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Review: A Compelling Package: Sonos S5 Internet Speakers + Rdio and Pandora
The first time I heard the Sonos S5 multi-room speakers, I was ready to throw them out - they were way too bassy and boomy. But now I really like them and have gotten addicted to controlling them...
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MediaWatch: Newspapers May Have Even Further To Fall
It may seem as if the downward spiral of newspaper's fortunes has slowed, and maybe even stabilized but that could be a false observation according to a new study.Alan D. Mutter in Reflection of a...
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Google's $900m Patent Binge - Will It Share The Protection?
Larry Dignan at ZDNet reports: With the move, Google would get about 6,000 patents covering wired, wireless and digital communications technologies. Google's top lawyer, Kent Walker wrote: Google is a...
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Texas Instruments To Buy Historic Silicon Valley Chipmaker Nat Semi
Texas Instruments has agreed to acquire National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion in cash - a 77% premium. National Semiconductor is one of the oldest Silicon Valley tech companies, founded in...
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The The World Has Room For Only Nine More Googles... Or 1,000 Startups
Here's an interesting analysis of the advertising industry and Silicon Valley's growing bubble in new media by Rick Webb. He argues that Silicon Valley is heading for a cliff in funding too many...
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The Demise Of Social Media And The Return Of Mass Media
There have been quite a few studies lately on what people Tweet and post on Facebook, and the large number of links that people share. Invariably, the links that most people share belong to large media...
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Tibco Updates Tibbr - Social Media Platform For Enterprise
Tibco Software (Tibco a sponsor of SVW) has introduced Tibbr 2.0, its enterprise social media platform. Tibbr was launched two months ago and competes against Chatter from Salesforce.com and Yammer....
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Intel's Centrino And How It Sparked The WiFi HotSpot Revolution
March - 2003: photo shows inauguration of first airport WiFi hotspot - San Francisco (SFO).By Intel Free PressCoffeehouses, fast food joints, airports, hotels and college campuses were some of the...
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White House Wants Silicon Valley Input On Reg. Changes That Help Business
The US Small Business Administration (SBA) and the White House are reaching out to entrepreneurs to ask for ways federal regulations and processes could be changed to encourage entrepreneurship. They...
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Twitter Gets SF Tax Break But Is it Enough?
San Francisco gave Twitter what it wanted, lower local taxes, but is it enough for the high flying socially responsible tech company?Verne Kopytoff reports:
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Out&About: Trulia And Jobs In SF + 30,000 Empty SF Homes
I ran into Ken Shuman, comms chief at Trulia, the San Francisco based real estate search site. He said business is up even though prices in real estate markets continue to drop."People are doing a lot...
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National Broadband Network Could Jam GPS Nav
Joelle Tessler, at AP, reports that a new nationwide wireless Internet service could drown out GPS signals and jam navigation systems in airplanes and cars. ### The problem stems from a recent...
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Ice Cream And Tweets - How A Business Monetized Its Following
Here's an interesting story via Cecily Ruttenberg:San Francisco based Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream has an impressive Twitter following of 310,000. Engage4Change, a new San Francisco civic engagement...
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Some Thoughts On The Social Distribution Of Mass Media...(SoDOMM)
(Photo shows a meeting of the seminal Homebrew Computing Club - credit: Computer History Museum.)Earlier this week I pointed out how "social media" has changed from its original promise of challenging...
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Pearltrees Reaches Key Milestones: Largest Curation Community
(Patrice Lamothe, CEO of Pearltrees.)I'm proud to bring you news about Pearltrees, the company I've been working with the past year: this morning it announced it has reached 100,000 members and monthly...
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Dell Boosts Cloud/Service Investments By $1bn
Dell this morning said it would invest $1 billion in expanding its solutions and services group especially in cloud and virtualization IT.Steve Schuckenbrock, President of Dell Services said that the...
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Big Differences In How Large Companies Innovate
By David Needle There are no shortage of tried and true ways to succeed in business, but if your goal is to be the next Apple be prepared to toss the rule book out the window. That's the inescapable...
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There Seems To Be A Google Backlash Building ...
Foremski's Take: There's a Google backlash building and there's probably nothing Google can do about it...
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Will New Legal Claims Against Zuckerberg Harm Facebook's Valuation?
Henry Blodget, over at Business Insider, believes that Paul Ceglia, an early co-developer of a project that became Facebook has a great legal case against Mark Zuckerberg.The Guy Who Says He Owns 50%...
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Gravity Meets Bubble? - Twitter Soars In Private Equity Valuation
Twitter is often grouped with other high flying private venture companies: Facebook, Zynga, and Groupon.The common trait among these four is high valuations. But Twitter is the odd-man out here because...
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