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Kohjinsha Releases Dual-Screen Laptop, The Kohjinsha DZ Netbook

Japanese laptop maker Kohjinsha has released a dual-screen laptop in time for Christmas. The Kohjinsha DZ has two 10.1” LCDs with 1024 x 600 resolution, a 1.6GHz Athlon Neo MV-40, 1GB of RAM (can upgrade to 4GB), ATI Radeon HD 3200, 160GB HDD, b/g/n wi-fi . The unit has a 4.5h battery life and weighs 1.84 kg. The starting price is about $900 (¥79,800), but to be the first on your block with one in America will cost closer to $1,100. We are huge fans of the multi-screen laptop con...
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Events Social Network Hot Potato Raises $1.42 Million From Who’s Who Of Investors

Hot Potato, a Brooklyn social networking startup that allows users to create instant online communities around specific events, raised $1.42 million in first-round funding from a who's who of venture and angel investors. RRE Ventures and First Round Capital were joined by start-up incubator Betaworks, Huffington Post co-founder Ken Lerer; Thrillist chief Ben Lerer; Jared Kushner, owner of The New York Observer; Strauss Zelnick of ZelnickMedia; Hunch co-founder Chris Dixon; About.com co-fo...
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Q3 Internet Advertising Revenues Released

Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP announced Internet Advertising Revenues for the third quarter yesterday. Q3 Internet advertising revenues were approximately $5.5 billion, 5.5% less than the same period last year but 1.7% more than Q2 2009. In the context of reduced overall ad spending, this means that digital media is capturing a larger piece of marketers’ total advertising spend.
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NYTimes.com Offers Digital Subscribers Overpriced “Discount”

In an effort to increase online revenues,  The New York Times is offering a offering a digital version of the newspaper formatted to look like the print version for an annual subscription price of $179.40 To sweeten this already questionable deal, (identical content is available on the site for free) the paper is offering digital subscribers a $100 discount on a Samsung Go netbook at J&R.  The price of the netbook after the discount is $279.99 (about what similarly powered netbooks co...
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Bizmore To Launch 25 New Business Blogs By End Of The Year

Business Q&A forum Bizmore, backed by Michael Milken and executive coaching firm Vistage International, has expanded its brand into the blogging/online-magazine space with the launch of eight new blogs focused on entrepreneurship, personal finance and small business management. In further evidence of the vastly different trajectories of old media and new media, Editor in Chief Jeffrey Davis said "I'll have 25 blogs before the end of the year." Bizmore's concept is to have content o...
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New Free Tool Finds Available Domain Names That Sound Like Any Word

Having trouble brainstorming a URL name for your new Web 2.0 project? Wordoid.com is a new domain finding tool that automatically generates natural sounding domain names that contain a root word or syllable of your choice. You can ask for results that sound like English, Spanish, French or Italian TLD availability for each generated 'wordoid' is listed next to each result.  If the domain is available, the service provides a link to Godaddy.com to complete the registration. From...
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LinkedIn Custom Groups To Cost $600,000/Year

LinkedIn announced last week that it will be implementing a new paid group format for major corporate brands.  The format will be akin to a full-blown corporate marketing site hosted on Linked-In, and will be supported by a new interactive advertising format on the social network.  The groups will include video, downloadable white papers,  news feeds and allow complete interaction between the company and Linkedin's membership Unlike ordinary LinkedIn groups, however, LinkedIn will charg...
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Firefox Breaks 50% Market Share In Eastern Europe

GemiusRanking PL, a Polish Internet research firm, recently published aggregated information on Internet users' web site behavior and computer technical characteristics for the countries of Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Russia, Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia and Ukraine.   This data set is showing that Firefox now for the first time has over 50% of the browser share in these countries. [Via Mozilla Metrics Blog]
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Ringback Tone Service Muzicall Raises €9 Million In Latest Round

Muzicall, the European ringback tone (RBT) broker, which  offers third party RBT services through many of the leading operators in Europe, including Orange, Vodafone and T-Mobile, raised €9 million ($13M) in its latest round of funding from BlueRun Ventures, GP Bullhound, Orkos Capital, Thule and Veddis Ventures. The international RBT market (the busines of replacing the sound that is heard after a call is placed and before it is answered - generally with a musical work) is estimated to be ...
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picoChip Raises $20 Million For Femtocell Technology

picoChip, the largest producer of femtocell wireless access point systems for mobile telephone networks, announced yesterday that it has raised an addition $20 million in funding from Atlas Venture, Highland Capital Partners, Pond Venture Partners, Scottish Equity Partners, and Rothschild as well as strategic investors AT&T, Intel and Samsung. ABI Research forecasts the total available femtocell market in 2010 will reach 2.3 million units, rising to 40 million units in 2014.  In 2009,...
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AMD Radeon HD 5970 Is The New “Fastest Graphics Card In The World”

