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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Launching AdSense for Video - Minus the Video — After nearly a year in closed beta, Google is expected to announce tonight that its AdSense for Video program is now open to publishers. When the program's pilot was announced last May, AdSense for Video was intended to serve up video-in-video ads.
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Google Finally Launches AdSense for Video — Remember back in the day when you gasped “$1.6 billion for YouTube!?!” “Where's the AdSense of audio and video?” was what I wanted to know in October 2006, the week after Google bought YouTube. A year and a half later Google is taking the obvious …
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nextgendesigncomp.com:
Momenta, the PC for Life — Momenta, the neck worn PC also captures the best and most exciting moments of your life. Ever thought, “Man I wish I had that on tape!” When everybody is laughing themselves to tears, Momenta has already captured the previous 5 minutes from its rolling buffer …
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Associated Press:
Google ventures into health records biz — SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) — Google Inc. will begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that's likely to raise more concerns about the volume of sensitive information entrusted to the Internet search leader.
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Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Floating a New Idea For Going Wireless, Parachute Included — Balloon Launch Gets Google's Attention; Dairy Farmers Can Help — CHANDLER, Ariz. — Jerry Knoblach wants to bring wireless service to millions of rural Americans. His plan: Beam it down from balloons hovering at the edge of space.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Sony's Bravia F-series is no wallflower — Sony Japan just announced their Bravia F-series of thin LCDs. We're talking 46-inches with just 7.4-cm of non-protruding, wall-mountable goodness when these go live in Japan on March 25th. Available in 1080p resolution ¥400,000 (about $3,700) …
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Kit Eaton / Gizmodo:Sony's New M-Series Bravias Get Multicoloured, Bravia Bunny-Style
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Why Is Adobe Trying To Add DRM To Flash? — The EFF's Deeplinks blog has an excellent discussion about Adobe's plans to add DRM to Flash. Flash has become something of a defacto standard online, and it's partly the lack of included DRM that allowed this to happen, encouraging creative uses, such as mashups.
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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Price May Be Steep, But Thin ThinkPad Has Abundant Features — I am writing these words on a new laptop computer that packs a full-size screen and keyboard into a body that's quite thin and light. And it has a solid-state drive with no moving parts instead of a hard disk.
Frank Caron / Ars Technica:
XNA games coming to the Zune, Xbox Live Arcade — This morning at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft announced the next step in its Xbox Live and XNA initiative: the Zune will be entering the fray as new third pillar of XNA software support, with over 1,000 games for the device by year end.
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Ryan Block / Engadget:Microsoft announces games for Zune via XNA Studio
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Brier Dudley / Brier Dudley's blog:
T-Mobile aiming for home phones with new service — It turns out the Wi-Fi home phone service that T-Mobile USA launched last summer was just the beginning. — Today, the Bellevue-based wireless carrier is dramatically stepping up its effort to take over your home phone service …
Nivi / Venture Hacks:
T-Shirts for VCs — Hilarious new t-shirts for the “top 2/20%” (get it?) of the population from VC Wear: — There are more awesome t-shirts at VC Wear as well as a Powerpoint Pitch and a Buy it (the company) Now button. — There's truth in every t-shirt.
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Apple: Have a keyboard update! Oh, and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH — Are you a MacBook or MacBook Pro owner who recently installed Apple's Keyboard Firmware Upgrade 1.0? Turns out, that update brings more than the first keypress after the machine has been sitting idle.
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Judge dismisses malicious prosecution lawsuit against RIAA — Exonerated RIAA defendant Tanya Andersen ran into a bit of a roadblock yesterday in an attempt to pursue her malicious prosecution lawsuit against the RIAA and MediaSentry. After a hearing, a federal judge dismissed Andersen's complaint …
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Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Bill Gates pooh-poohed Yahoo deal last year — In a series of interviews this week, Bill Gates has spoken positively about Microsoft's proposed Yahoo deal — telling CNet News.com, for example, that the addition of Yahoo's engineers is why Microsoft believes the potential combination would be “powerful.”
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Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com:
Why Most VC-Backed, Ad-Supported Companies Are Doomed to Fail — Most of the web projects out there are ad-supported, or intend to be ad-supported. — While a lot of companies are bootstrapped, most are financed by angel investors or venture capitalists.
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Tom / New Scientist Technology Blog:
Warning: this technology may prove addictive — Should Blackberries and other potentially addictive devices come with a health warning? It's an idea floated by UK researchers studying technology addiction. — Nada Kakabadse and Susan Bailey of Northampton University are interested …
