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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, TechFold, Between the Lines 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.
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) …
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Windows-Now.com, Bink.nu, All about Microsoft, Windows Connected and Microsoft News Tracker
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Longhorn Server to be christened Windows Server 2008
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Bink.nu
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 …
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NewTeeVee, Good Morning Silicon Valley, GigaOM, Vecosys, mathewingram.com/work and Data Center Knowledge
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Business Wire:Joost Closes $45 Million in Financing
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Blogspotting, Valleywag, alarm:clock, BoomTown, WebProNews, PodTech Network, VentureBeat, Macsimum News, Mashable!, Mark Evans, Between the Lines, Download Squad, HipMojo.com, TechCrunch, 901am, Thoughts on VoIP, technology, Podcasting News, alarm:clock euro, JD on EP, Techscape, The Webpreneur, SearchViews, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and O'Grady's PowerPage
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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Lisa Barone / Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog:
Sweat The Small Stuff: Search Engine Optimization Is In The Details — Over at Search Engine Land, Jill Whalen makes the argument that search engine optimization in the 21st century isn't about the small stuff like keyword densities and Meta tags; it's about building up site credibility and trust in your brand.
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Chris Messina / FactoryCity:
Thoughts on Mozilla — You can now directly download the video or the audio. — 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.
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Matt / Photo Matt:
Meaningful Overnight Relationship — One thing I've noticed about talking to certain types of press, particularly mainstream, is that they have a pattern in mind before they write about something, and the better you conform to the pattern the more coverage you get.
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Scripting News
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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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, textually.org, CrunchGear, 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
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.
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.
BBC:
Sounds bring Google Earth to life — As well as homing in on visual feasts around the globe, users of Google Earth may soon be able to listen to the sounds that accompany them. — A Californian company has created software that can layer relevant recorded sounds over locations in Google Earth, New Scientist reports.
Lifehacker:
Gadgets: Add Outlook to your Google homepage … A new gadget provides easy access to Outlook—your inbox, calendar and more—from within iGoogle (formerly Google Personalized Homepage). — The aptly named Microsoft Outlook gadget (which requires Office XP) lets you view and interact with your calendar …
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Jackson West / NewTeeVee:
SonicMountain's Odeo Plans Include Video — Yesterday the news broke that podcasting community Odeo was purchased by little-known SonicMountain, a New York-based startup, for "a little over $1 million" according to TechCrunch. Since then, I had a chance to chat with SonicMountain president Rick Arturo …
