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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
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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% …
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
Henry Jenkins / Confessions of an Aca/Fan:
How Second Life Impacts Our First Life... After having written so much about Second Life during my recent exchanges with Beth Coleman and Clay Shirky, I swore to myself that I would not write about this virtual world for a bit and let reality catch up with some of my theories. No such luck.
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Apple aiming for TV breakthrough — news analysis Apple may say it wants a revolution, but it might have to settle for something more modest in the digital living room. — Lost in all the hoopla over the iPhone at Macworld was Apple TV, sort of a cross between a Mac Mini, a wireless router …
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 …
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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Eric Rice:
Lack of updates? It's cuz Twitter sorta pwned! bloggers — I have barely even seen Scoble blog, but I've seen 42384728 Twitter messages from him. Most communication about the conference is going on with Twitter (which seems STUPID for things NOT conference/social/spatial/RL- ish).
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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.
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.
