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A9.com Names David Tennenhouse Chief Executive Officer — PALO ALTO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Feb. 7, 2006—A9.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMZN - News), today named Dr. David Tennenhouse the company's new Chief Executive Officer. — Tennenhouse is a renowned technologist and seasoned executive.
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Allison Linn / Associated Press:
Amazon.com Unit Exec Takes Post at Google — Udi Manber Leaves Post at Amazon.com Subsidiary to Become Google's Vice President of Engineering — SEATTLE (AP) — The head of Amazon.com Inc.'s online search effort is leaving to join Google Inc., the latest in a series of high-profile hires for the search engine leader.
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
UPDATED: UDI MANBER TO LEAVE AMAZON'S A9 FOR GOOGLE — A reader tipped me to this over the weekend, but I could not confirm it till just this afternoon, and out of respect for the folks who worked with and for Udi, I decided not to post without confirmation. I pinged five other sources since, and Udi confirmed this afternoon.
Harry McCracken / PC World's Techlog:
Riya's Amazing Face-Recognition Photo Search — DEMO is less than half over, so it's too early to talk about my own unofficial Best of Show award...but so far, I haven't seen anything that impressed me more than Riya. This photo sharing/search site does something quite remarkable …
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Erick Schonfeld / B2Day:
Slurping Up the Buzz at Demo — B2.0's Michael Copeland files the following report from Demo: — The bad skits, the technical flubs, the cool products and services, it's all here again at Demo 2006. For those who aren't familiar with the twice a year conference, Demo is sort …
Miss Rogue / HorsePigCow:
DEMO 06: Morning Report — Quickie notes from DEMO 06...more detailed reporting can be found at Conferenza... The theme for this year's conference is: — Simplify Simplify - Thoreau — Nice. Simple is good... Presenter #1 - MooBella — Ice Cream vending machine. Linux based.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:A Taste of DEMO 2006 — DEMO 2006: 70 companies gather …
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Official Google Blog:
Chat + Email = Crazy Delicious — When we launched Google Talk, some people told us what a great idea it'd be to add chat to Gmail. True that. So a couple of us Google Talk engineers approached the Gmail team. They were excited about the idea, and we got to work immediately …
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Steve Friess / Wired News:
Podfading Takes Its Toll — Ryan and Jen Ozawa were riding high on the iTunes charts, enjoying a much-envied following of more than 15,000 listeners for their weekly Lost-themed podcast, The Transmission. — Then, in a plot twist worthy of the hit TV show itself, the Hawaii-based couple suddenly marooned …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
CableCARD: a primer — Introduction — We know that you'd like nothing better than to get rid of that set-top box sitting on your DVD player. It's ugly, it's clunky, and it has its own remote. Extra cables snake about the back of your entertainment center, providing ideal conditions …
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Fred Wilson / Union Square Ventures:
Why We Invested in FeedBurner — Last October, I wrote a post called "The Lady Doth Protest Too Much" in which I told the following story: … The company in that story is FeedBurner, a company that I have been a customer of, a fan of, and a believer in for over two years.
Harold / wetmachine.com:
STOP THE WIFI TAX RUMOR — Freaking trade press should know better, or at least learn to read more carefully. There is a steady drum beat of reports, starting I think with this one at RCR Wireless News that the President wants a "wifi tax." This is, bluntly, a misreading of the plain language of the President's budget proposal.
Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Net Neutrality Not An Optional Feature of Internet — The Senate Commerce Committee is currently holding hearings on Net Neutrality. Webcast . The Bells are not be directly represented, cable companies views will be shared by Kyle McSlarrow, NCTA President and CEO.
Ryan Block / Engadget:
The winners of the 2005 Engadget Awards! — Ah yes, the Engadget Awards! All the glitzand glamor of the Oscars, but without all that Best Acting stuff — only technical achievements here, people — themost interesting, innovative, feature-rich gadgets 2005 had to offer.
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Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Dell testing preinstalled Google software package — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Dell Inc. and Google Inc. confirmed on Tuesday they are testing a pre-installed package of Google software on Dell computers, in a potential blow to Microsoft Corp.'s dominance of desktop software.
John Borland / ZDNet:
BitTorrent to crack down on use of name … The creators of the BitTorrent file-swapping application will soon begin cracking down on how other software developers use the BitTorrent name, company President Ashwin Navin said Monday. — BitTorrent's creator, Bram Cohen …
labs.opera.com:
Opera 9 Technology Preview 2 — We've released a technology preview of Opera 9, codenamed Merlin, on Opera Labs. There are some very cool features we want you to try: — Opera Widgets - Widgets are small AJAX applications that provide specific functionality - like getting your favorite news, converting currency and so on.
