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10:40 AM ET, June 26, 2006

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Ken Belson / New York Times:
What if They Built an Urban Wireless Network and Hardly Anyone Used It?  —  TAIPEI, Taiwan — Peter Shyu, an engineer, spends most of his day out of the office, and when he needs an Internet connection he often pops into one of the many coffee shops in this city that offer free wireless access.
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Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Wireless crusader FON in $5 Wi-Fi router giveaway
Discussion: 21talks and Wi-Fi Networking News
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Warren Buffet to give his fortune to Gates Foundation  —  Warren Buffet, the second richest man in the world, announced he is giving the vast majority of his $44 Billion dollar fortune to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.  I said in an earlier post that "Bill Gates legacy will be humanitarian philanthropy".
Discussion: Business Filter
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Lauren Williamson / journalnow.com:
Blame game  —  Schools file injunction; Google denies fault  —  HICKORY — Catawba County Schools took aim at Google Friday.  —  The system filed an injunction against the Internet search engine  —  The temporary injunction, granted by the Honorable Richard D. Boner …
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Nick Farrell / Inquirer:
Google "hacked our website"
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Peter says podcasting is inefficient  —  Peter Davis says: "In the time I can listen to an average podcast, I could have caught up on my 50 favorite blogs, or read a chapter in a book, or read the latest issue of Red Herring magazine."  —  You might be shocked to hear me say this, but Peter is right.
Discussion: Glass House
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Peter T Davis:
Podcasts, an efficient means of content delivery?  —  I've been following some podcasts on and off for the past six months or so, and have begun to question whether it's an efficient use of my time.  The content of the shows I listen to are generally very high.
Rafat / paidContent.org:
The Next Big Step: Announcing Our Funding, from Patricof's Greycroft Partners [by Rafat]  —  The biggest step till now was me deciding to go full time with the blog, back in early 2003.  This tops that:  —  The news: ContentNext Media, the parent company of our three sites - paidContent.org …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Rafat Ali's ContentNext Raises VC Dollars
Discussion: Micro Persuasion
John Markoff / New York Times:
Microsoft Plans to Blend Phones With Computers  —  SAN FRANCISCO, June 25 — Microsoft plans to offer a strategy on Monday describing how it intends to transform the telecommunications world in much the same way it changed the computing world in the 1980's.  —  Its new approach centers …
Microsoft:
Microsoft Unveils Unified Communications Product Road Map and Partner Ecosystem  —  New 2007 Office system products to deliver enterprise communications solution that unifies voice, conferencing, IM and collaboration.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — June 25, 2006 — Jeff Raikes, president …
Discussion: Bink.nu and 21talks
Dpreview / Digital Camera Reviews and News:
Casio Exilim Card EX-S600D  —  Casio today announced the Exilim Card EX-S600D, an ultra slim 6.0 megapixel camera offering Casio's Anti-Shake DSP, a 3x zoom and a 2.2-inch screen.  The EX-S600D is the same model as the EX-S600 (announced in October last year) but adds high quality DivX movie capability.
Discussion: Engadget, Gizmodo and MobileWhack.com
Kent / Newsome.Org:
Some Answers & More Questions  —  Doc gives his thoughts about my blogger conference post and makes some good points.  —  I suspect that some of the unconference approaches will eventually bleed over to the nontech business world.  It's not really the unconference approach that I have a hard …
Donna Bogatin / Digital Micro-Markets:
Google's new mission: Organize the world's products and make them universally accessible  —  This could be a watershed week in the Google era.  The June 28 rumored launch of a Google online payment system, last known as GBuy (see my Google GBuy specifics: 'Could be a game-changer' ) …
Andy Abramson / Working Anywhere:
Boeing May Toss Off Connexion  —  I'm one of the happy users who has been on a series of intercontinental flights on both Lufthansa and SAS who has used the Boeing In Flight Internet Service and it has worked as advertised.  Hopefully Boeing won't mothball it.
Tony Walsh / Clickable Culture:
Discrimination Tools Coming to 'Second Life'?  —  tagged Business Culture Groups Life Place Second Life Statistics Technology Watchdog  —  Residents of Second Life may soon be split into "Verified" and "Unverified" classes, thanks to an updated registration system by virtual-world maker Linden Lab.
Discussion: Beth's Blog and NevilleHobson.com
Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows:
Windows Vista Build 5456 Overview and Screenshot Gallery  —  Little more than a month after issuing a bug-laden Windows Vista Beta 2 (see my review), Microsoft has shipped its first post-Beta 2 interim build of the next Windows and it makes up a lot of lost ground.
Chris Barylick / Washington Post:
Amateur Hour On Video  —  When television came on the scene midway through the last century, it appeared to be simply a video version of radio, an established and popular medium that delivered news and entertainment.  —  This time around, in the fast-moving Internet age …
Kotaku, the Gamer's Guide:
Best Buy Pegging Halo 3 Release Date  —  Retail giant Best Buy has listed Halo 3 as being released on November 16, 2006 for the Xbox 360.  Yeah.  That's this holiday.  Right before Black Friday.  Say, that just also happens to be one day before the North American release of the PlayStation 3!
Carlfish / The Fishbowl:
WE COME TO BURY WINFS...  The first thing to strike me about the blog post announcing the end of WinFS as a Vista feature is how totally un-blog-like it is.  —  Every comment (bar one) got the point.  WinFS is dead.  Its carcass is being split between SQL Server and ADO.NET …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Has Microsoft changed? WinFS post getting questioned internally
Discussion: Incremental Blogger
 
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Dirkus Maximus:
XBOX EEPROM Reader in a Mint Tin
Discussion: Kotaku
Jeremy Toeman / LIVEdigitally:
Super Talent MP3 Player review: nano or no-no?
Discussion: MobileWhack.com and Ubergizmo
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ningbar Launches, Plus Ning Stats
Discussion: SiliconBeat and Somewhat Frank
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Advertisers: You're next  —  I'm seeing a lot of avoidance …
Discussion: ben barren
 Earlier Items: 
Pete Cashmore / Mashable*:
TagJag: The New Name for Gada.be
Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Cisco leads $15.5 million investment in IPTV start-up, Akimbo
Discussion: GigaOM
Tmandry / Regular Ramblings:
The world's largest FOSS IRC network, FreeNode, has been …
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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Martin Pengelly / The Guardian:
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