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CNET News
Microsoft has released its first figures on how well Facebook, Twitter, and Last.fm have done on Xbox Live. They show substantial, though not huge, engagement.
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Joystiq
New York State will issue emergency alerts via Xbox Live
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According to a report by InformationWeek , the state of New York is in the planning stages of a revamped emergency broadcast system capable of sending alerts to Xbox Live (and presumably other console online services) in the event of a natural disaster, terrorist attack or other not-so-good event. The state's deputy chief information officer ...
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Logic+Emotion
It's Time to Clobber Social Media
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Originally posted on the Collaboratory Jeff Dachis and I recently returned from the Web 2.0 Expo in New York—a near week long flurry of activity that brings together technology, business and design amongst other things. We co-presented a somewhat uniquely titled session called “Social Business Design: It’s Clobberin’ Time” . So what ...
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ReadWriteWeb
Sponsor Post: LeapFish Draws on Power of Social Media for Worthy Cause
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Editor's note: we offer our long-term sponsors the opportunity to write 'Sponsor Posts' and tell their story. These posts are clearly marked as written by sponsors, but we also want them to be useful and interesting to our readers. We hope you like the posts and we encourage you to support our sponsors by trying out their products. Business and ...
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EMarketer Articles
Small Businesses Look to E-Mail and Social Media
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Three-quarters of small businesses will increase their spending on e-mail marketing in 2010, while nearly seven in 10 will put more dollars toward social media, according to VerticalResponse data.
Ellen McGirt
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Fast Company
Mr. Social: Ashton Kutcher Plans to Be the Next New-Media Mogul
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DUDE, WHERES THE CASH? Here's what scares Kutcher: "When I have a conversation with someone and they say, 'I'm not worried about monetization yet.' " | Photographs by Jill Greenberg Photographs by Jill Greenberg How Ashton Kutcher is pioneering a new kind of media business, bridging Hollywood, technology, and Madison Avenue. Really. ON THE JOB ...
The Business Blog at Intuitive.com
What's the impact of social media on business growth?
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A reader writes to me: "As an empirically-based economist, I would like to know whether there are studies that show the impact of twitter, Facebook and other social networking sites on business growth. I have a client (I do a small bit of consulting) that is pushing hard to get "into" social networking to grow the business. I am a bit reluctant, ...
Avinash Kaushik
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Occam's Razor
Social Media Analytics: Twitter: Quantitative & Qualitative Analysis
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Twitter is amongst new media channels that are challenging how we communicate, with whom we communicate and perhaps most fundamentally how we (Marketers) influence people. Analysis of these new social media channels has been hobbled by old world thinking, when it comes to marketing, from the world of Television and Magazines or, when it comes to [.
Brian
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Brian Solis
Finding Influencers in Social Media
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Source: Shutterstock Guest post by Dan Zarella, author of “The Social Media Marketing Book,” published by O’Reilly. When you’re trying to find targets for a social media marketing campaign, you should be looking for two types of people, influencers and audience. Your audience is the people you’re trying to sell to, ...
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Marketing
McDonald’s Serves up Social Media
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McDonald’s is the world’s largest and fastest growing food service organisation. It is also a brand that attracts a lot of discussion and debate online. Not all of it positive. This presentation from Heather Oldani , their Director of PR, is a great overview of how McDonald’s is using social media and online communities. From ...
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F-Secure Antivirus Research
Why would anybody phish for XBOX accounts?
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Here's an example of a Youtube video that is used to drive traffic to a "XBOX" phishing site. The actual phishing site looks like this: The URL is fairly convincing. Turns out .TP is the country code for East Timor. But why would anybody phish for accounts of some online game ? Because you can sell XBOX Live accounts for real-world cash: On 10/11/
Michael Bettiol
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Boy Genius Report
RIM releases BlackBerry Media Sync 3.0
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For us to say that RIM has a good track record when it comes to pushing out desktop software would be something of a lie, but over the past few months things have gotten steadily better (it was only two…
Sardar Mohkim Khan
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Startup Meme
Nival Network bags $5 Million for Online Strategy Games
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Nival Network , the online game developer based in Russia has raised a healthy $5 Million in its current round of funding . The investors remain undisclosed and the funds will be used in development of Prime World, which is an online strategy game targeted at the population in the former Soviet states. The Network has been around since 2008 and ...
Microsoft Nyhetsblogg
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TechNet Blogs
Guldchans till alla med Xbox
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I helgen (den 27 – 29 november) kan alla som har en Xbox 360 med internetuppkoppling få tillgång till alla funktioner som vanligtvis är reserverade för Guldmedlemmar . Det enda du behöver göra är att registrera ett kostnadsfritt Silverkonto via hemsidan. Ta chansen att testa Facebook , Twitter , se film och spela spel direkt via Xbox ...
Paul carpenter
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Dave Naylor a leading UK SEO
Bingo, Dave, Social Circle, Weirdness
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Google still catches me off guard sometimes. Looking at ‘online bingo’ results today, I was surprised to see this result and mistook it for Google News (cut me some slack – it was 8:30 and I’d had no coffee). Had we written about bingo anytime recently? I didn’t recall and it seemed like a mentalist subject [...]
GuyKawasaki
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How to Change the World
How to Use Social Media
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Dan Zarrella, social-media maven, explains how and when to use social media site such as Facebook and Twitter. He is the author of The Social Media Marketing Book . Read the post if you’re wondering how to optimize your social-marketing efforts.
Rev2.org
Musefy – Social Media Networking for Musicians
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If you’ve ever wanted to be in a band, then you know that most of the job is walking around looking at poster boards and phone poles looking for a group to audition for. You also know that it involves a lot of stapling those kinds of things up to promote your band or look for a replacement member. Musefy.com wants to take that part out ...
Tom
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Eurogamer
News:
Goverment intel recruiting via Xbox Live
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Gamers deemed to have necessary skills. Xbox Live has been targeted by the UK's Government Communications Headquarters as a great place to pick up recruits. Frequenters of the service are desirable for their "quick thinking, problem solving and team work", said intelligence organisation GCHQ (reported by The Guardian). The 18-to-34 year-old ...
Mercedes Bunz
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Technology
After social networks, what next?
