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Somasegar / Somasegar's WebLog:
.NET Framework 3.0 — When speaking to developers about WinFX one question that repeatedly comes up is, "WinFX sounds great, but what happens to .NET?" . NET Framework has becomes the most successful developer platform in the world. Developers know and love .NET.
BBC:
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.
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
New Net neutrality plan may ruffle feathers — news analysis Internet companies that have been lobbying for stiff Net neutrality regulations might be having second thoughts right about now. — A new proposal in the U.S. House of Representatives takes the concept of mandatory Net neutrality …
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Maya Roney / Forbes:
Google's GBuy Could Be 'Revolutionary' — RBC Capital Markets maintained an "outperform" rating on Google in light of the impending launch of the company's online payment system, currently known as "GBuy." — Consumers using GBuy, which is set for release on June 28, will be taken off the merchant's site to complete the payment.
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Oliver / MobileCrunch:
Umundo Launches Mobile Video Capture and Embedding Application — OkDork which is the funniest name for a blog I think I've ever seen posted a good catch today; Umundo.com. The application lets you send video you capture on your mobile phone to video@umundo.com and then …
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Daniel Berninger / GigaOM:
Is Vonage the new MCI? — GigaOM readers in a poll earlier this month have spoken - Vonage stock is a sucker's bet and is headed down. The stock market seems to agree. The odds are against the company. Daniel Berninger, senior analyst with Tier 1 Research thinks otherwise …
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Business 2.0:
5 hot products for the future — The Institute for the Future couldn't get clients to read its trend forecasts. So it started giving away prescient product ideas instead. — (Business 2.0 Magazine) - Trendspotting is serious business. So much so that the Institute for the Future …
Doc Searls / Linux Journal:
Mashing Up a Commons — Is it possible that, for all our talk about The Commons, the Net doesn't have one yet? Or at least not a complete one? — That's what occurred to me last Sunday night, as Claus Dahl and I sat talking in a smoky Copenhagen bistro. The subject was public spaces.
dailywireless.org:
MobilePro Pulls out of Sacramento — MobilePro, a leading broadband wireless services company, that won a competitive bid for Sacramento's city-wide wireless cloud, announced today it has elected to withdraw from the project. — After being declared the RFP winner and going through …
Chris Stevens / Crave at CNET.co.uk:
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.
Annys Shin / Washington Post:
D.C. Sues InPhonic Over Rebate Restrictions — The D.C. attorney general is suing InPhonic Inc., accusing it of failing to deliver on rebates after the District-based retailer of wireless services and cellphones racked up more than 2,000 consumer complaints over the past three years.
Search Engine Watch:
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:
Club Internet Reveals Details of Its Triple-Play Offering: Next-Generation Digital Television Powered by Microsoft TV — Offering will be the first in France based on the Microsoft TV software platform. — PARIS — June 9, 2006 — Club Internet, in alliance with Microsoft Corp. …
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
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.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
eBay and Kaboodle To Launch MyCollectibles — On Monday eBay and Kaboodle will jointly announce a new service called "MyCollectibles", which will be tightly integrated with the core offerings of both companies. The service is live and available at both ebay.com/mycollectibles and mycollectibles.kaboodle.com.
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sourcewatch.org:
From the Editor's Blog: — Congresspedia at YearlyKos — I'm in Las Vegas for the next few days for the YearlyKos convention (fear not, right-leaning readers, I'll also be at the Conservative Political Action Conference next March). I'm here because Dailykos.org has become a booming …
