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Loren Heiny / Inkineer:
Running the Tablet PC OS on an iMac — Yep, this post is being written on an iMac. — I successfully installed the Tablet PC OS this morning using Apple's Boot Camp and the Tablet PC OS from my MSDN subscription. I'm using a Wacom Graphire3 Tablet for the digitizer.
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Dennis Rice / GottaBeMobile.com:
Oh how the Tablet faithful have fallen ....! — Loren, oh Loren (Heiny). It is a sad day when the Tablet faithful fall away. Especially when it is one of the members of the First Family of Tablet! Loren Heiny is in serious danger of being lured to the Dark Side (Macintosh of course).
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Life On the Wicked Stage
Hadley Stern / Apple Matters:Take the No Windows-Booting Pledge — Mac users have a lot of strange habits.
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
This Boring Headline Is Written for Google — JOURNALISTS over the years have assumed they were writing their headlines and articles for two audiences — fickle readers and nitpicking editors. Today, there is a third important arbiter of their work: the software programs that scour the Web …
San Francisco Chronicle:
Wi-Fi plan stirs Big Brother concerns — Log-on rule would allow Google to track users' whereabouts in S.F. — Privacy advocates are raising concerns about Google Inc.'s plans to cover San Francisco with free wireless Internet access, calling the company's proposal to track users' locations …
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John / SYNTAGMA:
b5media Looks for Venture Capital — After a buccaneering but bootstrapping beginning, it seems b5media has decided to go down the venture capital route after all, with a round of VC funding. But you have to read between the lines of a Toronto conference agenda to find the reference.
Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Now Starring on the Internet: YouTube.com — YouTube.com Seems Like a Startup Straight Out of Silicon Valley Central Casting — SAN MATEO, Calif. (AP) — Internet video sensation YouTube.com seems like a startup straight out of Silicon Valley central casting.
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GigaOM
Charles Piller / Los Angeles Times:
How Piracy Opens Doors for Windows — Bill Gates may not be entirely dismayed by software thieves. They seed the world market and make Microsoft a standard. — Microsoft Corp. estimates it lost about $14 billion last year to software piracy — and those may prove to be the most lucrative sales never made.
Michael Kwan / mobilemag.com:
Lenovo makes touchscreen smartphone — Owning the "ThinkPad" badging just doesn't suffice anymore for Lenovo, and that is why the company is launching the all new i921 smartphone to take on giants in the industry like PalmOne and HTC. — Lenovo is already known as a phonemaker in China …
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Engadget Mobile
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Windows Expertise:
Robert X. Clueless — Mark Stephens, the PBS pundit who goes by the pseudonym Robert X. Cringely, is modestly famous for his bomb-throwing anti-Microsoft screeds. He's also famous for being flat-out wrong, often, even when it comes to his own professional credentials.
Marc Canter / Marc's Voice:
Its time Google Base made their intentions clear — Richard MacManus has a great piece on Google Base. — What's especially exciting to me are 'people profiles'. The question is: "will this data be available in FOAF or XFN/hCard?" And will it be available at all?
TDavid / Things That:
Inking in Second Life, sort of — I haven't been very good about Tablet PC updates lately. Guess I'm in what you'd call the second year Tablet PC owner hardware blues mode. I can just see and hear somebody inking virtual violins in the distance. — However, this mode hasn't prevented …
Oded Yaron / Haaretz:
Google buys search algorithm invented by Israeli student — Search engine giant Google recently acquired an advanced text search algorithm invented by Ori Alon, an Israeli student. Sources believe Yahoo and Microsoft were also negotiating with the University of New South Wales in Australia …
Lisa Belkin / New York Times:
Overly Wired? There's a Word for It — WAS there gridlock before there were automobiles? Was there jet lag before there were airplanes? Who was the first person to say "I Googled it" or "he's cyberstalking me"? At what moment did a "web log" turn into a "blog"? — Language makes things official.
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IP Democracy
Lem / ROBOTS DREAMS:
One Sexy Robot — Takahashi-san, of Kyoto's Robot Garage, is already famous worldwide as the creator of a series of high performance, and beautifully styled male robots including Chroino and Manoi. So what could he do to top that? Simple. How about a female robot that not only looks great …
Dave Winer / Dave's Wordpress Blog:
The Internet as "idea processor" — I followed the thread about how bad a term "user generated content," is and I fully agree. It misses the point completely, so completely that it betrays a perspective bug. — The value of writing publicly on the Internet is that you can solve problems quickly …
Fred / A VC:
While Big Companies Deliberate, Small Companies Obliterate — I have a bunch of friends who work in big media companies. Many of them are well aware of the changes afoot resulting from digital media, internet delivery, user generated content, disintermediation, etc.
