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Eric Schmidt / The Official Google Blog:
Love and the Super Bowl — If you watched the Super Bowl this evening you'll have seen a video from Google called “Parisian Love”. In fact you might have watched it before, because it's been on YouTube for over three months. We didn't set out to do a Super Bowl ad, or even a TV ad for search.
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Valerie Potter / Computerworld:
Top 10 Super Bowl tech ads — Remember these classics from Intel, Iomega, EDS, Apple, Xerox and more? (videos below) — Computerworld - This Sunday the Super Bowl is once again upon us, and that means one thing: great advertising. (Apparently some sort of game will be going on too …
Mia / YouTube Blog:Super Bowl Sunday: The Biggest Day in Sports and Advertising
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Brandon Miniman / pocketnow.com:
Exclusive HTC Incredible Photos (Update: Video) — We were just handed some leaked photos of the upcoming Verizon HTC Incredible. The device is running on Android 2.1 with HTC Sense, and as our tipster confirms, it's running with a Snapdragon CPU (and is described as “fast, really fast") …
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Retrevo blogs:
Apple iPad Hoopla Fails to Convince Buyers — A follow-up Retrevo Pulse study looking at consumer interest in buying the new Apple iPad indicates a failure to convince any new buyers to consider the iPad. Not only did Apple fail to convince new buyers, it may have lost many potential buyers …
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Beth Mellor / Bloomberg:
SAP's Chief Executive Apotheker Resigns, McDermott, Snabe Named Co-CEOs — Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) — SAP AG, the world's biggest maker of business-management software, said Chief Executive Officer Leo Apotheker has resigned with immediate effect and will be replaced by Bill McDermott …
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deal architect:
“Enterprise software is entirely bereft of soul” — I was in a session last year with Dave Girouard of Google, when I asked him if he still believed in the statement he made 3 years prior about enterprise software. Without batting an eyelid, he asked me “Are you from SAP?” — Leo Apotheker is gone as CEO of SAP.
Pwarden / PeteSearch:
How to split up the US — As I've been digging deeper into the data I've gathered on 210 million public Facebook profiles, I've been fascinated by some of the patterns that have emerged. My latest visualization shows the information by location, with connections drawn between places that share friends.
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The Moderate Voice:
White House Makes Full Copyright Claim on Photos — Let me preface this post by reminding folks that IANAL (I am not a lawyer). — The U.S. government policy on photographs and copyright is pretty straightfoward: photos produced by federal employees as part of their job responsibilities are …
Jeffrey Burt / eWeek:
IBM Unveils Power7 Systems, Ramps Up Competition Against HP, Sun — IBM is rolling out the first of its Power7 systems as it looks to grab more market share in the $14 billion Unix server space from HP and Sun. The move comes as HP and Intel prepare to release the next-generation Itanium processor …
Jolie O'Dell / ReadWriteWeb:
Verizon Blocks 4chan — According to 4chan's Twitter account and status update blog, they have been “explicitly blocked” by the Verizon wireless network. — If you're unfamiliar with 4chan and why an ISP/wireless company would block it, read more about it on Wikipedia.
Wu Yiyao / CHINAdaily:
Biggest hacker training site shut down — What is believed to be the country's biggest hacker training site has been shut down by police in Central China's Hubei province. — Three people were also arrested, local media reported yesterday. — The three, who ran Black Hawk Safety Net …
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Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:
QuinStreet IPO reunites Credit Suisse, Frank Quattrone — Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal — This week's initial public offering of QuinStreet Inc. brings together one of the tech bubbles hottest teams, dealmaker Frank Quattrone and his former employer, Credit Suisse.
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