Billionaires Can’t Keep Frontline Wireless From The Deadpool  —  Despite the backing of billionaires John Doerr and Ram Shriram, as well as former Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale and former FCC commissioner Reed Hundt, ambitious startup Frontline Wireless is closing up shop.

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Erick Schonfeld
Link:   http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/09/billionaires…

Hey, Isn’t That . . .  People Are Doing Double-Takes, And Taking Action, As Web Snapshots Are Nabbed for Commercial Uses  —  The pug in the corner of the Saints-Eagles football telecast on Fox looked familiar to Tracey Gaughran-Perez.  —  Not in the slobber-smile way that all pugs look familiar …

Source:   Washington Post
Author:   […]

Chet’s Corner: It’s Finally About Time for Macworld!  —  While the rest of the Consumer Electronics world is focusing on the CES Show in Las Vegas, us Mac-Lovers are just biding their time waiting for our time in the sun.  Well we’re only a week away from the Macworld Expo in San Francisco …

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OLPC developing dual-boot Windows, Linux OS for laptops  —  The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project and Microsoft Corp. 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:   Computerworld
Author:   Dan Nystedt
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French Press Falls For Major Facebook Prank  —  This is probably the biggest hoax in the history of Facebook.  It happened in France and is one of the most discussed stories in the French blogosphere right now.  It all started a few weeks ago with a simple third-party Facebook application …

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Ouriel […]

MS: no iPhone rival in works  —  Microsoft will not be producing an in-house attempt at replicating the iPhone, soon to be retired company CEO Bill Gates has told Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (registration required for full article).  The executive explained that it was more important …

Source:   Electronista | Gadgets for Geeks
Link:   http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/01/09/ms.says…

Intel ‘undermined’ laptop project  —  Technology reporter, BBC News, Las Vegas  —  Intel repeatedly undermined a not-for profit scheme to bring cheap laptops to children in the developing world, the head of the charity told BBC News.  —  Nicholas Negroponte accused Intel, which makes a rival PC …

Source:   BBC
Author:   Jonathan Fildes
Link:   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7178241.stm

Apple cuts UK iTunes costs, but baits the labels  —  It’s good news for UK music buyers - the cost of downloading music on the iTunes will be reduced to match that across nearly the whole of the rest of the EU.  —  But Apple’s press release today reads a little like a ransom note […]

OpenFrame: ‘The iPhone of home phones’  —  With data integration in mobile handsets, it’s no wonder home telephones haven’t been able to keep up.  But what happens when you’re using a service like Verizon’s FiOS and all of a sudden that boring handset has broadband data piped right into it?

Source:   Engadget
Author:   Christopher Grant
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Our primary colors  —  A few days ago, we announced that Google Maps would be presenting real-time U.S. presidential nomination results for the Iowa caucuses.  The map was so popular that we’ve decided to do it again, this time for the 2008 primary in New Hampshire.

Source:   Google LatLong
Author:   Brittany Bohnet
Link:   http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/01/our…