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DigiTimes:
Wintek to supply touch panels for Apple netbook, says paper — Taiwan-based Wintek will supply touch panels for Apple's new netbook, and shipments will start in the third quarter this year, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report. — Wintek revealed that it is currently working …
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Eric A. Taub / New York Times:
Webcam Brings 3-D to Topps Sports Cards — Since the 1950s, Topps has sold baseball trading cards filled with photos and stats, bringing the game to life. Now the company is bringing its cards to life. — Beginning Monday, collectors who hold a special Topps 3D Live baseball card in front …
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
The Online Experiments That Could Help Newspapers — A venture by The Bakersfield Californian is one of many ways newspapers are trying to generate new revenue — The Bakersfield Californian is an anomaly in the newspaper business. While other papers are shutting their doors and filing for bankruptcy, it's expanding.
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Brandon Miniman / pocketnow.com:
Windows Mobile Marketplace Website Comes Online — We know very little about the Windows Mobile marketplace. Microsoft was very quiet about it at MWC - no screenshots, no specifics details. At first, the word was that only Windows Mobile 6.5 devices could use the Marketplace …
Jorgen Lindqvist / VentureBeat:
Economic downturn drives merger of teen sites Stardoll and Piczo — Girl teen-site Stardoll, backed by Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures, is acquiring Piczo, a social networking site that focuses on teen users. The amount is undisclosed, but the transaction was a mix of cash and equity.
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
SynapSense Raises $7 Million for Sensors — SynapSense has raised $7 million in additional investment, the company said today, and will use the money to further develop its wireless energy sensors and expand beyond its core market in the data center sector.
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Peter Burrows / Business Week:
EBay's Big Plans for PayPal — The struggling e-commerce company wants to expand its lucrative payments business — It's a funny time for a coming-out party. But just when other companies have stopped giving financial guidance because of the unpredictable nature of today's world markets …
Jack Loftus / Gizmodo:
Happy 30th Birthday, Compact Disc! — Compact discs weren't always impromptu drink coasters. Once, in the not-so-distant past, they played music, contained pictures, and let people play video games with tacked-on FMV sequences. And today, the venerable CD turned 30. — Happy birthday!
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Martin Langeveld / Nieman Journalism Lab:
Back to the future: MediaNews revives “print your own newspaper” — In an approach rather different from Microsoft's vision of content delivery in the future, which I described yesterday, MediaNews Group has announced plans for I-News, a system that will print your own customized newspaper on your own printer:
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Caustic Graphics to create graphics chips with novel ray-tracing technology — Caustic Graphics is planning to take on graphics chip makers with a new way of rendering images that can enhance realism and improve cost efficiency. — The San Francisco start-up, formed by ex-Apple engineers …
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Wall Street Journal
Eric Lai / PC World:
Intel Wants Atom Inside Almost Everything — Intel Corp. desperately wants the hit Atom netbook processor inside smartphones, cars — even factory robots. — After initial reluctance, it's also pushing Atoms for lower-end desktop and notebook PCs. — For only one market is the Atom entirely verboten: server computers.
Ryan Kim / San Francisco Chronicle:
Ooma rebounds after cutting price for service — (03-08) 15:20 PST — After it stumbled out of the gate in July 2007, it's hard to imagine that Palo Alto's Ooma would look forward to an economic downturn. — But the startup, which offers free home phone service with the purchase of an Ooma box …
