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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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Stilgherrian:How do you treat your staff? Like 37signals, or like this prick?
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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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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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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
iPhone SDK And Restrictions: Some Of The Details Aren't Great. — Obviously Steve Jobs and team didn't go through all the details today when they announced the availability of the iPhone SDK. It was more of a high level pass. But details are what third party developers need …
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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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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Tom Krazit / One More Thing:Motorola losing former mobile phone head, marketing chief
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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.
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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
BitTorrent Throttling Company Sandvine Sees Sales Down 88% — Sandvine, manufacturers of BitTorrent throttling technology has seen its first quarter sales drop 88% in a year. After achieving 42,000% growth in 5 years, the company - best known for providing the technology which put Comcast …
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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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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.”
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Kyte Becomes A Mobile-to-Web Video Platform For Brands (Adds New Investors and Live Mobile Streaming) — Kyte CEO Daniel Graf is taking another big step towards turning the cell phone into a video distribution platform. “This is a big day for Kyte,” he tells me, “our biggest release since we launched our beta last April.”
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:Kyte.TV Takes More Money, Moves Away from User Created Video
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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”.
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 …
Bloomberg:
Disney to Offer Some Vintage TV Series on Its Web Site — The Walt Disney Company will begin showing its classic television shows on the Internet, its chief executive, Robert A. Iger, told shareholders on Thursday. — “In the near future, you'll see more of that product available on Disney.com …
Louise Brown / Toronto Star:
Student faces Facebook consequences — Freshman hit with 147 academic charges for online study network at Ryerson University — Study groups may be a virtual trademark of the Ivory Tower - but a virtual study group has been slammed as cheating by Ryerson University.
John Burchett / Google Public Policy Blog:
Comparative keyword ads OK in Utah — Last year, we told you about a law passed by the Utah state legislature that essentially prohibited search engines like Google from allowing trademarks from being used as keywords to trigger ads. As we wrote at the time, this law ran counter to the precedent …
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