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Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Podtech raises $5.5 million to create the "NPR" of podcasting — Gee, this we weren't expecting...venture capital flowing to podcast creation. — John Furrier is a bit of a hyperactive guy you will see at technology conferences around Silicon Valley. He bounds around with a microphone …
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Jfurrier / PodTech.net:
PodTech Receives $5.5 Million in Series A Funding from US Venture Partners and Venrock Associates … MENLO PARK, CA. (March 16, 2006) PodTech.Network, Inc., a media company dedicated to podcasting and delivering Fresh Voices™ for the iPod generation, announced today …
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Rafat / PaidContent.org:
Netscape.com To Be Relaunched As a Digg-Like Site; Calacanis Heading It : The storied Netscape.com will be revived again by AOL, and will relaunch soon as a Digg-like user-driven news/aggregation site with Jason Calacanis at the helm, sources have told paidContent.org.
Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Blog supplier Six Apart receives $12 mln in funding — SAN FRANCISCO, March 15 (Reuters) - Six Apart Ltd., a provider of blogging software, on Wednesday said it had received around $12 million in a third round of funding for use in new products, international expansion and network growth.
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Matthew Daly / Associated Press:
Gates Sketches Out Vision for the Future — McLEAN, Va. - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates sketched out a vision for the future Wednesday in which a cell phone will become a "digital wallet," able to receive e-mail and even scan business cards, while computers and TVs will merge.
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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 …
Reuters:
Sony delays PlayStation 3 launch — TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp. said on Wednesday it would delay the release of its new PlayStation 3 video game console until early November because development of some of the technology was behind schedule. — The company, which currently dominates …
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Keith Stuart / Guardian Unlimited:Can Sony manage a global PS3 roll-out? Let's 'do the math'
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CNET News.com:
Will your PC keep pace with Vista? — How does Windows Vista love thy computer? Let it count the ways. — Microsoft is building into the new operating system a tool that will rate a PC based on how well it is running and on how much it can take advantage of Vista's capabilities.
Jeanne Lim / CNET News.com:
IBM: The 'next big thing' no longer exists — SINGAPORE—An era of inventions ended with the passing of the 20th century, says a prominent thought leader from IBM. — Nicholas Donofrio, Big Blue's executive vice president of innovation and technology, made the declaration on Tuesday in an interview with ZDNet Asia.
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Earthling / EarthLink blog:
EarthLink Line-Powered Voice Coming To 8 More Cities — This morning I woke to the official word that our DSL and Home Phone Service will be coming to eight more cities: — Atlanta — Chicago — Los Angeles — Miami — New York City — Philadelphia — San Diego
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Roomba takes Frogger to the asphalt jungle — reporter's notebook AUSTIN, Texas—It's almost two in the morning and I'm standing in the middle of Austin's Sixth Street, hoping that I'm not going to get hit by a car. — On the other hand, I am hoping—as are 15 or so other people standing nearby …
MSNBC:
Google considers European retail push — Google is attempting a significant push into the European retail industry with plans to launch a service aimed at giving traditional bricks-and-mortar retailers a base from which to market and sell their goods online.
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John Paczkowski / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
Apple vets steal GMSV's exit strategy — Is it 1998 all over again? Three former Apple execs took their new company public the other day and investors pumped $150 million into it, though the founders make clear in their S1 that they have no idea what the company will do …
Matt Haughey / Lifehacker:
How to set up reBlog - killer server side feed reader — Server side feed reader and publisher reBlog makes keeping up with a ton of feeds a snap. I was using Bloglines to track a couple hundred feeds, but when I saw a demo of reBlog 2.0 at ETech I knew this was the RSS reader for me.
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A Whole Lotta Nothing
Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
CozmoTV: Welcome to Television 2.0, Time to Supercharge the TiVo Part of Your Digital Lifestyle — Tuesday afternoon I had an opportunity to spend a few hours with Alex Rowland, founder and CEO of TV Technology upstart CozmoTV to demo their latest TV technology package for TiVo and talk …
Thomas Heath / Washington Post:
Companies Fear Spread of March Madness — Web-Broadcast Games Seen as Threat to Productivity, Computer Systems — The NCAA men's basketball tournament begins today, and for the first time, every game of the 19-day ritual known as March Madness will be available live — and free — over the Internet.
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
AlphaGrip AG-5 handheld keyboard and mouse — Introduction — AlphaGrip AG-5 — System requirements: Linux, Mac OS X, or Windows PC with USB port — In 1874 a company called Sholes and Glidden developed the QWERTY keyboard layout for their typewriters in order to decrease the frequency of mechanical failure.
