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Here are some interesting links from the past couple days:

• Esquire uses e-paper cover to celebrate 75th anniversary
  Esquire magazine is turning 75 and is celebrating the momentous event by releasing the first magazine with an electronic ink display cover. Only 100,000 copies of the high-tech September issue are heading to newstands this time around since the technology
• The Unlikely Integration Between Google News and Digg
  TechCrunch reiterates the rumor that Google is about to acquire Digg. "The two companies have reportedly signed a letter of intent and are close to a deal that will bring Digg under the Google News property. The acquisition price is in the $200 million ra

Here are some interesting links from today:

• Share Your Expertise in Google’s Knol
  Knol has much more in common with Squidoo and HubPages than with Wikipedia. The service is centered around authors: each Knol article displays the name of its author and links to a small biography.
• A peek into recent AdWords developments
  One of the main changes is the ability for advertisers to be more specific with their ad targeting through a combination of contextual targeting and placement targeting. As you may know, contextually targeted ads will appear on your pages if an advertiser
• Knol is open to everyone
  A few months ago we announced that we were testing a new product called Knol. Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects. Today, we're making Knol available to everyone.
• Google Knol Opens Its Doors, Challenges Wikipedia
  Google's Wikipedia competitor, Google Knol, officially opens its doors today. The site is already populated with several knols (definition: "an authoritative article about a specific topic"), but anyone can create their own knol as of today. The major dif
• Apple may be eying sub-$1000 notebook market
  We believe there is an 80% chance Apple will introduce redesigned MacBooks and possibly new MacBook Pros at lower price points… Specifically, Apple may re-enter the $999 price point with the MacBook, or test the $1,799 price point with the MacBook Pro.

Here are some interesting links from today:

• Steve Job Is Having Health Problems?
  Apple beat expectations for 3Q, but investors used a late trading session to punish shares of the Mac and iPhone maker after the company offered conservative forward-looking guidance and refused to comment on the health of chief executive Steve Jobs.
• Call Someone – Without Having To Talk To Them
  Boston-based MobileSphere launched a 'straight-to-voicemail' service yesterday called Slydial. If you listen to a short ad, you can then be connected to the voicemail inbox of any US mobile phone subscriber, without causing their phone to ring.

Here are some interesting links from the past couple days:

• Hi-tech is turning us all into time-wasters
  the beeps notifying the arrival of email are said to be causing a 0.5 per cent drop in gross domestic product in the United States, costing the economy $70bn a year
• Computer mouse heading for extinction > News > PC Authority
  Are the Wii MotionPlus and iPhone examples of how we'll be using PCs in years to come? Experts say, the computer mouse is set to die out in the next five years and will be usurped by touch screens and facial recognition, analysts believe.

Here are some interesting links from today:

• Is a Google Talk Contact Invisible?
  Sometimes error messages can reveal more than they were supposed to. Rahul Bansal writes about a simple trick that helps you find out if one of your Google Talk contacts is offline or uses the invisible mode. The trick takes advantage of Google's off the
• Tech Vloggers Are Phoning It In
  Cell phones created a big buzz in tech lately, and YouTube's tech vloggers have been working overtime to unbox, critique and compare the latest models.
• Has Blogging Lost Its Relational Focus?
  I’ve always kept an eye on my competitors in the past so that I could gain an advantage over them but bloggers seem to be doing something that is counter-intuitive to me yet it seems to benefit them at the same time. I wonder if you could write somethin
• Windows Vista tip of the week
  Oh, Windows. If there's one aspect of this operating system that's been a constant disappointment, it has to be its complete and utter inability to "remember" window settings. You know the drill: You go into, say, the Documents folder and customize the wi
• A Detailed Explanation Of How The BSA Misleads With Piracy Stats
  I'm still hopeful that eventually the BSA will recognize that it's doing more damage to its own position by publishing obviously bogus numbers. So, with the organization releasing another bogus stat today, it's time to explain why it's wrong and misleadin