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Are social networks the internet's last big development? And how much will they change? A star panel in Oxford asks big questions In digital media, as in fortune-telling, the future is pretty much treated as part of the present. "What is the next big thing?" is a question everyone who works with the internet asks continually. But after several ...
Martin Stabe
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Martin Stabe
Editor & Publisher: Think Before You Re-Tweet: ‘L.A. Times’ Updates Social Media Rules for Journos
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"Updated guidelines for Los Angeles Times newsroom employees using social media emphasize that just about anything posted online will be viewed as reflecting on the newspaper's credibility and reputation."
MacInTouch
New: Max for Live
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Ableton and Cycling '74 released Max for Live, which provides Cycling '74's Max/MSP visual programming environment for multimedia inside of Ableton Live's audio sequencing, editing, and recording software for live performances.
Eric M. Zeman
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Phone Scoop
RIM's Media Sync 3.0 Brings 2-Way Photo Syncing
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Today research In Motion is making available a Media Sync 3.0 to both the Microsoft Windows and Apple's OSX platforms. This update to Media Sync adds several new features, including two-way photo syncing to Windows PCs. Media Sync 3.0 ... (follow link to read)
Tom
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Eurogamer
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Microsoft: "It wasn't a million" bans
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Reports of modders' demise exaggerated. Microsoft's Marc Whitten, general manager of Xbox Live, has denied the recent reports that Microsoft banned one million modded 360s from the online service. "We didnt release the number. I cannot explain to you why people would think it was a million people. It wasnt a million people," Whitten told ...
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Deep Tech
Windows 7 features called Direct2D and DirectWrite will speed up Internet Explorer 9 performance. But Firefox hopes it might retool for the same benefit first.
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Mashable!
Network Faceoff: AT&T vs. Verizon
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For the last month and a half, AT&T and Verizon have been at war . Verizon launched ads tearing down AT&T’s 3G coverage, AT&T countered with a lawsuit and ads starring Luke Wilson . Hell, even Apple is getting involved in this messy affair. With the two largest mobile networks making headlines, we thought it would be ...
Readwriteweb
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ReadWriteWeb
Feedly Comes to Google Chrome
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Feedly , the magazine style feed reader we first covered back in August of last year , is now available for the Google Chrome web browser. As with the Firefox implementation of the service, the Chrome version also uses a browser plugin to offer an alternative user interface to Google Reader. This early version of the Feedly for Chrome release ...
Nigel
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The Red Ferret Journal
Resurrect Pages – excellent Firefox addon lets you retrieve the missing Web
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The free Resurrect Pages addon for Firefox gives you the power to restore lost Web content at a stroke. You know, dead [...] 133 words | permalink | No comments | digg this
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Infoworld News
Microsoft issues security advisory on IE vulnerability
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Microsoft Monday night issued a security advisory that provides customers with guidance and workarounds for dealing with a zero-day exploit aimed at Internet Explorer .
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After reading this thread (and more than a few others like it), I am discouraged about even getting the new 27-inch iMac.
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Gizmodo
Jerry Seinfeld Upgrades Classic Mac with iMac
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Sadly, obsolete gadgets have to be replaced. Happily, change is good. This is what happened to Jerry Seinfeld 's ever-present classic Macintosh which, after all these years, has been replaced by a new iMac. It happened in the "Seinfeld reunion" episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. The iMac seems to be from the previous generation, not the 16:9 model.
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Green Tech
Plant, which produces emissions-free electricity by mixing fresh water and sea water through a special membrane, could someday create enough energy to power 30,000 households.
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TG Daily
Norway opens osmotic power station
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Osmotic power plants can, in principle, be located wherever fresh water runs into the sea; they produce no noise or polluting emissions and they can be integrated into existing industrial zones, for example, in the basements of industrial buildings.
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"(funny nobody wonders if that’s a threat to Apple, especially considering everything is a threat to Apple, even being able to take DRM free songs *out* of the freaking iPod)
Rom Houbens Bewusstsein galt als erloschen, die Ärzte schrieben ihn ab. Tatsächlich war der Belgier nach einem schweren Autounfall zwar gelähmt, aber nicht komatös. Mehr als 20 Jahre lang musste der heute 46-Jährige machtlos seine Fehlbehandlung ertragen, bis der Irrtum schließlich auffiel.
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Google hilft Websitebetreibern, mehr über ihre Nutzer zu erfahren. Datenschützer aber fürchten Sammelwut und fordern Aufklärung. Im Zweifel mit Androhung von Bußgeldern.
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PreCentral.net
Those following the PreCentral video recording thread will know this has been a long time coming. Back before webOS 1.3.1, video recording was a pipe dream and would require a lot of work to get done in a successful, safe manner. However, webOS 1.3.1 changed all that. Many of those in the private beta developer release of 1.3.1 noticed Palm's ...
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Thomas Ricker
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Engadget
Palm Precorder brings video recording homebrew to the Pre
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If you like your software homebrewed with just a hint of alpha then boy do we have an app for you. The WebOS homebrew community just released Precorder; an app that lets your Palm Pre record audio and 30fps 480x320 pixel video in H.264/AVC format -- you can can even control the built-in LED for recording in low-light situations. Unfortunately, ...
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Electronista
Best Buy Black Friday brings $80 Palm Pre, $200 notebook
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Best Buy has posted its Black Friday specials online, confirming many of the prices and deals that were seen in a leaked flyer as well as some new doorbuster deals. The new deals include a Palm Pre handset priced at $80, matching a recent sale price at Amazon, as well as a 15.6-inch HP G60 notebook powered by a 2.2GHz Intel Celeron processor ...
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PalmAddicts
Replaced my iPod Touch and Treo with a Palm Pre
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[From Paul Travis] I have replaced my iPod Touch with a Palm Pre. I used to carry two devices a Treo 680 and the Touch, now I have combined everything with the Pre and I can make calls and listen to music at once.
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PalmAddicts
Like the Pre but don't love the keyboard
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[From Chris Thomas] Like many of your fellow readers I'm using a Palm Pre, whilst I wouldn't go as far as saying that I love my phone I will say that it is very useful, almost a pure joy to use. My only criticism is I find the keyboard slightly small to type on but the crisp screen makes up for this. I also agree that after the recent update ...
