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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Craigslist grapples with competitor on board — Craigslist, the pioneering online classified Web site, is facing a large new competitor, one that has accumulated insider knowledge of Craigslist's business. — On Friday, eBay's online classified service, Kijiji, made its U.S. debut.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
eBay To Craigslist: Game On With US Version Of Kijiji — eBay has opened a US version of its classifieds site Kijiji. — Kijiji has previously been available in Canada as well as parts of Europe and Asia, and is a direct competitor to Craigslist. — The Wall Street Journal reports …
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Peter Griffiths / Reuters:
Gadget boom to drive up energy demand: report — LONDON (Reuters) - Flat-screen televisions, computers and other hi-tech gadgets will use nearly half of a typical British household's total electricity by 2020, an energy conservation body said in a report on Wednesday.
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Stace / Unwired View:
HTC OMNI PICS AND SPECS — The rumors about the upcoming HTC OMNI communicator have been flying around the Web for a few months now. And from some leaked details and specs, HTC Omni sounded like a very interesting mobile gadget. — Well, they were true.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Steorn's Orbo "free-energy" machine demonstrated! — Here we go, after months of doubt over claims of a magnetic machine promising "infinite clean energy," Steorn will be putting their wares on display for public scrutiny in London. A physics defying perpetual machine, if you will.
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Chris Kohler / Game | Life:
Nintendo Announces DS Camera, Face Training — Having already trained the brains of the Japanese and begun work on training their eyes, Nintendo now wants to train... their faces. — Otona No DS Kao Training, or Face Training, includes a camera that plugs into the Game Boy Advance slot …
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RU Sirius / 10 Zen Monkeys:
Steve Wozniak v. Stephen Colbert — and Other Pranks — Steve Wozniak showed up at our San Francisco studio riding in fine style... on a Segway. He had told me via email that he would just park anywhere in the city, and I imagined this multimillionaire going to some exclusive garage …
Jesus / Gizmodo:
Zhiny: Motorola Zante Looks Even Shinier than You Know Who, Also Runs on EDGE — Here's the Zante, up close and lustrously yours. Today we got plenty of fresh technical information about this Motorola-flavored Sidekick plus two new pretty pics. One of them above, the other after the jump, showing its funky purple sliding keyboard.
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Nokia:
Honey, we need to talk - with my Nokia Speakerphone HF-300 — Espoo, Finland - Having a conversation in and out of the car is about as simple as talking to yourself, thanks to Nokia's first speakerphone, the stylish Nokia Speakerphone HF-300. This detachable Bluetooth speakerphone hosts a powerful speaker and microphone.
Forbes:
If Trust Is Lost, Google Will Crumble — Google in the past has been able to fend off criticism of its increasing dominance of the online market and remain highly profitable. However, increasing criticism of its powerful position could harm its business perspective and future profits.
BBC:
Warning of data ticking time bomb — Microsoft UK Managing Director Gordon Frazer running Windows 3.1 on a Vista PC — The growing problem of accessing old digital file formats is a "ticking time bomb", the chief executive of the UK National Archives has warned.
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Jen Gerson / Toronto Star:
WiFi revolution hits a snag — Fee for Internet service brings drop in number of Toronto subscribers — Long lauded as the technology that would turn cities into techie meccas, WiFi continues to creep across metropolises. — Years after North American cities began to plan for the WiFi revolution …
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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay Wants MediaDefender to Walk the Plank to Bankruptcy — The guys at The Pirate Bay aren't happy. Certain commercial outfits have been trying to use their trackers to hunt down pirates - companies like Media Defender who will be fresh in your mind following the MiiVi incident.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Is It Copyright Infringement To Embed An Infringing YouTube Video On Your Blog? — from the questions,-questions,-questions dept — While there has been a great deal of discussion (and a few lawsuits) concerning the legality of YouTube hosting infringing videos, one question where we haven't seen …
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Tim Carroll / PalmInfocenter.com:
Palm Treo vs the iPhone: 10 Rounds — iDay has come and gone, and the first iPhones have made their way into the hot, grubby hands of gadget geeks and Apple cultists. It's an important phase: how well is this svelte little beauty going to bear up under the hypercritical gaze of enthusiasts without …
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