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AOL:
Think You Might Be Addicted to Email? You're Not Alone — New AOL Survey Reveals that More Americans are Using Portable Devices to Email Around the Clock from Virtually Anywhere - in the Bathroom, While Driving and Even in Church — 83% of Email Users Checking on Vacation; Many Plan Getaways Around Access
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Download Squad, GigaOM, CyberNet Technology News, Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog, TechBlog, Compiler, The Boy Genius Report and WebProNews
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Nick / Rough Type:
Microsoft's forecast: cloudy — In a talk before Wall Street analysts yesterday, Microsoft's coder-in-chief, Ray Ozzie, described in broad strokes the software giant's plans to build its utility computing business as more and more computing functions and software applications turn …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
VMware lands Cisco as investor — Cisco Systems said Friday it will invest $150 million in VMware, joining Intel as a strategic investor. — After the investment Cisco will own 1.6 percent of VMware's outstanding shares. VMware will also consider appointing a Cisco executive to its board in the future.
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BBC:
BBC online video service launches — The BBC's flagship online TV service is being launched, offering viewers the chance to download their favourite programmes from the last seven days. — For director general Mark Thompson, the launch of iPlayer is as big a milestone as the arrival of colour TV.
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Engadget, Daily Feed, NewTeeVee, Online Video Watch, BetaNews, Guardian, Digital Trends, p2pnet, CrunchGear, 901am and Mashable!
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Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
BBC iPlayer launches, but with limited viewer reach — The much talked about, Windows XP-only, Internet Explorer 6 or later, BBC iPlayer finally launched today. — The iPlayer gives viewers the chance to download the last seven days of BBC television programmes.
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Ars Technica
David Lawsky / Reuters:
EU Says Intel Tried to Squeeze Out Advanced Micro — BRUSSELS (Reuters)—The European Union's top antitrust regulator has charged that Intel tried to use its huge market share to push smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices out of the central processing unit business.
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Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:
The Twitter Lesson: No Business Plans Please — Seeing that Twitter closed a funding round, and spotting the associated incredulity about Evan's company not having a business plan, reminded me of something: Whatever your feelings about Twitter, business plans are overrated, and profits perhaps even more so.
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Marcus Yam / DailyTech:
Sony Hopes to Stop Losing Money on PlayStation 3 This Fiscal Year — Sony hoping to break even on PS3 production by March 2008 — The PlayStation 3 is an expensive console - not only for consumers, but also for Sony as well. Despite the console's big sticker price …
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BBC:
Google 'the most improved brand' — Google is the brand that has gained the most in value over the past year, according a survey of global brands. — The report from Interbrand found that Google's brand value had risen 44% in the past 12 months to $17.8bn (£8.8bn), which put it in 20th place.
Chris Sherman / Search Engine Land:
Search Wikia Takes Steps To Crawl; Acquires Grub — Wikia, Inc., the for-profit company developing the open source search engine Search Wikia, has acquired Grub, a distributed crawler platform, from LookSmart. — Distributed crawler? Crawlers are software programs used by search engines …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Is this the new iMac keyboard? — See that? That's the rumored, "super slim," brushed aluminum keyboard said to be accompanying Apple's new iMac computer. It certainly appears to share the key design of the MacBook like we heard but seeing "Photoshop" in the exif data doesn't give us a high degree of confidence here.
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Infinite Loop, MacUser, Gizmodo, The Boy Genius Report, Byte of the Apple, Gadgetell, Gadget Lab, CrunchGear, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Apple Gazette and digg
Matthew Karnitschnig / Wall Street Journal:
Key Bancroft Family Trust to Vote Against News Corp. Bid for Dow Jones — The Denver branch of the Bancroft family, Dow Jones & Co.'s controlling shareholder, is to vote against accepting News Corp.'s $60-a-share offer, putting pressure on News Corp. to raise its offer, according to a person familiar with the situation.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
What's Really Going On With Podtech? — There have been a number of reports that silicon valley based Podtech is literally falling apart. I spoke to Podtech CEO John Furrier and asked him how many of the rumors are true. While he certainly fed me a certain amount of spin, the company has at least a few signs of life.
Steve Mollman / Wired News:
Wii + Second Life = New Training Simulator — Nintendo games have made the Wii controller a satisfyingly realistic controller for pretend tennis, golf and baseball. But how about using it to practice doing surgery, applying pesticides or operating a nuclear power plant?
Todd Spangler / Multichannel News:
TiVo's Catch-22 — TiVo's survival depends on cable. Cable has limited incentives to see it succeed. Does TiVo have a way out? — This week, the company that has amassed such powerful brand equity that it has become a verb ("Did you TiVo The Sopranos finale?") announced that it is working hard …
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GigaOM
Steven Zeitchik / Variety:
HBO comedy site shut down — This Just In offered celebrity riffs, comic videos — This Just In, the comedy site HBO envisioned as both a brand extension and a potential development pipeline, is being shut down just six months after launching. — Time Warner will unwind the venture …
Tom Steinert-Threlkeld / Multichannel News:
Cuban: The Internet Is Dead — HDNet Chairman, Mavericks Owner Who Made Fortune from Web Speaks at CTAM Summit Closing Session — Washington — The archetype of the Internet-bred billionaire Wednesday declared, "The Internet's dead. It's over." — The speaker was Mark Cuban …
