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Feb 24
Daily Links for February 24, 2008
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Jan 12
Daily Links for January 12, 2008
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Owners of analog TV sets can send off their application for a free converter box to prepare for the digital switch over that will happen in February 2009. Two coupons will be sent to each person who applies, worth $40 off a digital converter box each.(tags: television digital)
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Farmers in Nebraska and the Dakotas brought the U.S. closer to becoming a biofuel economy, planting huge tracts of land for the first time with switchgrass and proving that it can deliver more than five times more energy than it takes to grow it.
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TomTom, a maker of personal navigation devices, said Wednesday that customers can now use Google’s mapping service to find business addresses and then transfer them via a computer to a TomTom gadget.
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It has been reported that Microsoft wants to acquire computer peripherals maker Logitech for $8 billion. The firm’s co-founder doesn’t want to sell. He only owns 6% of shares, but the deal could still be a problem with antitrust regulators.
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Many sugar-free chewing gums contain a sweetener called sorbitol. Sorbitol is a laxative which is poorly absorbed by the small intestine. Two patients had chronic diarrhea, abdominal pain and dangerously excessive weight loss. They chewed too much gum.
Nov 25
Daily Links for November 25, 2007
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Nice article on Threadless and their first physical store.(tags: Threadless shopping)
Nov 17
Daily Links for November 17, 2007
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PriceDrop is a Firefox extension which allows you to track product prices at Amazon shops , and get notifications whenever they drop. It will also help you get a refund from Amazon.com if a product you’ve already bought becomes cheaper.
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This is a site that will tell you if the price of an item you bought drops. It’s great for getting that 30 day Amazon refund. Amazon will give you the difference if an item you bought drops in price within 30 days of your purchase.
Nov 15
Daily Links for November 15, 2007
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Black Friday, also known as the Day After Thanksgiving, is the day most retail stores offer customers great deals for shopping on the first day of the Holiday Shopping Season.
Tags: Black Friday, Deals, Shopping
Oct 27
Daily Links for October 27, 2007
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Domain name registrar GoDaddy has increased its base price for .com domains to $9.99, plus an ICANN fee of $.20. It’s due to increases in the prices Verisign charges for all .coms. Good thing they keep having great discounts that I tell you about.
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Microsoft reported quarterly earnings Thursday that beat analysts estimates, citing robust demand for its Vista operating system as well as its new video game “Halo 3.” Shares of the company were up nearly 10 percent after-hours. If only I kept my stock.
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The Senate on Thursday night approved a seven-year extension of a moratorium on state and local taxes on Internet access. The two chambers will have to reach a compromise on the length of the ban and other differences.
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The Federal Communications Commission on Friday approved a $27.5 billion buyout of Alltel Corp., the nation’s fifth-largest wireless carrier, to a private investment group.
Oct 25
Daily Links for October 25, 2007
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Would-be technologists are turned off by the tech crash of the early ’00s, the shift of jobs overseas to outsourcing providers, and an overall perception of IT as a go-nowhere, nuts-and-bolts profession, observers say. Good thing I love my job.
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Internet search leader Google is sharpening its focus on the television ad medium with demographic data from the Nielsen. Google will pay Nielsen an undisclosed amount to obtain detailed information about the kinds of people who watch specific TV shows.
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Microsoft is investing $240 million for a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook. The investment values Facebook at $15 billion. As part of the deal, Microsoft will sell the banner ads on Facebook outside of the United States, splitting the revenue with them.
Tags: Business, Career, Facebook, Google, IT, Jobs, Microsoft, Nielsen, technology, Television
Oct 23
Daily Links for October 23, 2007
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The Xbox has overtaken the Wii this month. But I doubt it’s sustainable. It was a Halo 3 pop. But the 360 can easily get a place in people’s homes with the PS3 being so unattractive, and the Wii being hard to come by.
Oct 20
Daily Links for October 20, 2007
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Could Cammie Dunaway, the marketing maven who just jumped ship from Yahoo, be looking to work at Nintendo? That’s what several tipsters tell Kotaku. Yahoo’s chief marketeer may be on her way to Nintendo, where a trio of vacancies are looking to be filled.
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Analyst Mike Goodman thinks that Nintendo has performed a nifty switch with Sony. “They’re capturing gaming households. … And they’ve done the best job in marketing that they’ve expanded the marketplace.”
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A new SEC filing states that on October 12, “Nintendo of America and THQ entered into a Confidential License Agreement for the Wii Console.” It seems to be a standard renewal of an existing agreement. Still good to hear.
Oct 08
Daily Links for October 08, 2007
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The appendix “acts as a good safe house for bacteria,” said Duke surgery professor Bill Parker. If we lose our good bacteria in the digestive tract it can start it can start it back up. But in such a clean society it doesn’t get much use.(tags: health)
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