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Brian Ward / The Tech Confidential Blog:
Leo Hindery's death sentence for the portals — Leo Hindery's Washington Insider Keynote at the Convergence 2.0 conference barely touched on Washington at all, but was filled with plenty of bold statements. Hindery, managing partner at Intermedia Partners, first took all content and distribution …
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Mike / Techdirt:
Cable Guy Says Portals Are Toast — from the haven't-we-heard-that-before? dept — Leo Hindery is a cable guy. He's always been a cable guy. He was the head of TCI which eventually got bought by AT&T and became AT&T Broadband. Later he was head of GlobalCenter and was there as that telco bubble-era play popped.
Brian Ward / TechEffect:
Jeffrey Citron defends Vonage, announces new V-Phone USB device — Earlier today Leo Hindery basically said anyone who thinks VoIP service can be monetized is out of his mind. Enter Vonage's chairman and chief strategist, Jeffrey A. Citron, who spent about a half hour using cute charts …
Chicago Tribune:
Hands off the Internet — There's a movement in Congress to make telephone and cable companies treat all the traffic on their high-speed networks the same. That is, charge all content providers the same price. This goes by the name "net neutrality." It sounds vaguely appealing in a country that values equality for all.
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Mylene Mangalindan / Wall Street Journal:
Google Gets Ready to Test GBuy, A New Online-Payment Option — For years, consumers who didn't want to give Web merchants their credit-card information faced limited options when it came to making purchases online. This week, consumers could get access to another electronic-payment option …
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Digital Micro-Markets, Micro Persuasion, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and Payments News
Paul Hemp / hbsp.harvard.edu:
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Jellyfish's Liquid E-Commerce Market — It's nothing new. — I get this comment all the time when I'm trying to describe what I think is a (r)evolutionary change. It's human instinct to cleave to what we already know, to hope that we can continue to live comfortably in the world that we've already wrapped our minds around.
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Mark McGuire / Jellyfish:Unveiling Jellyfish.com and VPA Advertising
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VoIP & Gadgets Blog:
Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 — On May 30th, I speculated that Windows Live Meeting 2006 was coming - the next version after Windows Live Meeting 2005. I was close — Microsoft actually "skipped a year" and released Microsoft Office Communicator 2007, a unified communications client …
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Alec / Alec Saunders .LOG &mdash …:
Microsoft's Unified Communications "Strategy" — For the last week, I've been wondering what Microsoft would announce today, at their Microsoft Unified Communications Group Strategy Day (what a mouthful, eh?). You see, ever since Ina Fried wrote her piece titled Microsoft Aims to End 'Phone Tag …
Ed Oswald / BetaNews:
Windows Live Spaces to Debut July 15 — Microsoft said Friday that it was preparing to migrate its Spaces blogging service to its Windows Live brand, and with the change the company will add new features and tighter integration with other Windows Live services.
John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
Suit 2.0 — Back in the nineties, Jason Calacanis was a Silicon Alley cowboy. Now, at AOL, he's in full corporate harness. Is that the only way for an entrepreneur to get to the top? — B — ack in the fall of 1998, on the night after AOL announced that it was undertaking …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Dabble DB Raises Cash — Dabble DB, a Vancouver-based online database / hosted application creation company has raised around $2 million dollars in Series A venture funding from Ventures West, a Canadian VC fund. Paul Kedrosky, a venture partner with the fund, is leading the investment in the eighteen-month-old company.
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Paul Kedrosky's …, Changing Way, SiliconBeat, TechCrunch, Web 2.0 Central, Smalltalk Tidbits … and B.Mann Consulting
Austin Vaughan / dapreview.net:
mobiBLU US2 - The UltraSlim DAP — MobiBlu has a new flash-player in the works, the US2, which stands for "UltraSlim-2" (although there never was a US1, as far as we know). And slim it is: this thing is less then 1cm thick, putting its waist-size very close to that of the iPod nano.
Paul R. La Monica / CNNMoney.com:
DVD or download? — Early adopters may think that movie downloads are cool but it's too soon to declare the death of the DVD. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — How are you going to watch movies at home in the future? — Are you going to download them on your computer and then watch them on your TV or an iPod?
Sam Mcloughln / PalmAddicts:
SPRITE BACKUP FREE OF CHARGE FOR PALM 700W — I found this when I went to look at the Sprite Backup site to check out what their latest version was and thought my fellow PalmAddicts would find it of interest, especially the 700W users. I don't think it's been posted before, if it has, I missed it.
Adam / Emergent Chaos:
I'm Joining Microsoft — I'm very pleased to announce that I've accepted a position with Microsoft. I'll talk in a bit about the work I'll be doing, but before I do, I'd like to talk a bit about the journey that's brought me here, and the change I've seen in Microsoft that makes me feel really good about this decision.
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Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
MagSafe meltdown strikes again! — Back in March, we reported about a poor MacBook Pro user who posted photos on Flickr along with an account of having come home to find his MagSafe connector melted. Thanking his cats for apparently disconnecting the MagSafe accidentally (see, I told you guys! …
