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Ilse Jurriën / Lets Go Digital:
Sony Alpha 100 — Sony Alpha 100 : Since Sony and Konica Minolta announced that Konica Minolta consigned their camera service operations for Konica Minolta, Konica Minolta brand cameras and related equipment to Sony, the news of a Sony digital SLR camera is a hot topic among digital SLR camera enthusiasts.
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Ubergizmo
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Darren / Digital Camera Reviews, Ratings …:
Sony Alpha 100 — Get Weekly Digital Camera News and Tips via our Email Newsletter — We are hearing information today that the Sony Alpha DSLR that we've previously mentioned will be called the Sony Alpha 100. It will be a 10.2 megapixel camera with the following specifications if the information we've been emailed today is true.
Robert Levine / New York Times:
Limited Appeal? Sell Songs Online — Record companies often issue collections of the B-sides and soundtrack contributions of popular acts; Rhino Entertainment, a division of Warner Music Group, is once again faced with a band whose regular albums never sold very well.
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Nicole C. Wong / Mercury News:
HP cuts back on telecommuting — SOME KEY WORKERS WILL HAVE TO COME TO OFFICE OR FIND NEW JOBS — Hewlett-Packard, the Silicon Valley company known for pioneering flexible work arrangements four decades ago, is canceling telecommuting for a key division of the company.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com:
Apple software logs out of India — BANGALORE: The company that redefined the way we listen to music has decided to call it quits in India. Apple, known for its popular iPods, is pulling out its software development and support operations in India. — The company had commenced operations …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Fold.com...Folds — Well, the inevitable is starting to happen - a few new web startups are starting to close up shop as they find that building an application is a lot easier than getting users to try it out, and keep coming back. Fold.com, an Ajax home page, has folded.
Jon's Radio:
Earth to Google PR — A Google developer and API evangelist, P., invites me to take a look at a new API. I reply that, instead, I'd like to discuss the GData APIs. P. thanks me for my interest in GData, and promises to try to connect me with someone. — A couple of days later I hear from S., on Google's "communication team."
Randall Stross / New York Times:
Internet Phones: Please Wait for the Next Available Opportunity — THE telephone and the PC are ubiquitous desk mates, separated by a few inches and about a century. — How soon we can use our home phones to exploit the efficiencies of the Internet, where calling costs are too small to be worth metering …
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IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband
Stan Beer / itwire.com.au:
Adobe yet to explain why no PDF in Microsoft Office — Microsoft has born the brunt of criticism for its massive domination of the computer desktop since the release of Windows 95. For once, however, it is not Microsoft that has some explaining to do. Microsoft's decision not to include …
Read/WriteWeb:
Cease and Desist defining Web 2.0 — Jeff Clavier and Paul Kedrosky note that the chmod 777 definition of 'web 2.0' is coming back into fashion. As Jeff nicely put it: … The chmod 777 meme got picked up recently by Tim Bray, who pointed to IBMer James Snell's definition a year ago.
Katie Hafner / New York Times:
How eBay Makes Regulations Disappear — IN quick succession one morning last month, Louisiana state legislators plowed through a long list of bills, including one to relocate the motor vehicle commission, another to regulate potentially abusive lending practices, and yet another …
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IP Democracy
Claus / Grand Stream Dreams:
Firefox Commenting Extensions — Here is a list of some more Firefox extensions I've recently adopted. Many may be useful for power blog commenting: — CoLT (copy link text) - This extension allows you to right-click a link and copy both the link-text (visible) as well as the HTML code …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Get Voicemail In Your Email Inbox: GotVoice — It doesn't have a fancy design or well throught through navigation. I can't find a single use of Ajax or javascript on the site (although there is some use of Flash). And that's ok, because GotVoice does something I love …
Sue Zeidler / Reuters:
Hollywood, retailers eye movie download kiosks — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - In a bid to preserve shelf space and fight slowing DVD sales, major retailers including Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (NYSE:WMT - news) have held talks with Hollywood's studios to develop kiosks where consumers can copy movies …
