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Richard Siklos / New York Times:
Amazon Considering Downloads — Amazon.com is in talks with three Hollywood studios about starting a service that would allow consumers to download movies and TV shows for a fee and burn them onto DVD's, according to three people briefed on the discussions.
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Lora / What Is New:
Step up to the plate with UMPC apps — After reading news and blog posts about Ultra-Mobile PCs, ISVs have been asking me how they can "step up to the plate" (inspired by GottaBeMobile) and test their existing applications on a system and learn about developing a new application for them.
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Dave Caolo / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
I already have an Ultra-Mobile PC: It's called a Newton — Yes,everyone's going crazy over the Ultra-Mobile PC(UMPC), the new class of handheld devices that run Windows XP and are supposed to be the best thing since sliced bread(sliced bread with two and ahalf hours of battery life, but that's a different story).
Dennis Rice / GottaBeMobile.com:Ultra-Mobile PC Accessories are coming out....
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
American Airlines subpoenas Google, YouTube — update American Airlines is demanding that Google and video-sharing site YouTube reveal the name of the person who posted a portion of one of the airline's training videos on their Web sites. — Someone uploaded part of a video used …
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Evan Blass / Engadget:
Panasonic announces 4GB SDHC SD card — We're not sure why they keepworking on ancient memory card formats like SecureDigital (if it's not thumbnail-sized or smaller, we're notinterested), but advances in this venerable format continue unabated, with cards now trickling out that support the newSDHC …
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Tony Smith / reghardware.co.uk:
Panasonic preps 4GB SD HC card — CeBIT Panasonic will this Summer ship a 4GB SD card which will meet the SD High Capacity (SDHC) specification - also known as the SD 2.0 standard - which paves the way for cards capable of holding up to 32GB of information.
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Dan Warne / apcmag.com:
Microsoft bombshell: no EFI support for Vista — Microsoft revealed today that it will not support EFI booting for Windows Vista on its launch. The news will be a shock for owners of Intel Macs who had hoped they would be able to dual-boot between Windows Vista and OS X. Intel Macs only support booting via EFI.
Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Lover's Cups — Jackie Lee and Hyemin Chung of MIT Media Lab have a great project called Lover's Cups, a wireless-enabled pair of drinking glasses. Each cup can tell when someone is drinking from the other; when both are being used they glow to "celebrate this virtual kiss".
Chris Pratley / Chris Pratley's OneNote Blog:
OneNote and Origami — You may have heard some of the buzz about the Origami project - an ultra-mobile PC initiative that Microsoft is spearheading. You can learn more about it here. In summary it is a lightweight (<2lb) kind of Tablet PC with a touch screen which you can use with your fingernail or any pointed object.
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Somewhat Frank, jkOnTheRun, michael parekh on IT, Uber Tablet, Bink.nu, Life On the Wicked Stage and Things That
Tom Foremski / IMHO:
Blogging is crucial to SAP's attack Oracle plan — Part 3 of interview with Jeff Nolan, one of SAP's top strategists. — Part 2 is here and it discusses SAP's competitive landscape. — "We believe we have at least a two year head start on Oracle, our main competitor.
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:
The Writely Raspberry — Check out Memeorandum on Google's Writely acquisition. If you expand the discussion area, pretty much the entire first page becomes Google-bought-Writely nattering. To my subjective way of looking at things, Writely is officially the most buzzed-about story in recent blog-o-sphere history.
Jennifer DeLeo / Gearlog:
These Dada Sneakers Were Made For...Music — Move over Oakley Thump MP3 sunglasses. There's a new wearable MP3 system to stomp the competition. — Dada Footwear is launching a wireless footwear system dubbed, "Code M." The Code M System delivers both audio and data—through your sneakers!
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Paul Miller / Engadget:Dada unleashes "Code M" MP3 shoes on an unsuspecting populace
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Stephen Totilo / MTV:
New 'Ghost Recon' Title Gives Xbox Users A True 360 View — Title utilizes machine's power to show multiple views of same battle scene. — Back in the '90s when people were still playing the first PlayStation, the promise of a PS2 held the potential that games could look so good they might resemble the movie "Toy Story."
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ABCNEWS:
Accoona Relaunches 'AI Search' Engine — Accoona Corp. relaunched its Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based search engine portal on Wednesday, targeting media outlets and businesses. — Bary Alyssa Johnson - PC Magazine — Accoona Corp. relaunched its Artificial Intelligence (AI) …
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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Firefox to get phishing shield — update An upcoming version of Firefox will include protection against phishing scams, using technology that might come from Google. — The phishing shield is a key new security feature planned for Firefox 2, slated for release in the third quarter of this year …
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Search Engine Watch Blog
Phil Sim / Squash:
Google/Writely points to online/offline future — UPDATE: I've just woken up to find the Google/Writely thing was on the money. — The Great Om reckons there's a rumour floating around about Google buying Writely.I've got some thoughts (surprise, surprise)...
Russell Buckley / MobHappy:
Who Gave Google Permission to be the Judge and Jury of Mobile Content? — Big Picture Advertising pointed to an entry on the Google Blog that I must have missed first time around. — If you use your mobile to search for something with Google and then click through to that site …
Forbes:
#1 William Gates III — Residence: Medina, Washington, United States, North America — Microsoft's chief visionary moving further away from day-to-day corporate work. For the first time did not offer a strategy outlook at last year's financial analyst meeting.
