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Wolfram Alpha is Coming — and It Could be as Important as Google — Stephen Wolfram is building something new — and it is really impressive and significant. In fact it may be as important for the Web (and the world) as Google, but for a different purpose.
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Japanese gadget controls iPod in blink of an eye — A wink, a smile or a raised eyebrow could soon change the music on your iPod or start up the washing machine, thanks to a new Japanese gadget. The device looks like a normal set of headphones but is fitted with a set of infrared sensors …
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Windows Mobile Marketplace Website Comes Online — We know very little about the Windows Mobile marketplace. Microsoft was very quiet about it at MWC - no screenshots, no specifics details. At first, the word was that only Windows Mobile 6.5 devices could use the Marketplace …
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Webcam Brings 3-D to Topps Sports Cards — Since the 1950s, Topps has sold baseball trading cards filled with photos and stats, bringing the game to life. Now the company is bringing its cards to life. — Beginning Monday, collectors who hold a special Topps 3D Live baseball card in front …
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Caustic Graphics to create graphics chips with novel ray-tracing technology — Caustic Graphics is planning to take on graphics chip makers with a new way of rendering images that can enhance realism and improve cost efficiency. — The San Francisco start-up, formed by ex-Apple engineers …
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Ooma rebounds after cutting price for service — (03-08) 15:20 PST — After it stumbled out of the gate in July 2007, it's hard to imagine that Palo Alto's Ooma would look forward to an economic downturn. — But the startup, which offers free home phone service with the purchase of an Ooma box …
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Back to the future: MediaNews revives “print your own newspaper” — In an approach rather different from Microsoft's vision of content delivery in the future, which I described yesterday, MediaNews Group has announced plans for I-News, a system that will print your own customized newspaper on your own printer:
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Happy 30th Birthday, Compact Disc! — Compact discs weren't always impromptu drink coasters. Once, in the not-so-distant past, they played music, contained pictures, and let people play video games with tacked-on FMV sequences. And today, the venerable CD turned 30. — Happy birthday!
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The Search for Change — Eric Schmidt of Google on why the company spends so much time worrying about energy — Many think of Google Inc. as a search company. But it's also an investor in renewable energy, and it has proposed an ambitious plan to put clean energy at the heart of the U.S. energy mix.
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Recruiters Use Search Engines to Lure Job Hunters — Cash-Strapped Companies Save With Search Ads, Scale Back on Rival Media Like Job Boards and Newspapers — Companies have long used search-engine marketing to lure online consumers. Now they're looking to draw job hunters the same way …
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Your guide to SxSW Interactive 2009 — During the second week of March each year, there is a mass pilgrimage of geeks from the San Francisco bay area to the heart of Texas. Not for BBQ, not for a suntan, but for probably the best interactive web conference in the history of the world.
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Welcome to the Hive Mind; Learn How to Search Twitter — by Chris Allison (@Chris_Allison) CMO of Centsports. — A few days back, for no particular reason, I started thinking more about how to search for useful information on Twitter. Then Twitter announced they were integrating search.twitter.com …