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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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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 …
Paul Hemp / hbsp.harvard.edu:
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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?
Evan Blass / Engadget:
"iPod City" admits labor law violations — In what would seem to be a 180-degree reversal from last week's vehement denials concerning the Daily Mail's "iPod City" exposé, Hon Hai Precision Industry's Foxconn factory has now come forward to admit that it has indeed been in violation of Chinese labor laws.
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Microsoft Unified Communications Plan — The NY Times says "Microsoft Plans to Blend Phones with Computers". Great headline, but Microsoft had all the pieces (email, IM, Live Meeting, VoIP) for a long time. Now the Unified Communications Product Roadmap ties them all together seamlessly.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Automattic now offers enterprise WordPress support — How do you make money by giving away free software? Automattic, the company that's home to several key developers of the free open source blogging software WordPress (used by this blog and many more) has announced today a new service called the Automattic Support Network.
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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! …
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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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.
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.
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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 …
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
U.S. Supreme Court to weigh standards for patent "obviousness" — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up a case involving one of the thornier questions in patent law: What makes an invention "obvious"—and therefore unworthy of a patent? — The case at issue involves patents covering …
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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.
linuxdevices.com:
Linux hackers re-claim the Linksys WRT54G — As predicted, the open source community has come up with a way to convert VxWorks-based LinkSys wireless WRT54G routers to Linux. The process does not require hardware hacking, and installs a recent version of "DD-WRT micro."
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
No Neutral Ground in This Internet Battle — Net neutrality. — Sounds benign, but no two words have stirred more passion this year. The mere mention of the issue is enough to make a wonk explode. — Yet the public advocacy on this important topic has concealed far more than it has illuminated.
David Berlind / Between the Lines:
RSS: The new intranet protocol? — In a story he headlined Web 2.0 sews grassroots collaboration, CNET News.com's Martin LaMonica wrote: … LaMonica's story goes on to say that Microsoft is responding by building wiki functionality into a forthcoming version of its Sharepoint collaboration technology.
Simon Pope / Apple:
Apple Executives to Preview Mac OS X "Leopard" at WWDC 2006 Keynote — CUPERTINO, California—June 26, 2006—Apple® today announced that CEO Steve Jobs will headline a team of Apple executives, including Philip Schiller, senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing; Bertrand Serlet …
Evan Blass / Engadget:
Tower Records debuts digital download service — Although there are already numerous options on the market for filling up your non-iPod DAP with digital content, Tower Records has managed to find what it thinks is an untapped niche of music aficionados who are looking for both better sound quality …
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Sara Kehaulani Goo / Washington Post:
Cellphone Company Makes A Call: Korean Americans — When Helio LLC wanted to market a new $250 ultra-high-tech cellphone this year, it targeted three distinct groups: spoiled teens, tech geeks and Korean Americans. — Korean Americans make up less than 1 percent of the U.S. population …
