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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
How to save money running a startup (17 really good tips) — [ UPDATE: This post caused some big debate over at TechCrunch. I respond here with the blog post titled “can you work at a startup and have a life?” I updated #11 to make my point a little less harsh, more true to my true feelings ]
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Calacanis Fires People Who Have A Life — Mahalo founder and serial entrepreneur Jason Calacanis has some interesting tips up today about how to squeeze every single last thing from your startup employees. — Helpful advice includes (our interpretation):
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Alain Sherter / Tech Confidential:How to save money running a startup, and your workers, into the ground
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Jay Adelson / Digg the Blog:
Rumors and Speculation — Normally our policy is to not comment about things like this, but this morning's rumors about a bidding war involving Google and Microsoft have created such a stir we feel compelled to tell you all directly that they are completely inaccurate.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google, Microsoft Said To Be Preparing Bids For Digg — Update: Digg CEO Jay Adelson is calling this post “completely inaccurate.” Lets see how this plays out...My source, which as I said is very, very good, sticks with the story. Digg may have had an angry Microsoft and Google on its hands …
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:Digg CEO To TechCrunch Editor: Rumors Are “Completely Inaccurate”
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InfoWorld:
Sun: We'll put Java on the iPhone — Sun Microsystems is developing a Java Virtual Machine for Apple's iPhone and plans to release the JVM some time after June, enabling Java applications to run on the popular mobile device. — The JVM is to be based on the Java Micro Edition (ME) …
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Willpark / IntoMobile:
Howard Chui: Howard Forums is set to take on MobiTV lawsuit over breached security — Here we go with another lawsuit again. But, this time around we aren't talking about any patent infringement-flavored lawsuits, no, this latest lawsuit is actually quite interesting.
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John Vause / CNN:
Chinese hackers: No site is safe — ZHOUSHAN, China (CNN) — They operate from a bare apartment on a Chinese island. They are intelligent 20-somethings who seem harmless. But they are hard-core hackers who claim to have gained access to the world's most sensitive sites, including the Pentagon.
Michael / Wide Awake Developers:
Steve Jobs Made Me Miss My Flight — Or: On my way to San Jose. — On waking, I reach for my blackberry. It tells me what city I'm in; the hotel rooms offer no clues. Every Courtyard by Marriott is interchangeable. Many doors into the same house. From the size of my suitcase …
Motorola:
Motorola Announces Departure of Stu Reed — Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced that Stu Reed, formerly the president of Motorola's Mobile Devices business, has decided to leave the Company, effective immediately. — Mr. Reed and his team launched a number of key initiatives important …
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Rusty Dornin / CNN:
BBQ-smoker-turned-'Robocop' chases off drug dealers — ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — It's midnight on the streets of Atlanta, and bar owner Rufus Terrill patrols his neighborhood with a rolling crime fighter of his own creation. Meet “Bum-bot,” as Terrill describes it; others in his neighborhood call it simply, “Robocop.”
TrustedReviews Gaming Feed:
EXCLUSIVE: 60GB Xbox WILL Replace 20GB Model — It's world exclusive time again. — Following my outing of the 16GB iPhone I have once again have attained from a rock solid source that Microsoft WILL be replacing the 20GB hard drive on the standard Xbox 360 with a larger 60GB version.
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Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Hulu: Launch Next Week? — When will NBC and Fox's Hulu launch? Let's see... - Glowing Fortune profile just hit newsstands. — The company has summoned analysts for a Monday briefing. — It's supposed to launch this quarter. This quarter ends in March, right?
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Pui-Wing Tam / Wall Street Journal:
In Silicon Valley, a Flight to Safety — As the dot-com bust gave way to revival, many Silicon Valley engineers left large companies to join start-ups, drawn by excitement and the promise of fat payouts. Last month, Ameet Kher headed in the other direction.
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Anthony Rose / BBC Internet Blog:
BBC iPlayer On iPhone: Behind The Scenes — Today was a big day for BBC iPlayer: it's the day that it first became available on a portable device. BBCiPlayer is now available on iPhone and iPod touch. — To play BBC programmes on your iPhone or iPod touch, you'll need to be online via …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Chris Anderson and Michael Arrington: Back-to-Back on Charlie Rose — Yesterday was Geek-Out Night on The Charlie Rose Show. Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson and our own Michael Arrington appeared on back-to-back interviews (30 minutes each, separate interviews).
I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
Antisocial — Do you remember Citizens' Band radio? Though established by the Federal Communications Commission in the 1950s, CB radio didn't become an overnight sensation until the 1970s when Moore's Law brought down the cost of radios to where it was economically viable to buy them solely …
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
GOOG-411 expands outside of United States — Today I picked up the phone to give GOOG-411 another test drive, and was thrown back after hearing the prompt “What city and province?”. Surely this thing doesn't work for Canada now — so I said “Regina Saskatchewan”.
