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I am back home now after an interesting evening where we all got to taste the Armageddon. I met lots of local technologists and bloggers, plus beer lovers, thanks to Epic Beer.From there a few (myself, Alan and Stuart) walked to the always good Nicolini's for some Italian food and lots of geeky talk.Some very entertaining tweets during the evening. Epic Beer's Luke is doing a great job of using Internet-based social networks - the back of his business cards lists their addresses on Google, YouTube, Facebook, FriendFeed, Flickr and Twitter - and Luke is an avid Twitter user.
Geekzone.com Thursday, July 17, 2008

Live Mesh Connects Folders and Desktops Across Windows PCs [Screenshot Tour]

Windows only (for the moment): microsoft has thrown open the doors to a "tech preview" of its Live Mesh service, a kind of web-boosted version of Lifehacker favorite folder-syncing tool FolderShare,...
Lifehacker.com Thursday, July 17, 2008

Disney Sues Party Store For Costumes Looking Like Disney Characters

You all know the history of Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse, right? It all started with a train crash in 1900 killing one engineer named Cayce Jones. That crash inspired the fireman on that train ride to write a song commemorating Jones. That song became popular, passed along from railroad to railroad, and some others took it and turned it into a popular song about "Casey Jones." That was so popular, that some other songwriters basically remixed the song into one about a Steamboat captain: Steamboat Bill. That became so popular that Buster Keaton made a silent film called "Steamboat Bill Jr." And, finally, that inspired Walt Disney to take the idea of a mouse named Mickey (which some believe he got from a popular toy named Micky Mouse sold by an entirely different company) and created a parody video called "Steamboat Willie." That launched Mickey Mouse and Walt Disney into a world of fame and fortune -- all based on this creative passing on of songs, names, characters and content --
Techdirt.com Thursday, July 17, 2008

Search Internet Explorer Favorites in Vista with a Shortcut [Windows Vista Tip]

If you've stored a good number of bookmarks (or, in windows terms, "Favorites") in Internet Explorer and need quick access to them, the How-To Geek has you covered, at least in Windows Vista. By...
Lifehacker.com Thursday, July 17, 2008

When Colluding With A Competitor, Perhaps Don't Send A Direct Email Suggesting You Keep Prices High

It's rather rare these days to see collusion lawsuits where there's overt evidence of collusion. Instead, it's usually implicit collusion where a case needs to be made that this is a problem. However, every once in a while you still get those good old fashioned situations where there's evidence of direct price fixing. For example, the Inquirer points us to a case involving questions of collusion in the graphics card market between ATI and NVIDIA, where it appears NVIDIA's VP of marketing sent an email to ATI's president and chief operating officer suggesting that, while the two companies were competitors, they should work more closely to make sure their stock prices each remained high. Apparently, the lawyers in the case tried to hide that document as a "trade secret." If you consider it to be a "trade secret" that the two companies may have been collaborating, then perhaps they have a point. But the judge didn't buy it: "This court is not a wholly-owned subsidiary of your compan
Techdirt.com Thursday, July 17, 2008

Telcos should not generate or own content

Quick comment on Vodafone moving away from the confusing "walled garden" model and getting into the "charge $1 a day for up to 10 MB" casual data plan coming up in a couple of weeks: well done, about time!Operators should have realised a long time ago that people see them as bit movers not content owners and creators.UPDATE: Someone pointed to a related post with more information you can absorb. Good one Lance - I like your comment "As soon as they enter the content game then they are competing against the entire internet - and that’s a game they will lose."
Geekzone.com Thursday, July 17, 2008

Not All Newspaper Chains Are Facing Doom And Gloom Scenarios

The common refrain on the newspaper industry is that it's dying out, being replaced by online news sources. Of course, that leaves out some important facts: such as the fact that there are newspaper chains that are actually doing quite well, even when they mostly focus on the old dinosaur of actual newspapers. Romenesko points us to a story about David Black, a Canadian newspaper publisher who owns a ton of local newspapers around Canada and the US that are actually doing quite well. But, that's because they're not competing with the big dailys, but focus on having a lean staff that writes almost exclusively about local news. His papers are all local papers, that don't try to provide all that other news that you can already get online, but the news that is only going to be interesting to a small group of folks. But, as Black has learned over many years, those small groups of folks are a lucrative audience. While other newspapers have trouble competing, Black's are full of ads --
Techdirt.com Thursday, July 17, 2008

GOOG Continues to Out Compete its Partner Sites

Google [GOOG] second quarter financial report disappointed Wall Street causing its shares to fall in after-hours trading. It also disappointed its partner sites that run Google advertising. Google's partner sites generated revenues, through AdSense programs, of $1.66 billion, or 31% of total revenues, in the second quarter of 2008. This represents a 22% increase over network revenues of $1.35 billion generated in the second quarter of 2007 and a 2% decrease over first quarter 2008 revenues of $1.69 billion. Google's own sites did a lot better: Google-owned sites generated revenues of $3.53 billion, or 66% of total revenues, in the second quarter of 2008. This represents a 42% increase over second quarter 2007 revenues of $2.49 billion and a 4% increase over first quarter 2008 revenues of $3.40 billion. http://investor.google.com/rel... makes more money from its own sites because it doesn't have to share the revenue with partner sites. And it continues to
Siliconvalleywatcher.com Thursday, July 17, 2008

Lunch with Applied Materials: Looking to the Sun for New Business

Semicon West, the massive chip manufacturing show is in town this week. Applied Materials [AMAT], the world's largest chip equipment company, has chosen this week to highlight its solar electronics. It is using its chip manufacturing expertise to build very large solar electric panels. I met with Michael Splinter, CEO and key members of his team at a small media lunch at the Sony Metreon. Applied also showed off its panel (see picture) which is designed to be put on warehouse roofs, car parks and in other large installations. Manufacturing solar panels is very similar to making chips. Both use silicon but solar cells only require a handful of process steps compared with many hundreds in making chips--and there is no need for expensive cleanrooms. For about $100m Applied Materials will build you an automated factory that produces large solar panels for solar farms. So far, it hasn't sold any factories in the US. Applied says it hopes the US government will pass legislation that offers i
Siliconvalleywatcher.com Thursday, July 17, 2008

RNC To Sue CafePress For Helping People Promote Republican Candidates

Apparently, a few years back, the Republican National Committee trademarked its elephant logo, along with "GOP", "Grand Old Party", and "Republican National Committee." And, here we are in an election year, and they're out trying to enforce those trademarks... against people who are trying to support the GOP and its candidates. Paul Alan Levy, from Public Citizen, who is representing CafePress in this case, writes in to let us know that the RNC has threatened to sue CafePress because some users of CafePress have created shirts that include the RNC elephant and the term GOP. You could almost (almost) understand this, if the shirts were negative. But, no, most of them were actually created by people who are Republicans or support Republican candidates. There's also the question of why its threatening CafePress, rather than the individuals who actually used the logo and the term. But, still, in an election year when the candidates seem to be shoving each other aside to try to embrac
Techdirt.com Thursday, July 17, 2008

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