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PreCentral.net
Getting Started: Homebrew Apps, Patches, and Themes with WebOS Quick Install
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There is a whole world of wonderful improvements that you can add to your Palm Pre or Pixi right now including homebrew apps , patches , and themes . If you already download homebrew apps, you can use WebOS Quick Install on your computer or Preware on your phone to install patches and themes just as easily. Come join the 280,000 PreCentral ...
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OXFORD, England (Reuters) - Twitter, the social internet firm that tracks trends through individuals' updates of events around them, may eventually go to the stock market for funding if necessary, its co-founder Biz Stone said.
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Mashable!
NFL Player Has Twitter Account Hacked With Embarrassing Consequences
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There have been several high profile hackings of Twitter accounts, with the likes of Britney Spears and even Barack Obama having their accounts compromised (with bizarre tweets sent from them) for at least a few minutes. But what happens when your average NFL football player gets their account hacked? Apparently, not much. And unfortunately for ...
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LocaFollow – Find Twitter-ers in Your Area or Interest
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Look ma! A Twitter tool that actually does something useful! I can hear the chorus and relieved sighs as I type this. Like me, I suspect most of you are tired of seeing the waves of useless Twitter and iPhone apps that keep flooding the Web hoping to glob onto the social buzz wagons. LocaFollow.com is a Twitter search tool that searches ...
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ReadWriteWeb
SAP Joins PowerPoint and Twitter - Does This Work?
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As we approach 2010, a number of new efforts are underway to make documents more social. One consultant told us how recently a client tried to turn Sharepoint into a Twitter client. That's a monster! But we have to give SAP credit for developing a more innovative way to add social elements to PowerPoint presentations. Sponsor Last month, SAP ...
Rev2.org
Obama, Twitter, and Chinese Censorship
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So President Obama has a Twitter account ( @barackobama ) that is rivaled in popularity only by Oprah Winfrey’s ( @oprah ). The breaking story yesterday on TechCrunch and this morning in the Wall Street Journal , however, is that all of those followers on Obama’s Twitter account are being fooled. He’s never used Twitter. It&#
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Mashable!
Internet Vices: Twitter is Crack Cocaine
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Social media is surely addictive, but can we be more specific? Patrick Moberg gave it a good shot in his Internet Vices cartoon , comparing various social services to their consciousness modifying equivalents both legal and… less than legal. Twitter’s similarity to crack cocaine: “Yuppies do it on their iPhone. Cheap. Short. ...
Chris Albrecht
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NewTeeVee
StatShot: Oprah Topples Gleeks on Twitter
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While the fall TV season has been all about Glee in terms of Twitter, Oprah proved that kids singing show tunes are no match for her mighty media empire. The queen of daytime announced last week that she was calling it quits on her eponymous syndicated talk show and focusing her efforts on her cable [...]
Staci D. Kramer
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MocoNews
Twitter's Stone: No Sale But IPO, Alternatives Are Possible
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Twitter’s generous investors—the latest round was $100 million—may be pleased to hear that “2010 is really going to be the revenue year” for the high-profile startup. Or so Biz Stone, one of three cofounders, told reporters at Oxford University Monday, the latest stop on a talky tour of the UK. That idea is tied to ...
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Twitter ready to splash out... and run ads
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Micro-blogging site Twitter is interested in making more acquisitions as it continues to grow in popularity, according to co-founder Biz Stone. "That is something we are definitely interested in," Stone told a news conference. "We made an acquisition last year that turned out to be an outstandingly good decision." Twitter bought search engine ...
Vivian Wagner
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TechNewsWorld
A Twitter App for Every Purpose Under Heaven
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Thanks to Twitter's open API, applications that enhance the tweeting experience have proliferated. From TweetDeck to Tweetie, there's an app for everyone and for every purpose. This diverse world of Twitter apps, however, remains a mystery to some of the site's users.
Zeus
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Impact Lab
A Twitter App For Every Purpose
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A Twitter ecosystem of applications is springing up, so that the dedicated Twitter user can glean the most from the experience. This is partly because Twitter is, by nature, a minimalist Web site — and partly because the limits of serious tweeters’ creativity have barely been stretched. Thanks to Twitter’s open API, ...
Tom Johansmeyer
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BloggingStocks
Twitter to make acquisitions, generate revenue in 2010
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Filed under: Internet , Apple Inc (AAPL) , Research in Motion (RIMM) , Media World , Initial public offerings , Technology Twitter is on the prowl. Though it made its last acquisition more than a year ago, company founder Biz Stone said on Tuesday that it's looking to add to the stable . There aren't any specific targets yet -- at least none ...
John Chow
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John Chow dot Com
Peep Lotto – The World’s First Twitter Lottery
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For 22 year old Pete Danihel, it started as a school project for marketing class. However, Peep Lotto has since taken on a life of its own. The primary purpose for Peep Lotto (short for People Powered Lottery) is to convert publicity into prize by using Twitter. The more people who follow twterlotto, the [...]
Anthony Ha
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VentureBeat
Vidly adds video comments to your blog … and Chamillionaire’s
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Video startup Vidly is holding true to its promise to expand beyond Twitter with a new tool called Vidly Express, an easy way to add video comments to any blog. The San Francisco company says publishers just add some code to their site, and the code creates a button for video replies next to every post. Vidly Express also integrates with ...
Stevecla01
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Geek In Disguise
Dilbert on Twitter
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Dilbert has been riffing on cloud a bit last week. This week we move to Twitter :)
Camille Ricketts
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VentureBeat
Roundup: Microsoft and News Corp. plot Google’s demise, Taptu and Google Maps Navigation hop on Android, and more
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Here’s the latest action: Amazon Web Services now calculates your app costs — To give users a better idea of how their applications will work and how much they will cost to run on Amazon Web Services, the company has just released a redesign of its AWS Simple Monthly Calculator. This tool allows users to select their regions and ...
