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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Sources say Microsoft near deal to buy Tellme — Microsoft is close to acquiring privately held Tellme Networks, a maker of products that bridge the worlds of speech recognition and the Internet, CNET News.com has learned. — The deal is expected to be completed and announced later this week …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Tellme Price - $800 Million, or More — Microsoft Corp. is said to be talks to acquire Tellme Networks, a voice applications company, according to The Wall Street Journal and C/Net News.com. — This news of a pending acquisition was first reported by TechCrunch in February, but at the time …
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Survey gives more Google phone clues? — Yes, this would be pretty easy to fake — and even if it's real, it's just a survey, which means it's sorta fake by design — but a questionnaire allegedly received by a Mobileburn forum member hints at specs and a rather fascinating concept design for Google's probably-in-the-works cellphone.
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Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
New pictures of the Google Phone — There is absolutely no way of telling if this story is true, but a poster on the mobileburn forum was sent a survey to complete through equip-surveys.com about a "Google Phone". The poster recalls seeing the specs, but says he forgot to take a screenshot of them.
Nicholas Reville / DEMOCRACY:
A Name Change — This is some big news for us. We are planning to change the name of Democracy Player. — We chose the name 'Democracy' almost two years ago when we were first setting up PCF. We knew it was an ambitious name, but we thought that it made a clear statement about how important …
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Arn / MacRumors:
8-core Mac Pro Leak at Apple UK? [Update] — Apple's UK Store leaks some information which suggests that 8-Core Mac Pros are coming soon. — When searching for "Mac" in the UK Apple Store, the listing for the Mac Pro is: … Rumors that Apple would incorporate two of Intel's Quad-core chips …
Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:
AT&T Expands Wireless Stores — With the opening yesterday of its first megastore, AT&T is trying to do the seemingly impossible: make buying cellular service an almost entertaining experience. — The 5,000-square-foot store in the Compaq Center complex in Houston is the first of 11 …
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Feds unveil digital-TV subsidy details — update WASHINGTON—Americans who want a converter box permitting older televisions to receive digital broadcasts will be eligible for federal subsidies, according to new rules announced Monday that clear up some confusion about how the program will work.
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Exclusive: Defense Contractor has Analyzed, Transcribed and Organized 1.5 Millon YouTube Clips — A major defense department contractor, BBN of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has applied a national security technology application, developed to fight terrorism, to "crawl" the audio tracks …
By Stephen Wellman / InformationWeek Weblog:
Mobile Web Use Higher In The U.S. Than Europe — Despite all the news and analysis that claims that mobile Web use is higher in Europe and Asia, a new survey claims that mobile Web penetration and use in Europe and the U.S. are on par. In fact, the survey claims that use of the mobile Web in the U.S. is higher.
Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Tech Firms Push to Use TV Airwaves for Internet — A coalition of big technology companies wants to bring high-speed Internet access to consumers in a new way: over television airwaves. Key to the project is whether a device scheduled to be delivered to federal labs today lives up to its promise.
Inside Google Book Search:
Earth viewed from books — I love data. That was no small factor in my decision to join Google. I started a month ago and have already learned a lot, but I wanted to try and put together many of the components I've learned to solve an interesting problem.
Brian Ashcraft / Kotaku:
Rumor: No Denying It, PSP2 Is Coming — And not only that, it looks like it's coming later this year. There have been rumors ever since the DS Lite hit that Sony was also planning a redesign of its portable. Some of those rumors have ground in reality, some of them are just wishful thinking.
Sean Ammirati / Read/WriteWeb:
SXSW: Scaling Your Community — Sean Ammirati of mSpoke is at SXSW in Austin, TX (USA). He is reporting for Read/WriteWeb throughout the event. — This morning I attended a presentation by Matt Mullenweg, the Founder of WordPress, on 'Scaling Your Community.' Matt started by defining scaling …
