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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Rumor: Google about to sign ad deal with Dish Networks — Google is about to sign a deal with Dish Network, the nation's second largest satellite TV company, to deliver ads for Dish's network, VentureBeat is hearing. — We haven't been able to confirm the rumor (Google has not yet responded to a request for comment).
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USA Today:
Eisner to take on the Internet — NEW YORK — Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner built his career trying to identify and shape hit movies and TV shows. Now he's at it again, this time on the Internet. — His investment firm, The Tornante Co., will announce Monday the formation of a studio …
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Staci D. Kramer / PaidContent:
New Eisner Internet Video Venture: Web Studio Vuguru — Proof that the well of cute and oddly irritating names for new internet video companies has yet to run dry ... the latest is Vuguru from former Disney CEO Michael Eisner, already an involved investor in video-sharing site Veoh.
gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine:
The first universal mobile phone charger — March 12, 2007 The world's first universal mobile phone charger is being introduced at CEBIT this week. Designed by Professor Luigi Colani, a nearly 80-year-old legend in the field of industrial design, the Anyfix can recharge more than 80% …
Drumsnwhistles / odd time signatures:
Twitter THIS! — After a week in a very mellow groove where I only read friends' feeds, I'm catching up. It really doesn't take much to catch up on the geek feeds because the only topic I see over and over and over again is Twitter. Marshall Kirkpatrick has a "Twitter Top Ten" …
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Robert Levine / New York Times:
Who Owns the Live Music of Days Gone By? — When it began in 1973, the "King Biscuit Flower Hour" was very much of its time. Bob Meyrowitz, who ran the show during its heyday, had the idea to start a weekly rock concert radio program as an alternative to chaotic festival shows after a fan …
Heather Chaplin / New York Times:
Is That Just Some Game? No, It's a Cultural Artifact — When Henry Lowood, curator of the History of Science and Technology Collections at Stanford University, started preserving video games and video-game artifacts in 1998 he thought it was closer to professional oblivion than a bold new move into the future.
Sebastiaan / Cocoia Blog:
Howto: A more secure OS X before Leopard. — In this howto, I will show you some things I have done to secure OS X beyond it's default settings. There are very basic, and some advanced things in here. I am in NO WAY LIABLE for ANY DAMAGE you might do to your Mac by messing around …
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
Log in Your Measurements, and the Clothes May Fit — CUSTOMERS bought $9.6 billion worth of apparel online in the United States last year, according to Forrester Research, the Internet consulting firm. But not one of those customers tried anything on first.
Jonathan Schwartz / Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog:
Moving A Petabyte of Data — I made a speech last week at which I asserted it was faster to send a petabyte of data from San Francisco to Hong Kong by sailboat, than by the internet. — I got quite a few "how can that possibly be true" kinds of questions, so here's the math.
Jonathan Thaw / Bloomberg:
Wikia plans editable Web search engine — Wikia Inc., the San Mateo company co-founded by Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales, plans to challenge Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. with a search engine that lets users edit and fine-tune its results. — The goal for the project is to get 5 percent of the search market …
Reuters:
European consumer chief takes aim at iTunes — EU official complains that Apple locks users into using iPod player. — BERLIN (Reuters) — European Union consumer chief Meglena Kuneva has hit out at Apple Inc.'s bundling of its popular iPod music players and its iTunes online music store, according to German weekly magazine Focus.
James Rainey / Los Angeles Times:
Media's focus narrowing, report warns — Splintering audiences in the online age are driving risky trends like 'hyper-local ism,' the Project for Excellence in Journalism says. — News organizations confronted with declining revenue and increased competition are entering an era …
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Rex Dixon / VentureBeat:
Useful local search sites, Boorah and SuggestLocal — Boorah and SuggestLocal are two new useful local search sites worth a look. — Boorah provides a clean, elegant search for restaurants by city, ranking them by the quality of reviews and other mentions they get from around the web.
Jason Pontin / New York Times:
A New Battery Takes Off in a Race to Electric Cars — VROOOOM! Or, rather, much more softly: brmmm. — A123Systems, a start-up in Watertown, Mass., says it has created a powerful, safe, long-lived battery. If the cell fulfills the ambitions of its maker, that softer sound will be the future of automobiles.
