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The End of E-Mail

From: Inc. Magazine, February 2006 |  Page: 41 By: Darren Dahl

It's supposed to make life easier, but e-mail has become a big pain. Enter the wiki, new software that could change the way you communicate.

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Google office coming to ASU

School, Web giant sign 3-year lease
The Arizona Republic

Google's first office on a U.S. college campus will be at Arizona State University. The announcement came, fittingly, in an electronic message Friday.

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A Search Engine For Every Subject

BusinessWeek
Google and Yahoo rule, but a flock of upstarts is offering new ways to find info

Ron Conway hit paydirt as one of Google's earliest bankrollers. But don't try to convince him the search giant has a hammerlock on the sector.

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RSA confab: Boom times for security

By Joris Evers, CNET.com News

No longer just for cryptogeeks, RSA Conference attracts big-name speakers, product launches, underscoring security's growing importance.

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Computing's Power Problem

Tech companies are looking to curb their enormous appetite for electricity.
By Kate Greene, MIT Technology Review

Tech companies are notoriously power hungry. In fact, since data storage has become increasingly important, energy consumption in massive computer rooms -- serving companies from Google to Abercrombie & Fitch -- has been rising.

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Why Johnny Can't Stop Sharing Files

By Larry Downes, CIO Insight

Copyright is effectively dead, despite the entertainment industry having won the Grokster case—or maybe even, in part, because it did. The consequences of ignoring the that change are dire.

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Is It Time To Say Goodbye to Paper Money?

Walaika K. Haskins, newsfactor.com

Since the late 1990s, when the expansion and adoption of the Internet created a bona fide Mecca for retailers and shoppers, people have looked forward to the day when physical cash would no longer be the mainstay of payment transactions.

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St Lawrence of Google

From The Economist print edition

Larry Page, the co-founder of Google, has always wanted to change the world. He is well on his way.

DOES Larry Page ever get vertigo when contemplating his life and future? After all, Mr Page and Sergey Brin, the co-founders of Google, the world's most popular internet search engine, can legitimately claim to have caused an information and media revolution. At 32, they are already worth far more than $10 billion each and fly around in their own Boeing 767. Bill Gates fears them; others in the industry admire or envy them, and some seem to consider them capable of anything. Expectations are dizzyingly high.

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VENTURE CAPITAL IS NOT FOR GIRLIE MEN

By Adam Lashinsky

October 17, 2005

(FORTUNE Magazine) – THERE ARE ALL SORTS OF APPROACHESto the venture capital game. Some investors study one area so deeply they become experts. Others simply back the best entrepreneurs. A third type invests only in companies that aim for giant markets. Then there's the Tim Draper method, which is a bit like using a machine gun to shoot a fleeing duck: Fire enough bullets at the darn thing, and something will hit the target.

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