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San Francisco Chronicle:
Getting in the game at Microsoft — Robbie Bach's job is to make software giant's entertainment division profitable — For all the challenges Microsoft Corp. faces as it moves into the future, the Redmond, Wash., software giant remains a formidable money machine.
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Brier Dudley / Seattle Times:
Leading the charge on iPhone — Brace yourself for another tsunami of hype. — May's craze was "American Idol." June's will be the Apple iPhone, which is going on sale in a few weeks. As with "Idol," the iPhone show has lots of Seattle connections. — The season begins Wednesday …
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Ivan Pope / Vecosys:
Working with Facebook f8: you are not in control of your access — Facebook launched their Developer API last week to a lot of acclaim. Several commentators jumped in with the hyperbole, claiming that this platform, with its 20 million, and growing, users, would be a fine space in which to build a business.
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Marc Canter / Marc's Voice:
Facebook's platform - or "what I did for my summer vacation" — I'm about to take my family to Europe for the summer. We'll start off in Amsterdam at 'the Next Web' conference and eventually end up in Trieste, using it as a base for European activity this summer. I'll even jump over to India for Gaurav's wedding.
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Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
E-Commerce Report: Millions of Addresses and Thousands of Sites, All Leading to One — THINK you have a good handle on the Internet economy? Try this one. — What Internet business has raised $120 million in financing in the last year, owns 725,000 Web sites, and has as its chief executive …
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Google Deal Said to Bring U.S. Scrutiny — The Federal Trade Commission has opened a preliminary antitrust investigation into Google's planned $3.1 billion purchase of the online advertising company DoubleClick, an industry executive briefed on the agency's plans said yesterday.
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PC World:
Computer Glitch Tangles Japanese Flights — Hundreds of All Nippon Airways flights were cancelled or delayed Sunday because of computer error. — Hundreds of domestic flights in Japan were cancelled or delayed on Sunday as a result of a glitch in the computer system of All Nippon Airways Co. Ltd.
Muhammad Saleem / Pronet Advertising:
The Difference Between Marketing, PR, Advertising, and Branding — Ads of the World is an online archive of the best and most interesting advertisements from across the world. Today I came across an advertisement on their site that uses four simple pictures to explain to you the difference …
Allison Randal / O'Reilly Radar:
Beyond the Browser — At OSBC last week I gave a Radar talk on current technology trends. The trend of moving traditional desktop applications to massively networked, Web 2.0 online applications like Google Docs is well-known. The problem is, a web browser is a terribly limited platform …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
In Africa, Money not necessary for mobile banking — Necessity, they say is the mother of invention. It couldn't be more true in case of Africa, where pre-paid airtime is fast becoming the 'virtual' currency for Pan-African trade, overcoming conventional currency exchange and lack of banking infrastructure.
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Attention Ticker Particls Enters Public Beta — Attention management ticker Particls from Faraday Media moves from private testing to a full public beta launch today. — Particls is an alerts platform that conveys attention data. Particls evaluates incoming information and ranks it based on "Personal Relevance".
Alan Reiter / Reiter's Camera Phone Report:
Nokia N95 + PhotoShow: Vietnam Veterans Memorial 2007 tribute — Three times during the week I went to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. to take photos (see above) with the five megapixel Nokia N95 that I received courtesy of Nokia as part of the Nokia Bloggers program.
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
New: Google Image Search Categories — Last week a Google engineer told us "The next big thing for image search would be the ability to search based on visual concepts, such as a picture of a house on a mountain with a river in front of it." And now, Google Images allows you to restrict …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Germany adopts "anti-hacker" law; critics say it breeds insecurity — Germany has just passed a new law that adds more "anti-hacker" provisions to the German criminal code. Although the new rules are meant to apply narrowly to hacking, critics are already complaining that they may prevent necessary security and network research.
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Emre Sokullu / Read/WriteWeb:
2007 Semantic Technology Conference - Showcased Big Internet Potential — The Semantic Conference was held last week in San Jose. I went along to check it out. In the keynotes, Oracle's Robert Shimp noted that the attendance has never been so great and remarked that this as a clear proof …
