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"Wired made the nerd hip. But now that everyone's online, what's its cachet?"

- a media executive quoted in Forbes magazine about why Wired Ventures can't find new investors to take over the magazine.

"PCs are mutating into network computers. A network computer is simply any computer that runs a browser. If that's a $700 Dell PC, so be it."

- Oracle's chief Larry Ellison talking at Oracle Java Day.

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