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Reto / The Radioactive Yak:
Google-Vision: Is Google TV on its way? — I've speculated on this in the past, but a review of recent Google job openings may show a move into the interactive TV market is on the cards. — Google are advertising for an Interactive TV Product Manager in Mountain View …
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Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Google seeks employees for TV service — As the Radioactive Yak reports, Google has started accepting resume's for an Interactive TV Product Manager in the Mountain View and software engineers experienced in "emerging TV standards" at the Mountain View and London locations.
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Walter S. Mossberg / WSJ Personal Technology:
Ask.Com's New Look Scores Big Points Against Search Rivals — In college basketball this month, we've all been reminded that the superiority of champions can't be taken for granted. During the NCAA tournament, George Mason University, an obscure team from the suburbs of Washington, D.C. …
Ouriel Ohayon / TechCrunch:
Typepad is launching blog widgets — SixApart's Typepad is about to announce Widgets for bloggers. And this is about to simplify the life of million of bloggers who until now had more or less to deal with placing html code in their template to customize and enrich their blogs with third party features.
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Michael Sippey / Six Apart:Introducing TypePad Widgets: Bling for your Blog
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Rebecca MacKinnon / RConversation:
Yahoo! Abomination. (YHOO) — Yahoo! founder Jerry Yang continues to spew excrement, echoing his shoulder-shrugging of earlier this month, which essentially amounts to saying: So sorry we assisted in human rights violations, but there's nothing we can do if we're going to bring the Internet to the Chinese people.
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Seth Finkelstein / Infothought:Google Finance, Blogs, and Politics - use COMPANY NAME, not TICKER SYMBOL
Ben Elgin / Business Week:
Google's Surprising Stock Sale — Why would an outfit with so much cash in hand sell stock worth another $2 billion? In part, to dampen recent price fluctuations — Google's mastery of the Internet search market has turned it into a veritable cash machine — but the company is hankering for more.
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www2.sprint.com:
Sprint Extends Mobility Leadership with Aggressive Broadband Network Expansion — Sprint (NYSE: S) today announced aggressive plans for the expansion and evolution of the Sprint Power Vision(SM) network which now covers over half of the U.S. population with mobile broadband data services.
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Paul R. La Monica / CNN:
V is for Vonage...T is for Takeover — The Internet phone leader filed for an IPO nearly two months ago...but some on Wall Street think the VoIP company is shopping itself to telecoms. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Woo hoo! Woo hoo hoo! — Turn on the TV these days and it's hard …
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Thomas K. Arnold / Hollywood Reporter:
UMD losing H'wood game — Exactly a year after it was launched in the U.S., the Sony PlayStation Portable's days as a hand-held movie-viewing device might be numbered. — Disappointing sales have slowed the flow of movies on the proprietary Universal Media Disc to a mere trickle.
Don Marshall / online-publishers.org:
OPA Press Release — ONLINE VIDEO ACHIEVING MASS APPEAL WITH NEWS LEADING THE WAY, ACCORDING TO ONLINE PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION STUDY — NEW YORK, NY — March 29, 2006 — According to a study released today by the Online Publishers Association (OPA), video viewing online has reached the point …
Todd Malicoat / Stuntdubl:
Time for New Adventures in Stuntdubl Land — It is with anticipation and a bit of sadness that I will be leaving We Build Pages to pursue a new career. Unfortunately, the direction of the business is not inline with my personal and professional goals at this time, and therefore I feel I must move on.
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Jim Boykin's Internet …
Ryan Katz / Think Secret:
Apple iPhone soon? Not likely. — March 30, 2006 - Contrary to published reports, two independent sources speaking on condition of anonymity recently disclosed to Think Secret that Apple's cell phone ambitions have been put on hold as the company has encountered "significant technological hurdles" in developing the product.
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Cervezas / Software Everywhere:
It's confirmed: Palm is building their own OS — Things are getting interesting at Palm Inc., the makers of the Treo smartphones but not (to date) of the operating systems they run on. First, back in November of 2004, there was a source that reported Palm was "exploring partnerships …
Joanna Glasner / Wired News:
Spring Forward and Miss a Meeting — When April 2 rolls around, most Americans will set clocks an hour forward, lament the prospect of less sleep, and take comfort in the promise of longer evening light. — In Indiana, however, IT workers will be awaiting potential disaster.
