Google Founders Pick Up Another Big Plane  —  Google’s billionaire founders, owners of a Boeing 767 that has been the talk of Silicon Valley, are apparently adding another unusually large private jet to their fleet: a Boeing 757.  —  Like the Boeing 767, and two other jets operated …

Source:   Bits
Author:   Miguel Helft
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Facebook Traffic Tanks - This can’t be real?  —  comScore is about to issue September 2007 user engagement and page views data, and it seems like the SVFurby, I mean Facebook unique visitors took a little dip.  See the little decline on the red line.  I can’t exactly tell how many and how accurate the […]

Facebook Funding: A Yahoo Bovine Update?  —  “Why,” said a sharp Silicon Valley figure to me last night, “would Facebook give away the cow for a price of quart of milk?”  —  Why, indeed, although it would be a $15 billion quart of milk.  —  But it was an interesting point he was making …

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Now Playing: YouTube videos in Google Earth  —  I love watching videos on YouTube.  Every once in a while I’ll see something so good that it makes me stop and wonder where it was recorded or how I can find more videos from that particular location.  For instance, just the other day I stumbled upon […]

Apple Nearing iPhone Third-Party Developer Announcement  —  Several sources tell me that Apple is nearing an announcement of some sort regarding third-party development on the iPhone.  The bits and pieces I’ve heard are maddeningly non-specific: I don’t know, for instance …

Source:   TidBITS
Author:   Glenn Fleishman
Link:   http://db.tidbits.com/article/9230

iPod touch now running Mail, Google Maps, and more  —  We’re not looking at general availability yet, but those happy hacking cats unravelling the iPod touch have decrypted the ramdisk and are now busy installing applications.  Already, Mail, Maps, and other 3rd party apps are up and running on their jailbreaked touches.

Source:   Engadget
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Plasma TVs may be banned  —  Most plasma television sets are in danger of being banned from sale in Australia if a proposed energy-efficiency rating system is adopted.  —  A report commissioned by the Federal Government says there is a growing demand for plasma and LCD televisions, which use more power than traditional TV sets.

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Mippin’s Mobile Portal Now in Public Beta  —  Now open to the public is Refresh Mobile’s Mippin , their third big play in the mobile content business.  Designed to let mobile phone users get to relevant information, fast, I spoke to their VP of Product Management, Prashant Agarwal, about the service.

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Mippin’s Mobile Portal Now in Public Beta  —  Now open to the public is Refresh Mobile’s Mippin , their third big play in the mobile content business.  Designed to let mobile phone users get to relevant information, fast, I spoke to their VP of Product Management, Prashant Agarwal, about the service.

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Universal avatars bestride worlds  —  A virtual character, or avatar, for all the virtual worlds in which people play is the goal of a joint project between IBM and Linden Lab.  —  The computer giant and the creator of Second Life are working on universal avatars that can travel between worlds.

Source:   BBC
Link:   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7038039.stm