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Timbl / timbl's blog:
Net Neutrality: This is serious — When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA. — I blogged on net neutrality before, and so did a lot of other people.
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about.skype.com:
Packard Bell & Skype Announce The World's First "Skype Edition" Notebook — Built-in Webcam With One-Touch Skype Calling Button — High-Performance Intel Dual-Core Processor — LUXEMBOURG & PARIS, June 21st 2006, Packard Bell, one of the leading home PC brands in Europe, and Skype …
katu.com:
Wireless Piggybacking Lands Man In Trouble — VANCOUVER, Wash. - Brewed Awakenings, with its pithy name, artful drinks and wireless Internet service, has found itself unexpectedly percolating on the forefront of high-tech law. — "He doesn't buy anything," Manager Emily Pranger says about the man she ended up calling 911 about.
Robert McMillan / InfoWorld:
Researchers hack Wi-Fi driver to breach laptop — One of many flaws found allowed them to take over a laptop by exploiting a bug in an 802.11 wireless driver — Security researchers have found a way to seize control of a laptop computer by manipulating buggy code in the system's wireless device driver.
Robert L. Mitchell / Recent Posts:
Bill Gates' piracy confession — If you read way down to the bottom of a Wall Street Journal interview with Bill Gates that ran yesterday, you'll discover that the Microsoft executive admitted to watching pirated movies on the Internet. The confession came as he was talking about content he had viewed on YouTube.
Jacob Ogles / Wired News:
Laptops Give Hope to the Homeless — FILLMORE, California — Happy Ivy doesn't have a bathroom or a kitchen in the bus he calls home. He does, however, have a video-editing station. — Living in a squalid, Woodstock-style bus parked in a Fillmore, California, orange grove …
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
MySpace Creates Walled Gardens to Protect Advertisers From the Actual Site — In a desperate attempt to shelter advertisers from its community, MySpace is creating walled gardens where advertisers can feel like they are advertising on MySpace, even though they're really not.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Toshiba's RD-A1 HD DVD recorder with 1TB disk — Hey, early adopters, we've got something big for ya! Measuring in at about half the size of your average consumer electronics she-waif (that'd be 33-pounds), we bring you the RD-A1 HD DVD recorder set to drop July 14 in Japan.
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
FTC Laptop Theft Exposes Consumer Data — The Federal Trade Commission — an agency whose mission includes consumer protection and occasionally involves suing companies for negligence in protecting customer information — today disclosed a recent theft of two laptop computers containing personal and financial data on consumers.
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
FCC approves new Internet phone taxes — WASHINGTON—An estimated 4 million subscribers to Internet phone services like Vonage could see new fees on their bills under a plan approved Wednesday by federal regulators. — The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously at its monthly meeting …
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
CareerBuilder to Sell Stake, and Suitors Aren't Shy — Portions of CareerBuilder.com, a popular job recruitment Web site, are up for grabs among several newspaper companies trying to piggyback on its success. — As online advertisers migrate to the Web, most newspapers' revenues from online job advertisers are growing.
adobe.com:
Adobe and Google Team to Distribute the Google Toolbar with Adobe's Macromedia Shockwave Player, Additional Adobe Products in the Future — SAN JOSE, Calif. — June 21, 2006 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the signing of a multi-year agreement with Google Inc. …
Pam Belluck / New York Times:
Young People's Web Postings Worry Summer Camp Directors — Summer camp directors have a new scourge, and it is not mosquitoes or impetigo. It is the Internet, specifically sites like MySpace, Facebook and Friendster, where young people often post personal or revealing information.
Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Wine.com raises $12 million more — to try seventh time lucky — Wine.com has become the most stubborn dot.com hangover ever. — The San Francisco online wine retailer, which depending on how you count is now on around its seventh reincarnation since launching in the 1990s …
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Inside Google Sitemaps:
Get more from the latest release — In response to your requests, our latest release expands some of the features of Google Sitemaps. Here's a roundup of what's new. — Increased crawl errors — Previously, we showed you up to 10 URLs for each error type. We now show all URLs we've had trouble crawling.
