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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.)
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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 …
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.
John Markoff / New York Times:
Apple Earnings Bolstered by iPod and Notebook Sales — SAN FRANCISCO, July 19 — Confounding Wall Street skeptics, Apple Computer released quarterly financial results Wednesday that showed strong growth in both its iPod music player and its MacBook portable computer businesses.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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 …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Search 2.0 vs Traditional Search — Written by Ebrahim Ezzy and edited by Richard MacManus. Ebrahim is lead developer and co-founder of Qelix Technologies, the company behind a search 2.0 contender called Qube. This 2-part series of posts is adapted from Ebrahim's research material in developing Qube.
The Ask.com Blog:
Introducing RSS Smart Answers — Great news, our Smart Answers program is expanding and we're excited about it. We think you will be too. — Today, we're formally introducing RSS Smart Answers. — What are they? — Now, when you conduct a web search for many of your favorite blogs …
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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
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.
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) …
Peter Pachal / SCI FI Tech:
Helmet cam goes wireless in new Samsung shooter — Samsung released its rugged sports camcorder — an extremely compact model that shoots basic, e-mailable video — over a year ago. Its coolest feature was the remote lens unit, which you could mount separately to anything you wanted …
