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AMD Kicks Dual Core Up Another Notch: Athlon 64 X2
AMD continues to assert itself against the traditional processor powerhouse known as Intel. With the immediate release of AMD's Athlon 64 X2 dual core processor, the world of the computer should be speeding up tremendously and with that, computer gaming should go through the roof.
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Date: 2005-05-31
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Homeland Insecurity
The General Accounting Office says the Department of Homeland Security has not completed its 13 assigned cybersecurity tasks.
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Date: 2005-05-31
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You Want Fries With That iPod?
We have two examples of how technology is being used to slow down fast food in the hopes it will bring more people into these restaurants and keep them there a bit longer. In both cases, music plays a large role in making these environments more appealing.
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Date: 2005-05-31
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Internet Advertising To Be The Next Media Darling
Goldman Sachs adds their own numbers to recent reports that advertising spending on the Internet will take a bullish ride to record highs. Providing a lower estimate than Forrester Research and eMarketer, Goldman Sachs expects 2005 ad spending to reach $12.3 billion.
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Date: 2005-05-31
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Hungry for the Web? Dig into RSS
The Canadian Press brings us another overview of RSS for the uninitiated. How many more of these articles do we need? As many as it takes to explain RSS in clear and simple terms…simple enough that it becomes mainstream.
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Date: 2005-05-31
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Gillmor Gang Is Back
Gillmor Gang is back, and I listened to the latest one, with Adam Curry as a guest. He revealed that Steve Jobs personally demonstrated the latest iTunes to him. How cool is that?
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Date: 2005-05-31
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Hired For Blogging
The Wall Street Journal reports that a "small but growing" number of businesses are hiring writers specifically to author corporate blogs.
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Date: 2005-05-31
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ABI Says WiMax Will Be Here Before You Know IT.
ABI Research announced on Tuesday that WiMax networking options would be here quicker than many anticipated. They said that there are optional specifications built into the 802.16 standard which can boost the sensitivity of receiving equipment to the extent of making WiMAX PC cards and built-in receivers a practical proposition for laptops, PDAs and other portable devices.
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Date: 2005-05-31
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Good, Good, Good, Cingular Email
In an effort to grab some market share from Research In Motion's BlackBerry service, Good Technologies Inc. has stopped producing mobile devices and has started making software for Cingular Wireless.
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Date: 2005-05-31
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Pheedo Gets VC Funding
For those too busy to read the entire post on Become below or who read it too fast to realize all the implications, I'll make one of them simple for you by breaking it out. Pheedo has received a round of VC funding from the well known TransCosmos group. Not only did they receive funding but they're also expanding into Japan with the assistance of TransCosmos.
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Date: 2005-05-31
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Oh Cecilia: You’re Breakin’ Yahoo’s Heart
One Ms. Cecilia Barnes, 48, levied a lawsuit against Internet giant Yahoo. She charges they let nude photos of her taken by an ex boyfriend linger too long in their files. The gentlemen in question perpetrated fraud by creating a false account using her information and posting photos of her in the buff that he took when they were together.
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Date: 2005-05-30
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Intel Unleashes Pentium D
Intel Corp. has announced the follow-up to its Pentium processor Extreme Edition, which was its first multi-core processor. The new dual-core processor for use in desktop PCs is called the Pentium D.
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Date: 2005-05-28
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Racing With Cisco
The Red Bull Cheever Racing will be using wireless and Voice over IP (VoIP) technology from Cisco Systems at the 89th annual Indianapolis 500.
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Date: 2005-05-28
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Sugar And Open Source – The Recipe For CRM Success
WebProNews chats with SugarCRM CEO John Roberts about customer relationship management software, two of the biggest names in open source, and the shockingly simple reason why SugarCRM is wired, Salesforce.com is tired, and Siebel has expired.
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Date: 2005-05-27
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Netscape 8: Microsoft Has A Problem
Netscape 8 may have hit another snag in the one time browsing giant's effort to move back into the market place. Microsoft reported the browser doesn't work the XML function of Internet Explorer (IE). Microsoft is telling people not to fool with Netscape 8.
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Date: 2005-05-27
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Feds Use the Force Against BitTorrent
When "Star Wars Episode II: Revenge of the Sith" became available for download hours before the theatrical release, the Force departed from users of the increasingly popular BitTorrent technology. Federal agents have launched a Death Star styled offensive on file sharing website owners and users.
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Date: 2005-05-26
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Mapping In the Virtual World: Waypoints Worth Mentioning
Microsoft just announced the launch of their Virtual Earth service through MSN. The new mapping service gives users some unique perspectives by adding high quality Pictometry photography to the standard mapping fare. This will allow users to see storefronts whether they go looking for a McDonalds or a Hard Rock Café.
