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Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Microsoft's first iPhone app: Live Labs releases Seadragon Mobile viewer — Given the popularity of the iPhone, this was bound to happen sometime, and here it is: Microsoft Live Labs today becomes the first group inside the Redmond company to release an application for Apple's mobile phone.
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Microsoft Live Labs:
Seadragon Goes Mobile — Want to see giga-pixel images on your iPhone? Now you can—with Seadragon Mobile. Seadragon Mobile brings the same smooth image browsing you get on the PC to the mobile platform. Get super-close in on a map or photo, with just a few pinches or taps of your finger.
Wall Street Journal:
Google Wants Its Own Fast Track on the Web — The celebrated openness of the Internet — network providers are not supposed to give preferential treatment to any traffic — is quietly losing powerful defenders. — Google Inc. has approached major cable and phone companies that carry Internet traffic …
Markcuban / blog maverick:
What Yahoo Should Do — In this economic day and age, cash is king. As markets, industries and companies delever in what seems to be a chorus of balance sheet deflation, the value of cash as an investment vehicle has increased exponentially. What does this have to do with Yahoo's strategy ?
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Susan Mernit's Blog
Fred / A VC:
Display Advertising Works, But It Works Differently Than Search — There's been a lot of talk recently that search and other forms of “performance” or “direct” online marketing will continue to grow in the downturn while display and other forms of “brand” marketing will struggle.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
BitTorrent Recapitalizes: $17 M Financing Undone, Valuation Plummets — File sharing service BitTorrent has undone its $17 million financing from earlier this year, we've learned from an investor in the company, and that money (or what's left of it) has been returned to investors DCM, Accel Partners and DAG Ventures.
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VentureBeat
Alejandro Lazo / Washington Post:
In First Step, Delta to Offer WiFi on Selected Flights — Delta Air Lines plans to begin offering wireless Internet service tomorrow on board half of its shuttle flights between Washington's Reagan National, New York's LaGuardia and Boston's Logan airports. — But don't get too used to it.
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Wi-Fi Networking News
John Markoff / New York Times:
A Software Secretary That Takes Charge — SHOULDN'T your computer know a reasonable amount about your likes and dislikes? Wouldn't it be great if it could anticipate your needs and take action without you pressing a key? — Booking travel and restaurant reservations …
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The Noisy Channel
Lidija Davis / ReadWriteWeb:
Change.gov iPhone App Now Available — Earlier this month we noted that Barack Obama's Presidential transition site Change.gov had added OpenID login for commenters and that the site had traded the traditional copyright for the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.
Randall Stross / New York Times:
Advertisers Face Hurdles on Social Networking Sites — FOR some time, Procter & Gamble, the world's largest advertiser, has been dipping its big toes into the vast pool of Facebook, now the world's largest social network. I recently knocked on the doors of both companies to hear how the experiment was going.
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TECH.BLORGE.com, WinExtra, ChasNote, HipMojo.com, Silicon Alley Insider, Mark Evans and RyanSpoon.com
Antony Bruno / Reuters:
Challenges remain for Amazon digital music service — DENVER (Billboard) - After its first full year selling tracks from all four major labels, Amazon's digital music store has become the second-largest a la carte service, according to industry estimates. — But it's a very distant second to iTunes.
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Lucas Gonze' blog
Brad / Liliputing:
Asus rolls out Celeron-powered Eee Box — As expected, Asus has added a new version of its Eee Box to its lineup of low power, low profile desktops. The Asus Eee Box B203 is pretty much identical to the original Eee Box B202 except it's powered by an Intel C220 Celeron processor instead of an Intel Atom chip.
