Techmeme: Holdout Bands Give In to iTunes (Associated Press)

9:40 AM ET, August 21, 2006

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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:

Google's $7.4 Billion Booty — Top Google executives have sold $7.4 billion in stock in the last 18 months, says Bloomberg. That might have played a role in the stock's recent decline, suggests Mark Gilbert, especially considering no insider has bought a single share of the company in the same period.

Liz Gannes / GigaOM:

Farecast Goes Coast to Coast — Farecast, the plane ticket price predictor site, is now live in 55 U.S. cities, including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., Chicago, and Atlanta. — The company is building a direct competitor to travel-oriented vertical search engines Kayak …

Discussion: TechCrunch and Search Engine Watch Blog

Evan Blass / Engadget:

Archos officially announces all five Generation 4 devices — Not too many surprises here — after all, we've already seen a full review of one of these new models — but now PMP pioneer Archos has officially taken the wraps off of all the so-called Generation 4 devices we initially spotted over two months ago.

Discussion: Anything But iPod

Tim / O'Reilly Radar:

Round 2: The Internet As Network of Networks — The other day, I was explaining to a reporter how I could be lumping in cellphones and the next generation of sensor networks into Web 2.0. "Well, Web 2.0 is really not just about the web. It's really about the next generation of internet applications …

Discussion: The Universal Desktop and JD on EP

David N. Goodman / Associated Press:

Recycled cell phones help drive Third World wireless boom — DEXTER, Mich. - With the number of cell phones in use worldwide hitting 2 billion and rising, recycled phones are playing a crucial role in the spread of wireless communications across the developing world, where land lines can be costly or unavailable.

Evan / Popgadget:

MP3 toilet — Boy, this just shows how far we are behind the Japanese. — For years now they've had toilets that raise automatically; the seats are heated and I don't even need to mention that they come with bidets.... So it's no surprise to discover that the Japanese manufacturer Toto …

Discussion: Ubergizmo and Things That

Seth Finkelstein / Infothought:

Bogospheric Calvinism, or Unread != Unworthy — I've been attempting to keep my head down, trying to make myself a relatively small target in the aftermath discussion, since I'm an ant among elephants. Additionally, one of the problems with blog evangelism is that since A-list status …

Discussion: Scobleizer, Newsome.Org and Doc Searls Weblog

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