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Ryan Olson / Red Herring:
Google Agrees to Buy Adscape — Search king to pay $23 million for in-game advertising startup. — Google has made a foray into in-game advertising for video games with an agreement to acquire Adscape Media for $23 million, sources familiar with the matter said Thursday.
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Direct2Dell:
Turning Up the Volume of Customer Voice — In 1996, we launched www.dell.com to provide technical support resources to our customers. Soon after, we began selling hardware over the Internet. Back in the early days, most of the focus was on e-commerce. Today, having a web presence …
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Justin Haugh / Official Google Reader Blog:
One subscriber, two subscribers, three... When building a product, your top priority should always be the needs of your users. Here on the Google Reader team, we pride ourselves in being responsive to the complaints and feature requests of those who read feeds using our service.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:Google Reader Reporting Subscriber Numbers, Offers New Publishers Guide
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Kim Zetter / Wired News:
$82 Buys E-Voting Secrets — For a mere $82 a computer scientist and electronic voting critic managed to purchase five $5,000 Sequoia electronic voting machines over the internet last month from a government auction site. And now he's taking them apart. — Princeton computer science …
John Markoff / New York Times:
Microsoft Plays Down a Sales Lift From Vista — Wall Street analysts are being too optimistic about sales of Windows Vista, Steven A. Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, told financial analysts in New York on Thursday. — Vista, the latest version of the Windows operating system …
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple to re-enter the sub-notebook market — A tiny sub-notebook on its way from Apple Inc. is expected to re-establish the Mac maker as a leader in the field of compact computing while drawing parallels to the legendary PowerBook 2400 along the way. — It's been nearly ten years since …
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Bruce Meyerson / Associated Press:
Vonage narrows 4Q loss to $65 million, meeting forecasts — NEW YORK (AP) - Vonage Holdings Corp. on Thursday narrowed its fourth-quarter loss to $65 million as revenue nearly doubled, but the Internet phone company's stock fell to a new all-time low amid worries about weak subscriber growth.
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Gamasutra:
Humble Beginnings — Electronic Arts founder Trip Hawkins had a lifelong fascination with games. "I fell in love with complex board games like Strat-O-Matic and Dungeons & Dragons," he told us. "I realized I was making invaluable social connections from playing games and that my brain was more active."
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
OLPC project to ship first 2,500 units for testing — Following the success of initial trials, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project plans to roll out a total of 2,500 units later this month for the next stage of testing. — Recipients of the upcoming test units include Argentina …
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Saul / localglo.be:
Y Europe can seed growth of its new stars — Europe has so far under-delivered in terms of globally successful technology startups. — But we're starting to turn a corner in Europe as we start to leverage some of our emerging assets. We've always had great talent (especially …
New York Times:
Viewers Fast-Forwarding Past Ads? Not Always — People with digital video recorders like TiVo never watch commercials, right? — Add that to the list of urban — and suburban — myths. — It turns out that a lot of people with digital video recorders are not fast-forwarding and time-shifting as much as advertisers feared.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Wikipedia Enters Top Ten Most Visited Sites — Impressive. Scanning the latest top web sites rankings from comScore for January 2007 , Wikipedia sites are highlighted for just entering the top ten most visited. OK, technically — they're in the top ten for having the most unique visitors.
Bill Slawski / Search Engine Land:
Google Customize Search Engines to Harness The Wisdom of Experts? — Back in October, 2006, Google announced on the Official Google Blog that they were enabling people to create their own custom search engines. — If you asked yourself why they were doing this, and how it might provide benefits …
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I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
Appeerances Can Be Deceiving — The new Apple TV media extender is supposed to ship this month, perhaps even by the time you read this column, and if you are like me you are wondering what that 40-gig hard drive is doing inside. I'm guessing we won't know for sure until later this year …
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Roy Mark / internetnews.com:
DirectRevenue to Pay Back 'Spyware' Gains — Adware distributor DirectRevenue today settled Federal Trade Commission (FTC) charges of unfair and deceptive trade practices of installing unwanted and unsolicited spyware unto consumers' computers. — DirectRevenue, which is also entangled …
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Business Week:
Gannett's New Lease On News — "Pro-am" harnesses the power of citizen journalism — One of the never-ending delights of the human condition is the flukiness of inspiration, how creativity sometimes springs from unlikely places. And so it is that the newspaper chain with the most interesting …
