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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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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.
Andrew / Treonauts:
Treonauts At Innovate! Europe 2006 — I've just returned from the Innovate! Europe event which took place throughout this week in the sunny, beautiful and extremely friendly city of Zaragoza in Spain. — Organized by the Guidewire Group (the same people responsible for the famous DEMO events …
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
donnysblog.com:
One Month of Torrents is Worth More Than The GDP of France — We have all heard how the RIAA is suing people over piracy, giving figures such as "300 million dollars a year" in lost revenues due to piracy. However, what you might not have heard is that this figure is actually lowballed - they are actually losing significantly more!
Carlo / Techdirt:
FCC's Martin Hates Regulation, Except When It Suits Him Politically — from the seven-hundred-thousand-dirty- words dept — It's sort of funny how when it comes to things like net neutrality and line sharing, Kevin Martin and his cohorts at the FCC keep their hands out and spout a less-regulation …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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