Kevin Phillips
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Neowin.net
Twitter Peek, the Twitter only device
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For those of you who can't get enough Twitter where ever you go and don't want to get locked into a big monthly contract with a cell phone company then the Twitter Peek is for you. Developed by Peek, the company which developed the Peek and Peek Pronto the mobile email devices. This slim Twitter only device, which resembles an iPod Video ...
Bill Ives
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Portals and KM
We Have Started Twitter Lists on @darwineco
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As I have written before, I am involved with Darwin Ecosystem and its Discovery Engine Blog as well as its @darwineco Twitter efforts. We recently started a number of Twitter Lists. A lot has been written about Twitter Lists as...
PC World Latest
Open-Xchange Integrates Facebook, Twitter With E-mail Inbox
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Open-source collaboration software vendor Open-Xchange is working on integrating the inbox with social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
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L.A.
Google and TiVo have been responsible for a good deal of anxiety within cable and network television circles. Put both together in the same sentence, and you have the potential need for some serious psychotherapy. Yes, the two Silicon Valley companies are teaming up. Google, which sells television and online ads, today said it agreed to ...
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Doug Caverly
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Top News
Google Obtains Access To TiVo Data
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Google TV Ads is about to become a significantly more powerful marketing system. A new pact with TiVo will allow Google to gather (and then pass on) very precise data about which commercials are being viewed, and even (to a lesser degree) who is doing the watching. Mike Steib, Google's director of emerging platforms, explained the arrangement in ...
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Fast Company
Google's Digitizing Iraqi Historic Archives
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Google's extending its grip on the digital world in a wholly new and surprising way: It's just brokered a deal with Iraq's authorities to digitize historic artifacts and documents in the country's museums. It's a philanthropic move, don't you know. Google's CEO Eric Schmidt has been touring the country, and just made the announcement of Google's ...
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ReadWriteWeb
Google Brings Local Business Coupons to U.S. Mobile Users
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Google has announced today that, just in time for holiday shopping, they are enabling local retailers to display coupons for in-store use on mobile devices of Google-searching users. Any business using Google Local Business Center can upload mobile coupon offers, and any user searching on Google.com using a mobile device can find the coupons on ...
Chris Crum
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Top News
Interesting Chrome Extensions On the Way
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Google has opened up the Chrome Extension Gallery (beta) to developers. This means that anyone can now upload their extensions. Google says it is making the upload flow available early so developers have time to publish their extensions ahead of Google's full launch. "Once an extension is uploaded, our gallery takes care of packaging and ...
Tim Anderson
Google’s new language: Go
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Google has a new language. The language is called Go , though issue 9 on the bug tracker is from the inventor of another language called Go and asks for a name change. Co-inventor Rob Pike says [PDF] that Google’s Go is a response to the problem of long build times and uncontrolled dependencies; fast compilation is an important feature. It is ...
Danny Allen
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Gizmodo
What if the Declaration of Independence Was Created in Google Wave?
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So you've scored an invite and watched the videos , but still confused about Google Wave ? Google's latest explanatory tactic: recreate famous documents to showcase Wave's features. Here's the declaration of independence , complete with edits from the founding fathers . If you've got a Wave account, you can check out the reconstruction here . ...
Andy Beal
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Andy Beal
Google Product Search: Give Me Cashback or Give Me Death!
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As I mentioned yesterday, I love Bing’s shopping engine. In no small part because I can earn some serious cashback. As long as I make sure I’m getting the lowest price in the first place, the cashback makes it worth using Bing. So, Google Product Search can wave all the new fancy features in front of [...]
Search Engine Watch Blog
Google Tweaks Product Search Just in Time for the Holidays
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Days before masses bust down the doors of brick and mortar stores and burden e-commerce servers, Google has released updates to its Product Search . Recent tweaks include: New gallery view Instead of viewing in a vertical list, view products horizontally in rows. Click the gallery icon at the top right corner just above the results. Here's what ...
The Blog Herald
Pixazza is Like Google AdSense for Blog Images
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To be honest while I was exploring this new income-generating scheme offered by Google-ventures back Pixazza, the first thing that came into my mind was those in-text advertising that pops-out whenever you hover onto link in a blog post. Only this time, Pixazza is doing it with blog images. So what is Pixazza really? In their [...]
Stan Schroeder
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Mashable!
Opera 10.10: Web Browser and Web Server In One
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With such strong competition from Mozilla and Microsoft, the only thing Opera can do to stay competitive is to innovate. And one has to hand it to them: although it doesn’t have a huge user base in the desktop web browser space, Opera is always one step ahead of the rest, for better or for worse. With version 10.10, Opera has taken its ...
Tricia Duryee
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MocoNews
Google Rolls Out Navigation To More Android Devices; Will Other Smartphones Follow?
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Just in time for Thanksgiving travels, Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) is rolling out turn-by-turn navigation to all Android phones that have received the latest Android operating system update. Google Maps Navigation was first available on the Motorola ( NYSE: MOT ) Droid that was running Android OS 2.0. Now it will run on any devices running Android 1.6,
Tim Anderson
Chrome OS: will Google keep its vision?
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I spent some time with Chrome OS over the weekend and yesterday, first doing my own build of the open source Chromium OS, and then running it and writing a review. The build process was interesting: you actually compile Chromium OS from a chroot virtual environment. My first efforts were unsuccessful, for two reasons. First, Chromium OS assumes ...
Today
More Android Users Get Google Maps Navigation
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Navigating your way out of town for Thanksgiving got easier for more Android users, thanks to Google. In a blog post , Google announced that Google Maps Navigation Beta (of course) is now available for free for mobile devices running Android version 1.6 and higher.
AppleInsider
TV market looks to mimic Apple with cross-platform 'app store'
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TV manufacturers and software makers believe the next evolution of television will feature Internet-connected hardware with a selection of software available in a method like Apple's iPhone App Store.
Seamonkey420
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Tech-Recipes
Google Wave: How to open multiple waves
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When in your Inbox or All folder in Wave, click on the first wave you want open and then hold CTRL and click on the next wave you want to also open in the right pane.
Dave Zatz
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Zatz Not Funny!
Need a Google Voice invite?
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Need a Google Voice invite? Leave a comment and I’ll randomly pick at least 3 winners – hopefully tomorrow, before I leave on vacation. See our previous GV coverage here . If you’ve got invites you’d also like to share, let me know ( dave@zatznotfunny.com ) and we’ll work on hooking up even more of the ZNF community.
