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Neal Weinberg / computerworld.co.nz:
Billions will be overspent on networks: Gartner — Savvy forecasting, careful buying and getting more value from vendors are the keys to reining in budgets, analysts say — ICT spending decision-makers will waste an estimated US$100 billion (NZ$150 billion) during the next five years …
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Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch:
Gartner Analysts: Good News For 2.0 Companies — A story out of Australia regarding some statements by two Gartner analysts and Cisco's John Chambers seems to point in the right direction for some 2.0 type companies, including some my agency represents. — In reading the Computerworld article …
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IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband
Katie Hafner / New York Times:
We're Google. So Sue Us. — Google attracts millions of Web users every day. And, increasingly, it's attracting the attention of plenty of lawyers, too. — As Google has grown into the world's most popular search engine and, arguably, the most powerful Internet company …
Andrew Murray-Watson / Telegraph:
AOL chief says Time Warner demerger 'becomes interesting' — Time Warner, the giant US media group, is considering the sale or demerger of AOL, the internet business it merged with in 2000, at the height of the last stockmarket boom. — In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Crayon Claims To Be First SecondLife Company — Virtual reality service SecondLife must be loving all of the positive press it's receiving lately. After raising another $11 million in funding earlier this year (bringing their total to $19 million), they celebrated their third birthday …
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Neville Hobson / NevilleHobson.com:
It's time to unveil crayon — The teasing is done and it's time to get specific about the new company I'm now part of alongside founder Joseph Jaffe, veteran communicator Shel Holtz and podcasting pioneer CC Chapman. — The new company is called crayon and will be fully open for business …
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Why are more startups in Silicon Valley? — The New York Times today says "Its Not The People You Know. Its Where You Are" I have done startups in Silicon Valley (Forte, Alta Vista, Napster) and in Boston (Bowstreet, Groove Networks) and I don't see any difference other than size and scale.
BBC:
Goal footage warning for website — An independent website has been told to stop putting footage of FA Premiership goals on the video website YouTube. — NetResult - a firm monitoring the internet on behalf of the Premier League - emailed a warning to the website, 101greatgoals.blogspot.com.
Tom Zeller Jr / New York Times:
The Internet Black Hole That Is North Korea — THE tragically backward, sometimes absurdist hallmarks of North Korea and its leader, Kim Jong-il, are well known. There is Mr. Kim's Elton John eyeglasses and strangely whipped, cotton-candy hairdo. And there is the North Korean "No! Yeeesssss ... No!
Scott Gu / ScottGu's Blog:
Tip/Trick: Cool UI Templating Technique to use with ASP.NET AJAX for non-UpdatePanel scenarios — I've been having some fun playing around with the ASP.NET AJAX Beta release this weekend. — Usually when I integrate AJAX functionality into my code I just end up using the built-in server controls …
Nick / Rough Type:
Web 2.0lier than thou — Jaron Lanier recently called the Web 2.0 movement "digital maoism." Now, as if on cue, the Cultural Revolution has begun. — Lawrence Lessig, in a post titled "The Ethics of Web 2.0," suggests that some Web 2.0 companies are not fit to wear the Web 2.0 label.
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Newsgator is not stealing our content (or "One more time: our full RSS feeds are for individual, non-comercial use ONLY." — I got a flurry of calls on Friday from our readers because Newsgator suddenly—and without permission—put ads against our blogs in their RSS readers.
John Evans / SYNTAGMA:
Syntagma at One — When I started Syntagma Media one year ago, I thought we would probably still be in business after 12 months, but that there was a 49pc chance we might not be. — It's now one day after our first birthday and we're still here — bloodied but not bowed. — When I say bloodied, I mean it.
John Schwartz / New York Times:
Researchers See Privacy Pitfalls in No-Swipe Credit Cards — AMHERST, Mass. — They call it the "Johnny Carson attack," for his comic pose as a psychic divining the contents of an envelope. — Tom Heydt-Benjamin tapped an envelope against a black plastic box connected to his computer.
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UMBC eBiquity
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Google Finance gives us a new chart — In what seems to be an attempt to catch up to Yahoo! Finance, Google has rolled out a new version of their stock chart. The new version has a couple new features — but nothing new if we're looking at existing products.
Frank Gruber / TechCrunch:
Midwest Startups Unite for Second TECH cocktail — The second TECH cocktail rocked Chicago on October 12 at the Gramercy. TECH cocktail - highlighted previously on TechCrunch - is a quarterly event co-hosted by Eric Olson and Frank Gruber that focuses on better connecting the local technology community.
