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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 …
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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 …
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Microsoft and Siemens Collaborate to Usher in New Era of Unified Communications — Joint initiative accelerates the transformation of voice, video and data communications into a single unified communications platform. — SAN FRANCISCO — June 25, 2006 — Siemens Communications Inc …
Reuters:
Wi-Fi crusader in $5 router giveaway — FON, a Spanish start-up on an ambitious crusade to turn home Wi-Fi connections into wireless "hotspots" for nearby users, is set to unveil on Monday a plan to hand out 1 million wireless routers for just $5 apiece. — FON, which aims to create …
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Glenn Fleishman / Wi-Fi Networking News:
Fon Plans Million Router Subsidy — Reuters says that Fon will charge $5/€5 plus shipping and tax for a Buffalo or Linksys router: In exchange, the Fonero must remain on the phone network for 12 months. The Fon network relies on principally wired backhaul purchased separately by the Fonero …
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.
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".
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Carol J. Loomis / CNNMoney.com:Warren Buffett gives away his fortune
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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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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.
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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.
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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Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Skip the Sitter, and Feed Your Virtual Pet by Cellphone — For those who argue that young people are spending too much time in front of computers, MTV Networks has an answer. It will now let them feed and dote on virtual pets using cellphones. — MTV, a unit of Viacom …
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Business Week:
Inside Nathan Myhrvold's Mysterious New Idea Machine — As his cash-rich firm snaps up thousands of patents, fears emerge that it will become a leader in litigation—not innovation — A rocket scientist, a mathematician, a brain surgeon, and a lawyer walk into a room.
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 …
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.
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.
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
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