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Direct2Dell:
Dell Tablet PC — There's been some chatter about a Latitude Tablet PC coming from Dell. Check out what Jeff Clarke has to say. — View Video — Format: flv — Duration: 0:58
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Dell Latitude Tablet PC spotted on Dell's blog — Let the rumors subside: Dell will indeed have a Tablet PC this year and you can see it showcased in a short video right on the Direct2Dell blog! My first impressions: this looks light and very thin, possibly the thinnest convertible yet!
Charles Onyett / IGN:
Blizzard's Worldwide Invitational Begins — Updates directly from the show floor. … 4:07 - Just uploaded first ever screens of StarCraft 2. Enjoy. — 3:50 - Blizzard has not yet announced a release date for StarCraft 2. — 3:44 - Had to run out of conference room to plug in laptop …
John Timmer / Ars Technica:
The psychology of banner ads — A quick test: how many of you can name the product being advertised in the banner ad at the top of the page? Chances are, the ad's presence didn't even register with most seasoned web browsers. But that's probably okay, at least according to research …
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Nokia:
Nokia 3109 classic offers affordable, straightforward functionality — Nokia today announced the new Nokia 3109 classic, a mobile phone that offers a productive feature set, long battery life and expandable memory for effective, reliable and distraction free communication.
Elinor Mills / ZDNet:
Quantifying Microsoft's biggest purchase ever — Aquantive who? The company Microsoft is acquiring for its highest purchase price ever may not even register on the radar of most consumers. — But it's a well-known entity in the online advertising industry and can give Microsoft some much-needed …
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Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
Under the Hood of The Pirate Bay's New Video Site — YouTube could get some unusual competition soon: The operators of infamous Swedish Torrent site The Pirate Bay have announced that they are going to start their own streaming video platform soon. A short message on Thepiratebay.org …
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Peter Finn / Washington Post:
Cyber Assaults on Estonia Typify a New Battle Tactic — This small Baltic country, one of the most wired societies in Europe, has been subject in recent weeks to massive and coordinated cyber attacks on Web sites of the government, banks, telecommunications companies, Internet service providers …
Chris Pirillo:
Popfly: Microsoft Gets an A++ — Oh. My. God. — I can't believe Microsoft did this. No, seriously - I knew they were doing this for a while, since they're taking advantage of the bLaugh API. This is unreal. I'm so beyond impressed with Popfly, it's not even funny …
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Andrea James / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
P-I has no immediate plans for bendable 'e-paper' — Someday, Seattle P-I readers may be able to carry around their news in a bendable, electronic paper device — but not any time soon. — Hearst Corp., which owns the Seattle P-I, has no plans to use the Seattle daily newspaper to test …
Reuters:
BitTorrent user loses appeal in movie piracy case — A Hong Kong man, believed to be the first person convicted of downloading pirated movies using BitTorrent file-sharing technology, lost his appeal on Friday in the territory's highest court. — Chan Nai-ming, who used the alias "Big Crook" …
Doreen Carvajal / International Herald Tribune:
Governments using filters to censor Internet, survey finds — PARIS: With the aid of sophisticated software, government censorship of the Internet is spreading into a global phenomenon, with tech-savvy governments filtering forbidden themes from politics and human rights to sexuality and religion …
Ryan Stewart:
I'm Joining Adobe — Big news for me today. I'm joining Adobe as a Rich Internet Application Evangelist on the Platform Team. One of the things I get a lot of feedback on is that everyone appreciates me being "neutral" and covering all angles of the rich internet application space.
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Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
Get Your Own Theme at Method Music — If you're a "Family Guy" fan like me, you might remember the episode where Peter finds a genie in a lamp and wishes for his own theme music. Well, a new website backed by the legendary frontman of the rock group "The Who", Pete Townshend …
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Justin Berka / Ars Technica:
Hide your firewalls! Adobe's CS3 may try to disable them — There are a lot of users out there who don't like to use the firewall included with OS X for various reasons. It does, however, provide at least a decent amount of protection, especially for those who aren't behind another, perhaps a hardware firewall.
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Madhouse rolls out European marketing campaign for launch of Toyota iPOD kit — Toyota Motor Marketing Europe has appointed Madhouse Associates to develop a European marketing campaign to support the launch of its new iPod Integration Kit in summer 2007. — Although already …
