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First Look: Go, Go, Google Gadget Ads! — Google has just announced the limited launch of Google Gadget Ads, a new interactive ad format that will run on their content network. Unlike Google AdWords' existing array of text, video and graphical ads, Google Gadget Ads are designed to be interactive …
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Google AdWords Introduces Google Gadget Ads, a New Interactive Ad Format — Engaging and flexible ad units give advertisers a new way to communicate with users online — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the introduction of Google Gadget Ads™, a new interactive ad format …


Google Program Enlists Mini-Sites as Selling Tool for Advertisers — Google is seizing on the popularity of widgets — small online tools that function like mini-Web sites — for its latest push into advertising. — The online giant will announce today a Gadget Ads program that will provide tools …
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Mint Wins TechCrunch40 Top Company Award; Takes $50,000 Prize — Jason Calacanis just announced that Mint was chosen as the best presenting company at TechCrunch40. The provider of an impressive personal finance application will receive $50,000 as part of the award.
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Mint: The easiest way to manage your personal finances — [Update: Mint has won the TechCrunch 40 conference's competition, which goes to the most impressive presenting company from among the 40 participants. Mint will receive a $50,000 cash award and other services and awards from corporate sponsors.]
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Mint wins Techcrunch. Latest start-ups: mEgo, Wixi, Xtr3D, Flowplay
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Industry Leaders Develop Superspeed USB Interconnect — Popular USB Computer Connection Technology Expands performance with Proposed USB 3.0 Specification — INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, San Francisco, Sept. 18, 2007 - Intel Corporation and other industry leaders have formed the USB 3. Promoter Group …
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iPhone to Germany Nov. 9, T-Mobile, $553 — AP: Confirmed: Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile will sell Apple's iPhone in Germany. The iPhone will be available starting Nov. 9 (as in UK) and cost 399 euros ($553). — Separately, Reuters says TheStreet.com says that Apple is increasing iPhone production …
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Apple and T-Mobile Announce Exclusive Partnership for iPhone in Germany — Apple® and T-Mobile today announced that T-Mobile, the leading network operator in Germany, will be the exclusive German carrier of Apple's revolutionary iPhone™ when it makes its debut in Germany …

Apple promises 3G iPhone for 2008 — You can expect a 3G iPhone later next year... Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, has confirmed that there is a 3G iPhone in the works, although fell short of saying when we could expect to buy one. — Making the comments at the "Mum is no longer the word" …

Announcing SoftTech VC's $12M seed fund - the Return to the Dark Side — After 3 years of angel investing in 20+ Consumer Internet startups (and profitably selling 5 of them), I am very excited, and humbled, to announce the launch of my very own VC fund, SoftTech VC II …
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Digg Goes Deeper with Social Networking — With its audience expanding and interests diversifying, the popular site is launching new features to help users find like-minded friends — When Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose launched Digg three years ago, the Web site attracted a community of like-minded people.

Strategy Letter VI — IBM just released an open-source office suite called IBM Lotus Symphony. Sounds like Yet Another StarOffice distribution. But I suspect they're probably trying to wipe out the memory of the original Lotus Symphony, which had been hyped as the Second Coming and which fell totally flat.


The Best Tablet PC Your Questions and TabletPc2.com Answers.... Bottom Row: Fujitsu Lifebook T4220 , Samsung Q1 Ultra, Toshiba R400, Samsung Q1 Ultra, Lenovo X60 — The Tablet PC has come along way since its launch on November 7th, 2002 — Several years have past and I have gotten countless emails asking …

Jobs says Apple will fight iPhone unlocking hacks — Apple will do what it can to fend off hackers trying to unlock the company's popular iPhone, said Steve Jobs, but he acknowledged that doing so won't be easy. — NETWORKING & INTERNET / more stories... Mozilla slaps temp patch on Firefox

Hacker publishes notorious Apple Wi-Fi attack (finally) — A year after Black Hat uproar, David Maynor's ready to tell all — More than a year after claiming to have found a way to take over a Macintosh computer using a flaw in the system's wireless card, David Maynor has published details of his exploit.
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