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Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Nominees Picked for New Emmy for PC and Hand-Held Shows — LOS ANGELES, April 10 — Two years ago, few entertainment executives would have guessed that the performances of a sexy female detective, a 40-something single guy ordering a steak sandwich and Madonna as a college professor would be worthy of an Emmy.
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Michele Greppi / tvweek.com:First Nontraditional-Platform Emmy Nominees Announced
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Claire Atkinson / AdAge:
ABC Readies Non-Skippable Online Video Commercials — Blue-Chip Advertisers Buy Into Network's New Web Programming — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — ABC fleshed out details of its new online service of free programming today, outlining exactly how advertising will be embedded in broadcast video versions of its TV programming.
Feeding On Itself:
Microserfs, Revisted — Nearly a dozen years ago, Douglas Coupland published his third novel, Microserfs, at a moment where everyone knew the future was about to happen, but no one knew quite what it would look like. — After moving to Seattle a month ago to work on the campus depicted in the novel …
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Rachel Rosmarin / Forbes:
The MySpace Economy — Tens of millions of people show up regularly at MySpace, News Corp.'s suddenly popular virtual hangout. That's good news for News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch, who raised eyebrows by shelling out $580 million for the Web site last summer.
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Momus / Wired News:
Hell Is Other People's Music — "Hell," said Jean-Paul Sartre, "is other people." I'd qualify that slightly. People are fine; it's their music that's hell. — When I moved to New York my first year was sheer bliss; I spent my second in the inferno. Just one thing changed …
Tracy Staedter / dsc.discovery.com:
Tiny Flyer Navigates Like Fly — April 11, 2006— An ultralight autonomous aircraft that mimics the navigational abilities of a fly could one day become a real fly on the wall. — The 10-gram microflyer, being developed by a team of researchers lead by Dario Floreano at the Swiss Federal Institute …
Reinhardt Krause / Investor's Business Daily:
Internet, Media Outfits Could Bid For Spectrum — Analysts are speculating that Internet and media companies could team up to bid for radio spectrum in order to launch wireless broadband services, as a way around the phone companies. — Rumors that nontelecom companies could bid …
Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Creating a feed syndication platform at Microsoft — Starting next week I will join Microsoft's Windows Live division to create a new product team around syndication technologies such as RSS and Atom. I will help build a feed syndication platform leveraged by Microsoft products and developers all around the world.
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FuzzyBlog, Nick Bradbury, InsideMicrosoft, Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life, Kevin Burton's Feed Blog and LiveSide
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Best Buy to stock shelves with ThinkPads — Lenovo has agreed to sell its ThinkPad notebooks and new Lenovo 3000 series PCs at Best Buy, in the company's largest move into the U.S. retail market since it acquired IBM's PC business, CNET News.com has learned.
Frank Gruber / TechCrunch:
Subscription Music Services Compared: Part 2 — We've analyzed the services that sell digital music and are presenting the results in a two part post. This Part 2 compares the subcription music services that let you access an entire music library of up to 2 million songs for a single monthly fee.
Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
EXCLUSIVE SCREENSHOTS OF GOOGLE CALENDAR / CL2 — A reader passed along these screenshots of Google Calendar (code-named CL2). I'm not going to speak towards their authenticity, just pass 'em along to you guys. — Lets say these are the real thing. If so, we're seeing …
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
A Home Where Bloggers Can Plumb Those Obscure Passions — IT'S not easy making a living as a beef jerky authority these days. — The jerky publishing industry churns out precious few books on the topic, magazines and newspapers never give dried meat its due and reality television hasn't quite caught up to it.
Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Rebuttal: CNET's DRM Battery Test Refuted? — According to CNET's recent article, WMA DRM caused a 25% reduction in battery life in your portable music player. This seemed fishy to the guys at DAPreview, so they set out on their own test to see whether this shorter play time actually held true …
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Hack Attack: Build your own DVR — Ever since TiVo came around, I was eager to jump on the time shifting bandwagon. After all, nothing makes a productivity junkie happier than turning an hour-long show into forty minutes. But for all its loyal fan base, TiVo never seemed like the right fit for me.
Nat / O'Reilly Radar:
On AjaxWrite — We at Radar have been pondering and playing with AjaxWrite and AjaxSketch. Our conclusion is that they're remarkable for what they are, but disappointing for what they are not. — The AjaxWrite web page describes its features as: — Global access, all you need is an internet connection
Business Wire:
Skype Acquires Sonorit and Camino Networks — LUXEMBOURG & SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—April 11, 2006—Skype(TM), the global Internet communications company, today announced that it has acquired Sonorit Holding AS and its US subsidiary Camino Networks, Inc., a provider of voice technology for the Internet.