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Date: 2005-05-26
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O-de-o, oh oh. Odeo To Simplify Podcasting
Available for public testing next month, Evan Williams and Noah Glass will debut Odeo, hoping to cash in on the podcasting phenomenon by making it easier, from creation to publication to making money from them.
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Date: 2005-05-26
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Cisco Walks the FineGround
Cisco Systems announced that it will be taking over data center networking systems maker FineGround Networks, a privately-held company based in Campbell, California.
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Date: 2005-05-26
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Hot Recorder is Hot For Podcasters!
If you're a podcaster, and you don't have any kind of professional-type hardware (a mixer, for instance), and you're looking for almost the perfect way to record interviews via Skype relying just on software, then this is the solution for you.
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Date: 2005-05-26
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Blog Statistics Packages
A number of bloggers have recently asked me to write something about statistics packages - particularly to talk about the stats systems that I use and what features in them that I analyse.
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Date: 2005-05-26
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Final Weblog Fingers Killer
A Chinese student in Queens, NY, was tied to a chair and stabbed repeatedly in the chest with a butcher's knife. His sister, the ex-girlfriend of the killer, arrived a short time later and met a similar fate. What the killer didn't expect was a web log entry that placed him at the scene.
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Date: 2005-05-25
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Sony PS3, Microsoft Xbox360, Nintendo Revolution Available Release Dates
Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo all let a lot of information fly at the E3 with regard to their new gaming consoles. The specs of these systems are awesome. They've got WiFi and wireless and downloadable systems, massive multiplayer options inside the home or over the network. The visual capabilities will be stunning with the HD graphics capability hooked up to a new Samsung HDTV designed for the gaming experience.
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Date: 2005-05-25
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Nokia Delivers Living Room Internet
Available in stores just in time for the Christmas season (excuse my childish giggles as I grab my Santa letter stationary), Nokia presents us with their answer to the budget crunching Tablet PC-the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet.
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Date: 2005-05-25
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Manage your iPod with Winamp
News earlier this week that the next version of iTunes will enable you to sync your podcasts directly with your iPod, without needing separate podcatching software, has been eclipsed by this news in Wired News about Winamp...
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Date: 2005-05-25
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Knowing Right From Wrong Is Intuitive
Last month, 119 applicants to Harvard Business School followed a link on a Business Week message board to access a website containing confidential information about their admittance, a Financial Times report says.
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Date: 2005-05-25
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Blogebrity - Creating Blogging Buzz in 3 Easy Lists
I've been watchign the Blogebrity Blog with interest this week - it's been quite an amusing read and a great example of how a blog can get some big inbound links and a lot of buzz from the blogosphere with a little controversy, humor and by listing some big blogs as A-List Blogs...
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Date: 2005-05-25
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FTC Looking For “SPAM”icide Against Zombies
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) got a little help from its friends in attempts to fight the proliferation of spam. The Operation Spam Zombie program plans to wipe the undead … er un-Internet menace out of the computing world. Much like an epidemic disease, spam mail runs rampant through computers all over the world and cuts down on the efficiency of the Internet by leaps and bounds.
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Date: 2005-05-25
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Another Console Story—Aren’t You Tired of Xbox and Sony Yet?
This may be a defining moment of the gamer generation. Ever since Pong made its way onto our black and white twisty knobbed TVs (yes, kids, there was a time such as this-it came right after the auto-correcting typewriter-type what?)…ahem, ever since Pong, Generation X led a mind-entrancing march to the synthesized rhythm of plunk plunk dink bizzow-dooht. When our younger brothers and sisters were born, we handed them a controller to pass the baton of Mario ecstasy.
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Date: 2005-05-25
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EarthLink Start Page Available to All
Building on the success of its Personal Start Page, EarthLink, the nation's next generation Internet service provider, today announced that its free, customizable gateway to the Internet - the myEarthLink start page - is available for non-EarthLink subscribers.
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Date: 2005-05-25
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AMD Cracks Open Geode
The fastest most power efficient chip yet manufactured by AMD, the Geode LX 800 is set for release for use in a range of products.
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Date: 2005-05-24
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Cretaceous Adam & Eve: Ken &Barbie or Neanderthals?
Mighty dinosaurs walked to earth with Adam and Eve? Our forebears rode the triceratops like we rode horses? One museum in Eureka Springs, Arkansas might lead you to believe it with their exhibit mixing creationism and dinosaurs for the first time.
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Date: 2005-05-24
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Voyager Heads Toward Deep Space
Gene Roddenberry's first Star Trek movie was about the Voyager space probe continuing its mission far beyond what anyone had conceived of. NASA's Voyager 1 continues to move beyond expectations into what NASA calls our "solar system's final frontier."
