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House rejects Net neutrality rules — update The U.S. House of Representatives definitively rejected the concept of Net neutrality on Thursday, dealing a bitter blow to Internet companies like Amazon.com, eBay and Google that had engaged in a last-minute lobbying campaign to support it.
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House Backs Telecom Bill Favoring Phone Companies — WASHINGTON, June 8 — The House of Representatives approved the most extensive telecommunications legislation in a decade on Thursday, largely ratifying the policy agenda of the nation's largest telephone companies. — The bill passed by a lopsided vote of 321 to 101.
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House seeks to open cable TV market — WASHINGTON - Legislation to open cable TV markets to more competition, possibly saving consumers hundreds of dollars a year, passed the House Thursday. — The biggest telecommunications legislation in a decade, approved 321-101 …


Hollywood and the hackers — Motion Picture Association President Dan Glickman locks horns with Electronic Frontier Foundation's John Perry Barlow over big media's war with the internet. — The biggest pirate movie site on the Internet was raided by police a few days ago.

World Cup: Google Does The Logo Thing; Yahoo & Ask Have Smart Shortcuts — Google's sporting a special World Cup-version of its logo in honor of the start of the World Cup today, while Yahoo and Ask are offering special results that come up after World Cup-related searches. A round-up of what's going on, below.
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Google World Cup Results (Exclusive)
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Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites — "I AM continually shocked and appalled at the details people voluntarily post online about themselves." So says Jon Callas, chief security officer at PGP, a Silicon Valley-based maker of encryption software.

Socialtext Partners with Dan Bricklin on wikiCalc — Socialtext partnered with Dan Bricklin (inventor of VisiCalc) to exclusively distribute, redistribute and co-develop wikiCalc — the social spreadsheet. Dan brings a rich understanding not just of spreadsheets, but open source and social software.
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SocialText/wikiCalc: More Interesting Than Google Spreadsheets
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Apple Faces Fresh Legal Attacks in Europe — PARIS, June 8 — Apple's popular iTunes music-download service is facing fresh legal attacks in Europe. — Government consumer protection agencies in Norway and Sweden want Apple to remove restrictions that prevent customers from playing music …
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Google Research prototypes ambient audio contextual content — A team from Google Research has developed a prototype system that uses a home computer's internal microphone to listen to the ambient audio in a room, determine what is being watched on TV and offer web-based supplemental information …


Crave Talk: Is Nintendo the apple of Apple's eye? — In 1995 Apple launched its first games console, the Bandai Pippin. It was based on a 66MHz PowerPC processor and ran a stripped-down version of Mac OS 7. The market for the device was not immediately obvious.
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Rich RSS Readers: best of breed picks — This post was largely written by Ryan Stewart, a guest blogger on Read/WriteWeb. I've added my own Best of Breed picks for each category. — Feed readers can be divided up into two general camps: The web based feed readers - such as NewsAlloy …


New cell phone screens battery friendly — SAN FRANCISCO—A new breed of screens for cell phones, now in development, is getting back to nature. — Qualcomm and others are promoting new screen technology for handhelds and mobile devices that can stay on all day without sapping battery life, thanks to the sun or liquids.
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House panel OKs digital licensing bill — A U.S. House of Representatives panel on Thursday approved a digital copyright bill that critics say could imperil home-use copying of music and video recording devices like TiVo. — The Section 115 Reform Act, or SIRA, introduced by Texas Republican Lamar Smith …


Vonage Founder Stands To Profit Despite IPO Flop — Vonage Holdings Corp. chairman and founder Jeffrey Citron has a paper profit of almost a half-billion dollars — six times his initial investment in the company — from shares he bought before the company's initial public offering.


Look Out Wikipedia, Here Comes Yahoo Answers! — We wrote last month of Yahoo Answers hitting the 10 million answers posted mark, an impressive accomplishment especially given the low interest and poor take-up answer search has traditionally had in the US. But some new stats add fuel …

Microsoft to Collaborate With University of California and University of Toronto Libraries for Windows Live Book Search — Windows Live Books Publisher Program enables publishers to easily submit content for inclusion in the Windows Live Book Search index. — REDMOND, Wash. — June 8 …
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