Techmeme: Here Mr. Terrorist, Would You Mind If We Clipped This Monitoring Tag To Your Back? (Carlo/Techdirt)

6:50 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

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

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: SCI FI Tech, Gadgetopia, Forever Geek and Slashdot

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.

Discussion: Engadget, Infinite Loop, CrunchGear, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and digg

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

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

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

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

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 …

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