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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.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Nokia, Siemens and Juniper's Future — This news about Nokia and Siemens merging their telecom carrier equipment businesses to form a new $30 billion joint venture company, made me think about two things: the low cost competition from China has everyone spooked, and more importantly …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Wetpaint Launches: Wikis Evolve — Seattle based Wetpaint has been in private beta since March. On Sunday night they launched to the world, allowing anyone to create a free wiki on any topic. — A good example wiki is this one around the XBOX 360. Like pbwiki, Wikia and JotSpot …
Nancy Gohring / pcworld.idg.com.au:
Google Plans To Make All Products Available Everywhere — Internet users outside of the US may soon be able to access all of Google's products, many of which are currently available only in limited regions, if an executive search by the company is successful.
Reuters:
UPDATE 1-Vonage hit by Verizon patent lawsuit — NEW YORK, June 19 (Reuters) - Internet phone service provider Vonage Holdings Corp. (VG.N: Quote, Profile, Research) on Monday said it has been served with a patent infringement lawsuit filed by two units of Verizon Communications Inc. (VZ.N: Quote, Profile, Research).
Robert Levine / New York Times:
A Nod From Knopfler: I Want My A.M.D. — It's not unusual for guitar heroes to credit their guitar makers in album liner notes, or drummers to thank Zildjian for their cymbals. In the notes for "All the Roadrunning," an album of duets by Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris …
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Sony Music wants bloggers to promo videos, music — Sony BMG Music Entertainment wants to give bloggers free music and video—sort of. — The music conglomerate is promoting a new site, called Musicbox Video, that showcases videos, artist interviews, behind-the-scenes footage and other material from a broad portfolio of its artists.
Mike / Techdirt:
Forget Net Neutrality: Just Take The Networks Away From The Telcos — from the root-for-no-one dept — Slowly, but surely, people are starting to figure out what's really going on with the network neutrality debate. While some of us have been trying to point out that the network neutrality debate …
Francis / Francis' Weblog:
How not to fix an iPod shuffle — A friend of mine has an iPod shuffle ... or should I say, DID. Mentioning no names, he decided to hunt out a site to see if he could fix it himself as it was out of warranty. He dived onto Google and found a site all about opening up his ipod.
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Steve Gillmor / Steve Gillmor's InfoRouter:
Ray in Charge — With my family visiting the in-laws in Charleston, I'm alone here with dog, 3 cats, and 3 (I hope that's the right number) fish. On Friday I got up late and went down to Podshow for the Fubar Friday company get-together. Sitting with Adam Curry in his cubicle, he asked me what was going on with GestureBank.
Richard Waters / Financial Times:
Ebay cautious on web mergers — Mergers between big internet companies are unlikely in the short term because of difficulties combining brands, says Meg Whitman, Ebay chief executive. — However, online conglomerates operating under different brand names could eventually emerge, she said.
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 …
Broadband / DX Gaming:
Game Console Energy Consumption — Modern gaming consoles consume more and more power, dissipate more and more heat and cause a lot more noise with their cooling systems compared to their brethren a decade ago. — While it's obvious that an Xbox 360 would have higher energy demands than a Playstation 1 …
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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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William C. Taylor / New York Times:
To Charge Up Customers, Put Customers in Charge — FOR more than three decades, the designer John Fluevog has been selling colorful and distinctive shoes that win raves among rock stars and fashion models, have adorned an Absolut Vodka ad and attract legions of loyal customers that his company calls "Fluevogers."
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