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Between the Lines
News to know: HP; Google; IE 7 zero day flaw; Office; Drobo
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Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Andrew Nusca, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Roku Inc.
Dan Nosowitz
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Gizmodo
Zombie Outbreak Simulator: Sim City Plus Google Maps Plus the Undead
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The RTS web game Zombie Outbreak Simulator plops you down into a Google Maps -provided area of DC swarming with zombies. The outbreak's details are up to you: How many civilians? Are they armed? It's a killer timewaster (GET IT?). Basically, it's a zombie invasion in our nation's capital. You can change the details of the invasion in any way you ...
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Variety.com
TiVo, Google pact in data deal
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Technology News: Ad community to get more info on viewers -- TiVo has pacted with Google to provide analytical information to advertisers about viewers who watch TV via the DVR service.
SFGate
Google buys startup to boost display-ad efforts
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Google Inc. has snapped up another startup in its quest to sell more visual advertising on the Web. The acquisition of Teracent Corp., a 3-year-old startup, provides Google with more tools for customizing the online billboards known as display advertising.... Google - Advertising - Search - Search Engines - Teracent
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LXer Linux News
Is Google Feeling Heat from Microsoft?
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If the new Google interface design is any indication, it appears that Google might actually be feeling a little heat, or at least some influence, from Bing, but it's hard to extrapolate that to any real concern on Google's part.
Katherine Noyes
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TechNewsWorld
Is Google's Chrome OS Waiting for a Strong ARM?
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It's not every brand new operating system that gets open sourced a year before it hits the retail shelves. Then again, Chrome OS isn't just any OS, and Google isn't just any company. Indeed, that's just what Google did last week, making its brand new Chrome OS freely available for download by developers far and wide.
Tom Warren
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Neowin.net
Google buys search ad for offensive Michelle Obama image
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The Search Engine Rountable is reporting that Google has purchased a search ad that is placed above the image result for Michelle Obama. Almost two weeks ago if you searched for Michelle Obama in Google's image search you would find a racist caricature depicting the first lady as a monkey. Last Thursday Google removed the image but the image ...
Deven Desai
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Madisonian.net
Google, The Good: Free Law!
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Although I have used this space to question the Google Book Deal, I do not think that all The Google does is bad. Indeed, the fundamentals of where the Google Book Deal began were good. And now, as some of you may know (and Greg helped with that), Google is trying to go where no one has gone (successfully as far as I can tell) before. Yes, as of ...
Barry
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Search Engine Roundtable
Google AdSense Bug Displaying Weird Characters in Ads
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There are many reports at the Google AdSense Help forum with publishers complaining that Google is displaying weird characters on their ads. Here is a picture of one: Here is another picture, this one is from my personal blog: Notice...
The Blog Herald
Google turns to algorithms to create better-looking ads
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The constant push to make ads more visually appealing — reducing the effects of ‘ad blindness’ and helping them to convert better for advertisers and pay more to publishers — continues, as Google announces a pending deal with the Californian startup company Teracent. Teracent specialises in machine-learning algorithms which have ...
Barry
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Search Engine Roundtable
Google Bug Removes Web Designers in Local Pack
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Now, if you do a search for web design, web development, or most digital agency like queries, with or without a local qualifier (i.e. web design new york), Google won't show the local 7 pack. Mike Blumenthal covered this well,...
MarketWatch.com
Teracent: Another Google-related win for a Sonsini
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Google Inc.’s acquisition of online advertising start-up Teracent Corp. marks yet another payday courtesy of the Internet giant for a member of one of the most prominent families in Silicon Valley.
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SFGate
Firms channeling apps to TV
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Consumer electronics makers and software companies are hoping to take a page from Apple's App Store and turn the TV into a dynamic, evolving platform for widgets and applications. Instead of being just a gateway for broadcast and recorded video or a gaming... Apple - App Store - Television - Consumer electronics - IPhone
Digg.com
Google Buying Display Advertising Startup
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Web search leader Google said it is buying Silicon Valley display advertising technology start up Teracent, which expands its competition with display leader Yahoo.
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WSJ.com
Tech Today: H-P Profit Rises, TV Price Drops Help Retailers Tout Deals
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Hewlett-Packard's quarterly profit rose 14%, retailers are trumpeting great deals on televisions heading into Black Friday.
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19-inch Viore LCD19VH65 TV with Integrated DVD Player Only $198 On Walmart
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Two years ago I paid over $200 for my 20" LCD monitor. Today, for less money, you can buy a Viore 19" HDTV with a built-in DVD player for slightly less. Isn't the march of progress great? This Viore TV can only handle 720p, but it's still one of ...
Search Engine Watch Blog
Google Maps Launches Navigation for Android 1.6
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Recently, Google Maps launched Navigation , a robust GPS system for Android. But it only came out for Android 2.0, meaning it could only be used on the brand spankin' new Motorola Droid from Verizon. Good news for Android 1.6 users. You'll get to use Navigation for your Turkey Day travels this week. Simply update Google Maps from the Android ...
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Tagging TV and Movies Comes to Hulu
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In an effort to help make the site more accessible (more access points) and better organized video and movie site Hulu has added user-based tagging. Josh Lowensohn at Webware.com writes: At the bottom of this compilation of Saturday Night Live content you’ll see the tags in action. These tags also work site-wide, which means that users [...]
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SFGate
Google uses ad space to explain offensive Michelle Obama image in search results
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Confronted with the return of an offensive image of First Lady Michelle Obama to the top of its image search engine, Google is now using some of its own ad space to offer an explanation on how its...
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Search Engine Land
Google In Data Deal With TiVo To Find More Willing Audiences For TV Ads
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Google is doing some very interesting things in TV and video advertising these days. Not long ago it licensed Nielsen’s PRIZM audience segmentation data for enhanced audience targeting through TVAds. Google also recently introduced “skippable” pre-roll ads on YouTube. The idea is to find willing audiences and make advertisers ( ...
