What downturn? Private equity still going strong (2)
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The financial sky may be falling, but it looks like private equity firms are relatively sheltered. In fact, fundraising by North American private equity firms during the first three quarters of 2008 is actually way ahead of fundraising during the same period last year, according to a report from Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst. Private equity is a category that that includes buyout, venture capital, mezzanine, distressed and several other types of firms. This year, ...
Facebook Rolls Out Live Search…Wait, Where’d It Go? Oh, There It Is. (13)
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It’s been a long time coming, but it appears as though Facebook finally has begun integrating Live Search into its main search bar, thereby providing web search in addition to its preexisting profile search capabilities. The functionality appeared earlier today for users, only to disappear again. Facebook published an official post about it only to take that down as well. Microsoft’s own post, however, can still be found here. The integration is a natural consequence ...
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Haidong said:
big moment for facebook
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Devlin D said:
Well this looks like possibly the most useless thing in the world.
How Low Can You Go? Google Drops Another 5 Percent to $350 Territory. (8)
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Tech stocks continue to get creamed this morning, led by Google, whose stock is now officially a dropping knife (i.e., good luck catching it). Shares are down 5 percent so far today to about $353 (at one point they dipped as low as $350. That’s more than a $50 drop since Friday and the lowest the stock has traded since March, 2006. The question on investor’s minds: How low can it go? Even though Google ...
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DOCBook Howto said:
I never believed the Google stock price originally. Bring it back down to $100 and it's about accurate.
Steve Wozniak interview: iconic co-founder on the iPod, iPhone, and future for Apple (Rupert Neate/Telegraph) (1)
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Rupert Neate / Telegraph: Steve Wozniak interview: iconic co-founder on the iPod, iPhone, and future for Apple — In an exclusive interview with the Telegraph, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak wonders how long the iPod can stay on top spot, laments the limitations of the iPhone 3G, agrees with the downgrade on Apple shares …
Forget The Blackberry “Application Center.” The BerryStore Will Have Better Apps. (19)
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As Research in Motion prepares to open its Blackberry Application Center to answer the iPhone’s App Store, an unaffiliated startup called the BerryStore has already launched a competing app store for Blackberry Apps. What makes it better than the official BlackBerry App Center (besides the name), is that apps in the BerryStore work across both old and new BlackBerries alike (not just the upcoming BlackBerry Storm), and across carriers. The BlackBerry App center, in contrast, ...
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Wei said:
用黑莓的童鞋可以去试试～
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Igor said:
hehe yeah right!, T-Mobile G1 FTW!!!
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Matthew said:
Not sure how i feel about this, there doesnt seem to be a whole lot there right now.
Apple hits 10 million iPhone goal early — its stock fails to notice (3)
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You know the stock market’s bad when Apple has a flurry of good iPhone news and its stock is still down over 8 percent in trading. That’s the situation today. The good news is that Apple has apparently already sold over 10 million iPhones this year. It has stated numerous times that 10 million was the goal for all of 2008, and it appears to have hit that goal a full three months early, if ...
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JoeCool79 said:
Steve Jobs hits his goal 3 months early. The interesting thing to note is that there are only 2.5M 2G iPhones. How long before they stop supporting them? Currently, they're only 25% of the market and dwindling fast.
Google Has Changed Political Debate Forever (54)
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When I was on the high school debate team, about 15 years ago, using the Internet was considered strange, if not cheating. We used photocopy machines, print magazines and academic journals almost exclusively. That time in the world's history is now gone forever. When Sarah Palin and Joe Biden debated in front of one of the largest TV audiences in US election history last week, they might not have been Googling things during the debate, ...
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Paul S said:
I think this could have important implications for how we watch television, a la Joost. We don't want lean back, or lean forward, we want intelligent. Of course the definition of intelligent changes with each person, but none the less....
Microsoft planning add-on to SQL Server (Ina Fried/Beyond Binary) (1)
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary: Microsoft planning add-on to SQL Server — Microsoft wants SQL Server to scale new heights, and it is hoping an add-on code-named Kilimanjaro will help. — Due out in the first half of 2010, Kilimanjaro improves SQL Server 2008 with a series of business intelligence enhancements to the database.
