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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