Shares of Google rose to an all-time new high today onpositive analyst comments and an uptick in trading for major internet companies. The company's shares rose $9.02 to $534.02 and now has a market cap of $163.6bn. Google is certainly a major force in the market, if you were to compare market cap across the major tech vendors it ranks only behind Microsoft and is ahead of IBM, Intel, Oracle and SAP.    read more »

Jingle Networks, owner of the 800-FREE-411 service, has issued a press release regarding its patent approval.

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The government of Luis Ignacio (Lula) da Silva announced a new addition to the Computadores para todos (Computers for Everyone) program, announcing this week a financed purchase plan for Linux-based notebook computers (see Globo On Line - Laptop popular vai sair em até 24 vezes de R$ 80).   For those readers who don't read Portuguese, the article describes a program in which end-users can buy a Linux-based notebook in 24 payments of 80 reals, or about 24 x $40, about US$960.&n  read more »

‘A mobile phone needs a manual in the way a teacup doesn't’
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Jason Calacanis (Sequoia Capital) and Michael Arrington (techcrunch.com) have announced a new conference called the TechCrunch20. Twenty companies over two days will get an opportunity to present to 250 to 500 of their peers (and competitors, the media, VCs, the press, etc.).  read more »