EWeek
Google Maps Navigation Free GPS Comes to Android 1.6 Smartphones
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Google Nov. 23 made its Google Maps Navigation feature for Google Maps available for smartphones running the Android 1.6 operating system build and higher. This means users of the T-Mobile myTouch 3G and inaugural but clunky G1 can enjoy turn-by-turn voice directions. This release includes Google's new Layers feature, which lets users overlay ...
Danny Sullivan
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Search Engine Land
Under The Hood: Google News & Ranking Stories
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Forget PageRank, at least if you’re a news publisher looking to do well in Google News. Google’s news service doesn’t rely on the same algorithm used by “regular” Google, of which PageRank is a part of. Instead, Google News taps into its own unique ranking signals, which include user clicks, the [...] ....
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Google Product Search on the Official Google Blog
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Earlier today, Jeff and Sameer from the Product Search team shared some holiday shopping updates on the Official Google Blog. Check out their post to see a recap of some of the work we've been doing over the past few months, including local store locations, video product reviews, and our new gallery view, among others. Posted by Vivek Tata, ...
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901am
Apple Taunts Verizon with New iPhone Ads
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Apple iPhone Ad – Did You See My Email? from Arik Hesseldahl on Vimeo. Have you caught the two new iPhone ads shown on TV last night? Reports had it that the new iPhone ads were supposed to appear on shows such as “House”, “Dancing with the Stars”, “How I Met Your Mother” and other Daily Shows [...] ...
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For now, it’s a battle of discounts, but Wal-Mart and Amazon are also fighting over the future of retailing.
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Amazon, Wal-Mart escalate Web price war
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In what is emerging as one of the main story lines of the 2009 post-recession shopping season, Wal-Mart Stores and Amazon.com are waging an online price war that is spreading through product areas like books, movies, toys and electronics.
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Online game developer Nival Network is closing $5 million round from an undisclosed investor, revealed Sergey Orlovskiy, founder and CEO of Nival Group to Vedomosti newspaper. Nival Network is going to invest the funds into development of Prime World, online strategy game with social networking elements. Formed in September 2008, Nival Network ...
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Local Shopping Search Engine Milo Gets $4 Million From Mint's Patzer, Others
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Milo , a startup betting that Americans will be as likely to use the internet to inform purchases at local stores as to replace them, has raised $4 million from a roster of big name investors. The company’s search engine—which is linked up with the real-time inventories of over 42,000 chain stores, including Best Buy and Wal-Mart ( ...
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The Seattle Times
Washington Banking seeks $30 million in stock sale
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Washington Banking Co., the parent of Whidbey Island Bank, said Monday it would raise $30 million by selling new shares of common stock, becoming the latest local bank to tap the capital markets.
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Sun TV Network Raises Ad Rates By 9-33%
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Sun TV Network Ltd today said it was raising ad rates on its flagship Tamil channel by 9-33% w.e.f 1 January 2010. It has also raised ad rates and broadcast fee (received from content creators who essentially lease air time) across all of the company’s Tamil channels. Revised ad rates for the company’s entertainment channels in other ...
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VentureBeat
BookRenter raises $6M to challenge Chegg in textbook rentals
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Textbook rental site Chegg.com may be raising tremendous amounts of funding, but competitor BookRenter isn’t sitting still — it just announced a $6 million first round. That number is dwarfed by the $84.2 million Chegg has raised (not counting debt), but BookRenter chief executive Mehdi Maghsoodnia says his Campbell, Calif., company ...
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Carphone Warehouse and Phones 4U have suspended sales of Sony Ericsson’s flagship Saito mobile phone after a software glitch resulted in unusually high levels of customers returning the phone to the stores.
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Borders.co.uk suspends book sales
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Reports have suggested that Borders, which has 45 stores in the UK, does not have enough cash to last until Christmas. It is thought it could go into administration if no buyer is found.
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Engadget
Sony Ericsson already working on second version of Xperia Pureness, possibly Xperia Pureness 2?
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Electric Pig is reporting that Sony Ericsson 's already working on a followup to the Xperia Pureness . The designer of the original handset, Daniel Mauritzson, says that the second version of the Pureness will pack even less "features" than its predecessor, to hone in even further on the contrast between the handset and available smartphones. ...
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Carphone Warehouse snubs Sony Ericsson's top smart phone
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BLIGHTY'S Carphone Warehouse has snubbed Sony Ericsson by deciding not to sell its flagship smartphone. Sony Ericsson had hoped that its recently launched Satio smartphone would result in a turnaround for its fortunes. The mobile gadget has more multimedia functions than you can shake a stick at and a 12.1 megapixel camera.
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Sony Ericsson launches its Pureness phone
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SONY ERICSSON has launched the Xperia Pureness handset in a very posh London department store and even let us in to have a peek at it. With a SIM free price tag of £600 and limited availability, the Xperia Pureness is so exclusive that it is only being sold at Selfridges. Sony Ericsson is hoping that it becomes one of the most elusive and ...
Paul Biba
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TeleRead
Sony UK to do special Reader Pocket Edition
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Capitalizing on the popularity of James Patterson and the Alex Cross novels, Sony UK will be issuing a limited edition James Patterson Pocket Edition Reader. The Reader will contain Cross’s novel “Cross Country”, excerpts from two James Patterson books, a letter from Patterson and will be in a special blue color and include a [...
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Sony DSC-WX1 Review
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Sony DSC-WX1 Review is a post from Chris Pirillo Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Sony recently sent me their new DSC-WX1 to play with and review in conjunction with an upcoming Sweep Panorama photo contest. I can tell you that I’m excited about this camera. I’m by no means a professional photographer, but I ...
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Borders’ website suspends book sales
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BBC – “The website of the Borders bookshop chain in the UK has stopped taking new orders for books while “the business is in discussion with potential buyers. The firm says that existing customer orders are also being delayed but will be fulfilled.”
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Eurogamer
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Sony rectifying Bloodlines PSN blunder
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Download codes for launch-day losers. Sony will compensate anybody who bought a faulty launch version of Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines from the PlayStation Store. "Yes, there was an issue with the original download," a Sony spokesperson told Eurogamer. "It was pulled from the store and we are issuing replacement codes for those people who ...
