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Seeking Alpha:
Google Launches ValueClick Killer — David Jackson submits: Last night, after market close, I received the following email from Google's AdSense team: … The attachment contained the following: … In other words, Google is launching a fully-fledged cost-per-action — otherwise known as affiliate marketing — network.
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Google Blogoscoped:
Google Testing Pay-Per-Sale AdSense? — David Jackson of SeekingAlpha reports that Google is inviting a selected group of AdSense webmasters to test out new "Cost-Per-Action" (CPA) ads. Quote SeekingAlpha's reprint of Google's mail: — How do I get paid?
Inquirer:
Dell laptop explodes at Japanese conference — INQ reader's amazing snaps — AN INQUIRER READER attending a conference in Japan was sat just feet away from a laptop computer that suddenly exploded into flames, in what could have been a deadly accident. — Guilhem, our astonished reader reports …
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Key Ballmer adviser leaves Microsoft — update Martin Taylor, a key adviser to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, has left the software maker. — Taylor, a 13-year company veteran who led Microsoft's "Get the Facts" anti-Linux crusade for several years, was named in March as a corporate vice president overseeing …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft and Creative Commons Release Tool for Copyright Licensing — The organizations announce availability of Microsoft Office add-in that enables easy access to Creative Commons copyright licenses. — REDMOND, Wash., and SAN FRANCISCO — June 20, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. and Creative Commons …
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Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Creative Commons comes to Microsoft Office — Microsoft and the Creative Commons on Wednesday plan to release a free tool that will let people attach a Creative Commons copyright license to Microsoft Office documents. — Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that has written licenses …
Business Week:
Apple's iTunes Movie Muddle — The outfit wants to sell films through its online store, but an agreement with the movie studios is unlikely any time soon — Water coolers from Cupertino to Hollywood are abuzz over the prospect that Apple Computer is plotting a frontal assault on the movie business.
Sarah Lacy / Business Week:
Levanta: Rising From Its Past? — The reincarnation of the dot-com crash-and-burn Linuxcare, it's seeking to serve up a tech comeback story — It's not that Matt Mosman has an easy job. As Linux continues its march deeper into Corporate America's racks and racks of servers …
Paul R. La Monica / CNNMoney.com:
Growth guru: Avoid Google — Former star mutual fund manager Fred Kobrick says Google is a great search engine but not a good stock. Here's why. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - One of the most successful growth fund managers of the past few decades has a tip for investors about search engine giant Google: Don't buy it.
Jared / the future is yesterday:
Unofficial This American Life Podcast is no More — I have decided to remove the Unofficial This American Life podcast at the request of TAL's webmaster Elizabeth Meister. Contrary to posts on Boing Boing and elsewhere, Jon Udell and I did not recieve a "nastygram" or formal ceast and desist letter.
Nigel Watson / Wired News:
'UFO Hacker' Tells What He Found — The search for proof of the existence of UFOs landed Gary McKinnon in a world of trouble. — After allegedly hacking into NASA websites — where he says he found images of what looked like extraterrestrial spaceships — the 40-year-old Briton faces extradition …
Will O'Brien / Engadget:
How-To: Wiring VoIP to your phone jacks — We've been together for a long time, but we think it's time for us to take a break up. It's just... we met someone else; someone who will hook us up with free long distance. But don't worry, we'll give you a call sometime next year when we're looking for faster internet.
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finanzen.net:
U.S. Skype Users New to SkypeOut Can Make One-Hour Free International Phone Calls to 30 Countries Worldwide — Skype(R), the global Internet communications company, isoffering its U.S.-based users one hour of free international callingto landline phones in 30 countries around the world.
Evan Blass / Engadget:
Kurzweil set to unveil portable reader for the blind — Even though we've seen a ton of products designed to aid the visually-impaired in their daily lives, technology still has a long way to go before disabled folks are able to enjoy a completely unrestricted lifestyle …