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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Fox Announces Acquistion; Exclusive Video — During an interview that I conducted at the Under the Radar event this afternoon, Ross Levinsohn, president of Fox Interactive, announced that they had acquired one of the 32 companies that presented at the event. He would not, however, say which company it was.
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:Fox Interactive buying up Web 2.0 companies
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Reuters gets it — Tom Glocer, CEO of Reuters, is giving a keynote at the Online Publishers Association. It's good enough to live-blog. — Glocer said a year ago, the focus of Reuters was on "the consumer as editor," with tools such as RSS to allow consumers to consume differently.
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securityfocus.com:
The big DRM mistake — Digital Rights Managements hurts paying customers, destroys Fair Use rights, renders customers' investments worthless, and can always be defeated. Why are consumers and publishers being forced to use DRM? — One of my favorite magazines is The New Yorker.
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Next Version of Tablet PC's Said to Be Lighter and Smaller — Microsoft and Intel plan to announce next week that several industry partners will make small, light versions of a tablet personal computer, people close to the two companies said yesterday. — The machines, which have been the subject …
Mike Davidson / Mike Davidson:
Newsvine Launches — After eight weeks of testing in private beta, Newsvine is now live to the world. It's been an extremely productive couple of months, with countless enhancements and feature additions making their way onto the site almost every day. — The decision when to release to the world was a tough one for us.
Hasan / Under the Radar:
Live from under the radar - Track 2:Connect 2.0 — Seamless connection, collaboration combined with virtual storage from anywhere that is available to my mom and she can actually use that is connect 2.0. — Panelists — Jeff Clavier, Managing Partner, SoftTech VC and Editor, Software Only
Alexander Grundner / ehomeupgrade.com:
Build Your Own Windows Vista MCE CableCARD Certified PC — I think I figured out a way to build your own CableCARD Certified Windows Vista MCE PC. It's actually a fairly straightforward concept. The only part of the equation that will take getting used to is accepting the fact that you'll …
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Brad GNUberg / Brad Neuberg:
Introducing the Hyperscope Project — Everything Old is New Again, or, Why You Should Care About Computer History — Imagine the year is 1968: mainframes rule the roost, the concepts of personal computers and collaborative systems are non-existent, and people's conception …
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Peter Rojas / Engadget Mobile:
Motorola ROKR E3 - Exclusive pics! — Asusual, we can't divulge our super-secret source, but earlier this week we scored an exclusive hands-on session with theMotorola ROKR E3 (at least, we think it's called the ROKR E3!). As you've probably noticed, this is the very same mystery phone …
Matt / Signal vs. Noise:
Getting Real book update: new version, sales, feedback, contributors, etc. — News on the Getting Real book: — First off, there's a new version of the PDF up now. We're following Getting Real principles and adjusting on the fly based on the feedback we receive (thanks to everyone who's emailed or posted constructive comments).
Ted / IP Inferno:
PR IS BROKEN — Tom Foremski, over at Silicon Valley Watcher, said it so much more eloquently — Die! Press release! Die! Die! Die!. But to this refrain may I add, Die! PR Telemarketing! Die! Die! Die!. And to what do you owe this morning rant? Jeff Pulver's VON.
Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
TiVo's "Big" News May be Bigger Than We All Even Realize — So while I got everybody all lathered up yesterday over TiVo's announcement of an announcement, today news is breaking that the big news from TiVo does not have anything to do with Series 3 TiVos, or HDTV, or a subscription only pricing plan, or a sexy new partnership.
Dionne Searcey / Wall Street Journal:
Consumers Could See New Web Rates: Use More, Pay More — Large phone companies and telecom-equipment makers are developing plans that would blow up the flat-fee structure for high-speed Internet access and instead charge customers different rates based on how much bandwidth, or Internet capacity, they use.
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
MacBook Pro — Introduction — Apple MacBook Pro — Just about a month-and-a-half after Steve Jobs's surprisingly unsurprising announcement at the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco that the first two Intel-based Macs to be rolled out would be the iMac and the MacBook Pro …
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Jeneane Sessum / ALLIED:
The Subtext of Tagging — I finally understand tagging, although I'm not sure I'm doing it right. For a couple of years now (or is it a couple of months—you know, internet time) I've read the taxonomy geeks talking about and using tags to classify what they are writing.
Ryan Katz / Think Secret:
Apple thinks big(ger): video iPod to pack 4-inch display — March 2, 2006 - Apple's forthcoming "true" video iPod will feature a 4-inch display with a quarter-inch border, allowing the device to maintain dimensions typical of previous iPods, further sources have confirmed.
Marc Perton / Engadget:
Origami refolded: here's what we know — We'velearned a little more about Microsoft's Origami Project, and asalways, we're here to share. After thismorning's HTML source confirmation that Origami will indeed be a "Mobile PC running Windows XP," we haveone more detail to add …
