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John Markoff / New York Times:
For $150, Third-World Laptop Stirs a Big Debate — CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — When computer industry executives heard about a plan to build a $100 laptop for the developing world's children, they generally ridiculed the idea. How could you build such a computer, they asked, when screens alone cost about $100?
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IP Democracy, TeleRead, Urlocker On Disruption, Joe Duck, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, Smart Mobs and John Furrier
Natali Del Conte / TechCrunch:
The Real Office Live: Zoho Bridges Online And Offline Office Apps — Zoho, the online Office suite company, will launch a Microsoft Office plugin today that will allow users to save documents directly to their Zoho account from Microsoft Office and Excel. — The company is also announcing open APIs …
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Raju Vegesna / Zoho Blogs:
Zoho Announcements - How about three of them? — Today, we announce three different additions to Zoho. — 1. Zoho Plugin for Microsoft Office — 2. Zoho APIs — 3. Desktopize for Zoho (Download) — We are very excited about the plugin for Microsoft Office as this extends …
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Huffington Post Will Add Original Reporting to Its Blog — The Huffington Post, which started about 18 months ago as a political Web site for celebrity bloggers, is preparing to venture into original reporting, with plans to cover Congress and, already, the 2008 presidential campaign.
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Mathew Ingram, IP Democracy, PaidContent, Business Filter, The Blog Herald, Bloggers Blog, The Blogging Times, BuzzMachine and Frank Barnako
Ryan Block / Engadget:
HP IQ770 "Crossfire" 19-inch touchscreen Media PC revealed! — Looks like AMD has a sweet new rig they're readying for January launch, and word on the street is Bill Gates wants to launch it personally. It's the IQ770 "Crossfire," the first mass market touchscreen desktop PC we've seen …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Edgeio buys its way to online real estate search — Silicon Valley classifieds start-up, Edgeio, has acquired a company that will allow Edgeio's users to search significant amounts of real estate data. — If you think that is trivial, think again. Online real estate listings face a regulatory mess …
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internetnews.com, Techdirt, MediaShift, John Furrier, Chip Griffin and John Cook's Venture Blog
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Goodbye Search Engine Watch & Best Wishes! — Today is my last day with Search Engine Watch, with me heading to my new digs at Search Engine Land tomorrow. I wanted to wish Search Engine Watch all the best going forward, plus help readers understand some of the changes that are happening.
Anna Jane Grossman / New York Times:
Here's My Number (for Today) — THERE is no shortage of ways to reach Airin McClain, a singer who lives in Philadelphia. She has a Web site, an instant messenger account, a MySpace page, four e-mail addresses and two mobile phones. — Good luck getting one of those phone numbers, though.
Masaki Kondo / Bloomberg:
Namco Bandai's Takasu Says PS3 Game Titles Must Sell 500,000 — Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) — Namco Bandai Holdings Inc., Japan's second-biggest maker of video-game software, must sell at least half a million copies of a game for Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 console to make money on the title, said President Takeo Takasu.
Guardian:
Real life crashes into Second Life's digital idyll — Aleks Krotoski — It was three weeks ago that my virtual world disintegrated. I had been struggling with a digital littering problem in my Social Simulation Research Lab and I wanted to automate the cleanup process.
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Why Yahoo is Backing Away from RSS — Has anyone noticed that Yahoo's love affair with RSS seems to be withering? In 2004 and 2005 Yahoo was all over feeds. It was an early leader in driving adoption, as a matter of fact. But in recent months I question whether they remain committed to RSS as a platform.
Joshua Jaffe / VC Ratings:
Lucky YouTube investor to buy Andre Agassi's estate for $20 million — That was fast. The trickle down effect from YouTube's sale to Google is already being felt. — Stuart Peterson, president of San Francisco hedge fund Artis Capital Management, has purchased one of the San Francisco Bay Area's …
Business Wire:
New Jersey Mom Wins Trip to Puerto Rico for Placing 100 Millionth Call to 1-800-FREE411 — New Free Directory Assistance Service Growing Rapidly and Saving Consumers Millions Every Month — MENLO PARK, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—By placing the 100 millionth call to the free directory …
Microsoft:
Steve Ballmer Kicks Off Most Significant Product Launch in Microsoft's History — Windows Vista and the 2007 release of Office lead the more than 30 new products that will spur the next leap forward in business computing. — At a press conference at NASDAQ MarketSite in Times Square …
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
The Rojas-Winer-Calacanis podcast device — Michael Gartenberg made a list for the Rojas-Winer-Calacanis podcast device. Peter responded positively to my query, so we're going to meet on the 21st, here in Berkeley, to talk about the device. I agree with many of the things Michael says, but there are some I strenuously object to.
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
Google Invests in Meraki — We've written a few times about the startup Meraki Networks, which is building a business off of wireless mesh hardware and software based on the MIT's Roofnet project. Google has been very interested in the Mountain View-based startup as a way to extend its WiFi network coverage indoors.
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Quick Embed Code to Add Comments To Any Site — It may not be a multi-million dollar venture-backed startup, but Lev Walkin has an elegant solution to a common feature of the social web, commenting. JS-Kit is an entirely free little javascript embed that allows you to add threaded comments to any web page in one line:
