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Ryan Nakashima / Associated Press:
Comcast CEO shows off super quick modem — LAS VEGAS - Comcast Corp. Chief Executive Brian Roberts dazzled a cable industry audience Tuesday, showing off for the first time in public new technology that enabled a data download speed of 150 megabits per second, or roughly 25 times faster than today's standard cable modems.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Comcast's Brian Roberts, Broadband's Tomorrow Man — Brian Roberts, chief executive officer of Comcast Corp., in a move reminiscent of Microsoft's Bill Gates' futuristic announcements at CES, today showed off a new modem that uses channel bonding technology that can pump data into your homes at speeds of 150 megabits per second.
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Comcast's Roberts: 'Wideband' to Trump Telcos — Demo Runs at Speeds of 150 Mbps — Las Vegas — Comcast CEO Brian Roberts gave a hands-on demonstration of the next generation of ultra-fast, "wideband" cable modems at The Cable Show '07 here. — The technology is more than 25 times …
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Dylan Tweney / Epicenter:
PC World Brings Editor Back, Removes CEO — In a surprise reversal, IDG management removed Colin Crawford as PC World's CEO and reinstated Harry McCracken as Editor in Chief, after a dispute over a canceled Apple story led McCracken to quit. A memo just sent to PC World and Macworld staffers …
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Editor in Chief Harry McCracken Returns to PC World — Had resigned in dispute with CEO Colin Crawford over editorial independence. Crawford to return to prior IDG post. — Ramon G. McLeod, Editor, PCWorld.com — In a surprise announcement, Robert Carrigan, president of IDG Communications …
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Spoon-Bending 'Paranormalist' Illegally Twists Copyright Law — Uri Geller Makes Bogus Copyright Claims to Silence YouTube Critic — San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit Tuesday against Uri Geller — the "paranormalist" famous for seemingly bending spoons with his mind …
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Kenneth Li / Reuters:
Old media turns combative against new media — LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Leading media executives took a combative tone against Internet companies on Tuesday, suggesting that Big Media increasingly considers new content distributors like Google Inc. to be more foe than friend.
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Tom Sanders / vnunet:
Red Hat to build 'Global Desktop' — Low cost Linux bundle system to target emerging markets — UPDATE - Red Hat is preparing to release a new "Red Hat Global Desktop" that over time will grow into an online desktop that integrates online services into a client desktop platform.
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Move Over, Skype: Intel's Backing Jajah — The chipmaker is throwing its weight behind a service that aims to dethrone eBay's PC-to-PC calling business — For more than two years, Intel has worked with Web-calling leader Skype, but on May 9, the mammoth chipmaker announced a partnership …
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Molly Graham / Google LatLong:
A new world unfolding — Posted by John Hanke, Director, Google Earth & Maps — Welcome to the Google "geo" blog. As web mapping (dare I say "the geoweb"?) matures, we're finding that we have a lot more to communicate about new developments in Earth, Maps, Local, and our APIs.
Rick Merritt / InformationWeek:
Call It The jPhone: Sun Shows Java Twist On Apple's iPhone — At the JavaOne conference, Sun Microsystems debuts software for a high-end cell phone that looks rather similar to the iPhone. — EE Times — SAN FRANCISCO — Call it the jPhone. At JavaOne Tuesday (May 8) …
Microsoft:
Bill Gates: Microsoft Strategic Account Summit 2007 — Transcript of Remarks by Bill Gates, Chairman, Microsoft Corporation — Microsoft Strategic Account Summit 2007 — JOANNE BRADFORD [Corporate Vice President and Chief Media Officer, Microsoft Corporation]: Good morning, good morning.
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
Giving Up on Microsoft — Although I am generally platform agnostic, I make no secret of the fact that I am primarily a Microsoft developer. In a way, I grew up with Microsoft— as a teenager, I cut my programming teeth on the early microcomputer implementations of Microsoft BASIC.
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IndieGames / Xbox Team:
Spring '07 Video Playback FAQ — 1. What exactly does the Xbox 360 support for H.264? — Xbox 360 supports the following for H.264: … 2. What exactly does the Xbox 360 support for MPEG-4 Part 2? — Xbox 360 supports the following for MPEG-4: … 3. What exactly does the Xbox 360 support for WMV (VC-1)?
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Eric Savitz / BARRONS.com:
Motorola To Unveil Phone With 30-Frame Per Second Video; Movies On SD Cards — Motorola (MOT) CEO Ed Zander today said the company next week will unveil a new phone focused on very high video quality, with the ability to show movies at 30 frames a second. Zander said the new phone …
Scott Robbin / Just Some Dot Com:
Advanced WYSIWYG in Wordpress 2.1 — If you're a Wordpress user, and have the slightest grasp of HTML, then at some point in your blogging life you're sure to have flung an insult at the built-in WYSIWYG editor that comes with Wordpress. While it suffices to accomplish the most minor formatting tasks …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Joost Announces $45 million Funding From Sequoia, Index, CBS & Viacom — Internet TV startup Joost raised $45 million in a venture round of financing, the company will announce this evening. Investors include Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures, CBS Corporation, Viacom and Chinese billionaire Li Ka-shing.
