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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
GrandCentral Homeless Stunt Worked So Well It's Time For An Encore — Most companies target early adopters with their new products, hoping those users will tell all of their friends all about it. But not GrandCentral, the company Google acquired for $50 million in July 2007.
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MSNBC:
Google Gives All SF Homeless Free Voicemail — SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - Google has made an announcement that could help hundreds of homeless people in San Francisco get back on their feet. — Every single homeless person in the city will be given a life-long phone number and voicemail …
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InsideGoogle, DVICE, Profy.Com, Salon, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, Brier Dudley's blog, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Ubergizmo and VoIP Blog
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Sites the Next Sharepoint? Maybe Not....Why Google Apps Could Lose the Enterprise Market — Lately, we've been discussing the concept of tech populism and the how enterprises are moving towards a more people-centric focus when it comes to their IT infrastructure.
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Burtonator / Kevin Burton's NEW FeedBlog:Google Sites Jumps the rel=nofollow Shark
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cheezhead, The Boy Genius Report, Guardian Unlimited, Ross Mayfield's Weblog and Mashable!
Vladimir Vukievi:
Finding the OS X Turbo Button — Some of you may have noticed that the Firefox 3 nightly builds have felt a lot snappier since a few weeks ago. There's an interesting story in that, one that I finally have time to write up. We've had a number of bugs on the Mac where people were complaining …
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
“Vista Capable” logo - what went wrong? — Now that a federal judge has unsealed nearly 160 pages of internal Microsoft emails which have been used to support the plaintiffs' lawsuit relating to the “Windows Vista Capable” program we can start to get a clearer picture of how the logo program went wrong.
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Gadgetell, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, Business Technology, Digital Trends and PC World
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Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo:
Stop! Why It Still Isn't Safe to Buy Blu-ray — By now you know waaaaay too much about Toshiba's format-war surrender, the death of HD DVD at the hands of the larger Blu-ray armada. You may even be eying the Blu-ray players mounted proudly in point-of-sale displays at Best Buy or Wal-Mart.
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Guidelines for competing with Twitter — Every time Twitter goes down I think of how can we create something to use when Twitter is down. — There's a difference these days, because there's serious talk among developers about whether or how to compete. Earlier this week at lunch with one of them …
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The Last Podcast
Heidi Moore / WSJ.com:
Sprint Nextel: Officially a ‘Deal From Hell’ — Sprint and Nextel have now written down nearly $30 billion related to their 2005 merger, which is pretty much the entire stock value of Nextel before the deal was announced. No need to tarry: Sprint Nextel is by any definition a ‘Deal From Hell.’
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Rollbase Wants to Make Programmers Obsolete — Platform-as-a-service provider Rollbase launched today, marketing its offerings as web-based software geared toward small- and medium-sized businesses. While the PaaS terminology conjures up images of Rollbase competing with something …
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Mashable!
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
RIAA Keeps Settlement Money, Artists May Sue — Despite collecting an estimated several hundred million dollars in P2P related settlements from the likes of Napster, KaZaA and Bolt, prominent artists' managers are complaining that so far, they haven't received any compensation from the labels.
Sprint:
Sprint Launches Revolutionary $99.99 “Simply Everything(SM)” Plan — Plan Defines Simplicity, Offers Customers Unlimited Voice and Data — In an industry-defining move, Sprint (NYSE:S) today announced it will launch a domestic unlimited pricing plan that gives customers unlimited voice …
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E-Commerce Times, CyberNet, mocoNews.net, Vindu's View from the Valley, geeksugar, Wall Street Journal, InformationWeek Weblog, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Associated Press, IntoMobile, Valleywag, Reuters, CNET News.com, MobHappy, Telecompetitor, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, Digital Trends, DailyTech, Engadget, DSLreports, localmobilesearch.net, GigaOM, Bits, TechBlog, deal architect, PalmAddicts, I4U News, Digital Daily, TidBITS and The Mobile Gadgeteer
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Marisa Guthrie / Broadcasting & Cable:
Jeff Zucker to Print Reporters: Drop Dead — NBC Universal CEO on MSNBC, NBC News, Fox Business Network, the Newspaper Industry and CNBC — The future of NBC News is not on the broadcast network, but at MSNBC and online, said Jeff Zucker, president of CEO of NBC Universal.
Charles Cooper / CNET News.com:
Is Dell biz model yesterday's story? — The headline read, “Dell's business priorities drive revenue up 10 percent in fourth quarter.” The real story was that profits slumped 6.5 percent because of a bevy of charges. — What it means is that Michael Dell still has a lot of work ahead.
Simon Carless / GameSetWatch:
Interview: The Next Big Puzzle Game Wave? iPhone + Accelerometer! — Now, we're definitely aware that people have been hacking the iPhone for a while to create games, even some that use the accelerometer for gameplay by calculating what direction you're tilting your hardware.
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Kotaku
Jonathan Richards / Times of London:
Microsoft admits: we still haven't fixed Hotmail — Some Hotmail customers are still unable to log in, Microsoft admits, despite previously claiming that the problem was fixed — Microsoft has admitted that it still has not fixed the problem which has left tens of millions of Hotmail users unable …
