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Dan Primack / PE HUB:
Take Visto Out of Deadpool — Mobile email company Visto Corp. is not on the edge of financial collapse, despite such insinuations this morning from ValleyWag. In fact, multiple sources tell me that the Redwood City, Calif.-based company raised an undisclosed $35 million venture round …
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:Visto, Silicon Valley's most controversial company
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
From semantic Web (3.0) to the WebOS (4.0) — Nova Spivack of Radar Networks maps out his view of the evolution of the Web over the next 25 years. Nova said he isn't sure about exact dates or technologies on the top end of the map, but his view of ten-year blocks to fully evolve each phase is realistic.
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Carlo / Techdirt:
Edgar Bronfman Again Complaining About Things He Could Change, If Only He Wanted To — from the windbag dept — Back in June, we noted how FCC Chairman Kevin Martin tended to trot out the same speech at the various trade shows at which he speaks. Warner Music CEO Edgar Bronfman …
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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Google E-Mail Service Ready for All — SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc.'s free e-mail service will shed the final remnants of its invitation-only restrictions Wednesday, extending the reach of an increasingly popular product that has emerged as a vital cog in the online search leader's expansion efforts.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:Gmail finally really open to everyone
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Karen / Official Google Blog:
Strawberries are red, stems are green... You may have noticed today's Google Doodle on our homepage in celebration of romance and good food (something we consider extremely important). — When you look at the logo, you may worry that we forgot our name overnight, skipped a letter, or have decided that "Googe" has a better ring to it.
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
13 Reasons Why NoFollow Tags Suck — The NoFollow link attribute (rel="nofollow") was originally created to block search engines from following links in blog comments, due to the amount of blog comment spamming. — The theory is that if spammers are spamming in blog comments to get better SEO …
Michael Olivier / Yodel Anecdotal:
It takes two to Tango — When you find something broken on the Web, product folks at small web sites are usually easy to connect with. But visitors to sites with significant traffic usually have a tougher time lobbing input directly to site development teams about the good, the bad, and the screwed up.
JR Minkel / Scientific American:
First "Commercial" Quantum Computer Solves Sudoku Puzzles — Quantum computing company banks on a longshot form of quantum computing — A Canadian manufacturer today unveiled what it called "the world's first commercially viable quantum computer." D-Wave Systems, Inc. …
Thomas C Greene / The Register:
Vista first look: Bugs and confusion — Review The most prominent feature of Windows Vista is its cost. So, before we get into the nuts and bolts of how it behaves, let's talk about value for money. Because at these prices, it had better be good. — The stand-alone version …
PR Newswire:
Krugle to Power Code Search Engine for Yahoo! Developer Network — MENLO PARK, Calif., Feb. 14 /PRNewswire/ — Krugle, Inc., the code search engine for developers, today announced it will supply search functionality for the Yahoo! Developer Network, the centralized resource for the developer community …
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Edo / Pink Tentacle:
Hitachi develops RFID powder — Hitachi's new RFID chips (pictured on right, next to a human hair) are 64 times smaller than their mu-chips (left) — RFID keeps getting smaller. On February 13, Hitachi unveiled a tiny, new "powder" type RFID chip measuring 0.05 x 0.05 mm — the smallest yet …
James R. Hagerty / Wall Street Journal:
How Good Are Zillow's Estimates? — Popular Home-Price Web Site — Often Gets It Right but Can Be — Way Off the Mark, We Find — In the year since its launch, Zillow Inc. has made millions of Americans familiar with computer-generated estimates of home values …
Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
The Next Big Ad Medium: Podcasts — Advertisers will spend more than $400 million on podcasting by 2011, but they're still not sure who will be listening to them — Remember podcasting? While marketers have been busy uploading commercials to YouTube, the once-buzzed-about medium has spent …
Reuters:
UPDATE 1-Ex-Take-Two CEO pleads guilty to options charges — Ryan Brant, the ex-CEO of video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. (TTWO.O: Quote, Profile , Research), on Wednesday entered a guilty plea and will pay $7.3 million to settle two options-related cases, his spokesman said.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
TechPresident: Tracking Candidate Use of MySpace, YouTube, AdSense — TechPresident is a new online project tracking and aggregating information about all the US Presidential candidates' use of online social media. Though consisting of more Democratic Party aligned contributors than anyone else …
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Advisory (933052) — Vulnerability in Microsoft Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution — Microsoft is investigating new public reports of very limited, targeted attacks against Microsoft Word "zero-day" using a vulnerability in Microsoft Office 2000 and Microsoft Office XP.
Alison Leigh Cowan / New York Times:
Teacher Faces Jail Over Pornography on Class Computer — Julie Amero, a substitute teacher at a middle school in Norwich, Conn., said she had simply wanted to e-mail her husband. The authorities contend that she was — purposely or, perhaps, carelessly — exposing 11- and 12-year-old students …
