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Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Telecom Giants in Europe Plan $30 Billion Deal — Nokia of Finland and Siemens of Germany are expected to announce on Monday that they will merge their telecommunication network equipment businesses in a deal valued at more than $30 billion, people involved in the transaction said tonight.
Redbarren / ben barren:
"Instant Value to customers - solve a problem or create value with the first use" — The Double D Dodge, who may be the last 2.0 Product Planning Celebrity left @ 1 Microsoft Way, summarises a Kleiner Perkins' partners perspective at a 'Future of Software' conference on the characteristics of …
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Kleiner Perkins 7 rules for software start-ups — Ajit Nazare at Kleiner Perkins has 7 rules for software start-ups they consider funding. I was on a "future of software" panel at TiECon East yesterday with Ajit Nazre, partner at Kleiner Perkins. Several interesting trends emerged …
Jeremy Pepper / POP! PR Jots:
Trademark Issues in Second Life — A couple week's ago, Scoble came to the office and we were talking post-speech about some issues, the Bay Area and the fun of all that could be. Yes, this was prior to the big Vloggercon news. We also talked about Second Life (SL) …
The Doc Searls Weblog:
Helplessness vs. Helpfulness — Think about what happens when most of us get pissed off at a big retailer, a big airline, a big restaurant chain. We can complain. We can start websites like HomeDepotSucks.com or HomeDepotSucks.org. But... what else can we do? Why even bother?
Evan Blass / Engadget:
Make's coverage of RoboGames 2006 — Having already blown our entire travel budget attending CES, E3, and various other important events in sunny locations, we weren't able to scrape together the funds to hit up this year's annual RoboGames festival in San Francisco, but luckily Make magazine/blog …
Marshall Sponder / WebMetricsGuru:
Get BILLIONS of Pages Indexed by Google — Instructions on how to get billions of pages indexed in major search engines, including Google. — Before I go into the method I had personal experience with trying to do just that (get millions of pages of a client's website indexed by Google and then Yahoo/MSN).
Observer:
Murdoch: an emperor leading a revolution — As Rupert Murdoch's News Corp dynasty looks to a future no one can predict, his top lieutenants will gather next month for a council of war. James Robinson and Paul Harris report — California's Pebble Beach, the quiet resort where Rupert Murdoch's …
Hugh / gapingvoid:
HOW MICROSOFT LOST THEIR CANARY — As any reader of Techmeme will know, the big story in the bloggersphere this week is Bill Gates leaving Microsoft. — And Techmeme readers will also know that the second biggest story was Robert Scoble also leaving Microsoft.
Coolest Gadgets:
Electronic Finger Drums — June 18th, 2006 by Al in Miscellaneous Gadgets, Audio/Video Gadgets — I used to play drums when I was younger, I wasn't particularly good so made up for my lack of musical ability by purchasing an ever growing kit. So even if I sounded crap at least I had about 18 drums to hide behind.
Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Standards for Users — When I think of standards I think of the Stephenson gauge. Two pieces of steel laid at 4' 8.5" apart carries rail traffic for 60% of the world's railroads. The standard has been around for centuries, allowing easy interoperability between rail lines from different companies …
Google Blogoscoped:
"Unlisted" Picasa Albums Listed on Google — So, the first "unlisted" albums of Picasa Web are listed - where else - on a Google web search. (Remember, Google allows you to switch between "public" or "unlisted," but unlisted doesn't mean "private.") Even though Picasa Web disallows indexing …
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biologynews.net:
Engineering electrically conducting tissue for the heart — Mail to a Friend — Link to this entry — Digg this story — Add to Del.icio.us — Add to Connotea
Robert Sinke / dapreview.net:
Odd-i N700D: 7-inch monster DMB-thing — Hey, remember that weird little tablet PMP slash GPS slash DMB device by Viliv, the N70? We saw this 7-inch beast, which has no built-in memory whatsoever, fly by at the CeBIT in Hannover (a city currently host to a whole different kind of spectacle).
Stan Horaczek / Engadget:
USB teddy bear holds data, scares children — Generally, when someone makes a teddy bear-themed gadget, his/her intention is to overwhelm bystanders with cuteness. But whoever created this little guy, whose head has to be removed in order to access the internal USB drive, must have watched one too many Tim Burton movies.
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Times of London:
No sex please, robot, just clean the floor — THE race is on to keep humans one step ahead of robots: an international team of scientists and academics is to publish a "code of ethics" for machines as they become more and more sophisticated. — Although the nightmare vision …
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Google Blogoscoped:
Google Censorship Word List — Back in 2004, Google wrote, "For Internet users in China, Google remains the only major search engine that does not censor any web pages." Using a dictionary of 10,000 English words I probed Google self-censorship two years later.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
A Non Touch iPod Coming? — With all the hoopla around wirelessly connected music players, some of them developed by start-ups like Music Gremlins and Zing, many are wondering whether Apple will go that route as well? Who knows, but a report in The China Post, says that the company might be about to introduce a new kind of iPod.
