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PalmSource today announced that the Treo 600 smartphone has delivered twice the Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) than the average mobile phone for leading mobile operator Orange. [PalmInfocenter]

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Some photo buffs have so many pictures from their digital cameras, they don’t know what to do with them. And sending by e-mail is clunky compared with new technologies that make storing and showing as simple as pie. [Wired News]
As I’ve mentioned recently I set up a photo gallery using Gallery, but to do so [...]

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“Moblogging,” or new location-based blogging technology and new RSS tools kicked off the annual DEMO show on Monday. [eWeek.com Messaging and Collaboration - Featuring Steve Gillmor]
Good stuff from Six Apart (Typepad and Moveable Type) as well as WaveMarket’s location aware WaveBlog (nice work Russ!)

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Right after sitting down with my NYT and seeing that Vodaphone is the leading contender, I get an email which says that Cingular is the winner…

Cingular raised its informal offer for AT&T Wireless (AWE: news, chart, profile) by as much as 36 percent as it battled Britain’s Vodafone Group (VOD: news, chart, profile) through the [...]

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Like raccoons who enjoy your garbage, the miniature PCs keep coming back to annoy and tantalize. The latest with news is the FlipStart from Vulcan. The FlipStart, formerly called the MiniPC, runs Windows XP and has solid specs… [GearBits]

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Paid Content has an interesting piece about Akimbo, a new company that is launching today, with an IP TV service, centered around the TV rather than the PC.

This is how it works - the $199 Akimbo box is connected to your television/home entertainment center, and can also be plugged into your “high-speed Internet connection.” For [...]

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Comcast’s bid for Disney could be seen as a way to control costs and ensure inventory for the most mature part of Comcast’s cable business: video programming. [New York Times: Business]

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A bidding war erupted yesterday for control of AT&T Wireless as Vodafone, based in Newbury, England, and Cingular Wireless, a joint venture of BellSouth and SBC Communications, submitted new bids that value the company at more than $37 billion or about $14 a share, executives close to the negotiations said. [New York Times: Business]

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A Mac-related web site has what it claims is a description of a handheld that Apple will release this summer. Supposedly, it will offer a clamshell design, an internal hard drive, and FireWire. [Brighthand]
As you might expect it would be the ultimate…

According to this report, the device will run an operating system that [...]

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I’ve finally got a system for sharing pictures without having to worry about dealing with anything too technical - at least after the installation of Gallery.
In order to get this to work you need a windows or *nix server. I was unable to get it to install on my Mac system, but fortunately had [...]

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The Comcast Corporation has offered more than $50 billion for the Walt Disney Company. If Comcast is successful, it would become the world’s biggest media company. Tom Wolzien, a media analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Company, talked last week about the offer. Following are excerpts from the conversation: [New York Times]

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Sean Willson provides a great list of browser favelets that’s worth taking a look at. [Antipixel]

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Doug’s AppleScripts for iTunes: “This script will copy the news items of the selected Subscription in NetNewsWire in vCard format to the Contacts folder of iPod for portable reading.” [Ranchero]

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The 10 Worst Album Covers

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So other industries are now taking cue form what Apple has done fo the music industry: Adobe CEO is pondering an iTunes-like store: Adobe believes it might be able to bring a similar service to its army of creative professionals, offering the ability to download stock photography, design templates and the like from a trusted [...]

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I’d been looking for this this week and had only secured a few tracks… the whole album is now mine. Highly recommended listening.

DJ Danger Mouse remixed Jay-Z’s “Black Album” with the Beatles “White Album” to create… The “Grey Album,” of course.
The New Yorker had a little Talk of the Town piece on this, Apparently, [...]

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Networking is about serendipity: making your own luck. We’ve all heard of some guy who just happened to have a friend starting a business and brought them in — only to make a million dollars later. The reason the story is not uncommon is because that’s how most positions are filled. I once saw a [...]

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It certainly is tempting, though without a car it’s hard to justify a portable GPS for my Palm or Laptop… I know where I am when I am in NYC - though now that I think of it, this would work with Vindigo as well for pure location based info… mmmmm

I thought the 50% [...]

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Stewart Butterfield is giving me a demo of flickr. Real-time media sharing. Collaborative drawing. Real-time Photoshop contests. Uploading samples. Playing with the media we all generate.
Free, ad-based. Expected to see “pro” accounts. Stewart wrote the user interaction/UI for it. This is impressive.
It was turned on on Tuesday. Already a couple thousand users. Real launch is [...]

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