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Cisco Joins Video - Conference Foray — NEW YORK ( Reuters) - Network equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO.O) on Sunday unveiled a high-definition, video conferencing system that it says can grow into a billion dollar business in five to seven years. — Named TelePresence …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Video Conferencing... Its' hot again — Video conferencing, after fading into the background for a while, is back in news again. Microsoft, last week let us know about their new video conferencing system called RoundTable that is likely to debut in mid-2007.
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 …
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 …
CNET News.com:
Google to unveil election mashup — Google is expected to unveil on Sunday night a mashup that combines its popular Google Earth mapping program with information about the U.S. congressional races coming up in two weeks. — The Google Earth 2006 election resource tool indicates …
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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!
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.
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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.
Peter D. Csathy / Digital Media Update:
Mobile Video Calling Part III — Uniquely Capturing the Ordinary & Extraordinary — For any of you who have followed the "how big will mobile video calling be?" debate — which was initiated nearly one week ago by Luca Filigheddu — you have seen many familiar and respected voices chiming in.
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.
David Berlind / Between the Lines:
Found: 1 black 30 GB video iPod. Is it yours? — If this isn't a test for how the blogosphere can get things done, I'm not sure what is. As a part of this test, if you happen to read this blog entry and you have a blog, please spread the word and let's see if the viral nature of the blogosphere can help this iPod find its owner.
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Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Putting blogs to work for Wall Street — Collective Intellect has a goal: Make bloggers work for The Man. — The company has created a service that combs through thousands of blogs, news sites, chat rooms and other Web sites every day and then surfaces rumors and news reports that might …
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.
