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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, CrunchGear, TechCrunch, Byte of the Apple, CyberNet Technology News, Gadget Lab, Between the Lines, TechFold and The Apple Blog
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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.
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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Blogspotting, BoomTown, Valleywag, alarm:clock, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Social Media Club, PodTech Network, Macsimum News, Mashable!, Between the Lines, Download Squad, HipMojo.com, 901am, Mark Evans, WebProNews, The Webpreneur, Podcasting News, Thoughts on VoIP, technology, alarm:clock euro, JD on EP, Techscape, SearchViews, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and O'Grady's PowerPage
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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 …
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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Harry McCracken / PC World: Techlog:
My Weird Week — I never thought I'd see the day when the lead story on PCWorld.com was about me, but it is at the moment. As we're reporting, I'm happily back in the role of editor in chief, a job I resigned from last week for reasons that have been widely commented on in the blogosphere.
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Jill Whalen / Search Engine Land:
Don't Sweat the Small SEO Stuff — Among clients, forum members, newsletter subscribers, and seminar attendees, many hours of my day are spent answering questions about organic SEO. One thing I've noticed is that newbies and oldies alike are paralyzed when it comes to optimizing their websites …
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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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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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The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Mobility Site, 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, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, parislemon, 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 …
Glen Dickson / Broadcasting & Cable:
NCTA: HBO's Zitter Says DRM Is Misnomer — Digital rights management (DRM) is the wrong term for technology that secures programmers' content as it moves to new digital platforms says HBO Chief Technology Officer Bob Zitter, since it emphasized restrictions instead of opportunities.
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 …
