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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.
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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Steve Lohr / Bits:
Google Health Begins Its Preseason at Cleveland Clinic — For 18 months, Google has been working to come up with a product offering and a strategy in the promising field of consumer health information. Until now, the search giant hasn't had anything to show for its labors other than bumps along the way …
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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Inside AdSense, CenterNetworks, Beet.TV, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and Search Insider
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google Plans Push to Sell Ads to Appear Inside Videos — SAN FRANCISCO — Hoping to earn more from its vast advertising network, Google said it planned to begin selling ads to appear inside videos on sites across the Web. — While the money spent on Web video ads is a small fraction …
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 …
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Stephanie Rosenbloom / New York Times:
Sorry, Boys, This Is Our Domain — THE prototypical computer whiz of popular imagination — pasty, geeky, male — has failed to live up to his reputation. — Research shows that among the youngest Internet users, the primary creators of Web content (blogs, graphics, photographs, Web sites) …
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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Seth Schoen / Electronic Frontier Foundation:Adobe Pushes DRM for Flash
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Guardian Unlimited
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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Gizmodo
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Kit Eaton / Gizmodo:Sony's New M-Series Bravias Get Multicoloured, Bravia Bunny-Style
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Engadget
Thomas K. Arnold / Hollywood Reporter:
Paramount seals Blu-ray sweep — Winner of next-gen format war now has all 6 majors — High-def format war ends; studios going Blu — All six major Hollywood studios are now in the Blu-ray Disc camp, a day after Toshiba has pulled the plug on HD DVD and Blu-ray became effectively the only next-gen game in town.
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 …
Bill Ray / The Register:
Why is Microsoft dancing with Danger? — Analysis The world may have missed it in the fuss over the Yahoo! bid, but last week Microsoft announced it had agreed to acquire Danger Inc, for a reported $500m. The purchase is indicative of Microsoft's aspirations as a provider of back-end services …
Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Facebook sees first dip in UK users — Facebook has suffered its first fall in UK users, with a 5% drop between December and January, according to new figures. — However, Facebook still had 8.5 million unique users in January and remains the most popular social networking website in the UK …
Yakov / Quintura blog:
Is Google Acquiring Ukrainian Web Portal Bigmir)net for $100 Million? — There is rumor in Ukrainian online media today that Google is acquiring Bigmir)net, the largest Ukrainian portal with over 2.5 million unique monthly users. I recall that Anil Hansjee, Google's Head of Corporate Development …
Gizmodo:
Leaked RIAA Training Video: Find Pirates, Find Crack-Dealing Terrorist Murderers Too! — This is a leaked official RIAA training video produced with the National District Attorneys Association telling U.S. prosecutors why they should bust music pirates: Because it'll lead them to …
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Techdirt
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.
