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Palm Unveils New Slim, Sleek Treo Smartphone — MULTIMEDIA AVAILABLE: — For people who are ready to move up to a full-featured mobile phone that includes everything needed to stay organized, Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) today announced the Palm(R) Treo(TM) 680 smartphone, a GSM/GPRS/EDGE quad-band world phone.
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Evan Blass / Engadget:Live from Palm's Treo announcement at DigitalLife
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Oprah and Bono to unveil Product Red iPod nano tomorrow — Exclusive: Activist and rock singer Bono, with help from Oprah Winfrey and other celebrities, is partnering with Apple Computer on a red-colored iPod to promote his new charity aimed at battling AIDS, AppleInsider has learned.
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Asack / A Sack of Seattle:
What's been hard at Judy's Book — Following up on my post yesterday, below are answers to the question of what's been harder than expected at Judy's Book. — Achieving critical mass in local — Momentum in any one location doesn't transfer to others - you have to fight the same fight over and over.
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Facebook worth more than YouTube? — The Wall Street Journal says "Yahoos talks with Facebook get bogged down" Yahoo is reportedly offering $1B for FaceBook. The talks have been on and off most of this year. — Robert Scoble asks "Is Facebook worth as much as YouTube?"
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Scobleizer, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, Digital Micro-Markets, Zenrob, Incremental Blogger, Joe Duck, Paul Kedrosky's … and Mark Evans
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Jonathan Lumb / 1up.com:
Xbox 360 granted Good Design Award — A truly international design wins over Japan's judges. — Japan's Good Design Awards are handed out each year to well-designed products across a wide range of industries. Past winners in the game industry have included Nintendo's DS lite and Game Boy micro and Sony's PlayStation 2 and PSP.
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple MacBook owners organizing class action lawsuit — Owners of Apple Computer's new 13-inch MacBook notebooks, whose systems are plagued by intermittent shutdown issues, have become fed up with extended repair times and inadequate resolutions to the problem, and are now organizing a class action lawsuit against the Mac maker.
Todd Weiss / Yahoo! News:
Could a 30-in. monitor help you do your job faster? — Providing employees with 30-in. computer monitors can boost worker productivity at companies where 17-in. or 19-in. monitors are typically used, according to a French consultant hired for a study sponsored by Apple.
Microsoft:
Microsoft Partners to Offer New Windows Vista-Ready Products for Holidays — Windows Vista logo program designed to help encourage compatibility and performance in partner software and hardware. — Today at DigitalLife 2006, Microsoft Corp. announced the holiday availability of PCs …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Microsoft and Adobe developer/designer death match — I was just adding stuff to my linkblog, cause we missed our plane to Greensboro (got another one that leaves at 1 p.m., we'll be spending the night in Chicago) and I saw a couple of things that got me to write about the coming Microsoft/Adobe developer/designer death match.
Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
Book Review: Beyond Java — Programmers under the age of thirty probably don't realize why Aged Senile Programmers like me are so slow to adopt exciting new programming languages the day they come out, and why we roll our eyes at hip bandwagon ideas that sell books and consulting engagements …
Joe Mandese / MediaPost Publications:
Analysts Downgrade Ad Outlook — Again — Detect Shift Vis-A-Vis Economic Growth — A WELL REGARDED WALL STREET research team has once again downgraded the outlook for U.S. and worldwide ad spending, and may have uncovered a fundamental shift in the way ad industry growth corresponds to the expansion of the general economy.
Sherjo / MSDN Blogs:
Office Delay? Ya Don't Say. — No, seriously, you don't say (or shouldn't), because it isn't true. Over the last few days, some Mac sites have been reporting that the Universal Binary version of Office for Mac (officially unnamed, but currently code-named Office 12) has been delayed …
Editor and Publisher:
China Unblocks Wikipedia — NEW YORK The online interactive reference site Wikipedia announced Tuesday that the site had apparently been made accessible in China, after being blocked for just over a year by the country's government. — Wikipedia reported on its site that it had received word …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Sony's NW-S700/600 series: the best sounding Walkmans, ever — Sony Japan just spilled the deets on their new Walkman S series of digital audio players. The NW-S700 players deliver pretty much exactly what we've already seen: 4/2/1GB of flash memory, 3-line OLED display capable of dishin' albumn art …
Akessler / Andy Kessler:
Media 2.Uh-Oh Part 1: Pipe — With all this talk of new media, web media, Google as a media company (read the intro to this series) - it's time to go back to basics. According to answers.com, media is defined as: … That's pretty lame. Even Katie Couric is confused.
Kate Kaye / ClickZ:
Mobile Ad Trend Grows — Advertisers from telecom provider Verizon to olive oil brand Bertolli are experimenting with new mobile ad offerings from business listings providers Citysearch and WhitePages.com, and mobile ad software outfit Third Screen Media. Coming on the heels …
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
With YouTube, Grad Student Hits Jackpot Again — For Jawed Karim, the $100,000 or so he would have to spend on a master's degree at Stanford was never daunting. He hit an Internet jackpot in 2002 when PayPal, the online payment company he had joined early on, was bought by eBay.
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Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
LinuxPhone, For Mobile DIY — Benoit Schillings, chief technology officer of Oslo-based mobile software company Trolltech, is frustrated with the mobile phone industry. Unlike software development for the PC industry, which has reached some level of openness and innovation …
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