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Congratulations again to Marc Orchant!

Just like he says here, January 2006 has been a great month for fellow GTD’er, TabletPC’er, Weblogs Inc colleague, and pal Marc Orchant.  The most recent buzz that Marc has generated is around an article that was published in American Airlines’ in-flight magazine American Way.  Time Bandits does an excellent job of describing the power, …

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This has to be one of the coolest startups out there today

Riya, a very interesting startup company that is building a picture tagging technology, just closed a huge $15MM round of funding.  Riya’s face recognition technology auto tags your photos with the names of those people that you’ve trained it to know based on facial characteristics.  Like something out of the FBI, or hollywood, this would …

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Apple’s marketcap surpasses Dell

Apple’s strong run with the iPod has lifted the company’s market capitalization to $72bn, or just slightly higher than Dell.  Engadget has a snippet from an internal email that Steve Jobs sent out marking the moment: “Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn’t perfect at predicting the future. Based on today’s stock market close, …

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Student Tablet PC shows how to scan an entire book into your Tablet

The Student Tablet PC weblog is one of the best Tablet focused sites out there.  While my college days are a distant memory, the site’s productive approach to using a Tablet enabled PC makes it a must read.  For example, their latest post details a great method of scanning textbooks onto your Tablet.  Beside for reducing …

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