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Gartenberg / GartenBlog:
From Analyst to Evangelist... Let's get it started! — After working as an industry analyst for more than decade, I'm leaving JupiterResearch to join Microsoft as an enthusiast evangelist. What is an enthusiast evangelist? Our job is to find, engage and work with enthusiasts and other influencers …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Hires Michael Gartenberg as New Evangelist — The Vista marketing challenge saw an interesting new development today with the announcement that Microsoft has hired Jupiter Research analyst Michael Gartenberg as Enthusiast Evangelist. Gartenberg says in a blog post on his move that he will …
Jeff Sandquist:
Michael Garternberg Joins Microsoft — Just a quick note this morning to confirm that Michael Gartenberg is joining Microsoft as an Enthusiast Evangelist. … I've been working with folks across Microsoft to develop this new role that will do outreach to users. Expect more news on this soon.
Ryan Singel / 27B Stroke 6:
Fear And Loathing on The Anti-Anti-Predator Campaign — The internet is buzzing this morning that Senator Ted "'Not a Big Truck" Stevens introduced a bill (S. 49) called the ' Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act' that would ban Wikipedia from schools and libraries.
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CNN:
Shigeru Miyamoto Talk Asia Interview — AR: You may not know the name Shigeru Miyamoto, but I guarantee you know his babies — a portly mustachioed plumber called Mario, and a burly ape who goes by Donkey Kong are just two of his world famous creations. — Without his characters …
Mark Malseed / momentmag.com:
The Story of Sergey Brin — How the Moscow-Born entrepreneur cofounded and changed the way the world searches — It takes a bit of searching to find Sergey Brin's office at the Googleplex. — Tucked away in a corner of Building #43 on this sprawling campus near the southern tip of San Francisco Bay …
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Robin Erb / Toledo Blade:
Ex-student faces felony charge in Clay case — Personal, other data downloaded to iPod — A former Clay High School student was charged yesterday with a felony after police said he hacked into school personnel and student files, downloading sensitive information onto his iPod.
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Hands-on with Apple's AirPort Extreme 802.11n Base Station — Our review unit came a little later than we might have liked, but for anyone in the audience still down with an exhaustive hands-on and setup photo gallery with Apple's purdy new AirPort Extreme 802.11n Base Station, we've got you covered.
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Survey: Blackberry owners chained to work — Are devices such as Blackberrys and Treos actually chaining Americans to their work instead of liberating them? There has been plenty of speculation on the topic of whether being "always on" is affecting our everyday lives.
Panzerjohn / Abstractioneer:
AOL and OpenID: Where we are — It's not really a secret that AOL has been experimenting with OpenID. As I've said, I think that user-centric, interoperable identity is hugely important to enable the social experiences we're trying to provide. This is a work in progress …
Gizmodo:
First Look: the Anti-iPhone, OpenMoko's Neo1973 — The OpenMoko Neo1973 linux-powered smartphone first crossed our radar last november. Then the iPhone came out and made us double-take on the device's multi-touch screen, and coincidentally similar interface.
Ed Oswald / BetaNews:
MS: IBM Standards Position Hypocritical — Microsoft is calling IBM out over its opposition to Office Open XML, saying it is attempting to create a movement to prevent ISO standardization of the format. — In an open letter posted to its Web site, Microsoft claims IBM is trying to limit choice …
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Richard Mitchell / Xbox 360 Fanboy:
PS3 kiosk, can you spot the 360? — The image above was snapped by Flickr user, hiredgoon. The photo was taken in a Harvey Norman store, an electronics chain based in Australia. It seems innocuous enough. Just an ordinary PS3 display to promote the machine for pre-order. Nothing special, right?
Benjamin Pimentel / San Francisco Chronicle:
Demand grows, but data centers don't hog power — Net uses barely over 1 percent of U.S. electricity, study says — Data centers are sucking up more electricity as more people and organizations log on to the Internet. But there's been some disagreement over how power-hungry the servers running the nation's network are.
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:U.S. servers slurp more power than Mississippi
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Yahoo team is teh l33t haxx0rs — Boy, that team over at Yahoo is something, aren't they? Everyone keeps saying how Yahoo is falling behind Google, and they just don't have the mojo any more, and how their peanut butter is spread too thin or whatever (don't ask), but someone over there must …
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hrmpf.com:
iPhone / iTablet dock - inductive charging — iPhone Dock - Which way is up? — One of the loudest gasps at the iPhone's announcement was when Steve Jobs tilted the iPhone and the display changed auto-magically from portrait to landscape. landscape orientation is better for some uses- watching video …
BBC:
Hiding messages in plain sight — A technology that can "hide" information in plain sight on printed images has begun to see the first commercial applications. — Japanese firm Fujitsu is pushing a technology that can encode data into a picture that is invisible to the human eye but can be decoded by a mobile phone with a camera.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Inventor sues Slingbox maker for patent infringement — The inventor of a wireless speaker system has filed a lawsuit alleging that Sling Media's Slingbox infringes on his patent. — Stuart Mershon is the owner and creator of a system that transmits audio signals from a home audio source …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Sendori: Auction Redirects from Your Domains — Sendori is a newly launched service that most of us will never see - and they could make sure we don't end up seeing web pages defiled by the putrid stench of domain squatters either. That's the most charitable way to look at this very interesting Sunyvale company.
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The Official Parallels Virtualization Blog:
Upgrade your XP virtual machine to Vista with RC3 — The Parallels Desktop for Mac Update RC3 is here and ready for download! RC3 includes 2 very important enhancements: — 1) You can now seamlessly upgrade a Windows XP virtual machine to Windows Vista.
