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Ken Belson / New York Times:
What if They Built an Urban Wireless Network and Hardly Anyone Used It? — TAIPEI, Taiwan — Peter Shyu, an engineer, spends most of his day out of the office, and when he needs an Internet connection he often pops into one of the many coffee shops in this city that offer free wireless access.
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Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Wireless crusader FON in $5 Wi-Fi router giveaway — LONDON, June 25 (Reuters) - FON, a Spanish start-up on an ambitious crusade to turn home Wi-Fi connections into wireless "hotspots" for nearby users, is set to unveil on Monday a plan to hand out 1 million wireless routers for just $5 apiece.
Carol J. Loomis / CNNMoney.com:
A conversation with Warren Buffett — FORTUNE EXCLUSIVE: Editor-at-large Carol Loomis speaks with Buffett on why he sped up his plan to give away his money and why he chose the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. — NEW YORK (FORTUNE Magazine) - Coming from you, this plan is pretty startling.
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Warren Buffet to give his fortune to Gates Foundation — Warren Buffet, the second richest man in the world, announced he is giving the vast majority of his $44 Billion dollar fortune to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. I said in an earlier post that "Bill Gates legacy will be humanitarian philanthropy".
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Carol J. Loomis / CNNMoney.com:
Warren Buffett gives away his fortune — FORTUNE EXCLUSIVE: The world's second richest man - who's now worth $44 billion - tells editor-at-large Carol Loomis he will start giving away 85% of his wealth in July - most of it to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Lauren Williamson / journalnow.com:
Blame game — Schools file injunction; Google denies fault — HICKORY — Catawba County Schools took aim at Google Friday. — The system filed an injunction against the Internet search engine — The temporary injunction, granted by the Honorable Richard D. Boner …
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Nick Farrell / Inquirer:
Google "hacked our website" — School takes on the might of Google — A SCHOOL board has won a temporary injunction against the search engine outfit Google. — Judge Richard D. Boner (no really) issued the injunction in favour of Catawba County Schools which alleges conversion and trespass against Google.
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Rafat / paidContent.org:
The Next Big Step: Announcing Our Funding, from Patricof's Greycroft Partners [by Rafat] — The biggest step till now was me deciding to go full time with the blog, back in early 2003. This tops that: — The news: ContentNext Media, the parent company of our three sites - paidContent.org …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Unveils Unified Communications Product Road Map and Partner Ecosystem — New 2007 Office system products to deliver enterprise communications solution that unifies voice, conferencing, IM and collaboration. — SAN FRANCISCO — June 25, 2006 — Jeff Raikes, president …
John Markoff / New York Times:
Microsoft Plans to Blend Phones With Computers — SAN FRANCISCO, June 25 — Microsoft plans to offer a strategy on Monday describing how it intends to transform the telecommunications world in much the same way it changed the computing world in the 1980's. — Its new approach centers …
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Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows:
Windows Vista Build 5456 Overview and Screenshot Gallery — Little more than a month after issuing a bug-laden Windows Vista Beta 2 (see my review), Microsoft has shipped its first post-Beta 2 interim build of the next Windows and it makes up a lot of lost ground.
Chris Barylick / Washington Post:
Amateur Hour On Video — When television came on the scene midway through the last century, it appeared to be simply a video version of radio, an established and popular medium that delivered news and entertainment. — This time around, in the fast-moving Internet age …
Carlfish / The Fishbowl:
WE COME TO BURY WINFS... The first thing to strike me about the blog post announcing the end of WinFS as a Vista feature is how totally un-blog-like it is. — Every comment (bar one) got the point. WinFS is dead. Its carcass is being split between SQL Server and ADO.NET …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:Has Microsoft changed? WinFS post getting questioned internally
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Dirkus Maximus:
XBOX EEPROM Reader in a Mint Tin — A friend of mine gave me an XBOX to fix. It got dropped, with predictable consequences on the hard disk drive inside. Not too hard a request, right? Here's the thing... it's a stock unit, no mod chip, so it will not boot unsigned code.
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Jeremy Toeman / LIVEdigitally:
Super Talent MP3 Player review: nano or no-no? — To call the iPod the "market leader" is an understatement. Ars Technica recently reported the iPod is so popular that beer sales on college campuses are decreasing as a result! Personally, I've never owned one (although I had a free …
Donna Bogatin / Digital Micro-Markets:
Google's new mission: Organize the world's products and make them universally accessible — This could be a watershed week in the Google era. The June 28 rumored launch of a Google online payment system, last known as GBuy (see my Google GBuy specifics: 'Could be a game-changer' ) …
Beth / Beth's Blog:
Nonprofits in Second Life: Avatar Marketing, Fundraising, and TechSoup's Plans — It's Friday, it's summer, it's raining - okay that's my set of excuses for spending a little bit of time in Second Life today. I attended a meeting at the SLTechSoup Office, a discussion forum on Avatar Marketing hosted …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ningbar Launches, Plus Ning Stats — Palo Alto based Ning made a significant change to their application interface on Friday, removing the mandatory sidebar on applications and replacing it with a fully customizable javascript bar across the top of the page. — I met with CEO Gina Bianchini a week ago to see the changes.
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Brian W. McCallister / Brian McCallister:Ningbar Baby! — Last night (well, in the wee hours of this morning …
