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Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Telecom Giants in Europe Plan $30 Billion Deal — Nokia of Finland and Siemens of Germany are expected to announce on Monday that they will merge their telecommunication network equipment businesses in a deal valued at more than $30 billion, people involved in the transaction said tonight.
Redbarren / ben barren:
"Instant Value to customers - solve a problem or create value with the first use" — The Double D Dodge, who may be the last 2.0 Product Planning Celebrity left @ 1 Microsoft Way, summarises a Kleiner Perkins' partners perspective at a 'Future of Software' conference on the characteristics of …
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Kleiner Perkins 7 rules for software start-ups — Ajit Nazare at Kleiner Perkins has 7 rules for software start-ups they consider funding. I was on a "future of software" panel at TiECon East yesterday with Ajit Nazre, partner at Kleiner Perkins. Several interesting trends emerged …
Jeremy Pepper / POP! PR Jots:
Trademark Issues in Second Life — A couple week's ago, Scoble came to the office and we were talking post-speech about some issues, the Bay Area and the fun of all that could be. Yes, this was prior to the big Vloggercon news. We also talked about Second Life (SL) …
Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Standards for Users — When I think of standards I think of the Stephenson gauge. Two pieces of steel laid at 4' 8.5" apart carries rail traffic for 60% of the world's railroads. The standard has been around for centuries, allowing easy interoperability between rail lines from different companies …
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
It's the users, dummy! — TechCrunch reports that Flickr's APIs are not open to competitive sites. This means closing the APIs to Flickr users who want an easy way to use their content in another, competitive environment. — This will be on-topic in two back-to-back sessions at BloggerCon next week …
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Hugh / gapingvoid:
HOW MICROSOFT LOST THEIR CANARY — As any reader of Techmeme will know, the big story in the bloggersphere this week is Bill Gates leaving Microsoft. — And Techmeme readers will also know that the second biggest story was Robert Scoble also leaving Microsoft.
Robert Sinke / dapreview.net:
Odd-i N700D: 7-inch monster DMB-thing — Hey, remember that weird little tablet PMP slash GPS slash DMB device by Viliv, the N70? We saw this 7-inch beast, which has no built-in memory whatsoever, fly by at the CeBIT in Hannover (a city currently host to a whole different kind of spectacle).
Observer:
Murdoch: an emperor leading a revolution — As Rupert Murdoch's News Corp dynasty looks to a future no one can predict, his top lieutenants will gather next month for a council of war. James Robinson and Paul Harris report — California's Pebble Beach, the quiet resort where Rupert Murdoch's …
Google Blogoscoped:
"Unlisted" Picasa Albums Listed on Google — So, the first "unlisted" albums of Picasa Web are listed - where else - on a Google web search. (Remember, Google allows you to switch between "public" or "unlisted," but unlisted doesn't mean "private.") Even though Picasa Web disallows indexing …
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Electronic Finger Drums — June 18th, 2006 by Al in Miscellaneous Gadgets, Audio/Video Gadgets — I used to play drums when I was younger, I wasn't particularly good so made up for my lack of musical ability by purchasing an ever growing kit. So even if I sounded crap at least I had about 18 drums to hide behind.
Times of London:
No sex please, robot, just clean the floor — THE race is on to keep humans one step ahead of robots: an international team of scientists and academics is to publish a "code of ethics" for machines as they become more and more sophisticated. — Although the nightmare vision …
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Warren St. John / New York Times:
And You're So Funny? Write My Script — IT is a thought that has surely raced through the mind of almost every performer who has ever been heckled, booed, mocked or made to feel unappreciated by an audience: "Let's see you do better." — Now a Brooklyn entertainer named Ze Frank is doing something about it.
Ryan Kim / San Francisco Chronicle:
AT&T offers broadband by itself Unpublicized DSL service won't save subscribers much — AT&T quietly rolled out standalone DSL broadband service for the first time this week, giving consumers the choice to drop their home phone land lines. — But before you get rid of your home phone line …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Hack Day: Pure Innovation — Yahoo Hack Day, held on Friday in Building C of Yahoo Headquarters (and remotely from other Yahoo offices worldwide), helped me remember why so many of us are excited about what's happening on the web today. After you peel away all of the extraneous layers …
Stan Horaczek / Engadget:
USB teddy bear holds data, scares children — Generally, when someone makes a teddy bear-themed gadget, his/her intention is to overwhelm bystanders with cuteness. But whoever created this little guy, whose head has to be removed in order to access the internal USB drive, must have watched one too many Tim Burton movies.
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