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This is just as much a backend infrastructure story as it is a sheer wicked functionality story: In a story about a completely different topic, Wal-Mart let spill that it’s working on a solution that will let people take their cellphones to a Wal-Mart photo center and print the pictures off their phones with zero […]

This is the kind of stuff that’s impossible to make up: consumer goods giant Proctor and Gamble has introduced a chatbot, a program that communicates via instant messaging with potential customers. And who are the customers for a deodorant? Well, if you guessed adults, you’re terribly wrong. This chatbot is aimed squarly at teen […]

DEVO doesn’t have the monopoly on high-tech spuddery, anymore! Shannon Dininny of the Associated Press (via The Washington Post) writes:
Curt Morris, Port of Quincy board president, stands Thursday, March 23, 2006, on a bluff overlooking a new residential development on the banks of the Columbia River west of Quincy, Wash. The city of Quincy has […]

Well, now it is time for the software stocks to take a beating it looks like. Microsoft, Adobe among others are definitely under the microscope and certainly under the gun as well.

I’m told that a billion dollars is quite a bit of money. I wonder what these guys are up to? Starting a new country? Flying to Jupiter? Building the world’s biggest superball to see how far it’ll bounce? Or maybe that’s just the sort of stuff I’d find to do with that kind of cash […]

The online entertainment network features Natasha Bedingfield as first Artist of the Month, and offers music videos and Game with Fame sessions.
Microsoft Corp. and music giant Epic Records today announced an agreement to make available a full year of exclusive artist content and high-definition music video downloads free for all Xbox 360 gamers. Over the […]

Kermit the Frog once told us that “It’s Not Easy Bein’ Green,” but he also reminded us that it’s not such a bad thing to be; that goes for investors on Wall Street as well as tree-huggers in Yosemite, daily commuters on traffic-clogged highways and byways across the world, arctic wildlife trying to survive in […]

Free registration required to read this fascinating story of a business’ recovery - including IT recovery - from the Katrina disaster. Michael Ybarra of SearchCIO.com writes:
Oreck Corp. thought it had a disaster recovery plan. Then Hurricane Katrina struck. To keep the business alive, a dedicated crew of executives and staff had to surmount huge […]

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:
David Lazarus of the San Francisco Chronicle has an interesting piece today about a surprise Wells Fargo online customers had this week when logging into their accounts on the Internet. They were presented with an online access agreement, consisting of 11,000 words, that they had to accept before they would […]

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:
I remember when deskspace was at a premium with old CRTs, but more because of their depth than anything else (and was a 21-inch CRT deep — and heavy!). Here’s something that might take up a lot of your desk … Sharp has announced that in March it will start selling […]

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:
As David wrote earlier today, rumors about Dell and AMD have been flying lately. This latest round of rumors actually started in early January. Today, in a post-earnings release conference call, CEO Kevin Rollins squashed the rumors and indicated that Dell has no plans to use AMD CPUs.
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David Johnston of RealTechNews writes:
It looks like a Dell-AMD deal is now imminent and I really can’t complain about what it’s doing to the value of my stock portfolio.
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I have been a huge fan of subscription music services - especially Yahoo Music. It makes no sense to pay by the song unless you truly love and have to own it for life, and subscription services have always offered the ability to own individual tunes or albums for less that the iTunes price. What’s […]

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:
You can read the full 54-page PDF here. It’s part of a review of the effectiveness of the DMCA (reviews must be conducted every 3 years). Ars Technica and the Electronic Frontier Foundation both have analyses of the document, and it seems evident that besides applauding the DMCA, the […]

Chief Gizmateer of RealTechNews writes:
2006 is shaping up to be a ‘dog” of a year at best for Google.
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Paul Gillin of “BtoB Magazine” is earnestly seeking non-tech company bloggers who are using weblogs for market research, specifically to collect research about customers and markets for an upcoming column. I know that there are companies whose blogs serve as market research - indeed, don’t just about all of these weblogs end up being customer […]

This is one of those great “some companies really ‘get it’” stories, the kind of thing I love to hear about as someone riding the very tip of the technology rocketship (think Slim Pickens in Dr. Strangelove and you’ll have my mental image exactly). Prentice-Hall Business Publishers have the same challenges that any company today […]

Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:
Want to lend money to a perfect stranger? Here’s the way it works at Prosper.com: someone submits a request for a loan with the amount he needs and the maximum interest rate he will pay. Others “bid” on the loan, submitting how much they will loan and what rate they […]

http://www.realtechnews.com/Michael Santo of RealTechNews writes:
I have my own domain, and this week I struggled to make my email work. It was because the pop servers of the provider hosting my email service were under a DoS attack for 2 - 3 days. Because of that, I was unable to get email, at least not consistently.
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David Johnston of RealTechNews writes
Do you ever get the feeling that you’re being charged too much for services on your monthly phone bill? Well, it’s not just you. Victor of the Typical PC User podcast was shocked when he found that Verizon had charged him a monthly charge of exactly $417,949.73 for 3-way calling.
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