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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google PPC Video Ads - I'm Betting Against It — Google will launch a new pay-per-click video ad product and syndicate it out through its Adsense Network today. Like Google's normal text ads, Advertisers will bid for placement and will be charged when a user clicks on the video.
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Inside AdWords crew / Inside AdWords:
Click-to-play video ads for AdWords — We're very excited to announce the release of click-to-play video ads on the content network. Here's Bismarck, from the Video Ads team, with the details on this new feature: … We hope you'll keep your eyes out for this new feature and let us know what you think.
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Seamusmccauley / Virtual Economics:
Google and that elusive diversification — After what PaidContent says is at least four months testing, Google is to officially launch its video ads programme. The new format, which is deliberately unobtrusive until the user clicks on the ad and activates the video stream …
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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Google Moves to Sell Space for Video Spots on Network of Web Sites — GOOGLE is taking its first steps to go after the huge market for television advertising this week with a new service that will place video commercials on the many Web sites where it sells advertising.
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Financial Times:
MySpace seeks link with Google or Microsoft — By Richard Waters in San Francisco and Aline van Duyn in New York — MySpace, the fast-growing "social networking" site, is in talks to forge a internet search link with either Google or Microsoft, in a move that would confirm the emergence …
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Garrett French / Search Engine Lowdown:
MySpace in Talks with Google and MSN... not Yahoo — Financial Times reports that MySpace is in talks with both Google and MSN in an effort to monetize those billions of page views. … Nicholas Carr writes: … So who's gonna get it? Google's recent spate of social-search related projects could well be wooing tools for the deal.
Shannon Shoul / Apple:
Nike and Apple Team Up to Launch Nike+iPod — Global Collaboration Brings the Worlds of Sports & Music Together Like Never Before — NEW YORK—May 23, 2006—Nike and Apple® today announced a partnership bringing the worlds of sports and music together like never before with the launch of innovative Nike+iPod products.
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Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Company Asks U.S. to Provide Radio Space for Free Internet — In an ambitious proposal, a Silicon Valley company has asked the government to give it a band of radio spectrum for a free high-speed wireless Internet network that would cover most of the country and be supported by advertising.
ZDNet:
Microsoft considers taking admin rights from employees — As Microsoft moves its internal desktop systems to Windows Vista, the company is contemplating whether to change a long running tradition and take away admin rights from its employees in order to improve security.
John Clyman / PC Magazine:
Inside Windows Vista Beta 2 — Microsoft continues to make improvements to the OS, flesh out the bundled programs' capabilities, and clean up bugs (though there are still plenty). — It's been a long and arduous journey, but Microsoft continues to make progress in its plan to release Windows Vista.
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Li Yuan / Wall Street Journal:
New Domain Name — .Mobi — Could Spur Wireless Web — Surfing the Web on a cellphone can be as difficult as surfing the ocean on a tiny board. Now, a company founded by Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Vodafone Group PLC, Nokia Corp., and several other companies, aims to make it easier …
Michael V. Copeland / Business 2.0:
Unlocking the iPod — If you want to buy content for Apple's iPod, you have to go through iTunes. Navio Systems is hoping to change that. — In an ideal digital world, we'd be able to buy copyrighted music and videos wherever we wanted, not just on a designated store.
Dan Zehr / Austin American-Statesman:
Dell tests the retail waters again — Dallas and New York-area mall stores will open later this year. — Dell Inc. will break its long boycott against retail sales with two stores at shopping malls later this year, but the company said it will remain true to its direct model by having shoppers order products online for delivery.
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Candace Lombardi / CNET News.com:
TV advertising's DVR challenge — This September, AOL and Mark Burnett Productions will launch "Gold Rush," an interactive game that asks players to monitor CBS television programs and commercials for clues to find $2 million in gold. — The game will last for approximately the first two months …
Susan Mernit / Susan Mernit's Blog:
Sphere links on Time mag site — Mike Arrington just pointed out the blogosphere related links provided by SF start-up Sphere on selected Time Magazine articles. Very cool, but it makes me wonder why Sphere was successful in pulling this off when Technorati, Feedster …
Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Vectrotel X8 Secure Mobile Phone — The feds aren't going to like it when you hook up your Vectrotel X8, a normal-looking GSM cellphone that has some serious 128-bit encryption inside. It has the usual features of a run-of-the-mill handset, such as a Bluetooth and USB connectivity …
samsung.com:
SAMSUNG Electronics Launches the World's First PCs with NAND Flash-based Solid State Disk — SEOUL, Korea - May 23, 2006 : Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the leader in digital media technology, will release the world's first PCs embedded with a 32-Gigabyte (GB) NAND flash-based solid state disk (SSD).
Sam Mcloughln / PalmAddicts:
MACY'S TO BRING IN IPOD VENDING MACHINES — I just saw this over at Gear Live. Wow, these iPod vending machines are really popping up in lots of places lately! I'd love to see some Palm PDA vending machines! Talk about some drooling! — In an effort to keep up with the swankiest of swanks …
Shel / a shel of my former self:
The press release is dead! Long live the press release! — I've resisted jumping aboard the "press release is dead" bandwagon because I just don't believe it. I have no argument with the issues that lead supporters of the movement to proclaim the press release's demise.
Microsoft:
Hardware Developers Go Live With Microsoft Services — Opportunities for independent hardware vendors abound as Windows Live Services take off. — SEATTLE, May 23, 2006 —In November, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates and Chief Technical Officer Ray Ozzie demonstrated …
