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Stace / Unwired View:
NEXT GEN IPOD AND IPHONE NANO: FULL SCREEN WITH TOUCHPANEL AT THE BOTTOM — With introduction of an iPhone, Apple opened our eyes to the possibilities of full screen touch interfaces. But such interfaces have one drawback - there's a limit how small you can make it.
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Engadget, TechCrunch, Byte of the Apple, CyberNet Technology News, Gadget Lab, CrunchGear, Between the Lines and TechFold
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Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple filing reveals multi-sided iPod with touch screen interface — Apple Inc. is looking to patent a design for a handheld device (or iPod) that displays its output on a small front-side display screen but receives input through a larger touch- and force-sensitive back-side interface, AppleInsider has discovered.
Gizmodo:
Apple: Next Gen iPod Patent Has "Touch Surface" On Back — The newest iPod patent says that the "touch" and the "screen" don't have to go together. The next gen iPod will have a normal display covering the front, and a separate touch surface on the back. Here's how it'll work.
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Apple Gazette
Business Wire:
Joost Closes $45 Million in Financing — Leading Venture Capital Firms and Content Owners Support Joost's Global Expansion — Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Li Ka Shing Foundation, CBS Corporation and Viacom Participate in Round — NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Joost&trade …
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Adario Strange / Epicenter:
Joost Raises $45 Million, But Still Not Quite Right — My intention was to simply tell you about the $45 million Joost just raised from Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Li Ka-shing, and CBS. Along with this promising news I wanted to tell you that the service was fixed …
EE Times:
Xuuk's eye-counting technology mimics Google — PORTLAND, Ore. — Xuuk Inc. has unveiled an eye-counting video camera that could enable the highly successful Google business model to be extended online to brick-and-mortar advertisers. — Using its PageRank technology, Google (Mountain View …
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Paul Conley / paulconley:
All's well that ends well — I like a happy ending. — Harry McCracken has been reinstated as editor of PC World. And that should please everyone at PC World, parent company IDG and the journalism world in general. — If you haven't been following the story, you can read coverage from CNET.
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Kim Zetter / Epicenter:PC World Editor Assured of Autonomy
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Chad Dickerson, Scobleizer, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Apple 2.0, PC World, bub.blicio.us and Ryan Block
Chris Messina / FactoryCity:
Thoughts on Mozilla — Spurred by a conversation I had today, I thought I'd post some wide-ranging and very rough thoughts on Mozilla. They're pretty raw and uncensored, and I go for about 50 minutes, but it might be somewhat thought-provoking. At the least, I'd love to hear your thoughts — in agreement or vehement disagreement.
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Nokia:
Nokia becomes the first phone maker to add energy saving alerts to mobiles — Espoo, Finland - Nokia has launched the first mobile phones to include alerts encouraging people to unplug the charger once the battery is full, a move that could save enough electricity to power 85,000 homes a year.
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Gadget Lab, The Mobile Gadgeteer, CrunchGear, textually.org, Phone Scoop and All About Symbian
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Zune to get wireless downloads, version 2 hardware, flash player — Sometimes you can never know for sure, but we've got some pretty convincing material from a Zune source which shows a beta build of firmware v1.4 (shown as 2.1.4, perhaps as an internal designation).
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Mobility Site, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, jkOnTheRun, Podcasting News, Gadgetell, iLounge and digg
Mike Neil / TechNet Blogs:
Viridian features update; beta planned for Longhorn RTM — Here we are on the eve of WinHEC 2007. This show is always a fun industry event for me to engage with a broad spectrum of partners. Perhaps none better than last year, when we demo'd Windows Server virtualization (codename Viridian) …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Kevin 'Digg' Rose goes for 3rd startup — First Digg, then the online video network, Revision 3 and now another start-up! — Business Week poster boy Kevin Rose is rumored to have teamed up with Daniel Burka also of Digg, and first time entrepreneur Leah Culver and has started a new company.
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Publishing 2.0, VentureBeat, Epicenter, rexduffdixon.com, parislemon, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, TechFold and digg
Intel:
Intel Capital Kicks Off Annual CEO Summit; Announces Six New Global Investments — Deals Covering U.S., China and Israel Total $31 Million — Intel Capital, the venture capital arm of Intel Corporation, kicked off its eighth annual CEO Summit today with the announcement of six investments totaling $31 million.
Smashing Magazine:
70 Expert Ideas For Better CSS Coding — CSS isn't always easy to deal with. Depending on your skills and your experience, CSS coding can sometimes become a nightmare, particularly if you aren't sure which selectors are actually being applied to document elements.
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Yahoo hires economics, sociology researchers — Yahoo is hiring two scientists in the areas of economics and sociology to head up its research in online markets and social networks, the company is expected to announce Thursday. — R. Preston McAfee, the J. Stanley Johnson professor of business …
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories:
Solid freeform fabrication: DIY, on the cheap, and made of pure sugar — In February we gave a sneak preview of our project to construct a home-built three dimensional fabricator. Our design goals were (1) a low cost design leveraging recycled components (2) large printable volume emphasized …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Samwers bankrolled Facebook clone, now Twitter clone — The Samwer brothers, the well-known European trio of entrepreneurs, have invested in Frazr, an exact duplicate of Twitter. — They have thus embarked on a reputation of backing blatant rip-offs of successful U.S. companies.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Widget mania run amok? — For past few days there has been an amazing amount of chatter about widgets - which are transforming themselves into advertising widgets, billboards and what not. Earlier today, for instance Mpire introduced shopping widgets that tap into say eBay and Amazon, and let you sell goods via Mpire widgets.