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Date: 2005-05-24
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Register.com's Design Service For Small Businesses
Register.com announced today the general availability of Build-It-For-Me, a professional Web design service specifically targeted towards small business owners looking for a hassle-free, affordable package that includes exemplary customer service and support.
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Date: 2005-05-24
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IBM-Infineon-Macronix Memory Research Shifty
IBM, Macronix and Infineon announced another collaboration to work on Phase Changing Memory (PCM). The three companies will investigate the future of memory storage technology in the form of a device that will shift its structure.
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Date: 2005-05-24
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NASA Burns Midnight Rocket Fuel
NASA continues work on the Discovery to prepare it for a July launch. NASA say the big bird will go back to the ISS despite all the testing, repairs and replacements they've put it through since delaying the May launch date.
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Date: 2005-05-24
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Internet Perv Arrested
After her 14-year-old daughter had left the computer chair empty, an Iowa woman noticed a private message with some rather disturbing content. A 36-year-old New Jersey man was offering to pay the teenage girl for sex.
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Date: 2005-05-23
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Apple Gets Peeled on Batteries
Apple announced a recall of 128,000 batteries in their G4 Ibook and PowerBook computers released in the last 8 months. The problem stem from a possible fire hazard. This makes the second recall of Apple batteries in the last 12 months.
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Date: 2005-05-23
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FDA Approves New Alzheimer’s Drug
Ortho-McNeil Neurologics Inc. announced a new breakthrough today as the FDA approved their new drug Razadyne ER for use. The new drug will help mild to moderate cases of the debilitating Alzheimer's disease with a once daily option.
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Date: 2005-05-23
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Microsoft's EU Deadline Approaching
Microsoft will face fines of up to $5 million a day if it fails to meet the deadline set by the European Commission to change its business practices in Europe. The company has until the end of May.
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Date: 2005-05-23
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Yahoo Gets Into the Phone Business
With the launch of Yahoo's Instant Messenger 7.0 (YIM), Yahoo takes a leap into the Internet calling business. This is just the latest step in Yahoo's growing product catalog of tools for the Internet.
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Date: 2005-05-23
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iTunes To Accommodate Podcasts
Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, announced at the Wall Street Journal's "D3: All Things Digital" conference in San Diego that the next iteration of Apple's iTunes software will accommodate podcasts.
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Date: 2005-05-23
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Qualified Bloggers
The issue of blogging as journalism is being attacked on all sides this morning. First, a Pew/BuzzMetrics ...
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Date: 2005-05-23
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Will Apple Switch To Intel?
Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Apple Computer was in talks with Intel leading to speculation that Apple may put Intel chips in its Macs.
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Date: 2005-05-23
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Skype Blogs To Create Community
Skype has started a blog - and it looks very good indeed. This could be a great example of how a blog can play a key role in building and cementing positive relationships with customers.
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Date: 2005-05-21
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Blogging The IABC Conference
Incoming IABC Chair Warren Bickford has issued a call to action for communicators attending IABC's annual international conference in Washington, DC, next month ...
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Date: 2005-05-20
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Balancing Blogging and PR
At the Syndicate Conference, I had a couple great conversations with two people from PubSub's newest PR firm, PAN Communications, who just won the business a month ago.
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Date: 2005-05-20
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Damming the Info Flood: Gates Looks For Balance
At an annual CEO meeting at Micosoft's Redmond, Washington campus, chairman Bill Gates gave a fairly simple (if difficult to implement) directive that businesses should do more to guard against information overload for their employees while increasing productivity.
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Date: 2005-05-20
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E3 Game Console Combat: What Have We Learned
OK! The E3 show winds down and what have we learned? Really, what have we learned? We learned that ancient gaming rivals Sony and Nintendo continue to swipe at each other with their mighty blades called game consoles all the while some little geek with glasses from Seattle who happens to be the richest man on the planet is shoving his way into the fight with a sleek little blade himself.
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Date: 2005-05-20
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Viral Marketing—Is That a Good Thing?
Anheuser-Busch announced Thursday that it would be expanding its advertising efforts to include "viral marketing," enlisting the aid of JibJab phenom brothers Gregg and Evan Spiridellis.
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Date: 2005-05-20
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Xbox, PlayStation Prices Like a Tax on Fun
Upgrading to a next generation game console is looking to be an expensive endeavor, working not unlike a tax on the non-industrious. With Microsoft leveraging a supply and demand advantage for the holiday season and Sony just trying to pay for its state-of-the-art-ness, Nintendo's Revolution may turn out to be a cost-effective compromise.
