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John Markoff / New York Times:
Google Is Taking Questions (Spoken, via iPhone) — SAN FRANCISCO — Pushing ahead in the decades-long effort to get computers to understand human speech, Google researchers have added sophisticated voice recognition technology to the company's search software for the Apple iPhone.
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Trevin Chow:
Introducing the Microsoft Store US — We previously launched Microso ft Store internationally in the UK, Germany and Korea. I'm now happy to announce that we have officially launched Microsoft Store for the U.S! — With this launch, our customers in the U.S. are able to buy …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Microsoft launches online store: Is there deeper meaning here? — Microsoft has launched something long overdue: An online store. Yes Virginia, you can download Windows. — The launch is a bit quiet. Trevin Chow, a senior program manager at Microsoft, announced the “first-party” store on his blog.
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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Introducing the Microsoft Store — This is something I think is pretty exciting - especially if you're looking to score some Microsoft product. We are announcing the Microsoft Store - the first online store where you can purchase Microsoft products straight from the source!
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Finally Starts Firing Slackers? — “It used to be nearly impossible to get fired for general underperformance” at Google, a reader tells us. But times have changed. Read > — What The Heck Happened To The Site? — Henry Blodget | Nov. 13, 5:16 PM | 12
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Entrepreneurs Ask VCs for Cash Back — This week's $250 million funding for vacation home rental listing company HomeAway Inc. was the largest web-related venture capital investment since the bubble days at the turn of the millennium. But it also contained a provision that signals how the lack …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
GirlInYourShirt: $75 Buys Your Startup Marketing For A Day — I imagine more than a few startups will take Jenaé up on her offer to wear your startup shirt and talk about your company for a day. It's $75, and she posts videos on her site, YouTube, Seesmic and Viddler, posts pictures on Flickr and tweets about it all as well.
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The Drama 2.0 Show
Kim Dixon / Reuters:
Lawmaker Plans Bill on Web Neutrality — A renewed battle over network neutrality could be on the horizon, as a senior U.S. lawmaker plans to introduce a bill in January that would bar Internet providers from blocking Web content. — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. lawmaker plans …
BBC:
$100 laptop to be sold in Europe — Europeans will soon be able to buy their own XO laptop. — The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organisation is planning to sell the devices via online store Amazon's European outlets from 17 November. — The machines will be sold under the Give One …
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Invest Like It's 1998: Microsoft Stock Hits 10-Year Low; 30 Percent Decline From First Yahoo Offer — Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) stock hit its lowest point in 10 years on Thursday— $18.74—when the tech sector took hits from Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) and Intel (NSDQ: INTC), before coming back to close at $21.25.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Universal Music Group: We're Still Selling Tunes, Amazingly — Universal Music Group, the world's biggest music company, insists the music business isn't dying. Yesterday, it released numbers to help bolster its case. — UMG saw sales drop 6.2% in the last quarter, parent company Vivendi (VIV.PA) disclosed yesterday.
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Business Wire:
Sun Microsystems Aligns Business with Global Economic Climate and Amplifies Growth Opportunities Across Open Source Platforms — SANTA CLARA, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA - News) today announced a series of changes designed to align its cost model …
Kate Greene / Technology Review:
The Coming Wireless Revolution — Gadgets that operate over television frequencies promise to transform the wireless landscape. — If you believe some radio researchers and engineers, within the next couple of years, high-bandwidth, far-reaching wireless Internet signals will soon blanket the nation.
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The Pondering Primate
Paul Boutin / Valleywag:
What just happened at Valleywag? The FAQ — I love Owen, but he has trouble writing in English during a crisis. So here's the basics on what's happening at Valleywag: — Some guy named Denton can't figure out how to sell ads on Valleywag. — So he's going to sneak Valleywag …
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Tech-On! : tech news:
Non-contact Charging System Simultaneously Charges Multiple Mobile Devices — Mojo Mobility Inc, a Silicon Valley-based venture firm, developed a technology to simultaneously charge multiple mobile devices using a piece of sheet and started seeking collaboration with device manufacturers.
Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
“Fred” is the star of the NewTeeVee Live conference — The star of the NewTeeVee Live conference in San Francisco: Fred. — Lucas Cruikshank, the hyper, screeching 15-year-old Internet sensation from Omaha who created the “Fred” series on YouTube, won over the adult audience at a conference …
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Royal Pingdom:
The world's most super-designed data center - fit for a James Bond villain — This underground data center has greenhouses, waterfalls, German submarine engines, simulated daylight and can withstand a hit from a hydrogen bomb. It looks like the secret HQ of a James Bond villain. — And it is real.
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Cell phone boarding passes coming to an airline near you — The next time you head over to the security line at the airport, you may not have to fish around for your boarding pass in order to get past the TSA agents. Instead, you'll be able to flash your phone or PDA …
Vivek Wadhwa / Business Week:
Engineering: Suddenly Sexy for College Grads — As the financial crisis deepens, science and math grads who once flocked to investment banking are now considering jobs in engineering — Early in his college career, Tyler Bosmeny assumed that after graduating, he would do what hundreds …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Very Curious Microsoft-Facebook User Data Relationship — Facebook's ties to Microsoft go back to 2006 when they first signed an advertising deal. A year later they took a $240 million investment, and the advertising relationship was extended this year.
kottke.org:
High quality YouTube video hack — You may have noticed that the video of Burn-E I embedded looked a bit better than a normal YouTube video. YouTube has been quietly offering high-quality versions of some of their videos for quite some time via a “watch in high quality” link just underneath the player.
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
A scientific formula for popularity on Digg, YouTube — Bernardo Huberman, Hewlett-Packard's director of the HP Social Computing lab, and fellow researcher Gabor Szabo have published a highly detailed report (PDF) on “predicting the popularity of online content.”
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Paul Boutin / Valleywag:
Federated Media slashes rates to $5 CPM — John Battelle has his own plan for riding out the holiday ad-buying slump. The founder of online-advertising network Federated Media, which brokers ads for sites like Boing Boing, GigaOm, and Dooce, can't fire writers, but he can cut the price of their ads.
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Khettiya Jittapong / Reuters:
Thai True Move to sell 3G iPhone, AIS still in talks — Thailand's third-largest mobile phone firm, True Move, said on Thursday it had signed a deal with Apple Inc (AAPL.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) to sell the 3G iPhone in Thailand. — The deal could make True Move …
Eric Engleman / TechFlash:
Q&A: Ian Freed of Amazon Kindle on ebooks, blogs, and Jeff Bezos — Amazon.com is putting a lot of marketing muscle behind its electronic book reader, the Kindle, ahead of this year's holiday season (the company recently secured a coveted endorsement from Oprah).
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