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Seán Byrne / cdfreaks.com:
Tests find DRM shortens player battery life by up to ~25% — When users take the specifications of an MP3 player into consideration, one very important factor most take into account is the rated battery life. However, as many are aware, the battery life stated is generally the runtime …
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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
The new A list — Damn, I wish I hadn't read blogs today. I took yesterday off. I might take the rest of the week off. Blogging for me is at an inflection point. Blogging for me had the opportunity to become something magical: where the reader gets smarter and more informed.
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Leslie Walker / Washington Post:
In Game of Click and Mouse, Advertisers Come Up Empty — Radiator.com got a jolt this month from the firm it hired to audit the nearly $40,000 worth of sponsored links it buys every month from Google and Yahoo. — It appears that many of the clicks on the Web site's search-engine ads …
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.
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Wozniak shuts down Wheels of Zeus — Not everything turns out to be Apple. — Wheels of Zeus, the start-up formed by Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak a few years ago, has been closed. — The Ravix Group, a consulting firm that provides financial and human resources advice …
Jeff Clavier / Jeff Clavier's Software Only:
Speaker update for the The Search for Attention - March 16th 6:30pm @ AOL - Featuring Memeorandum, Root Markets & Technorati — Dick Costolo is unfortunately grounded in Chicago by a snow storm, and he will be replaced my TechCrunch's Mike Arrington in tonight's session on "The Search for Attention".
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Kington Self-Destruct Privacy Flash Drives — Trying to force your way into the new Kingston Data Traveler Elite Privacy Edition for a competitor's data? Think again. The Kingston can reportedly melt the data, in a digital way, after just 25 consecutive failed passwords.
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.
chronicle.ubi.com:
Become a Hero... for Free!!! — Many members of the Shadowbane Community have already noticed that a change has occured to the Billing System today; one that allows players to play for free! — There will be a more in-depth announcement coming soon but, in the meanwhile, I wanted to let our community know that this is not an error.
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Mike / Techdirt:
Security Through Begging — Last summer, the surprising news came out that Japanese nuclear secrets leaked out, after a contractor was allowed to connect his personal virus-infested computer to the network at a nuclear power plant. The contractor had a file sharing app on his laptop as well …
Martyn Williams / Macworld:
Sony plans GPS, VOIP, other updates for PSP — Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. Wednesday outlined new software and hardware features that it plans to add to its PlayStation Portable (PSP) during 2005. — The company is planning three software updates during the year, said Ken Kutaragi …
Hugo 'poogie' Ortega / Uber Tablet:
Via Virtual UMPC — Knowing that UMPC deliveries are only weeks away, Hugo Ortega of the UberTablet blog couldn't help but get a little creative this evening. With talk of Tablet MVP's trying out UMPC devices his excitement levels were as high as ever. All he could think of was, 'I just want to demo my own UMPC!'
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Life On the Wicked Stage
Jeff / Venture Chronicles:
America the inferior — I don't find myself disagreeing with Umair very often, but this whopper of a post is so skewed with generalizations and stereotypes that I am left speechless. But then again, I am just a dumb American lacking in culture, style, and a charming foreign accent.
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.
Warner Crocker / Life On the Wicked Stage:
Origami A Paper Tiger? — Engadget is running with the boo-birds with their latest piece on the Ultra-Mobile PCs, thinking that the prospects for the new devices look paper-thin. Clever and overworn analogies aside, its intriguing to attend a wake before there has even been a birth.
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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