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Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Memo Outlines Microsoft's Plans — The Redmond giant details the progress of Windows Live — and points to a slew of new services on the way — Last November, Microsoft (MSFT) Chairman Bill Gates kicked off what he called the era of "Live software," saying he'd unveil a host of new ways for consumers …
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Jessi Hempel / Business Week:
eBay's Affinity for Meetup.com — The online auctioneer has a lot in common with the virtual community site, so it took a nibble — The online auction colossus has caught a dose of community activism. On Mar. 9, eBay (EBAY) joined five other investors to purchase a minority share in community Web site Meetup.com.
PC World:
CeBIT: Samsung Shows Flash-Disk-Based Laptop — Company continues to develop more stable solid-state disks. — HANOVER, GERMANY — Samsung Electronics has developed a higher-capacity version of its solid-state disk, a flash-memory-based replacement for hard disks, and is showing it here at the CeBIT technology show.
Tom Burton / Sydney Morning Herald:
Online buying frenzy as big business swoops on sites — CHRIS SHARKEY is 23. He has just got a cool $6 million plus, his share from the sale of a holiday house booking website, Stayz. — Four years ago, having just graduated from high school in Newcastle, his teacher parents were keen for Chris to attend university.
Tom Foremski / IMHO:
SAP's Jeff Nolan says his mission is to disrupt Oracle — [Part 2 of my meeting with Jeff Nolan, one of SAP's key strategists. He runs the Apollo Group, a strategy and communications organization within SAP that is sometimes referred to as the "Attack Oracle" group.]
Steve Gillmor / Steve Gillmor's InfoRouter:
The A Team — Now that I've gotten that off my chest, a few words about the Attention Economy land grab this week (continuing thru next Wednesday at Esther's conference.) Thanks to Esther for pointing out that Michael Goldhaber (Einstein of Attention) started talking about this in Release 1.0. in 1992.
Burt Helm / Business Week:
Gauging Google's Gaffes — The settlement of a class action underscores concerns over how the search king is communicating about click fraud — and other pressing issues — Google (GOOG) boasts some of the Internet's hottest technology and biggest brains. Even after a recent stock drop, it's still got an enviable market cap.
Yahoo! Search blog:
Achtung Maybe: Report from the ETech Attention Zone — O'Reilly's fifth Emerging Technology Conference wrapped up in San Diego on Thursday. The weather was unsettled and unseasonably cool, but it never put a chill on the flow of big ideas or diminished the quality of conversation in the conference rooms …
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Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab, Guardian Unlimited, Second Life Future Salon and Smart Mobs
Kate Kaye / ClickZ:
As Local Paid Search Grows, Local Media to Battle Big Search Engines — Paid search advertising by local advertisers is poised to more than double this year to $987 million, and nearly double again in '07. That's according to the "2006 Local Search Advertising" report from research firm Borrell Associates …
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jkOnTheRun:
jkOnTheRun exclusive- ALLTP lists the TabletKiosk M-700 — I have received word from Allegiance Technology Partners (ALLTP) that they are taking orders for the new TabletKiosk M-700 UMPC. The base price is $899 with 256 MB of RAM and a 40 GB hard drive. If you want to add more memory …
Dave White / mobilemag.com:
Pretec expands i-Disk offerings — CeBIT is off and running with fascinating and scintillating new product announcements, and Pretec is no exception. The makers of i-Disk Tiny and i-Disk Diamond are taking the wraps off two exciting flash drives, one with a mobile phone bridge …
Dave Winer / Dave's Wordpress Blog:
River of Meme-O-Randum? — I just had one of those AHA moments, when something clicked into place, and the only question is how to share the idea, because this is one that's just begging to be shared. — So I called Scoble, to make sure I wasn't out of my mind, and he got excited and said "You're onto something."
Rob Sabin / soundandvisionmag.com:
Blu-ray to Debut May 23 — Simultaneous release of first Sony titles and Samsung player — March 6 - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) now says it will release its first Blu-ray high-definition discs on May 23 — the same day the first Blu-ray player goes on sale.
John Paczkowski / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
New from Google Labs: Microsoft Office Live — Google's leaders can finally stop pretending that the company doesn't have designs on Microsoft's core PC software business. On Thursday, the search sovereign said it had acquired Upstartle, makers of Writely, a browser-based word processing application.
Enid Burns / ClickZ:
Paid Search Spawns 'Drafting' and 'Hijacking' Strategies — Competitiveness in the emerging paid search landscape spawns controversial tactics such as the two practices loosely termed "hijacking" and "drafting" by some industry insiders. While some search engine marketing (SEM) …
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Entrepreneurs in France - impressive startups — France has entrepreneurs and startup companies equal in quality and leadership to any we see in Boston, New York, or Silicon Valley. This week we were in Paris meeting with VCs and startups looking to build partner relationships with Microsoft.
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