YouTube Theater View (15)
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YouTube shows a new option for long videos: a theater view that enlarges the player and fades out the rest of the page. Randall Munroe's talk at Google and Steve Jobs' speech at Stanford are two examples of feature length videos that should display the new option.You can restrict YouTube's search results to feature length videos by appending &longform=1:http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=site:youtube.com&longform=1It's not clear how YouTube filters feature length videos, but most of them are from the Authors@Google ...
This might make me use Adobe SHARE more often (1)
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Here's an example of desktop application that can leverage up a web service.I'm sure you all familiar with Adobe Acrobat suite, but how often do you really use it? Well, lets just say that now you can use it even more.Handout is a little AIR application that sits on your desktop and allows you to simply drag & drop uploading of your documents to Adobe SHARE. You won't need to visit the site immediately, you ...
iPhone 2.2 Update Finally Brings Google Street View to Maps [IPhone] (10)
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After being sent out to developers last week promising only "compatibility testing" enhancements, the pre-release version of iPhone software 2.2 is starting to spill its secrets. The folks at Mac Rumors have dug up evidence that appears to indicate Google Maps' Street View finally making it into the Maps app, after popping up in the regular mobile Maps applications for non-iPhones as well as, of course, Android, with the cool Compass view feature. On top ...
My Five Months With Google Chrome (29)
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Om Malik wrote an interesting post about Google Chrome one month after the public launch. While I was reading Om’s post, I realized that I wrote a post for the Google Chrome release that I never published. I’ll include it here, and then let’s meet at the bottom and compare notes. Like many Google engineers, I’ve been running Google Chrome for several months. When I sat down with a blank piece of paper to write ...
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Robert Scoble said:
I'm still loving Chrome, except I signed up for the beta builds and now I'm getting weird behavior and crashing. Serves me right for trying to be an early adopter. :-)
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Razzu said:
RTFC
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Joe Cooper said:
I have Chrome and Firefox. I tried to trim down my Firefox extensions, and I couldn't. I use them all. Chrome doesn't support extensions. I'm sticking with the fox. Hopefully the next version of firefox will learn from Chrome's good ideas though.
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wvpv said:
I'm not using it as my primary browser until it supports add-ons. I've got deep Firefox roots.
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prexec said:
I definitely agree. I've been running Chrome since it came out and will not go back to IE or Firefox.
Google Image Search Ads In The Wild, Looks Like They Need Work (Jason Kincaid/TechCrunch) (2)
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch: Google Image Search Ads In The Wild, Looks Like They Need Work — Last May Google announced that it would begin experimenting with display ads on its popular Image Search, which it has largely been unable to monetize - in 2006 the company estimated that it was missing out on $200 million …
8 months after switching here are my favorite applications (22)
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As I've now crossed the 8 month time frame since I got my first Mac it's time to update the applications that I use regularly. When I made my switch I made a real effort to find native Mac replacement applications for everything I use and for the most part I have been successful in that.I'll list these applications in the order in which I find myself using them and will include internal OS X ...
H-P Plans to Unveil Smart Phone (Justin Scheck/Wall Street Journal) (2)
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Justin Scheck / Wall Street Journal: H-P Plans to Unveil Smart Phone — Hewlett-Packard Co., aiming to grow its device business beyond corporate users, is preparing to release a new smart phone that will also be marketed to consumers, according to people briefed on the plan. The device will debut in Europe, these people say …
iPhone Backgrounder: Force Apps to Run in the Background (25)
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This hack available on jailbroken iPhones allows you to hold down the home button when you quit an app to have it continue running in the background. Considering this is homebrew software, it’s probably trivial for Apple to reproduce it but, as we all know, Apple does what Apple wants to do, so we can just suck it. Crunch Network: MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily.
New IBM Cognos BI Software Gives Business Users Personalized View Of Strategic Information (1)
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Cognos, an IBM (NYSE: IBM) company and the world leader in business intelligence and performance management solutions, today unveiled major enhancements to its IBM Cognos 8 Go! software portfolio.
