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David Richards / smarthouse.com.au:
Apple Mac Tablet PC With Docking Station In 07 — Apple researchers have built a full working prototype of a Mac tablet PC and three Companies in Taiwan are now costing a product for a potential launch in mid 2007. — Sources in Taiwan have said that the focus has been more on the home …
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Louise Armitstead / Times of London:
Media group to release grip on PR Newswire — THE private-equity group Apax is planning a bid for PR Newswire (PRN), the highly profitable press-release distribution business that constitutes one of the biggest parts of United Business Media (UBM). — The London-based private- equity house …
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Reuters:
Apax said planning 500 million bid for UBM's PRN —Text+LONDON (Reuters) - Private equity group Apax Partners (APAX.UL: Quote, Profile, Research) is planning a bid for PR Newswire (PRN), the press-release distribution business of United Business Media (UBM.L: Quote, Profile, Research), The Sunday Times reported.
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Nick / Rough Type:
SaaS adoption set to explode — Large companies appear to be jumping en masse onto the software-as-a-service bandwagon, according to a new survey of CIOs by management consultants McKinsey & Company. The survey found that 61% of North American companies with sales over $1 billion plan …
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Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Open Source Gift Guide — Over on makezine, Phil Torrone has created a fabulous Open Source Gift Guide. He writes: … Here is my suggestion for the friend who already has everything: make a donation in their name to one of the many great organizations that work tirelessly to support …
John Markoff / New York Times:
Xerox Seeks Erasable Form of Paper for Copiers — During the 1970s, researchers at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center explored a software technique called "garbage collection" used for recycling computer memory. The technique allowed the automatic reuse of blocks of memory that were storing unused programs and data.
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Observer:
After YouTube and MySpace, what next? As the internet continues to change at a breathtaking pace, David Smith goes to Silicon Valley to meet the architects of the next web explosion — The people spilling out of Ritual Coffee Roasters on to the San Francisco sidewalk scent more than coffee beans.
Alan Parekh / Hacked Gadgets:
Making the Sonar Blu Ray Wicked Laser — By now I am sure all of you have heard about Blu Ray players. The heart of this innovative device is a special high power laser. Wicked Lasers is striving to bring cutting edge products to their customers. Steve over at Wicked Lasers was kind enough …
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Rob Hof / Tech Beat:
Shoveling on Digg — As much as I like the idea of Digg—a site where a community chooses the most interesting or relevant news—I must confess that I just don't use it that much. The reason became obvious once I started using Google Reader, which streams new RSS posts from all my chosen feeds as they come in.
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Salesforce.com building out connector ecosystem — Salesforce.com's latest ecosystem expansion is focused on AppConnect, an extension of the AppExchange marketplace for connectors that integrate its platform with a variety of applications and services, including ERP systems, Web services, desktop applications and middleware.
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Ian Austen / New York Times:
Telling Tales Out of School, on YouTube — In the good old days, students simply used technology like cellphones to cheat on tests. Now, they're posting what happens in their classrooms on YouTube. — Two students who attend the equivalent of Grade 9 at a school in Gatineau, Quebec …
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
The Rojas MP3 Player — In my "what next" blog post last week I put in an inside joke about starting a gadget company with Peter designing the products. Peter picked up on it and now others are pinging me about it—but taking it seriously. — So, that leads me to the question …
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Jeff Sandquist:
Channels 9 and 10 Sponsor TechMeme — TechMeme.com has become a critical part of the blogging plumbing and is a site I visit many times throughout the day to keep up with what is happening in the tech industry. My wife is also a fan of their WeSmirch site for Celebrity Gossip and Memeorandum for politic discourse.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Forbes Video Interview With Digg CEO — Michele Steele at Forbes Video Network interviewed Digg CEO Jay Adelson to discuss site usage and acquisition rumors. The video was posted on November 22, 2006. — Steele asked Adelson about the size of the Digg audience (Digg has claimed 20 million uniques …
Chris Anderson / The Long Tail:
THE RISE OF "FREECONOMICS" — It's a big day for Moore's Law. I'm not sure anyone else has noticed this, but by my calculations we have in the past few months reached the penny-per-MIPS* milestone. Intel's Core Duo running at 2.13 GHz now costs around $200 at retail (it's around $180 at volume), but can do about 20,000 MIPS.
