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Joe / Techdirt:
Woz Raises $150 Million For, Well, Nobody Knows — Looking to capitalize on the Apple halo effect, three former company executives, including co-founder Steve Wozniak, took their new company, Acquicor Technology, public yesterday in an IPO raising $150 million.
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Matt Marshall / siliconvalley.com:
Ex-Apple executives seek tech properties to acquire — NEW PUBLIC COMPANY RAISES $150 MILLION TO INVEST — A trio of former Apple Computer executives, riding on the reputation of the famous company's brand, has created a new public company that will shop to acquire technology properties.
John Battelle / Federated Media Publishing Inc.:
Financing News: FM Gains a New Partner — I'm very pleased to announce that Federated Media has closed its Series A financing, with JP Morgan Partners (JPMP) as the lead investor. All of FM's seed investors - the Omidyar Network, The New York Times, and several angels (my post on the first round is here) …
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John Battelle / Federated Media Publishing Inc.:
FM Financing Release — Contact: Jennifer Charette, Federated Media Publishing — Federated Media Publishing Closes Series A Financing — Sausalito, CA, March 15, 2006 - Federated Media Publishing Inc., a Sausalito, CA-based Internet publishing business, announced today the completion of its Series A financing.
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GigaOM, TechCrunch, The Social Software Weblog, PaidContent.org and Texas Venture Capital …
Workbench:
Letter from Dave Winer's Attorney — I received this letter Friday from Christopher C. Cooke, Dave Winer's attorney: … Last spring, in a work-for-hire agreement with Winer, I ported Weblogs.Com from a Frontier application running in Windows to an Apache/MySQL/PHP application running on Linux.
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Dave Winer / Dave's Wordpress Blog:
About feeds.scripting.com — This is a response to a post by Rogers Cadenhead on his blog today. — 1. I wanted to get feeds.scripting.com running again, and had had a good experience with Rogers on work he did for me on weblogs.com. I outlined a plan and sent Rogers a draft of a written agreement.
Computerworld:
RFID tags vulnerable to viruses, study says — Attacks could soon come in the form of a SQL injection or a buffer overflow attack — MARCH 15, 2006 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Three computer science researchers are warning that viruses embedded in radio tags used to identify and track goods …
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Sam Kennedy / 1up.com:
PS3 Conference Report - Date and More! — Full details on the PS3 from Sony's briefing in Japan. — Sony held its PlayStation Business conference in Tokyo today and 1UP's correspondents were on hand to report back all of the details. — Ken Kutaragi, president of Sony Computer Entertainment …
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David Rudden / Alpha Blog:PS3 launch details revealed, New PSP features and price announced
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Dan Choi / Joystiq:PS3 worldwide in November [UPDATE 21]
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Xbox 360 Fanboy, Guardian Unlimited, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Engadget, Daily Wireless and HD Beat
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Newsmaker: Tribble on Apple's security troubles — Apple Computer has been notoriously tight-lipped about security. But lately there have been some breaks in the company's traditional silence. — On Monday, the Cupertino, Calif.-based company released the second set of Mac OS X security fixes in two weeks.
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macobserver.com:
TMO at SxSW - User Interface Designers Talk OS X, XP/Vista — This year's South by Southwest (SxSW) Interactive festival, which concluded Tuesday on the eve of the famed music festival, served up a number of interesting panel discussions, but none of greater interest to Mac users than Tuesday's …
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facetime.com:
FaceTime Identifies New Botnets Utilizing Instant Messaging to Steal Personal Information from Online Shoppers and PayPal Customers — FOSTER CITY, CALIF — March 15, 2006 — Research experts at FaceTime Security Labs™ identified and reported a new threat today affecting instant messaging (IM) applications.
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Joel Rothstein / Reuters:
Bill Gates mocks MIT's $100 laptop project — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates on Wednesday mocked a $100 laptop computer for developing countries being developed with the backing of rival Google Inc. (Nasdaq:GOOG …
down the avenue:
Armstrong & Kottke Chat — A casual fireside chat with Jason Kottke and Heather Armstrong on Day 2 of SXSW allows us to see more of their character and personality than I've experienced with either of them one-on-one. They both brought out an interesting playful side of each other.
Brian Benzinger / Solution Watch:
Blog Statistics with Performancing Metrics — Performancing has been on a roll lately. First, a blogging tool for Firefox and now, Performancing Metrics has been launched, a service for tracking blog statistics. We now have Measure Map (Review), BlogBeat (Review), and Performancing Metrics offering easy solutions to blog analytics.
This is Powazek:
SXSW to MPAA: STFU — One of the most interesting panels at SXSW Interactive 2006 was DarkNets, moderated by JD Lasica. And while the concept of DarkNets - communities using private subnetworks to communicate and collaborate out of view of the larger internet - is indeed fascinating …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Switched On: Origami is a paper tiger for now — Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a weekly column about the future of technology, multimedia, anddigital entertainment: — Here we go again. In its unending capitalisticquest, Microsoft is determined to figure out how to sell people their nth computer.
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Cisco Cheng / Gearlog:
Wrist-Worn PC — Imagine strapping one of these things to your wrist. — It reminds me of the Origami project Microsoft unveiled recently, except it's even sillier, so I thought I'd throw this one into the mix. — It's called the Wrist Worn PC(WWPC), developed in concept by Eurotech.
