Techmeme: Hands-on with the Treo 680 — It was a total mob scene … (Peter Rojas/Engadget)

5:55 PM ET, October 12, 2006

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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Still no sign of Vista coupons

Discussion: Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog

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.

Discussion: Good Morning Silicon Valley, IP Democracy, VentureBeat, DealBreaker.com and Valleywag

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.

Discussion: Gadgetopia, Forever Geek and Slashdot

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.

Discussion: Screenwerk, Digital Micro-Markets, VC Ratings, The Local Onliner and Feld Thoughts

BBC:

Libyan pupils 'to have laptops' — The government of Libya is reported to have agreed to provide its 1.2m school children with a cheap durable laptop computer by June 2008. — The laptops offer internet access and are powered by a wind-up crank. They cost $100 and manufacturing begins next year, says One Laptop per Child.

Discussion: Inside eWEEK Labs, Kevin Maney, A View from the Isle and Slashdot

Tom Coates / plasticbag.org:

Geotagging with Zonetag and Bluetooth GPS... Disclaimer (added 3:15pm): Obviously I work at Yahoo and obviously I know the people who work on Flickr and Zonetag personally. Other clients for uploading information from your phone and capturing context do exist and if you're interested …

Discussion: O'Reilly Radar

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.

Discussion: paidContent.org and Screenwerk

David Pogue / New York Times:

Trying Again to Make Books Obsolete — "The market for downloadable books will grow by 400 percent in each of the next two years, to over $25 billion by 2008," predicted the keynote speaker at the 2001 Women's National Book Association meeting. "Within a few years after the end of this decade …

Discussion: paidContent.org, TechBlog and TeleRead

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Watch Blog:

Ask Mobile Search Launches — Ask.com has launched a mobile search product at m.ask.com or mobile.ask.com. First, Ask Mobile is optimized for mobile devices and uses Skweezer throughout to improve readability and download speed on your mobile device. Navigating Ask Mobile was a pleasure on my Treo …

Discussion: Screenwerk, ResourceShelf, jkOnTheRun, Daily SearchCast, Search Engine Journal and GigaOM

Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:

Sony Battery Recall to Cause Shortage Until June, Makers Say — Oct. 12 (Bloomberg) — A global recall of about 8 million Sony Corp. notebook-computer batteries is creating a shortage that's driving up prices and causing delays in shipments, executives from three Taiwanese manufacturers said.

Discussion: Techdirt, The Apple Core and O'Grady's PowerPage

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