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Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Eisner Makes Hairpin Turn in His Career — LOS ANGELES, April 17 — When Michael D. Eisner was bicycling in Italy last summer, he encountered a road sign that was so appealing to him, he named his new company after it. — The sign said "tornante," warning of a hairpin turn …
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burst.com:
Burst.com Files Patent Infringement Suit against Apple Computer — Santa Rosa, Calif., (April 17, 2006) - Burst.com, Inc. (OTC: BRST) today announced that it has filed counterclaims accusing Apple Computer of infringing four of Burst's U.S. patents. In the counterclaims …
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Boston Globe:
Blogs 'essential' to a good career — Blogging is good for your career. A well-executed blog sets you apart as an expert in your field. — Ben Day blogged his way into a career as a high-earning software consultant while maintaining the freedom to schedule frequent jam sessions and performances as a keyboard player.
Frank Gruber / TechCrunch:
Comparing the Mapping Services — Online mapping has come a long way in the last year. Google Maps entered the field and added satellite imagery to spring itself into the spotlight - challenging the colorful cartoon-like map images of longtime mapping frontrunner Mapquest.
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dvd.themanroom.com:
Hands-On First Impressions: Toshiba HD-A1 HD-DVD Player — Thursday: 11am. A series of planned phone calls are placed to four Best Buy stores within reasonable driving distance. Each is asked one simple question to answer. Each provides a different response ranging from "I don't think we carry that product.
ZDNet:
Zone Labs' glee at hobbled Vista firewall — The firewall built into Vista may be better than the one supplied with Windows XP, but by default, it will not automatically block outgoing traffic, which is great news for security software vendor Zone Labs. — When Microsoft updated Windows XP …
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Wendy Davis / MediaPost Publications:
Display Impressions Double Year-Over-Year — MARKETERS INCREASED ONLINE SPENDING LAST month, purchasing 185 billion display ads—almost twice as many as last year's 97.1 billion and 31 percent more than February's 141 billion, according to new Nielsen//NetRatings AdRelevance.
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Geeknews / Geek News Central Revealing Technical News …:
Prediction Podcasting Integration coming to Windows in June? — I am going to go out on a limb here and am willing to bet cold hard cash, that at the end of June right about the time of Gnomedex, that Microsoft will introduce to Windows XP a podcast creation tool and Windows Media player …
Andreas / chosaq:
Circumvent PDF DRM... with Gmail! — Apparently, Gmail's built-in "View as HTML" functionality, which allows you to view the content of PDF files (and other types of documents) as if they were classic webpages, works regardless of the files' usage restrictions (= DRM).
Tony Smith / The Register:
iRiver preps WiMAX UMPC — South Korea's iRiver is preparing to enter the ultra-mobile PC arena, the company has revealed. This week it demo'd its first UMPC, the W10, at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair. The prototype device shown at the event sports Wi-Fi, WiMax and WiBro connectivity.
Nick Paumgarten / New Yorker:
GETTING THERE — The science of driving directions. — It is a testament both to the early allure of the automobile and to the difficulty of travelling very far in one that, in 1907, Andrew McNally II, the grandson of the co-founder of Rand McNally & Company, chose to spend his honeymoon in Milwaukee.
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Ajit / Open Gardens:
A web 2.0 FAQ — Based on some initial feedback, I have republished this entry now as a FAQ for web 2.0 — What is web 2.0? — Because of my work with mobile web 2.0, I am often asked the question - 'what is web 2.0'?. This is often a genuine question - since there is a lot of confusion out there and many bandwagon seekers.
PR Newswire:
Amdocs Agrees to Acquire Qpass for $275 Million — Acquisition Positions Amdocs as the Leader in the Emerging Digital Content Market — ST. LOUIS, April 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Amdocs (NYSE: DOX - News), the leading provider of software and services to enable integrated customer management …
Business Week:
The World's Most Innovative Companies — Their creativity goes beyond products to rewiring themselves. BusinessWeek and the Boston Consulting Group rank the best. — It was a fitting way to wrap up the first day of IBM's (IBM ) innovation-themed leadership forum, held in Rome in early April.
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Dan Fost / San Francisco Chronicle:
Web 2.0 has a local address — South Park, the neighborhood that fostered the dot-com boom, is back — The unofficial meal of the Internet comeback is a bowl of Kellogg's Crispix and some fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice - served with pleasure at the Monday morning "cereal bar" hosted by the six-person Internet startup Rubyred Labs.
Howard Mintz / siliconvalley.com:
S.J. court to weigh blogger's rights — At PowerPage.org, a Pennsylvania blogger offers up a daily menu of passionate online dish about all things Apple Computer. It looks like just another run-of-the-mill site in the vast and exploding blogosphere — advertisements, links and an introduction that says ``Publishing since 1995.''
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Alex Baranovskiy / dlmag.com:
Woodi's Sleek New Flash MP3 Player! — Bookmark this article : del.icio.us, spurl, furl — Have you ever seen an MP3 player that didn't really stick out in any way? Woodi, a Korean company, is treading on dangerous territory here, but their new MP3 player manages to have just enough "cool factor".
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