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Eurogamer
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Sony unleashes PS3 viral The Game
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Quizzes! Mini-games! Social! Sony has begun a weird viral campaign based around The Game: a collection of web-based mini-games and quizzes that are supposed to trigger lots of blabber about PS3. Get yourself over to The Game website, enter an email address, pick a name and choose a team - either A or B - to begin. Then plough through quizzes and ...
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Attacks "predatory conduct" in lawsuit. Datel has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft after the Xbox 360 platform holder's most recent dashboard update disabled support for third-party memory units. The complaint, filed in San Francisco federal court by Datel's representatives Howard Rice, accuses Microsoft of "exclusionary, predatory, ...
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Engadget
Datel sues Microsoft, wants its Xbox 360 market back
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Seems like we just can't go a week without some corporate power plays or mudslinging making our pages. Back in October, Datel promised it would "remedy" the situation created by Microsoft's forthcoming (now present) Dashboard update locking out its higher capacity memory modules. The accessory company was the first (and only) third-party ...
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Is Microsoft Taking Dynamic Languages Seriously?
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Specifically IronPython and IronRuby. Consider this … IronPython got underway in July of 2004 . Five years later it appears IronPython is still not a candidate to be a first class language in the .NET framework and tools. You can vote on this issue . Microsoft first released IronRuby at Mix in 2007. Nearly three years later it appears IronRuby ...
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Infopackets.com
Windows 7 Sales: Mindblowing, or Misleading?
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Microsoft's CEO says Windows 7 is selling twice as fast as any of its predecessors. However, he was careful not to sound too arrogant, noting that even the tiniest fraction of market share lost to rivals is important to the Redmond-based software firm. Steve Ballmer last week spoke at Microsoft's annual meeting in Washington state, broadcast ...
Tim Anderson
PDC day two: Silverlight 4 and a free laptop
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There were two big themes at PDC in Los Angeles today. One was the Silverlight 4 beta, the subject of the most impressive section at the keynote. The other was the announcement of free laptops for every attendee – aside from press and government. It is remarkable how a generous gift can change the atmosphere. The lack of breakfast or Universal ...
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Miguel de Icaza
Silverlight: Universal GUI toolkit
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The most important piece of news from last week's PDC was Microsoft's decision to turn Silverlight into the universal platform for building cross platform applications. The upcoming version of Silverlight will no longer be a Web-only technology. It will now be possible to build full desktop applications with Silverlight. Desktop Silverlight ...
Innovation
Bing benefits from increased retailer spending
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For Microsoft's Bing, it's shaping up to be an especially good Black Friday. According to media research firm SearchIgnite, retailers spent 47 percent more on Microsoft search ads in the fourth quarter of 2009 than they did in the fourth quarter of 2008. Moreover, Microsoft now accounts for 8 percent of ...
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Kotaku
Microsoft Sued Over Memory Card Crackdown
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You know Datel? I like Datel, mostly because they made the Freeloader for the GameCube/Wii. Well, Datel are in the process of taking Microsoft to court over Xbox 360 memory cards. The dispute between the two companies stems from a recent move by Microsoft to block the use of "unauthorised", third-party memory cards on their 360 consoles. ...
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PDC 2009 review
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The dust has settled on the PDC 2009 and unlike previous events where I have tried to blog at the event, I decided this time around that it was just too hard to do and that a more considered review a few days after the event may work better. Here goes… I’m really only going to focus on the keynotes and a few sessions I found intriguing – I ...
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Media
Roy Greenslade: Explaining what lies behind Murdoch's pay strategy
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Rupert Murdoch's talks with Microsoft about removing his newspapers' stories from Google , and giving index rights to Bing instead could be a pivotal moment in internet economics, writes John Gapper . He believes that Murdoch is willing to sacrifice traffic volume at his newspapers' websites in return for a payment from Microsoft, thereby ...
Silicon.com
Photos: Take a tour of Microsoft's self-contained datacentre
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At its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles last week, Microsoft gave attendees a close-up look at a self-contained server unit from one of the company's datacentres. This particular unit had been stationed outside Microsoft's datacentre in Washington. Photo credit: Ina Fried/CNET
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Greetings from AVAR 2009!
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One thing that I have always found fascinating about Japan is definitely its rich and unique culture. However, there is just one other thing — vending machines. You not only find them everywhere, you can buy all sorts of things, including adult movies, from them (except for a security product, but that's probably just a matter of time). ...
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Microsoft Slammed With Suit Over Killing Third-Party Xbox 360 Storage
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Datel claims Microsoft is violating antitrust laws...
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A critical PDC for Microsoft
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I’m in Los Angeles for Microsoft’s Professional Developer’s Conference – one that has a strangely subdued build-up. I have been to many PDCs but this one is different. One thing I’ve noticed is that a combination of the difficult economy and a rumoured shortfall in attendance has resulted in some obvious slimming-down: flimsy bag, no ...
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Neowin.net
Microsoft releases "Fishbowl" Facebook Windows 7 application
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Microsoft demonstrated SilverFace during the Silverlight 4 announcements at PDC 2009 last week. Although SilverFace is not available download, Microsoft has made Fishbowl available. Fishbowl is a WPF desktop application that uses the Facebook stream APIs to allow access to Facebook in a clean and impressive UI. Fishbowl also includes Windows 7 ...
Groklaw
Exhibits to Microsoft's Cross Motion for Summary Judgment in Novell WordPerfect Case
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I'm so glad you answered my question with a resounding Yes as to whether you wanted to get all the exhibits attached to Microsoft's Memorandum of Law [PDF] in support of Microsoft's cross motion for summary judgment in the Novell v. Microsoft antitrust litigation. We finally find out what Microsoft paid Caldera to settle the DrDOS litigation back ...
Warp2Search.net
Microsoft Delays Open Source Release Windows 7 Tool
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As you know, Microsoft recently committed to making the source code as well as binaries for the Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool available this week, under the terms of the General Public License v2 as described here. While we worked extremely hard to try and get the code ready for release by today, we still need to test and localize it. Our goal is now to ...
Warp2Search.net
Office Starter 2010: The fine print on Microsoft's Works replacement
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Digg.com
Microsoft delays open sourcing Windows 7 tool
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Microsoft has delayed open sourcing its Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool, which it pulled from its servers over reports that it violated the GNU General Public License (GPL).
