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Linda A. Epstein / tabletpc2.com:
Hands On - First Look at the Tablet Kiosk V-700 — Ultra-Mobile PC
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slingmedia.com:
Sling Media Announces Support for new Ultra-Mobile PC — Hannover, Germany - March 9, 2006 —Sling Media, Inc., a digital lifestyle products company, today announced a customized version of its SlingPlayer software, designed specifically for products based on the Ultra-Mobile PC.
Chris Pratley / Chris Pratley's OneNote Blog:
OneNote and Origami — You may have heard some of the buzz about the Origami project - an ultra-mobile PC initiative that Microsoft is spearheading. You can learn more about it here. In summary it is a lightweight (<2lb) kind of Tablet PC with a touch screen which you can use with your fingernail or any pointed object.
Dennis Rice / GottaBeMobile.com:Ultra-Mobile PC Accessories are coming out....
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Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:
The Writely Raspberry — Check out Memeorandum on Google's Writely acquisition. If you expand the discussion area, pretty much the entire first page becomes Google-bought-Writely nattering. To my subjective way of looking at things, Writely is officially the most buzzed-about story in recent blog-o-sphere history.
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Jason / Signal vs. Noise:
What Google's acquisition of Writely means — Jason Mar 10 — Google just bought a great product in Writely. Writely was one of the best executed products I've seen in a while. But what does the acquisition mean? — There's plenty of talk about Google building up a full office suite.
Phil Sim / Squash:
Google 'Lighthouse?' centre of the online universe — One of things that came out of the Google Analyst briefing presentation was a project Google is working on called Lighthouse. — This is what we were able to glean: … And: … Richard McManus speculated that it might be a " …
Forbes:
#1 William Gates III — Residence: Medina, Washington, United States, North America — Microsoft's chief visionary moving further away from day-to-day corporate work. For the first time did not offer a strategy outlook at last year's financial analyst meeting.
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#27 Larry Page — Residence: San Francisco, California, United States, North America — University of Michigan, Bachelor of Arts / Science — Stanford University, Master of Science — With partner Sergey Brin, billionaire founders inspiration behind quirky, smarty-pants culture of Google.
Bruce Stewart / O'Reilly Emerging Telephony:
AT&T Gouging U.S. Soldiers in Iraq — Tom Evslin's Fractals of Change has posted an explosive piece about the way AT&T is handling their exclusive contract to install payphones in Iraq and how much they're charging American soldiers to call home. Would you believe twenty one cents per minute??
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Damien Barrett / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Another Roadblock in Dual-Booting Mac OS X & Vista — Thosehoping to be able to dual-boot the Intel Macs once Microsoft ships Vista (late this year?) may have to wait a bitlonger. Today, Dan Warne of APC Magazinereported that Microsoft has announced that the first version of Vista …
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Jensenh / Jensen Harris:
Beauty and the Geek — Today I present guest writer Brad Weed, Product Design Manager of the Office Design Group. He leads the team of designers responsible for the new Office 2007 skins I introduced yesterday. — Today's Guest Writer: Brad Weed — Coming off the season finale …
Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Lover's Cups — Jackie Lee and Hyemin Chung of MIT Media Lab have a great project called Lover's Cups, a wireless-enabled pair of drinking glasses. Each cup can tell when someone is drinking from the other; when both are being used they glow to "celebrate this virtual kiss".
Michele / Kevin Kelly:
Consensus Web Filters — What's new? — Like a lot of people, I find that the web is becoming my main source of news. Some of the sites I read are published by individuals, but I find the most informative sites are those published by groups of writers/editors/correspondents, including those put out by Main Steam Media (MSM).
Richard Siklos / New York Times:
Amazon Considering Downloads — Amazon.com is in talks with three Hollywood studios about starting a service that would allow consumers to download movies and TV shows for a fee and burn them onto DVD's, according to three people briefed on the discussions.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
SkypeMe Your eBay Bids — When eBay bought Skype last year for a whopping $4.1 billion ($2.6 billion in stock/cash and rest as an earn out) my theory is that the first step in integration of the two companies would be adding a Skype Me feature for all sellers on the eBay system. Well, time to say, told you so.
Russell Buckley / MobHappy:
Who Gave Google Permission to be the Judge and Jury of Mobile Content? — Big Picture Advertising pointed to an entry on the Google Blog that I must have missed first time around. — If you use your mobile to search for something with Google and then click through to that site …
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PaidContent.org, JD on EP, Web Publishing Blog, Search Engine Watch Blog and mobile content news
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Didn't Get That Wedding Gift? Blame The Search Engines! — Search engines are appearing to be indexing gift registries and ranking them well enough to be found by unsuspecting online consumers. This causes the registry to show that people have ordered an item or two that the bride and groom have never received.
Jennifer DeLeo / Gearlog:
These Dada Sneakers Were Made For...Music — Move over Oakley Thump MP3 sunglasses. There's a new wearable MP3 system to stomp the competition. — Dada Footwear is launching a wireless footwear system dubbed, "Code M." The Code M System delivers both audio and data—through your sneakers!
Evan Blass / Engadget:
Panasonic announces 4GB SDHC SD card — We're not sure why they keepworking on ancient memory card formats like SecureDigital (if it's not thumbnail-sized or smaller, we're notinterested), but advances in this venerable format continue unabated, with cards now trickling out that support the newSDHC …
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