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Date: 2005-05-19
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Wal-Mart and Netflix Work Together
Wal-Mart and Netflix are teaming up to help each other out in the online movie business with a promotional campaign for Walmart.com's movie sales and Netflix's DVD movie rentals.
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Date: 2005-05-19
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Netscape 8.0: What’s the Point?
Ok, so we've got a new web browser out. A few years ago, everyone would've been jonesin' for the Netscape but now they're really a non-entity. The once mighty browser pales in comparison to Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) and even the much smaller Firefox by Mozilla.
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Date: 2005-05-19
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The Wiki Backlash
While there's ample reporting these days about the blogging backlash, I'm not reading much about the concurrent backlash against wikis.
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Date: 2005-05-18
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Buying Blogs Risky
Jacob writes an interesting piece on Selling Blogs as someone who has been on the buying end of things in his purchase of CSS Vault...
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Date: 2005-05-18
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In Bloggers We Trust
During the past week several companies and press have trusted me with information they would rather not let out into the wild.
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Date: 2005-05-18
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Microsoft ID’s New InfoCard In May
Do you have a special running list of user names and passwords? Can you remember them all? Microsoft is addressing this problem with a glimpse of new software codenamed "InfoCard" for Windows, to help narrow down Internet logins.
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Date: 2005-05-18
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PalmOne’s Loaded LifeDrive
PalmOne introduced their newest entry into the PDA market called the LifeDrive. The LifeDrive has a 4Gb hard drive, Bluetooth and WiFi technology built into the little device.
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Date: 2005-05-18
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App Review: Backpack From 37Signals
I have been using the latest creation from 37Signals called Backpack. So far so good, it does a lot of what I need it to do in the way it organizes information and allows you to put all sorts of attachments on pages and get notified in the event of an update and securely share pages with other users of the system.
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Date: 2005-05-18
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Xbox Will Remain In PlayStation Shadow
The Xbox buzz has sleepily settled around Microsoft's ankles, laying in limp disillusionment; as executives leer in the direction of King Sony, they can't help but scorn the fair-weather Johnsons that left them there, skulking, controller in hand.
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Date: 2005-05-18
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Tiger Goes To 10.4.1
Apple releases an update to the update to OS X, fixing a variety of little problems and improving the user experience.
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Date: 2005-05-17
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Newspapers as Conversation
Investor's Business Daily has a story today on how newspapers need to evolve to grab the attention of consumers who are turning to the Web in droves.
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Date: 2005-05-17
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Cash for Comment Blogging
J.Ryan writes an interesting post at guerrilla news network on a strategy USWeb.com is using to promote clients using blogs. In short they are paying bloggers $5 to write nice things about their clients - even suggesting what such posts might include in them.
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Date: 2005-05-17
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Blog Risk Assessment Teams
Compliance Solutions Advisor takes a look at the risks of business blogging -- pointing out many things to consider but also, I think, misunderstanding the spontaneous and personal nature of blogging.
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Date: 2005-05-17
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Rush Limbaugh to Podcast
Billboard: Subscribers to Rush Limbaugh's "Rush 24/7" service will soon be able to download his daily shows to a portable MP3 player.
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Date: 2005-05-17
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Game On: New Nintendo Systems Rock
Nintendo grabbed the E3 stage by showing off the new Nintendo Revolution game console due out next year. Competing with the Sony PS3 and the Xbox360 from Microsoft, Nintendo needed to offer something new and improved and it looks like they might have done it.
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Date: 2005-05-17
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German Virus Sobers Up Email World
The world of SPAM began speaking with a distinct German accent after this weekend, as email inboxes are flooded with messages, most of them with Nazi rhetoric in the subject lines.
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Date: 2005-05-17
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They're Stealing My Posts -- Yours Too?
Just found the site www.2yellows.org. It's some kind of aggregator site where they re-publish posts from other blogs. That would be ok, for me at least, if they just said who originally produced them.
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Date: 2005-05-16
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Blo.gs Sold
Blo.gs has been sold to an unnamed individual and will transfer ownership, including account information and user data, sometime on or around June 13.
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Date: 2005-05-16
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Sony And Toshiba Continue DVD Duel
Sony and Toshiba stand like two old samurai waiting for the other to flinch in the DVD duel. Toshiba seems to be getting annoyed with the powerful Sony, the Shogun of Japanese electronics firms. Parley attempts remain at a standstill and Toshiba say little ground will be gained until Sony softens its attitude on the unification of the DVD formats.
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Date: 2005-05-16
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IBM Creating an Army of Evangelists
Silicon Valley Watcher: Early next week IBM will introduce the largest ever corporate blogging initiative in a bid to encourage any of its 130,000 staff to become online evangelists for the company.
