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This is the first entrant into what will surely be a bigger retail category: the combination DVR/DVD player. DVR is digital video recorder – it’s essentially a bare-bones TiVo (it can do the live TV pause, record programs, etc. but doesn’t include the recommendation feature, program guides, etc.) coupled with a DVD player and a…

magazine: Microsoft’s Weblog Software. Fortunately, Microsoft hasn’t focused their attention on the weblog market. Pesonally, I’d rather stick with tools from small companies like UserLand if/when Microsoft tries to take over the market!Picture the following scenario: Microsoft has created a weblog tool that is designed to run inside the firewall at a company. It’s browser-accessible…

My Cingular contract is up in January, which means it’s time to shop for a new phone. Since I travel a fair amount to Europe on business, I need a GSM phone. I also want to consolidate from my PDA and cell phone to one device. As near as I can tell, my options are…

Wall Street Journal: How Safe Is Airline Water? The results of our water-quality snapshot: a long list of microscopic life you don’t want to drink, from Salmonella and Staphylococcus to tiny insect eggs. Worse, contamination was the rule, not the exception: Almost all of the bacteria levels were tens, sometimes hundreds, of times above U.S.…

A great story: Act of kindness speaks volumes about football’s spirit (as read and discussed this morning on ESPN Radio’s Mike & Mike in the Morning).[POELog] What a great story.

This is newsworthy: Howard Bashman’s blog has become even more influential. Turns out that a judge issued an opinion on Tuesday; Howard noted in passing that one of the footnotes appeared to be in error. On Wednesday, the Judge issued an amended opinion with a correction of the footnote in question, followed up by an…

Why tech’s heavyweights still can’t crush the small fry BusinessWeek Online [News.com: News Around the Web] An encouraging note about the opportunities for innovation from Business Week. In light of the doomsday predicitions coming from Siebel and Oracle, it’s nice to hear someone see the glass as half full: Even if smaller and midsize companies…

If you named your company (not to mention the site) “Law.com”, don’t you think http://law.com/ would pull up the home page? Turns out you’d be wrong. You need to go http://www.law.com/ . Come on guys, figure out the DNS!

My only comments after reading the synopsis (I’ll look at the full paper later) is to compare this with Gartner’s Hype Cycle (I wrote about this last December). More later… From Ross Mayfield’s Weblog: Whitepaper: Timing Your Business Case. I have posted a whitepaper on the use of financial metrics (ROI, TCO, ROA, etc.) in…

Well, one review anyway. Sandeep Dave, editor of the India Law & International Resources Review, recently published his review of the Lawyer’s Guide to Marketing on the Internet. You can read the full review here. But the concluding paragraph says what needs to be said: In plain language, the book gives useful tips to exploit…