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Bill Tancer / Hitwise US:
Google Properties - Understanding the Breakdown — Leveraging the custom category capability of Hitwise, I've created a category of the top 20 Google domains in order to understand the popularity of Google's varied services. The table below details the percentage market share …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Missed big HR meeting (MyMicrosoft is now improved) — Wow. I missed a HUGE [HR] townhall, er, employee meeting today (they announced new compensation and review changes). I just got the email from Lisa Brummel and, wow, wow, wow. — Is Lisa reading Mini? Damn straight she is.
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Who da'Punk / Mini-Microsoft:
Microsoft's May 18th 2006 - a Big Turning Point (?) — Pre-Town Hall: Is May 18th a big turning point of a day? Is it my first big step into the sunset of blog obsolescence? — I'd love Microsoft to start its big internal defrag today, shrugging off the past of dysfunctional competitive reviews unattached to team success.
Dave Caolo / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Not all Macs meet Vista requirements — Julio Ojeda-Zapata of the Pioneer Press points out the system requirements for Microsoft's [latest piece of vaporware] soon-to-be-released update to Windows, Vista. According to Microsoft, Vista may run on machines that don't meet their "Premium Ready PC" …
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Gary Rivlin / New York Times:
A Few Signs of Froth Do Not a Bubble Make — THIS may seem familiar: A pair of venture capital firms agree to pay $26 million for a modest-size stake in a start-up that has yet to earn a penny. A third plunks down more than $12 million for a sliver of a company started by a college kid so young he cannot legally be served at a bar.
CNN:
Reclusive Linux founder opens up — (CNN) — Portland, Oregon is the unlikely capital of a global software revolution. The revolution is called Open Source. And its leader? Linus Torvalds, the reclusive founder of Linux. — Linux is the free software code developed by a global community of programmers.
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Microsoft buys VPN specialist — update Microsoft has agreed to acquire Whale Communications, a specialist in secure remote access and Web application firewalls. — The takeover is meant to broaden Microsoft's security offerings and give its customers more options in providing secure access …
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mil-embedded.com:
General Micro Systems Introduces Full Featured, High-Performance PC for Military Manpack Applications — • Ultra small footprint - 6.5"x3.0"x 0.5" (first rugged UMPC) — • Fits in Warfighter's pant pouch, with 6-hour battery life — • Up to 1.4GHz Pentium®-M processor with up to 2Mbytes of L2 Cache
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Apple, a Success at Stores, Bets Big on Fifth Avenue — Shortly after Ron Johnson joined Apple Computer in 2000, his new boss, Steven P. Jobs, summoned him to a room at the company headquarters. Mr. Jobs, Apple's chief executive and impresario, pointed to a conference table with just four computers on it.
Jonathan D. Glater / New York Times:
Colleges Chase as Cheats Shift to Higher Tech — LOS ANGELES — At the University of California at Los Angeles, a student loaded his class notes into a handheld e-mail device and tried to read them during an exam; a classmate turned him in. At the journalism school at San Jose State University …
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Wall Street Journal:
Vonage Faces User Complaints As IPO Looms — Erick Loss, a small-business owner in Chino Valley, Ariz., says he spent 11 hours, most of it on hold, trying to get someone at Vonage Holdings Corp. to cancel his Internet-based phone service and move him back to Qwest Communications International Inc …
Reto / The Radioactive Yak:
Google Maps for Australia and New Zealand — Not before time, but Google Maps now features full road maps for Australia and New Zealand! — Users of Google Earth will already know that the satellite imagery available for most metropolitan areas of Australia is of superb quality, and now they've got the road maps to match!
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Mike Pegg / Google Maps Mania:Big News: Google Maps street maps for ALL of Australia and New Zealand!
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Ed Hardy / brighthand.com:
Verizon Denies Motorola Q Launching Next Week — A few days ago, Motorola CEO Ed Zander promised that the oft-delayed Motorola Q would finally launch next week. — Verizon Wireless recently began running promotions touting the fact that it will be the first wireless carrier to offer …
Victor Agreda, Jr / Download Squad:
How To: Create your own game company, Part Two — In part one I talked about a lot of the production tools: 3d apps, game engines, and so on. This time I want to tie that in to the business end. How do you run the company, and how do you make money? — First of all, I discovered PopCap …
Chris Wetherell / Official Google Reader Blog:
You can now use Google Reader from your phone. — Google Reader can now be placed in your pocket, your handbag, your backpack, or thrown from person to person in a game of "keep away". We've just released a mobile-friendly interface for Google Reader. — If you use the Google Personalized Homepage …
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Watch Blog:Google Reader For Mobile Phones
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Politicos propose new action on Net neutrality — WASHINGTON—The push for new laws mandating Net neutrality principles appears to be gaining steam on Capitol Hill. — The leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee released a five-page bill on Thursday that would embed …
Rick Segal / The Post Money Value:
Time to hit the road — I had just finished up a panel where one of the smarter start up guys out there (Jason Fried of 37Signals) and I had a panel discussion about VCs and Start Ups. I made the point about Canada being an amazing place to start up a company while Jason made an almost impassioned plea …
