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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.
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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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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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TDavid / Things That:
Google Writelys a check — Writely an online wordprocessor with some collaboration features, which we reviewed back in September 2005 has become Google's newest acquisition. — Jen Mazzon from the Google Writely Team explains: … Originally Writely was in closed beta …
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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 " …
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.
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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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 …
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).
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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AT&T is Ripping Off American Soldiers — It's bad enough that they overcharge domestic customers but we have alternatives. The soldiers don't because, according to The Prepaid Press, AT&T has an EXCLUSIVE contract to put payphones in PXes in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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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.
Terry Heaton / Terry Heaton's Weblog:
Friday: NBC's flawed unbundled strategy — As it did with "Lazy Sunday," NBC demanded that youTube.com pull a Natalie Portman rap skit from its site this week. The network is offering these items via its own Website, thank you very much, and doesn't need or want anybody else to do it for them.
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.
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 …
Christopher Grant / Joystiq:
Ridge Racer 6 XBL demo here and gone and here again — Major Nelsonannounced that the demo for Ridge Racer 6 is available for download in the XBLM. — Wait, now it'sgone. He's gonna let us know when it's available again. — What's that? Check again? Alright... wow! It's backagain!
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Thumbstacks - Ajax/Flash Web PowerPoint — New York-based Thumbstacks is a bare bones but functional application that allows users to build presentations online and present them via a permanent URL. It uses both Flash and Ajax - it uses Flash if its installed, and defaults to Ajax if not.
Russell Shaw / IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband:
EXCLUSIVE: Seven ways that Skype is fumbling their Skype for Business launch — Early Thursday morning I received a press release from Skype's p.r. agency in which Skype mentioned its new Skype for Business solution. — On the face of it, Skype for Business sounds like a neat idea.
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!
AC/OS:
LinuxWorld football grudge match: Funambol vs. Alfresco/Juventus vs. Arsenal — For those who find LinuxWorld to be a bit dull, let's liven it up a bit. On Wednesday, April 5 (mid-week of LinuxWorld), my club, Arsenal, will play Juventus, Fabrizio's club, in the second leg of their Champions League Semi-Finals "tie."
Derrick Oien / User Generated Content:
Six Apart Acquires SplashBlog? — I got an email earlier today via Plaxo telling me that John Chaffe from SplashData makers of Splash Blog was the new director of mobile at Six Apart. I thought, hmm, that's curious, I don't recall any news about Splash Blog recently.
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