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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
What is Facebook worth? — There's been a debate raging on Techmeme, the website that turns the tech blogosphere into a mail list, about the value of Facebook. — I have two answers to the question: 1. A lot. 2. Or very little. Depending on what they do.
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BBC:
Intel and $100 laptop join forces — Chip-maker Intel has joined forces with the makers of the $100 laptop project. — The agreement marks a huge turnaround for both the not-for profit One laptop per Child (OLPC) foundation and Intel. — In May this year, Nicholas Negroponte …
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Mike Sachoff / WebProNews:Intel Joins One Laptop per Child
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Good Morning Silicon Valley, Ars Technica, Digital Trends, The Register, ChipLand, Inquirer and CNET News.com
NTT DoCoMo:
NTT DoCoMo Begins Super 3G Experiment — NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that this month it began testing an experimental Super 3G system for mobile communications. With this experiment, DoCoMo will seek to achieve a downlink transmission rate of 300Mbps over a high-speed wireless network.
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Jessica Mintz / MSNBC:
Six months on, Vista users still griping — Some working around flaws or sticking with Windows XP — Chris Pirillo posted a 52-minute video rant on YouTube in March, complaining about Windows Vista. He runs a network of blogs about technology called Lockergnome, and was one of several …
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Robert McLaws / Windows-Now.com:
Windows Vista: Six Months In, Your Mileage May Vary — This may be news to Jessica Mintz of the Associated Press, but not every Vista user has been griping. While it's easy to look to Chris Pirillo's 52-minute rant on Vista, people forget that Chris has made his professional career out of griping about Windows.
LeeAnn Prescott / Hitwise US:
LinkedIn Traffic Up 323% in Past Year, Users More Likely to be on Gmail — Have you been getting a flurry in LinkedIn invitations in the past few months? I have been receiving a few requests a week, so I wasn't surprised to find that the market share of US visits to LinkedIn was up 323% in the past year …
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Alexander Sliwinski / Joystiq:
Sony: Enough 60GBs for "several months" in U.S. [Update 4] — Dave Karraker of Sony Computer Entertainment of America has contacted Joystiq to give us clarification on the story that would have made us believe Sony had truly lost its mind once and for all. The fun never ends, does it?
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Salon: Machinist, GamesIndustry.biz, PlayStation.Blog, Ars Technica, Engadget, Forever Geek, The Tech Report, DailyTech and digg
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
About 25 percent of iPhone buyers are 'switchers' to AT&T - firm — About one quarter of consumers adopting Apple's heavily-hyped iPhone handset are 'switchers' to AT&T from other carriers, financial firm American Technology Research reported on Friday, citing unnamed sources.
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DealBook / New York Times:
Sun Valley: Late Night With Eric Schmidt — Thursday night at the Allen & Company conference at Sun Valley, the mogul-cracy was in full frolic by the time DealBook and his fellow press buddies got back from dinner. The juxtapositions were fascinating to us geeks who have been peering in on the event.
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Eliot Van Buskirk / Wired News:
Net Radio Wins Partial Reprieve as Royalties Loom — A coalition of webcasters have worked out a deal with the recording industry that could temporarily stave off a portion of crippling net radio royalties set to take effect Sunday, according to people familiar with the negotiations.
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AppScout, Public Knowledge, CyberNet Technology News, Salon: Machinist, Valleywag, TechSpot News, paidContent.org, Read/WriteWeb, IP Democracy, Colette Vogele's blog, eHomeUpgrade, Don Dodge on The Next …, Download Squad, UNEASYsilence, Insider Chatter, Contentinople, Washington Post and Podcasting News
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Scott / Self Made Minds:
AdSense for mobile launches in Beta — Just a quick update rather than a post, a feature high up on the request list for some has now come to fruition. I received an email tonight to say that I was invited to test out Adsense for Mobile. — What is Adsense for mobile?
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Fortune iMeme: VCs Talk About The New Tech Economy; Facebook '07 Rev To Top $100 Million — It's a bright shiny morning in San Francisco, where I'm back for the Fortune iMeme conference at the Ritz-Carlton. I'm here listening to a panel of venture capitalists talking about the outlook for technology investing.
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paidContent.org, VC Ratings, All Facebook, The Sam Whitmore Sampler, The Browser, PaulStamatiou.com, Media Biz and BoomTown
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor:
PHP 4 end of life announcement — Today it is exactly three years ago since PHP 5 has been released. In those three years it has seen many improvements over PHP 4. PHP 5 is fast, stable & production-ready and as PHP 6 is on the way, PHP 4 will be discontinued.
Danwei:
Google (China) vs. Beijing Guge — Beijing Guge Science and Technology Ltd. (.) is suing Google China () for disrupting its business - both companies use the name and this causes confusion. From Reuters: … The Reuters report was based on a story from The Beijing News on Wednesday; today's papers provided additional information.
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Frank Caron / Ars Technica:
One on one with Nintendo at E3 — Nintendo's press conference was arguably the most controversial of the show; some have walked away from the company's unveilings feeling disappointed, while others were elated. We found ourselves somewhere in between: unsure of the new peripherals and anxious …
