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Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch:
Gizmo Goes All Calls Free...Mostly — VoIPWatch has learned that tomorrow GizmoProject will introduce their "All Calls Free" program. According to the company the "new program gives active Gizmo Project users unlimited free calling to landlines and mobile phones in 60 countries around the world.
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Gizmo Project makes all VoIP to landline calls free. Forever. — Skype ruffled some feathers in the internet telephony world earlier this year when they announced they'd be offering free SkypeOut calls to the US and Canada for the rest of 2006. We weren't too interested since it came off …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Voice, Now Nearly Free — First it was Skype, then came Jajah, and now it is the turn of Gizmo Project to offer almost free voice calls to the old PSTN numbers. We are seeing the price of plain vanilla voice collapse to almost zero. (Some argue, with Skype to Skype calling, those prices are already zero.)
Internet Stocks on SeekingAlpha:
eBay Inc. Q2 2006 Earnings Conference Call Transcript (EBAY) — Executives — Analysts — Heath Terry - Credit Suisse First Boston — Christa Sober Quarles - Thomas Weisel Partners — Presentation — Operator — Please stand by, we are about to begin.
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Phil Wolff / Skype Journal:eBay: Skype still growing strong. Skype Journal: but not in the U.S.
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Macs see growth spurt — With a wider range of systems available, consumers have been snapping Macs up, giving them a growth boost that outpaced the rest of the market. — Macintosh shipments were up 12 percent compared with last year, Apple Computer said Wednesday during its third-quarter earnings call.
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MacsimumNews, The Apple Blog, robhyndman.com, Neowin.net, TechSpot and Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus
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Jason D. O'Grady / The Apple Core:
Apple Q3 profit up 47 percent — Apple yesterday reported a fiscal third-quarter profit that rose 47.5 percent from the same quarter last year on increased iPod and Macintosh sales. — Apple experienced the second highest quarterly earnings and revenue in Apple's history in the third quarter …
Charles Ar / Guardian:
What is the 1% rule? — It's an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it. — It's a meme that emerges strongly …
Ira Teinowitz / AdAge:
Promotion Firms Caught in Internet-Gambling Crackdown — Accused of Acting as Fulfillment House for Prizes — WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) — Miami-based promotion and fulfillment firms that have done work for major marketers, such as McDonald's, are now caught up in a federal government crackdown on internet gambling.
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Google Blogoscoped:
Google Accessible Search — Google released a new product called Accessible Search, a "web search for the visually challenged." Though result pages are somewhat less cluttered compared to normal Google results, the point here is not so much to create accessible results formatting, but to rank accessible results higher.
Google Video team / Official Google Video Blog:
New Feature: Link within a Video — Has this ever happened to you? — You're watching this documentary on monkeys and then halfway through, this monkey does the funniest thing ever. So of course, you want nothing more than to share this hilarious monkey moment with your friends.
Jon's Radio:
News about Google News — InfoWorld's online folks have long complained about the absence of InfoWorld news stories from Google News. Here is the most striking illustration of the problem: — 1. WWW.google.com/search?q=site:WWW.infowo rld.com — Results 1 - 10 of about 2,040,000
sandisk.com:
SanDisk Introduces SanDisk Extreme IV CompactFlash - World's Fastest Cards For Professional Photographers — New Cards Result In Faster Capture of High-Resolution Images and Quicker Card-to-Computer Transfers — NEW YORK, NY, July 19, 2006 - SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) …
Wilson Rothman / Time:
Nike + iPod Sport Kit — Apple and the sports giant team up to create a new running system — For a field already glutted with gadgets, the Nike + iPod kit is the most elegant of high-tech runner's aids. An instrument the size of a pebble measures your pace from a pocket inside one of Nike's specially designed shoes.
Tanner Morrison / The Apple Blog:
Got Browser? — Whether you use Windows, or Mac OS X you are going to have a hard time determining which browser to use, which is right for you? Choosing a browser is basically like choosing a car, a car that will take you down the Information Super Highway. Between browsers that do nothing, to browsers that do everything.
Steven Pearlstein / Washington Post:
A Sound Marketplace For Recorded Music — Here in Washington, there is nothing more amusing than watching business interests work themselves up into a righteous frenzy over a threat to their monopoly profits from a new technology or some upstart with a different business model.
Dana Gardner / Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect:
PodShow attaches business podcasts to new AIM Pro — but at what cost to the businesses? — There's nothing like hitching a ride on a partner's voluminous installed base to get a new product or service into the market fast. Looks like that's what PodShow has done by hooking up with AOL and its new AIM Pro offering announced today.
Alice LaPlante / InformationWeek:
The Slow, Lingering Death of Win98 — Pretty much anything about Vista makes for a surefire hit with InformationWeek readers. Take the Top 10 Windows Vista Hits And Misses. Or 20 Questions About Windows Vista. People can't seem to get enough of Vista, Vista, Vista.