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Date: 2005-05-14
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North Unveils New Xbox
Microsoft's new Xbox 360 was unveiled on MTV during a special program hosted by Elijah Wood, star of such hit films as "The Good Son", "North", "The Faculty", and recently "Sin City".
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Date: 2005-05-14
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Xbox 360 Debuts On MTV
After several weeks of purported leaks and massive buzz and speculation, Microsoft's 30 minute product debut thrilled gamers.
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Date: 2005-05-13
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What’s Right with Blogging?
My post last week on What's Wrong with Blogging has proved to be the hottest post on ProBlogger this week. 45 people have left comments and trackbacks (so far) so its obviously hit a nerve.
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Date: 2005-05-13
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Bill Gates: Billionaire Scavenger
Bill Gates is the wealthiest man on the planet earth and he's a first rate scavenger. He's preparing to release the new Xbox. Longhorn comes out next year and he's currently taking pot shots at IPod. Bill Gates is a scavenger, but for that matter, all the great powers are.
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Date: 2005-05-13
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Yahoo Sued Over Child Pornography Group
Yahoo Inc has been hit with a lawsuit, which was filed on May 9 in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, concerning a Yahoo Group where trading of child pornography was occurring.
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Date: 2005-05-13
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Microsoft & Toshiba=HD-DVD Xbox360?
Software monster Microsoft and electronics giant Toshiba signed a patent cross licensing agreement. This will let the two companies use each other's stuff without having to pay fees to the respective companies.
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Date: 2005-05-13
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RustySearch Results Posted
Since the explosion of the search engine industry, many have discussed which search engine has the most relevant results. However, conclusions about this debate may have been made a little clearer yesterday.
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Date: 2005-05-13
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What $695 Buys You in Blogging
Looks like the real way to make money from blogging is to write a report on the topic of blogging (business blogging to be more specific) and then to charge $695 for it.
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Date: 2005-05-13
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Xbox On the Move On MTV
Xbox made its world premiere on MTV today. The hot new property from Microsoft will be coming out later this year and Microsoft hopes to really hammer Sony's market share before the year's end.
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Date: 2005-05-13
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Bill Gates Says iPods Are Doomed
Bill Gates continues his verbal assault on Apple and its iPod in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. This just one of many in a period of attacks Gates has made against his old business rival the he himself owns a pretty good chunk of.
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Date: 2005-05-13
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Cornell Takes Next Robotic Leap
Robots can now build more robots, at least on a simplistic level. Hod Lipson and his team at Cornell University developed a group of robots that can replicate themselves. It's considered a major breakthrough in robotics and while it may seem simple now, the future certainly looks bright.
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Date: 2005-05-12
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2 Megapixels of Phone Fun From Samsung and Sprint
Sprint and Samsung announced a new breakthrough for the camera/phone market today so now when Little Richard shows up at your local bowling alley and complains about the attire, you can get the image in 2 megapixels of detail and hand 4"x6"s to your friends.
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Date: 2005-05-12
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GoLexa.com Provides A Number of SEO Tools
The recently launched GoLexa.com offers users a completely ugly website that turns out, in spite of its appearance, to be completely useful, especially to those needing search engine optimization information.
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Date: 2005-05-12
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Giveaways
I was recently interviewed for publication on the subject of giveaways... it was an interesting discussion so I thought I'd reproduce my responses here... There are 3 basic giveaway strategies that I can see: short-term promotion, long-term product and industry shake-up.
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Date: 2005-05-12
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Examining the 9rules Network
Scrivs has been writing some interesting information about the 9rules network and how it all operates. People want to know the ‘catch' and Paul is doing his best to show that there is no catch.
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Date: 2005-05-12
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Adsense Earnings Per Click Changes
There seems to be an increase in the frequency of postings in Adsense forums from publishers noting that their earnings have slipped in the past few days. Of particular note is that a number of publishers are reporting drops in their ‘per click' earnings (to get this figure divide your total earnings for a day by the amount of clicks for that day).
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Date: 2005-05-11
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Google's Chinese Cenorship Considered A Success
Because of China's strict information control and the compliance they demand from foreign businesses, Google was forced to allow Google News to be censored by the Chinese government. In order to release their search engine to the Chinese population, Google had to abide these methods.
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Date: 2005-05-11
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Google Content Blocker?
In one of the more humorous gags to target the search engine marketing industry, specifically Google, in recent memory, someone has set up a fake web page offering a Google Content Blocker utility.
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Date: 2005-05-11
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Googlism
Want to know what Google thinks of any person, place, thing or date? Googlism it! You call up the Googlism page and enter in the subject matter, and Googlism then lists snippets of information that is culls from the Google-indexed web pages of the world.