AMD announced their newest addition to their flagship graphics card line , the ATI Radeon HD 5970, which they are calling "the fastest graphics card ever created." The card delivers "nearly 5 TeraFLOPS of compute power", fully supports Microsoft DirectX 11 and can run up to three displays simultaneously at resolutions of 7680x1600. The makers are  advertising the cards overclocking potential - The card includes a built-in overclocking system called ATI Overdrive, which will increase th...
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Sony Online Content Service To Launch Early 2010

Sony is planning on launching its "Sony Online Service", as a proprietary network for sales and distribution of movies, music, TV in both rental download and streaming formats. This will be for all of Sony's internet-enabled TV's, such as the Bravia, Vaio computers, Sony Ericsson cel phones, etc. Think:  Playstation Network for all of Sony's non-Playstation Internet connected gadgets. The service will use the same infrastructure as the Playstation Network, which already distributes ...
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Dell Q3 Profits Are Still Down 54% Vs. One Year Ago

Dell profits were actually up slightly from the second quarter, at $12.9 billion up from $12.8 billion.  But Q3 net income was 54% down from Q3 last year ($337 million, down from $727 million). Large enterprise and SMB revenues were up slightly from the last quarter (the first time this has happened in almost two years).  Dell is hoping like crazy that businesses buy high end PCs to run Windows 7 in the fourth quarter.  There's a good chance of a PC price war, however, with all manufacturers ...
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Sysomos Integrates New Media and Social Networking Into The Enterprise

Sysomos has finally released Heartbeat 2.0, its social network monitoring and workflow management tool for the enterprise. Using Heartbeat can kep track of blogs and forum postings, Twitter posts and now Facebook.  It graphically represents sentiment and keywords used in postings on your company. It can also find and track the most influential bloggers and tweeters writing about your company and has an integrated project management function where users can assign tasks to team members....
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YouTube Adds Auto-Captioning Feature

YouTube announced a new automatic captioning (Auto-Caps) function today for English language videos on the service. The site will now be able to automatically generate subtitles using speech recognition technology.  It will also allow video owners and publishers to upload transcript texts for their videos.  The uploaded text will not require any timing data, as the Auto-Caps function will figure out when the words are spoken in the video and display the captions at the correct time. Cl...
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The Browser Is The OS: Google Announces Chrome OS

Google announced its Chrome OS operating system today, which should be released in about a year.  The basic concept here is that the operating system will be a free, lightweight, fast-loading, self-updating platform to take advantage of your computer's hardware and get you connected to the internet via a browser-like interface. Google is already working with netbook manufacturers to define specs for future Chrome OS computers.  (Think netbooks with tiny flash-memory hard drives - the idea...
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Nokia Release N900 ‘Pocket Computer’ in US

Nokia's N900 smartphone is now in stores in the US and is already shipping to pre-order customers. The phone, which is referred to as a 'mobile computer' by Nokia, is powered by an ARM Cortex-A8 600MHz processor with up to 1GB of total available application memory.  The phone has a 3.5-inch 800 x 480 touch screen and a slide-out qwerty keyboard. Size-wise, the phone is a beast. It measures 4.4 by 2.4 by 0.7 inches and weighs 6.4 ounces. There’s up to 48GB of storage space, a 5-megapixe...
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Facebook Now Number Three Video Site

Facebook is now the number 3 video site on the web, according to Nielsen Research [via NewTeevee.com]. This is an incredible gain, as the social networking site was number 10 on the list just last month. As of now, Facebook is just behind YouTube and Hulu in number of videos watched. Top 10 Online Web Brands Ranked by Total Streams Video Brand Total Streams (000) Unique Viewers (000) YouTube 6,632,964 105,923 Hulu 632,662 13,472 Facebook 217,765 31,594 ...
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Oulook 2010 Offers LinkedIn Integration

Outlook 2010 is offering integration with LinkedIn directly from your Outlook Contacts screen. The feature, called 'Outlook Social Connector' is available as part of the Office 2010 Beta Version. The feature adds an 'Activity Feed' to your Outlook contacts, which track the recent LinkedIn status updates of your contacts directly from Outlook. Additional updates to Oulook 2010 include a list of recent emails and attachments sent to each contact.  Also promised is integration with Windows Li...
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Study: Asus Most Reliable Laptop, HP Least Reliable

SquareTrade, a warranty provider for electronics, conducted a study of the more than 30,000 new laptops covered by its plans.  They found that the most reliable laptops are Asus and Toshiba.  The least reliable in the study were HP, with 1 out of 4 failing within the first 3 years of ownership. They also found that netbooks were 20% more likely to fail than premium laptops. the Revolution Money Exchange
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