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Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Nokia unveils Bluetooth rival — HELSINKI (Reuters) - Cell phone market leader Nokia unveiled a new short-range wireless connection on Tuesday that is smaller and more energy-efficient than current Bluetooth technology and can be used in devices such as watches.
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Nokia:
A unique radio technology extending local connectivity to small devices — Helsinki, Finland - Nokia today introduced Wibree technology as an open industry initiative extending local connectivity to small devices. This new radio technology developed by Nokia Research Center complements …
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Carlo / Techdirt Corporate Intelligence:No, This New Wireless Spec Doesn't Threaten Bluetooth, Either
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David Berlind / Between the Lines:At the hands of Nokia's Wibree, could Bluetooth be on the ropes?
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Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Who Killed TiVoToGo? — Digital Cable and Satellite DRM Harms TV Fans and Innovators — It's the latest digital media murder mystery: TiVo Series2's TiVoToGo1 enabled limited portability of recorded content to PCs and other devices, but the TiVo Series3 HD did not include this feature …
Google:
Now You Can Have Google Gadgets on Your Webpage — Google Gadgets for your webpage can help make a site dynamic and rich with content. Google Gadgets, which have long been available for users to add to the Google homepage and Google Desktop, are now available for webpage owners to add to their own webpages.
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Jeremy Caplan / Time:
Google's Chief Looks Ahead — In an interview with TIME, CEO Eric Schmidt explains what's behind the company's new push for partnerships — Google wants new friends. After signing a series of new partners, CEO Eric Schmidt says the Web giant's spate of recent deals is just a start.
Paul Thurrott / windowsitpro.com:
Exclusive: Here Comes Windows Vista RC2 — Microsoft this Friday will ship the final pre-release version of Windows Vista and, unexpectedly, will name the release as Release Candidate 2 (RC2). Previously, Microsoft had publicly asserted that it would not ship an RC2 milestone release of Windows Vista.
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Charlene Li / Charlene Li's Blog:
Calculating the ROI of blogging — One issue that keeps coming up over and over again is how to measure the ROI of blogs. I've written about this in the past and have been stewing over how to go beyond the intangible "blogging is good for your business" exhortations to quantify blogging's benefit to organizations.
Ionut Alex. Chitu / Google Operating System:
Hidden Labels in Gmail — If you enable saving your chat history in Gmail, your conversations from Google Talk are saved as standard emails. To make them stand out from the rest of messages, Gmail adds two labels: chat and chats. — If you want to search your chats, you just have to add label:chat to your query.
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Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
More info on PageRank — Every few months we update the PageRank data that we show in the toolbar, and every few months I see a few repeated questions, so let me take a pass at some of them. Note: I wrote this kinda quickly, so I think this is pretty good, but if I spot something incorrect later, I'll change it.
Damon Darlin / New York Times:
Report Shows H.P. Sought Expert to Help Find Leak — Hewlett-Packard sought the advice of a well-known intelligence specialist, Brian Jenkins of the RAND Corporation, on how to find the source of a boardroom leak, according to a report compiled by H.P.'s law firm and provided to a House subcommittee.
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
The Truth About a Claimed Firefox Exploit — A colorful duo of young hackers at the Toorcon security conference presented evidence Saturday that suggested a previously undocumented flaw in Mozilla's Firefox Web browser is actively being exploited to compromise machines of users cruising the Web with the browser.
Chris Morris / CNNMoney.com:
Changing the way video games are made — Longer titles may become less common as developers adopt a 'Saturday matinee' model. — Game Over is a regular column by Chris Morris — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The days of the Saturday matinee may have long faded from the local cinema …
Leander Kahney / Wired News:
Zune Won't Kill the IPod — Microsoft's soon-to-be-released Zune MP3 player is a sure-fire iPod killer — if you believe what you been reading in the press recently. — There's nothing the press likes more than a good fight, and the Zune looks like a worthy contender for the iPod's heavyweight crown.
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Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
GOOGLE RUNNING SEARCHMASH — Google is running an alternate search engine called SearchMash, which includes some useful and "out there" features that might not be right for Google.com, but could make a really interesting search engine. Of course, if any of the features turn out to be huge hits, who knows?
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B2Day, Ajaxian, Search Engine Watch Blog, V7N Search Marketing News and Google Operating System
Jonathan Schwartz / Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog:
One Small Step for the Blogosphere... I've been an officer of a public company for a while, and I've had access to confidential information for a good while longer. And I'm used to holding my tongue on issues that'd be deemed material to Sun's financial performance.
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ShoutBlog, Valleywag, Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect, IR Daily, John Furrier, Scobleizer and CNNMoney.com
R. Craig Endicott / AdAge:
100 Leading Media Companies Report; Revenue Hits $268 Billion — Also: Download the 2006 Media Family Trees Poster — CHICAGO (AdAge.com) — Internet and cable were the growth locomotives behind the 6.6% increase in 2005 U.S. media revenue, reaching $268.48 billion for the 100 Leading Media Companies.
