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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Vudu Casts Its Spell on Hollywood — FOR the last two years, the employees of Vudu Inc. have quietly toiled in a nondescript office in Santa Clara, Calif., in the heart of Silicon Valley. The only hint of the company's plans are black-and-white Rat Pack photos that adorn its walls …
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Peter Rojas / Engadget:
Vudu: Another set-top box offering movies on-demand — Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before: there's yet another startup venture offering a box that you connect to your TV so you can watch movies on-demand. Vudu scored a breathless write-up in the New York Times today …
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Vudu (aka Marquee, aka Vivond) Has Coming Out Party — Vudu Inc. has commenced a PR road show with good results for its forthcoming Net-connected video player. We have covered the Santa Clara-based Vudu when it was known as Marquee and before that it was known as Vvond.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Hey Vudu, CableCos slow, not stupid — Vudu, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based start-up is getting a lot of buzz this morning, thanks to a rather extensive article in the New York Times. Their set-top box is supposed to make downloading and watching movies a pleasurable experience …
TiVo Lovers:
Yet another box - VUDU — Gizmodo reported Saturday on a new consumer electronics box launching this summer, VUDU. And now the Sunday New York Times has a long article on VUDU. — VUDU looks to be primarily a competitor with AppleTV. It is a small box, described as being about the size …
Om Malik / NewTeeVee:Is that the Vudu magic? — Vudu, a two year old Santa Clara …
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Zatz Not Funny!
Tom Kuntz / New York Times:
Oh, for a Chance to Whitewash a Fence — Tom Sawyer, metaphor of the digital age? Or cliché? Whichever, Mark Twain's 19th-century sprite is being name-checked a lot lately as a handy way to describe the Internet vogue du jour: exploiting free labor and content online.
Phil Wolff / Skype Journal:
Skype silences Alpha-blogger — Wow. Talk about a chilling effect. — Skype lawyer Seema Sharma emailed blogger Jan Geirnaert Friday afternoon. She told him his popular skype-watch.com and skype-gadgets.com blogs put him in legal jeopardy. — Jan, an independent IT consultant, took the implied threats seriously.
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Seema Sharma / webtown.com.my:Start of Quote " — Lester Madden has passed to me a copy …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:Lawyers at Skype bring negative PR to Skype
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Watching, Testing, Digesting
Arn / MacRumors:
First Photos from Apple iPhone? — An unusual story has popped up on MobileGuerilla claiming to have found the first photos from an Apple iPhone on the web. — The search method seemed rather primitive... they simply searched for "taken with an Apple iPhone" on Google and found a set of Flickr images …
Jimmie Geddes / Gadgets on the Go:
Official T-Mobile Dash Windows Mobile 6 Upgrade leaked — T-Mobile is expected to offer the Windows Mobile 6 upgrade to current Dash owners next week for download. It has been leaked on the usual sites known for obtaining these upgrades (I'm not going to list the sites).
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
JavaScript and HTML: Forgiveness by Default — I've been troubleshooting a bit of JavaScript lately, so I've enabled script debugging in IE7. Whenever the browser encounters a JavaScript error on a web page, instead of the default, unobtrusive little status bar notification..
Mark Evans:
Communications 101: How to Communicate Better — This post, which is about how and why we use different tools to communicate, has been gnawing at me for a few months. In thinking of a title, I toyed with "Why E-Mail Sucks", "The Return of Voice" and "The Devil is the Digital" but, in the end …
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Skype Journal
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Climbing the social Web ladder — Forrester analysts Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff have published a report, "Social Technographics," ($279) that identifies six levels of participation in the realm of social media or the social Web in the U.S. based on a recent survey.
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The FASTForward Blog
Martin / mpwebwizard:
Hints at upcoming Gmail features — I've been listed as a translator for the XX-Hacker (known as l33t to the rest of the world) language on Google for quite some time. The great thing about being a translator for Google is that you get to see some of the upcoming features of Google services.
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Rod Liddle / Times of London:
Paying by mobile, that'll do nicely — Mobile phones are replacing cash and cards as a method of paying for goods, writes Emma Smith — You know the scenario. Fumbling through your pockets at the supermarket checkout, you realise you've left your wallet at home and all you have by way of payment …
James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
State of the Tablet PC Union according to Rob Bushway — Rob Bushway of GottaBeMobile is bored with the Tablet PC. More accurately, Rob is bored with the lack of innovation in the Tablet PC space and laments the "wow" factor he experienced with the original Tablet PCs when they were introduced a few years ago.
Dpblogs / ADO.NET team blog:
ADO.NET Entity Framework Update — Microsoft is deepening its investment in the ADO.NET Entity Framework as a critical piece of Microsoft's Data Platform vision. Based on the need to align with requirements from key internal partners that are building on the Entity Framework …
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
ABCNews.com Relaunches with Citizen Journalism — ABCNews.com is marking its tenth anniversary with a bold new redesign that features increased use of video. Beyond the new skin there's not a lot that's new with one key exception - ABC is opening up to contributions from citizen journalists.
Richard Bloor / SymbianOne:
The S60 Summit - What Was It All About? — With twenty four members of the press and an undisclosed number of bloggers attending, the S60 Summit should have been well covered in online media. So what was this event all about? — Phil Schwarzmann on the See into S60 Blog informed the world …
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