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Dave Sifry / The Technorati Weblog:
Technorati turns 3, rolls out a major update — After months of work and weeks of testing, we just released an updated version of technorati.com. I hope after spending some time with the updated service, you'll join me in celebrating its release. — For those of you with ADD …
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Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:Technorati redesigns for the MySpace crowd
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Steve Rosenbush / Business Week:
Kazaa, Skype, and now "The Venice Project" — Serial entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are at it again, this time with a venture for distributing TV and other video over the Net — Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, the entrepreneurs who created the pioneering Web applications Kazaa and Skype …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Skype Founders Take on TV — Skype co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis are at it again. After disrupting the music and voice cartel's operations, the duo is taking on television. It shouldn't come as a surprise. I had reported on that as part of the Business 2.0's June 2006 cover story, The 50 Who Matter Now.
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David Berlind / Between the Lines:
In marriage of 'CPUs and GPUs,' ATI snapped-up by AMD. Is NVidia next? — In another one of the worst kept secrets in the technology industry, AMD has shelled out $5.4B for Canada-based video and graphics solution provider ATI Technologies. According to the aforelinked Reuters news story:
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amd.com:
AMD and ATI to Create Processing Powerhouse — NEW YORK — July 24, 2006 —AMD (NYSE: AMD) and ATI (TSX: ATY, NASDAQ: ATYT) today announced plans to join forces in a transaction valued at approximately $5.4 billion. The combination will create a processing powerhouse by bringing AMD's technology leadership …
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
MySpace returns after power outage — A record-breaking heat wave that crippled power systems throughout California shut down MySpace.com for nearly 12 hours, starting Sunday night. — The popular social-networking site, which recently topped Yahoo Mail as the most-visited Web site in the United States …
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Gotuit Launches Broadband Video Portal — Gotuit Media, an established player in on-demand video, today announced the launch of its new broadband video portal - Gotuit.com. I got a sneak peak of the new portal and spoke with Mark Pascarella (president of Gotuit Media) and David Laubner …
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Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
The Movie Business Challenge — This is an open challenge. You come up with a solution, you get a job. Seriously. — This is the problem that consumes me more than what Free Agent we are going to sign. How to get the NBA to get their act together. Which 7-11 Im going to run by to get a sandwich.
networkworld.com:
Start-up testing auto-aiming antenna for wireless nets — Purdue profs say technology could improve mobile access to 'Net. — WEST LAFAYETTE, IND. — A group of Purdue University professors has launched a start-up to create an auto-aiming wireless antenna system that reliably links users on vehicles and boats to the Internet.
Bob Garfield / AdAge:
Wal-Mart's New Online Children's 'Hub' a Real Bomb — A Poorly Executed Project With Writing That Makes Us Cringe — You think this job is easy? — Walk a mile in AdReview's shoes. Try to find something different to say week after week for 20 years. Try to be simultaneously serious and entertaining.
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Gizmodo:
LG MFFM20 Flash MP3 Player — LG serves up a little mystery with its latest MP3 player, offering the MFFM20 in 512MB and 1GB sizes, and including a capability called "music therapy." The company's keeping quiet about that feature, saying only that it will reduce stress levels. Is it a vibrator?
Aman Batheja / Dallas Star-Telegram:
Tech companies hope to cash in on Web 2.0 — Out of a second-floor office in Southlake Town Square, 26-year-old Josh Williams is taking on the likes of Microsoft and Oracle. — Williams and his staff of seven at Firewheel Design are making a name for themselves among small-business customers …
Dan Warne / apcstart.com:
Inside Vista's new image-based install — Vista's installation process is dramatically different to any previous version of Windows: rather than being an 'installer', the install DVD is actually a preinstalled copy of Windows that simply gets decompressed onto your PC. — So how does it adjust to your hardware?
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Do Google Ads belong on a company desktop? — A start-up called Spiceworks is testing whether Google Ads—commonly seen on blogs and other public Web sites—can finance a software company that sells to businesses. — On Monday, Spiceworks is expected to launch a beta of its namesake software …
socialtext.com:
Socialtext Releases First Commercial Open Source Wiki — Socialtext, the first Wiki company, releases Socialtext Open at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON). Available for immediate download, Socialtext Open is the first open source wiki with a commercial venture as its primary contributor.
Wade Roush / Technology Review:
The Internet Is Your Next Hard Drive — New Web-based services don't just store your data online — they keep it synchronized across your laptop, desktop, and mobile phone. — The forecast for the future of the PC: partly cloudy. — Online storage systems that can automatically synchronize …