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Date: 2005-05-11
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Locum Blogging
Thank you to the many well wishers who have emailed to wish us luck and congratulations with our new home. It has been a very busy few days of moving but we're finally in and beginning to feel like we're ‘at home'.
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Date: 2005-05-11
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Yahoo's Music Store Undercuts The Entire Market
As expected, Yahoo is unveiling its music subscription service today. What is unexpected is the price. As reported practically everywhere, Yahoo will release today Yahoo Music Unlimited, which charges just $60 a year for unlimited access to over 1,000,000 songs from all four major record labels and many independents, plus transfer those songs to portable players.
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Date: 2005-05-11
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yTunes Launched!
Okay, it's actually called Yahoo! Music Engine (or YME for short), but a lot of us at the office prefer to call it yTunes.
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Date: 2005-05-11
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Yahoo To Include Music Search With Yahoo Music Unlimited
Today, Yahoo launched a paid music subscription service, which many feel targets iTunes, Napster, and RealNetworks (among others). Because of the way Yahoo entered the market (undercuts, options not available with other services), it's safe to say Yahoo has lofty goals for their service.
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Date: 2005-05-11
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OASIS Works on Reliable Messaging Specs
OASIS continues its work in developing universal standards with another breakthrough announcement. The massive consortium that is OASIS said their member groups have agreed to work toward a web services reliable messaging (WS-RM).
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Date: 2005-05-11
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Social Software Makes It's Way Towards Mass Culture
As someone who's more into the 'fusion cuisine' side of new communication tools and channels rather than the theoretical/cerebral analysis side, I tend not to spend an extraordinary amount of time in digesting long essays and white papers about new media or social networks.
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Date: 2005-05-10
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Answers.com Partners with Shopping.com
GuruNet Corporation, creators of the Answers.com reference-based search engine, and Shopping.com, a leading online comparison shopping site, are pleased to announce an agreement to offer Answers.com users access to the world's most detailed product catalog online.
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Date: 2005-05-10
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GE Taps Into Ecomagination
Global corporate giant General Electric (GE) took the environmental initiative on Monday at George Washington University (GWU). GE president Jeff Immelt announced the ecomagination initiative. GE wants to aggressively bring to market new technologies that will help customers meet pressing environmental challenges.
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Date: 2005-05-10
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Gmail Becomes Google Mail In Germany
A naming rights issue has forced Google to change the name of their German email service. Because another party owns the rights to "G-Mail," Google will now call the German service "Google Mail".
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Date: 2005-05-10
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Yahoo Moves Towards Online Music Service
In order to capatialize on the online music revolution, Yahoo has announced plans to launch their own online music service, starting with a search engine service to help users find information concerning artists of interest.
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Date: 2005-05-10
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Once Known As A Blog...
I've been saying this for a while too -- the word "blog" will become obsolete. For business purposes we will not need it in the future. But we sure need all the features of the blog.
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Date: 2005-05-09
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Personalize Your Google Search
When you search with Google, it sees you as any other Google user. It has no idea what your interests are. Therefore, for the same search words Google will deliver the same results to you and everyone else in the world searching with the same language and country selections.
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Date: 2005-05-09
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Display Ads Increase Relevant Searches
A recent Yahoo study has discovered companies using the display ad method of online advertising can garner search engine presence improvements because of increased recognition caused by using these ads.
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Date: 2005-05-09
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Microsoft’s Doom: Open Source
Microsoft may be in trouble. Right now, Windows dominates the PC market and it has for a while but Linux has developed its following that following may grow if the British government has its way.
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Date: 2005-05-09
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Motorola Debuts First Ever Nano Emissive Flat Screen Display
Motorola Labs, the applied research arm of Motorola, Inc., today unveiled a working 5-inch color video display prototype based on proprietary Carbon Nanotube (CNT) technology - a breakthrough technique that could create large, flat panel displays with superior quality, longer lifetimes and lower costs than current offerings.
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Date: 2005-05-09
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Feedster Issues RSS Tutorial For Safari Users
Some have questioned whether or not RSS content would continue its rise in popularity, or would it taper off like many Internet fads that have come and gone. Apparently, RSS is here to stay, and its following appears to be getting stronger and stronger.
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Date: 2005-05-09
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Disney Vs. Disney Co.
Roy Disney, nephew of legendary company founder Walt Disney and Stanley Gold filed a lawsuit today against the company Walt founded in a Delaware court today. The lawsuit accuses the board at Disney, led by Michael Eisner and Robert Iger and it requests the court overturn the election of Iger as Eisner's replacement.
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Date: 2005-05-09
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Reuters Thailand Rides the Cisco Express
Cisco announced the today the worldwide news agency called Reuters deployed Thailand's Internet Protocol (IP) telephony site in Thailand with 700 Cisco IP Phone 7960Gs, Cisco IP Phone 7940Gs and Cisco Wireless IP Phone 7920s.
