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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Ooma wants voice to be free — Voice over the Internet, so far, has been a game of cheap minutes, shoddy quality, and unreliable connections. It's also been a money-losing proposition. The promise of voice being free has remained just that - a promise. Palo Alto-based startup Ooma promises …
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Walt Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Ooma Puts Out a Call to Ditch Landlines for Web-Based Service — It has been possible for several years now for Americans to dump their landline phone companies and pay much less with services that route calls over the Internet instead of over the regular phone network.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ooma Launches Free Consumer Phone Service — An ambitious and long awaited new consumer VOIP startup - Ooma - launches on Thursday morning. Much like Vonage and the ill-fated SunRocket, Ooma allows consumers to use their normal phones to make and receive telephone calls, but at drastically reduced prices.
CNNMoney.com:
Senate looking at Google-DoubleClick — Executives from search engine firm, its target DoubleClick, and competitors expected to appear at antitrust hearing. — WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Lawmakers in Congress plan to hold hearings to air concerns about Google Inc.'s proposed acquisition of Web advertising supplier DoubleClick Inc.
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Congress to Examine Google-DoubleClick Deal — Google executives are expected to be called to testify before House and Senate subcommittees about the company's planned $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick, a deal that is already facing close scrutiny from federal antitrust regulators.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:House, Senate to scrutinize Google/DoubleClick merger
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PC World
Sprint:
Sprint Nextel and Clearwire to Partner to Accelerate and Expand the Deployment of the First Nationwide Mobile Broadband Network Using WiMAX Technology — Consumers, Businesses and Public Safety Agencies to Benefit from More Coverage Sooner and Enhanced Network Capabilities
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Reuters, John Cook's Venture Blog, Wall Street Journal, Tech Confidential Blog and jkOnTheRun
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:WiMax goes mainstream: Sprint, Clearwire to build national network
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:Clearwire Shares To Soar On WiMax Roaming Deal With Sprint
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IDC Home:
PC Shipments Accelerate In the United States And Asia/Pacific, Lifting Growth Above 12%, According To IDC — Worldwide PC shipments grew by 12.5% in the second quarter of 2007 (2Q07), according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) returned …
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Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, Engadget, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Infinite Loop, Epicenter and MacDailyNews
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Scott Ferguson / eWEEK.com:
HP Is Tops in Worldwide PC Shipment—Again — For Hewlett-Packard, it's lonely at the top. — Once again, the Palo Alto, Calif., company ranked first in worldwide PC shipments, beating out Dell to control nearly 20 percent of the market, according to reports released July 18 by IDC and Gartner.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Pageflakes Blizzard Release Launches — Customized home page startup Pageflakes launched a slew of new features this morning under what it is calling its "Blizzard" release. — Among all of the new features, the two that are important to highlight are social networking and customizable themes on pages.
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Tony Smith / The Register:
The IBM ThinkPad: 15 years old today — Receive the day's biggest stories by email, sign up here — Forgotten Tech The ThinkPad is 15 today. Sort of. Launched by IBM and now made by Lenovo, the black-clad laptop family quickly established itself as an icon, in many ways re-establishing …
PR Newswire:
SAP Announces Preliminary 2007 Second Quarter and Six Months Results — Company Reports Strong Growth in Revenues from Software and Software Related Services — WALLDORF, Germany, July 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — SAP AG (NYSE: SAP - News) today announced its preliminary financial results …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:SAP Shares Jump On Strong Earnings and Outlook
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PC World
Sinead Carew / Reuters:
Motorola Posts Quarterly Loss, Revenue Falls — NEW YORK (Reuters)—Motorola Inc. on Thursday posted a quarterly loss as revenue fell amid weak phone sales, as it loses market share. — The company, hurt by price competition and a lack of advanced phones, posted a loss from continuing operations …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch Acquires InviteShare — Getting invitations to private betas can be a frustrating experience for early adopters. If you don't know someone who's already in the beta it could end up being a very long wait. Over the last few years invitations for some betas were so hard …
Nokia:
Nokia makes finding yourself faster with new A-GPS service — Technical framework allows service providers to provide their own regional A-GPS services — Espoo, Finland - This Assisted GPS (A-GPS) service helps Nokia Maps users find their current locations faster and get to their desired …
Jacqueline Trescott / Washington Post:
National Design Awards Presented At White House — The National Design Awards were presented at the White House yesterday to 10 top designers and architects, including the company that developed Photoshop, and a man partly responsible for the iPod. — Laura Bush told the audience …
Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
UK iPhone reportedly functioning with Vodafone — Yesterday, TUAW posted about using iASign to activate iPhones on non-iPhone AT&T plans. Today, TUAW reader AJ reports that he's used iASign to activate his iPhone with Vodafone. — He writes that at first he bought an AT&T prepaid card on ebay and used iASign to get it working.
