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Andy notes AT&T’s push into SOHO with CallVantage…

AT&T Begins Marketing VoIP to the SOHO Community
The SOHO market represents a very large, and really untapped marketplace for VoIP. While I half expected Vonage to come out with an offering, it seems that AT&T beat them to the punch.
On the surface the new product offering appears to [...]

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Fortune has a great piece on Apple’s run of success that’s well worth the read.

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Google Maps looks totally awesome. You start with a map of the US, double click a place you want to see and zoom in… it’s pretty fast considering it continues to render in the window as you do everything. Currently does not work in Safari but it’s apparently on their list…

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Good tunes to start the week…

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Pretty interesting analysis on the Napster To Go service - especially interesting after seeing their spots in the superbowl. As someone who digitized his whole collection I can fully relate to this. I still wouldn’t mind topping off the tank though, but I guess I would prefer it come through iTunes so I [...]

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The Beer wars continue as expected in the Superbowl this year…
I thought it was pretty amazing that Miller not only directly referenced the new Budweiser Select beer, but they did so in an ad that appeared two times before Bud ran their own spot. Not sure how much was luck and how much [...]

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Dear palmOne -
Lately a number of us have become increasingly more frustrated with your marketing and communications efforts dealing with the Treo 650 release. I appreciate there are complexities working within carrier restraints based on contractual obligations, but I don’t understand your decisions to simply refuse to communicate directly with your core user [...]

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I ran out today and put in some serious waiting time at the local Time Warner office to trade in my Explorer 8000HD DVR for the 8300. I’d heard some great things about the new box - mainly fixes, but also quite a few digital enhancements and expansion capabilities. For starters there’s HDMI [...]

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You can head to the Newark airport if you absolutely have to have the Treo 650 GSM today. Otherwise, you’ll have to wait until it ships in a few weeks…

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I love this idea… it’s not enough to get me to switch to Windows, but it is certainly a good sounding deal. I wonder if Janus DRM in Windows Media Player would even be supported on the Mac.
Napster To Go launches Thursday and costs $15 a month. It’s the first digital music service to [...]

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palmOne has started accepting orders for the Cingular (EDGE BABY) Treo 650.
You can also order an Unlocked version!
Perhaps I will finally get some status on the order I placed last fall… that’d be nice.

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As noted by Charles Cooper for CNET, it probably is too little too late, but still an amazing detail. I can’t believe they waited this long… oh wait yes I can.
Time Warner Cable finally decided to offer free America Online accounts to its high-speed Internet customers. Considering the resemblance of the company’s [...]

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