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Date: 2005-05-09
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CEOs Refuse To Blog
Via USA Today: Some large companies, including Boeing, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems, are letting senior executives blog ...
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Date: 2005-05-09
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New York Times on Gawker Blogs
The New York Times Article on Nick Denton and Gawker has an array of interesting titbits in it that will make a good weekend read for any aspiring ProBloggers.
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Date: 2005-05-08
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How Much Does Anchor Text Matter?
One of my all time favorite web searches is for the words "click here." Whenever someone asks how much anchor text matters, I tell them to search for those two little words.
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Date: 2005-05-07
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Context For Your Blog
If you want to gain a deeper understanding of the changing field of communication your blog exists in, take a look at the presentations from WOMMA Summit 2005. The focus is obviously word-of-mouth marketing, and blogs are just one tool from that perspective. But many of the speakers did talk about blogs as part of their strategies.
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Date: 2005-05-06
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PDAs: Climbing Back Out
PDA sales grew by a substantial 25% in the last quarter according to a new report from the Gartner research firm. Blackberry led the way growing exponentially in Western European sales, beating out traditional PDA frontrunner PalmOne and HP.
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Date: 2005-05-06
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Google Web Accelerator and Security
The web is abuzz with talk of the pros and cons of the new Google Web Accelerator. Mostly the con, and the issue is privacy. I want to let you in on an immediate problem you must understand.
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Date: 2005-05-06
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Web Accelerator and Your 404 Page
Google Web Accelerator's most useful function is that it, in theory, removes the Slashdot effect where you get a 404 "Page Not Found" error when visiting an overburdened site. But what happens when you type in an address that doesn't exist?
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Date: 2005-05-06
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OpenOffice Is Open Season on MSOffice
Sun Microsystems and some volunteer programmers have done something wonderful. They come up with a FREE office suite program. It's got a word processing program called Writer that reads documents from Word and WordPerfect. It's got a spreadsheet program called Calc that will open will open Excel files.
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Date: 2005-05-06
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Federal Court Ditches Flag Order
The Court of Appeals in Washington D.C. stomped the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today in a ruling saying the overstepped its authority in ordering electronics manufacturers from putting a "broadcast flag" device in television sets and other video recording devices.
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Date: 2005-05-06
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Tornado Chasing Mobile Bloggers
Congrats to Team WeatherBug. Our clients are chasing tornadoes in the Midwest and moblogging it. They finally spotted one yesterday after nearly a week on the road.
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Date: 2005-05-06
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The Google Web Accelerator
Google has just released this product from Labs: The Google Web Accelerator (beta), which is designed to speed up your Internet Explorer browsing experience.
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Date: 2005-05-05
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Intel Experiments With Desktops
Their funded virtual desktop project at Cambridge University has become a Silicon Valley startup, and Intel is tweaking its chips to take advantage of their work.
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Date: 2005-05-05
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Blogging Advice For Target
When you see a company from the outside you often don't realize that what you are seeing is the work of people and that those people's attitudes, perceptions, beliefs, philosophies, lifestyles, behaviors, theories, ideas, are reflected in what you interact with.
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Date: 2005-05-05
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Newsmap Brings the Heat to Google News
We all love how Google News lets us see the top news stories at a glance. But, a clever programmer named Marcos Weskamp has created an even better way to see-actually, to visualize-these news stories.
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Date: 2005-05-05
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Blackberry Jams Other PDAs Into A Cobbler
Blackberry climbs to the top of the heap in PDA sales over the head of palmOne in sales worldwide of the PDAs. The extraordinary increase is attributed to Western European sales, which grew a whopping 84.3%.
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Date: 2005-05-05
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I WANT MY YAHOO TV!
Yahoo took another search engine leap today by offering a video option when looking through Yahoo's search engine. With video clips from top names like CBS, Buena Vista Pictures(Disney), VH1, MTV and a whole host of others, Yahoo continues to add to their offerings.
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Date: 2005-05-05
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What’s Wrong with Blogging
I once heard of a debate between a Christian group and a Pagan group - it could have been a pretty un-constructive rant like event where one group tells the other group what's wrong with it and visa versa - everyone would have gone home with the same opinions that they came with - however this debate was different.
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Date: 2005-05-05
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Sony Burns Up The DVD Burner Market
Sony added two new DVD burners to its offering in the 800 series. The internal DRU-800A and the external DRX-800UL burners support 4X DVD R Dual Layering technology and can burn roughly 8.5 gigs of video, audio or data onto a single DVD-R-UL. This will get you 4 hours of video.
