Analysis: Plaxo and Friendfeed, pushing the “feed”  —  Facebook news feed has been a hit with users because it automatically displays the latest photos, newest friends, and other updates from your Facebook friends.  —  The problem, though, is that most people use any number of other sites as well …

Source:   VentureBeat
Author:   Eric Eldon
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CES: Podcasting Coming To TiVo  —  Digital video recorder purveyor TiVo Inc. said yesterday that its subscribers will soon be able to select Internet video (i.e. podcasts!) for playback on televisions, expanding the digital recording service’s capabilities beyond TV offerings.

Source:   Podcasting News
Author:   Elisabeth
Link:   http://www.podcastingnews.com/2008/01/09/ces…

FREE Demon?  Yes, FeedDemon is Now Free!  —  That’s right, FeedDemon is now free.  As in, you don’t have to pay for it anymore.  Just download it and use it free of charge.  —  And we’re also making NetNewsWire, NewsGator Inbox and NewsGator Go free.  In other words, all of NewsGator’s consumer RSS readers are […]

Google Maps Making Inroads Against Leader, Mapquest  —  I took a look at traffic to Maps websites after hearing repeatedly over the holidays that people didn’t need directions as they would use Mapquest, Google Maps or GPS.  With the rise of GPS, I wondered if traffic to Maps websites …

Source:   Hitwise Intelligence - Analyst […]

Ten Reasons We’re Doomed: CES Edition  —  Oh, CES.  You are a disgusting, bloated beast oozing everything that makes this industry horrible.  Nay, everything that makes our culture horrible.  Sure, to you fine readers it might look like it’s all product announcements and good times, but that’s far from the truth.

Source:   Gizmodo
Author:   Adam […]

Sprint says WiMax on track for end of April  —  LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Sprint Nextel (S.N: Quote, Profile , Research) is on track to launch commercial services for its next-generation WiMax high-speed wireless network at the end of April, Chief Technology Officer Barry West said on Tuesday.

Source:   Reuters
Author:   Sinead Carew
Link:   http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type…

NewsGator Releases New Versions of Client Products; Best-of-Breed RSS Readers Now Free  —  Free NetNewsWire, FeedDemon, NewsGator Inbox, and NewsGator Go!  Benefit Consumers and Businesses  —  NewsGator announced today the general availability of NetNewsWire 3.1, FeedDemon 2.6, and NewsGator Go! for Windows Mobile 2.0.

Source:   NewsGator - The RSS Company
Author:   Laura Farrelly
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Best Buy wants Macs in more of its stores  —  Apple’s store-within-a-store partnership with Best Buy is going to expand this year, according to Best Buy executives.  —  So says UBS analyst Ben Reitzes, who met with Best Buy during the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas.

Source:   CNET News.com
Author:   Tom Krazit
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OLPC developing dual-boot Windows, Linux OS for laptops  —  San Francisco - The One Laptop Per Child Project (OLPC) and Microsoft are working together to develop a dual-boot system to put both Linux and Windows on laptops aimed at kids in developing countries, the head of OLPC said in an interview Tuesday.

Source:   InfoWorld
Author:   […]

NewsGator’s RSS clients are now free!  —  We’ve got a lot of big news today at NewsGator.  —  First, we’ve got new releases of our most popular applications: FeedDemon 2.6, NetNewsWire 3.1, Inbox 3.0 (beta), and NewsGator Go! for Windows Mobile 2.0.  Each of these is a pretty major release on its own …

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