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Windows 2K Server Patch Update
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Microsoft just released a patch to address the License Logging Server Heap Overflow Vulnerability (CVE-2009-2523). This vulnerability affects the License Logging Service (LLS), a feature which according to Microsoft is "designed to help customers manage licenses for Microsoft server products that are licensed in the Server Client Access License ( ...
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TechNet Blogs
More proactive guidance from HP around Hyper-V and Exchange 2010
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Patrick, from the MVUG blog , has fired across a couple of other useful titbits of information that the guys at HP have been working on around both Hyper-V, and Exchange 2010, from both a server, and storage perspective. From blog post #1 : HP has released "HP recommended configuration for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 - StorageWorks ...
EWeek
Glowpoint Announces Microsoft Exchange Integration Video Conferencing Web Portal
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Glowpoint's ScheduleSync telepresence feature now integrates with Microsoft Exchange, the company announces. - Glowpoint, a provider of managed services for telepresence and video conferencing, announced the release of ScheduleSync, a feature that synchronizes customer desktop calendaring and scheduling software with Glowpoints customer Web portal.
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TechNet Blogs
Obama och Microsoft inspirerar studenter
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Igår presenterade president Barack Obama initiativet Educate to Innovate som syftar till att inspirera studenter i USA att utvecklas och växa inom vetenskap, teknik, ingenjörsvetenskap och matematik ( STEM ) - för att de ska vara bättre rustade för framtiden och kunna lösa morgondagens problem. Även Microsoft har en viktig del i detta ...
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Outlook phone dialer quits when Microsoft Communicator is running
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Our company does not have a full SIP phone integration with with Microsoft Communicator. It is used for presence and IM. In Outlook, I like to use the Dialer (as I have my laptop modem plugged into my Phone {which is plugged into OOMA – yea baby!}) to save all those seconds. However, if MOC is running, then when I launch the Outlook ...
Holovaty.com
EveryBlock acquisition and me
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I'm excited to announce some huge news. EveryBlock , the project I've led for the last two years, has been acquired by MSNBC.com . The main details are at the EveryBlock blog , but I wanted to mention a few other things here on my personal site, to try to anticipate questions. First, this has no impact whatsoever on my involvement with Django . ...
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Some of the magazine industry’s biggest names are on the verge of forming a new company that would allow them to take the digital future into their own hands. The company would make up one of the biggest alliances among rival publishers ever formed in print media, with Time Inc., Condé Nast and Hearst all expected to join, houses that ...
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Playboy Magazine To Be Managed by American Media; Sale Still Being Worked On
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Update : 30 minutes later, WSJ is also reporting along similar lines on outsourcing of print/publishing to AMI, though it doesn’t have anything on the sale. Edit will remain with Playboy ( NYSE: PLA ), while rest of the functions, including ad sales and distribution, will now be managed by AMI, it quotes CEO Scott Flanders ( damn you ...
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BuzzMachine
Corporate punctuation finds its home
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Companies have stupid fetishes about their names. Tribune Company isn’t The Tribune Company, it’s Tribune Company – no damned “the.” Time Inc. isn’t Time, Inc., we were informed when I worked there, it’s Time Inc. In a corporate dining room, there used to be a memo from one of the company’s founders ...
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Kotaku
On November 22, the DSi LL went on sale. Famitsu publisher Enterbrain has sales figures for the new NIntendo handheld's first two days. The portable moved 103,524 units in Japan. In comparison, the DSi sold approximately 170,000 units in its first two days on sale in Japan. In its first day on sale in The Land of the Rising Sun, the PSPgo sold ...
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The DS and DSi Gift Guide
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This year saw the launch of not one, but two additions to the DS family. The DSi, sporting two cameras and the ability to download games, hit in April. The DSiLL (XL to folks outside of Japan) is all of that a more, well more in the sense of size, super-sizing the screen and mondo-sizing the stylus. Of course, there were also games, plenty of ...
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Sony PSPGo – Connecting / Pairing your PS3 controller to your PSPGo
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The Sony PSPGo is the latest PSP gaming console offering by Sony. Several distinctions/changes have been made to this PSP revision; the main items being that the UMD disc drive was removed in favor of 16gb of flash memory and bluetooth connectivity was introduced. One feature that bluetooth added was the ability to connect a PS3 system controller ...
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Foto Showdown coming to DSi
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It's a camera-powered RPG from Konami. Konami has unveiled Foto Showdown, a new RPG which is played using the DSi camera. The idea is you take photos and the DSi uses "advanced colour recognition" to generate monsters from them. You can then test out their unique powers in epic battles. There are more than 100 levels to play through and over 150 ...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Raj Rajaratnam, the billionaire founder of hedge fund firm Galleon Group, denied federal insider trading charges and accused the government of violating his constitutional rights with its use of wiretaps.
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In Reply to S.E.C., Rajaratnam Attacks Wiretap Use
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Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge fund executive accused of masterminding a $20 million insider trading ring, responded to civil fraud charges on Tuesday, attacking investigators' use of wiretaps and arguing that prosecutors omitted key facts in their original complaint.
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(Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve this month asked nine banks that were part of "stress tests" conducted earlier this year to submit plans to repay money injected under the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), Bloomberg said, citing a person familiar with the situation.
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Cramer on BloggingStocks: The Fed's push for TARP payback
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Filed under: Wal-Mart (WMT) , Amazon.com (AMZN) , Market matters , Citigroup Inc. (C) , Regions Financial (RF) , Bank of America (BAC) , Wells Fargo (WFC) , Cramer on BloggingStocks , Financial Crisis From TheStreet.com Network TARP Banks, AIG: Tuesday's Headlines Lloyds to Raise $22.3B in Rights Issue TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says the sooner ...
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The Seattle Times
Strong banks, weak credit: Treasury rethinks TARP
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Big banks are roaring back. At crisis' edge last year, they are repaying billions of dollars dumped into their vaults to rescue them. Dividend checks are accumulating at the Treasury. Taxpayers won't recoup the full sum of the government's unprecedented infusion to the financial sector, but the returns are ahead of schedule.
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