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Date: 2005-05-04
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New Blogs On The Block
Let me introduce you to some new blogs - 5 of which have been added to the 9 Rules Network in the past 24 hours and 1 that is being developed by a good friend of mine - in fact the person who designed this blog.
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Date: 2005-05-04
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My Backpack
I've decided to test Backpack with their free service. My hope is that it will help me to be a little more organized in my blogging.
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Date: 2005-05-04
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OASIS Plans Open Standards Day In Amsterdam
The open standards consortium OASIS plans a one-day conference on May 24th in Amsterdam. The OASIS Open Standards Day will be held in conjunction with the IDEAlliance XTech 2005 Conference & Exhibition (formerly XML Europe).
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Date: 2005-05-04
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Bloggin’ Longhorn? Microsoft Wants You!
Microsoft has put out the word via Robert Scoble that Microsoft is looking for a few good bloggers to help critique there new version of Windows in the coming months before its release. Team 99 as it is being called needs folks who know Windows and know how to blog.
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Date: 2005-05-04
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ASA 5500 From Cisco Systems At Interop Helps Security
Networking juggernaut Cisco Systems Inc. will unveil their newest offering in the world of networking technology during Cisco CEO John Chambers' keynote address at Interop this morning. The ASA 5500 combines many new features in a sleek new device for organizations that like to one stop shop.
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Date: 2005-05-03
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XTRA Google
Here's a nice web page that you can use instead of the usual Google homepage that makes it easier to begin many types of searches that Google now offers.
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Date: 2005-05-03
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Content Blogs Versus Syndicate Blogs?
Scrivs takes a look at whether its best to write an original content blog or a syndicated (linking to others articles) blog. It is a good question that is well worth thinking through for each of your blogs.
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Date: 2005-05-03
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The Power of the Passive Link
Eric Ward at Search Engine Guide writes about the power of the passive inbound link. In short - a passive link is a link you don't buy, ask for or trade links for.
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Date: 2005-05-03
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Backpack From 37 Signals
37 Signals is launching their latest project - Backpack - on Tuesday. Whilst the main site doesn't seem to have gone live yet a number of previews of this new program have been written which you should check out.
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Date: 2005-05-03
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Limelight Shines On Xbox
Content deliver provider inks deal with Microsoft to provide exclusive hosting for multiplayer games on the next generation platform.
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Date: 2005-05-03
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OASIS Takes Another Step on SOA
OASIS, the consortium of electronic business mega corporations, takes another step in its goal of international standards for the internet world. They announced the development of a committee to create a reference model for service-oriented-architectures (SOA-RM).
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Date: 2005-05-03
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X-Box360: It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This
Australian Financial News quote Microsoft master Gates as saying the new Xbox will make gaming more convivial. It's not a word you hear everyday. Honestly, I'm not familiar with it so I looked it up. Mirriam Webster said it means this:
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Date: 2005-05-03
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Official Find Attempts To Cut Through Search Spam
One of the biggest complaints concerning the use of search engines is the amount of erroneous results appearing with normal keyword queries. Because of the explosion of search engine optimization, search results are often crammed full of useless results residing to only increase a company's SERP position.
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Date: 2005-05-03
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Corporate Fan Blogs
That's a nice, and immediately understandable, phrase: Corporate Fan Blogs. Halley Suitt writes about them in Worthwhile ...
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Date: 2005-05-02
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Go Go Mozilla: FireFox 50 Million Mark
Internet browser Firefox has hit the 50 million-download mark and continues to grow in the monopolistic environment created by software leviathan Microsoft. All these downloads happened in the short span of 171 days.
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Date: 2005-05-02
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Rockets End an Era: SkyLarks and Titans
Britain ended an era with the launch of the 441st and final Skylark rocket. The rocket launched from Sweden and contains several experiments for the European Space Agency. This marks the end of nearly 50 years of British contributions to the exploration of space.
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Date: 2005-05-02
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Look Mom: A New Planet
About a year ago, a red speck appeared next to a brown dwarf star in the Hydra constellation. The European Southern Observatory eyed this red dot with its telescope in Chile. Scientists speculated this speck might be a previously unknown planet. It would seem they were right.
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Date: 2005-05-02
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Mighty Morphin’ Namco Bandai
Bandai and Namco announced they would be merging in a $1.7 billion deal, making them stronger in the epic battles of Japanese toy companies. The merger would put them in the #3 spot of largest toy makers in Japan.
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Date: 2005-05-02
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Sirius to Offer Podcasts
On the heals of Infinity Broadcasting's recent news, Sirius Satellite Radio will announce tomorrow that it's getting into the podcasting mix by teaming up ...
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Date: 2005-05-01
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