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Macgyver / Forever Geek:
Digg Corrupted: Editor's Playground, not User-Driven Website — As a follow up to an earlier post (Digg Army: Right in Line), there have been some vibrations that I think not only our readers would find interesting, but also all Digg users. — To quickly summarize the earlier post …
Staska / UMPC News:
Apple Origami UMPC? Looks likely — Is Apple working on it's own Origami UMPC device? Well, judging from patent applications filed by Apple in recent months, it seems so. — Does this picture look familiar: — It looks just like variation of Microsoft Touchpack software …
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Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Apple Working on Origami UMPC? — With all the UMPCs being rolled out lately, Apple appears to be preparing one of its own, filing patents for a number of telltale technologies. First, in a patent application dated today, we see a single-arc QWERTY keyboard similar to Microsoft Touchpack software …
Mark LaPedus / EE Times:
Updated: PortalPlayer dealt setback at Apple — SAN JOSE, Calif. — High-flying PortalPlayer Inc. late Wednesday (April 19) said that it has been dealt a major setback at Apple Computer Inc., which is apparently switching media processor chip vendors in its iPod lines.
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Brings Programming to the Masses With Visual Studio Express — Company brings the power of code to growing community of hobbyist programmers who seek to integrate technology and software into their everyday lives. — REDMOND, Wash. — April 19, 2006 — At this weekend's Maker Faire …
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Alex Veiga / Associated Press:
Study: Use of Mobile Devices Is Growing — LOS ANGELES - Although most people still access the Internet on a computer, the use of mobile devices to check e-mail or browse the Web is growing, outpacing even laptops in some markets, according to a new study. — That's particularly the case …
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Red Herring:
Facebook Gets Another $25M — Greylock Partners leads new investment round in social network site as its valuation soars. — Privately held Facebook received $25 million in its second round of venture financing Wednesday to help the social network web site expand features for sharing information as its market value soars.
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple's flagship MacBook Pro to arrive at NAB — Apple Computer at the National Association of Broadcasters conference next week will unveil its most poweful Intel notebook yet, a 17-inch MacBook Pro strung with a few bells and whistles, AppleInsider has learned.
FactoryJoe / FactoryCity:
Announcing: Barcamp San Francisco — Couldn't wait any longer to get this one outta the bag... but based on some prodding from Kevin Burton at ETech and Paul D Smith on the Barcamp wiki, I'd like to announce that Barcamp is coming to San Francisco June 24-25, to coincide with Kevin Werbach's Supernova.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
YahooNoFi — For past few days, a screenshot captured by a Yahoo user is leading to a lot of speculation about Yahoo coming up with its answer to Google's WiFi efforts. There are a couple of reasons why this isn't going to happen - and none of them have to do with the fact that it was a screenshot …
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
In corporate 'Spy Game,' work equals play — If you and your co-workers find yourselves in a high-stakes caper straight out of a James Bond movie, there's a pretty good chance you're playing "The Spy Game." — "The Spy Game" is the latest corporate team building exercise from the creators of …
cavemonkey50.com:
Verizon Enabling File Transfers on RAZRs — This is a monumental moment for all Verizon Wireless users. Verizon finally seems to be listening to its customers. For the longest time Verizon would disable all non-cellular methods for transferring images and music.
Candace Lombardi / CNET News.com:
Philips device could force TV viewers to watch ads — An invention from Royal Philips Electronics prevents TV viewers from switching the channel during commercials or fast-forwarding past commercials when watching DVR content. — Viewers would be released from the freeze only after paying a fee to the broadcaster.
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
The mesh wiki — create a workshop — I've written before about the debate over conferences versus "unconferences" — which Dave Winer and Jeff Jarvis and some others (including the whole FooCamp and BarCamp gang) feel is a better way of organizing things. As I've said before …
CNN:
Swapping job security for a startup — Why did Toni Schneider leave a good job at Yahoo to dive back into the fray with blog-software maker Automattic? Once an entrepreneur, always an entrepreneur. — John Battelle, Business 2.0 Magazine — (Business 2.0 Magazine) …
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free411.com:
Jingle Networks Secures $26 Million of New Financing After Explosive Growth of 1-800-FREE411 Service — Additional Financing Includes Comcast Interactive Capital, Liberty Associated Partners and IDG Ventures; New Directory Service Receiving Seven Million Calls Per Month and Growing
Adam Thierer / The Technology Liberation Front:
A Paranoid Parent Ponders GPS Tracking His Kids — Well it didn't take long for a young, rebellious punk to turn into a paranoid, condescending parent. I'm already talking to my kids in ways that used to make me resent my own parents. And I'm already beginning to think about how to watch …
The Beat / MILE HIGH COMICS presents …:
Chris Ware moves ACME to FSG — As picked up on by various bloggers who got hold of Drawn & Quarterly's fall catalog, Chri Ware's much-lauded and now self published ACME NOVELTY LIBRARY is switching distributors from Norton to FSG. Fantagraphics, the former ANL publishers …
ongoing:
The Cost of AJAX — · James Governor relays a question that sounds important but I think is actively dangerous: do AJAX apps present more of a server-side load? The question is dangerous because it's meaningless and unanswerable. Your typical Web page will, in the process of loading …
