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Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Podtech raises $5.5 million to create the "NPR" of podcasting — Gee, this we weren't expecting...venture capital flowing to podcast creation. — John Furrier is a bit of a hyperactive guy you will see at technology conferences around Silicon Valley. He bounds around with a microphone …
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robhyndman.com, Venture Chronicles, PodTech Comments …, Texas Venture Capital … and Podcasting
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Jfurrier / PodTech.net:
PodTech Receives $5.5 Million in Series A Funding from US Venture Partners and Venrock Associates … MENLO PARK, CA. (March 16, 2006) PodTech.Network, Inc., a media company dedicated to podcasting and delivering Fresh Voices™ for the iPod generation, announced today …
Joel Rothstein / Reuters:
Bill Gates mocks MIT's $100 laptop project — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates on Wednesday mocked a $100 laptop computer for developing countries being developed with the backing of rival Google Inc. (Nasdaq:GOOG …
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Matthew Daly / Associated Press:
Gates Sketches Out Vision for the Future — McLEAN, Va. - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates sketched out a vision for the future Wednesday in which a cell phone will become a "digital wallet," able to receive e-mail and even scan business cards, while computers and TVs will merge.
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Engadget
Next Generation:
Analyst: Halo 3 Back in the Frame — A leading analyst says PlayStation 3's delay could prompt Microsoft to seek to sabotage the launch with the timely release of its key Xbox 360 title Halo 3. — » read more — Comment: Gloom Greets Sony Delay — Sony has at last admitted …
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Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Blog supplier Six Apart receives $12 mln in funding — SAN FRANCISCO, March 15 (Reuters) - Six Apart Ltd., a provider of blogging software, on Wednesday said it had received around $12 million in a third round of funding for use in new products, international expansion and network growth.
Dave Winer / Dave's Wordpress Blog:
About feeds.scripting.com — This is a response to a post by Rogers Cadenhead on his blog today. — 1. I wanted to get feeds.scripting.com running again, and had had a good experience with Rogers on work he did for me on weblogs.com. I outlined a plan and sent Rogers a draft of a written agreement.
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Shelleyp / Burningbird:Past Time to Retire — Dave Winer has been talking about retirement.
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The Obvious?
macobserver.com:
TMO at SxSW - User Interface Designers Talk OS X, XP/Vista — This year's South by Southwest (SxSW) Interactive festival, which concluded Tuesday on the eve of the famed music festival, served up a number of interesting panel discussions, but none of greater interest to Mac users than Tuesday's …
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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:Newsmaker: Tribble on Apple's security troubles
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Rafat / PaidContent.org:
Netscape.com To Be Relaunched As a Digg-Like Site; Calacanis Heading It : The storied Netscape.com will be revived again by AOL, and will relaunch soon as a Digg-like user-driven news/aggregation site with Jason Calacanis at the helm, sources have told paidContent.org.
facetime.com:
FaceTime Identifies New Botnets Utilizing Instant Messaging to Steal Personal Information from Online Shoppers and PayPal Customers — FOSTER CITY, CALIF — March 15, 2006 — Research experts at FaceTime Security Labs™ identified and reported a new threat today affecting instant messaging (IM) applications.
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CNET News.com:
Will your PC keep pace with Vista? — How does Windows Vista love thy computer? Let it count the ways. — Microsoft is building into the new operating system a tool that will rate a PC based on how well it is running and on how much it can take advantage of Vista's capabilities.
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Roomba takes Frogger to the asphalt jungle — reporter's notebook AUSTIN, Texas—It's almost two in the morning and I'm standing in the middle of Austin's Sixth Street, hoping that I'm not going to get hit by a car. — On the other hand, I am hoping—as are 15 or so other people standing nearby …
Russell Beattie Notebook:
EQO: Wonky but it works — So I downloaded EQO - the app that lets you chat and make calls and chat over Skype from your mobile phone. Which sounds cool, but I was confused on how exactly it worked so I just grabbed it. Well it turns out that it installs a little agent that runs …
Who da'Punk / Mini-Microsoft:
Interesting Incoming Comments — Some really interesting comments coming in as of late. — Next week I'm going to take a moment to read-read them all and call-out some of the ones I find interesting (460+ to read through at the moment, so that's gonna take a while...).
pc.gamespy.com:
The 2006 Independent Games Festival Finalists — Download and play these awesome indie games, as Fargo and FilePlanet take you on a tour of the best entries in this year's IGF. — [Readers: Day 2's coverage is now live! skip ahead to part 2 if you want to get to the new stuff.]
Infosthetics / information aesthetics:
oil barrels price translation — a web browser plug-in that converts all prices from U.S. dollars into the equivalent value in barrels of crude oil. when a user loads a webpage, the script inserts converted prices into the page. as the cost of oil fluctuates on the commodities exchange, prices rise & fall in real-time.
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Switched On: Origami is a paper tiger for now — Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a weekly column about the future of technology, multimedia, anddigital entertainment: — Here we go again. In its unending capitalisticquest, Microsoft is determined to figure out how to sell people their nth computer.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Announcing TalkCrunch: A New Weekly Podcast — I am happy to announce the launch of a new podcast blog - TalkCrunch. Each week we'll be posting a new episode, featuring founders of companies we've written about the previous week. — For our inagural episode, we invite Ethan Stock …
Sue Zeidler / Reuters:
LG to deliver dual-format HD DVD/Blu-ray — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Korea's LG Electronics Inc. (066570.K: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Tuesday it planned to launch a next-generation DVD player that will bridge the yawning gap between two competing formats by playing both HD DVD and Blu-ray.
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ncta.com:
ECONOMISTS FIND MAJOR FLAWS IN FCC MEDIA BUREAU'S FURTHER REPORT ON A LA CARTE PROGRAMMING — NCTA and Disney Release Independent Economist Reports — That Dispute Recent FCC Study … WASHINGTON, D.C. - The National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) and The Walt Disney …
P.J. Fusco / ClickZ:
SEO Mailbag: Search Engine Spam and SEM Salaries — › › › Search Engine Marketing — Reader requests to address innumerable SEO (define) issues come in many shapes and forms. Some questions are site specific, search-engine specific, campaign specific, or even search-result specific.
