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Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
No Neutral Ground in This Internet Battle — Net neutrality. — Sounds benign, but no two words have stirred more passion this year. The mere mention of the issue is enough to make a wonk explode. — Yet the public advocacy on this important topic has concealed far more than it has illuminated.
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Brian Ward / TechEffect:
Jeffrey Citron defends Vonage, announces new V-Phone USB device — Earlier today Leo Hindery basically said anyone who thinks VoIP service can be monetized is out of his mind. Enter Vonage's chairman and chief strategist, Jeffrey A. Citron, who spent about a half hour using cute charts …
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Brian Ward / The Tech Confidential Blog:
Leo Hindery's death sentence for the portals — Leo Hindery's Washington Insider Keynote at the Convergence 2.0 conference barely touched on Washington at all, but was filled with plenty of bold statements. Hindery, managing partner at Intermedia Partners, first took all content and distribution …
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Microsoft Unified Communications Plan — The NY Times says "Microsoft Plans to Blend Phones with Computers". Great headline, but Microsoft had all the pieces (email, IM, Live Meeting, VoIP) for a long time. Now the Unified Communications Product Roadmap ties them all together seamlessly.
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
MagSafe meltdown strikes again! — Back in March, we reported about a poor MacBook Pro user who posted photos on Flickr along with an account of having come home to find his MagSafe connector melted. Thanking his cats for apparently disconnecting the MagSafe accidentally (see, I told you guys! …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Automattic now offers enterprise WordPress support — How do you make money by giving away free software? Automattic, the company that's home to several key developers of the free open source blogging software WordPress (used by this blog and many more) has announced today a new service called the Automattic Support Network.
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David Berlind / Between the Lines:
RSS: The new intranet protocol? — In a story he headlined Web 2.0 sews grassroots collaboration, CNET News.com's Martin LaMonica wrote: … LaMonica's story goes on to say that Microsoft is responding by building wiki functionality into a forthcoming version of its Sharepoint collaboration technology.
Sara Kehaulani Goo / Washington Post:
Cellphone Company Makes A Call: Korean Americans — When Helio LLC wanted to market a new $250 ultra-high-tech cellphone this year, it targeted three distinct groups: spoiled teens, tech geeks and Korean Americans. — Korean Americans make up less than 1 percent of the U.S. population …
Paul R. La Monica / CNNMoney.com:
DVD or download? — Early adopters may think that movie downloads are cool but it's too soon to declare the death of the DVD. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — How are you going to watch movies at home in the future? — Are you going to download them on your computer and then watch them on your TV or an iPod?
Simon Pope / Apple:
Apple Executives to Preview Mac OS X "Leopard" at WWDC 2006 Keynote — CUPERTINO, California—June 26, 2006—Apple® today announced that CEO Steve Jobs will headline a team of Apple executives, including Philip Schiller, senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing; Bertrand Serlet …
Reuters:
Tower stacking up downloads — Music retailer Tower Records is preparing to take the shrink-wrap off its digital download store on Tuesday, when Tower.com/Digital goes live with a comprehensive service powered by Puretracks. — Tower will market the digital alternative across all media …
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Adam / Emergent Chaos:
I'm Joining Microsoft — I'm very pleased to announce that I've accepted a position with Microsoft. I'll talk in a bit about the work I'll be doing, but before I do, I'd like to talk a bit about the journey that's brought me here, and the change I've seen in Microsoft that makes me feel really good about this decision.
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linuxdevices.com:
Linux hackers re-claim the Linksys WRT54G — As predicted, the open source community has come up with a way to convert VxWorks-based LinkSys wireless WRT54G routers to Linux. The process does not require hardware hacking, and installs a recent version of "DD-WRT micro."
Enid Burns / ClickZ:
Research: Internet Users Plagued by 'Banner Blindness' — An eye-tracking study conducted by the Nielsen/Norman Group finds Internet users avoid viewing banner ads. Text advertising is read more often than display ads, according to the research. — Banner blindness means Internet users focus …
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
U.S. Supreme Court to weigh standards for patent "obviousness" — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up a case involving one of the thornier questions in patent law: What makes an invention "obvious"—and therefore unworthy of a patent? — The case at issue involves patents covering …
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Eric Rice / Official Site:
Biggest problem with Podcasting? Not knowing how to diss it properly. — Robert posted a thing about a dude who doesn't like podcasting, like it's some new three-assed monkey or something that we've never ever seen before. — And of course, this brings standard snarky geeks out of the woodwork …
Mike / Techdirt:
Gimmicky WiFi Networks No One Needs — In the mad dash to build out WiFi networks as a broadband network, there are an awful lot of questions that have remained unanswered. There's the question of whether or not the technology is really right for the job.
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
As Online Ads Grow, Eyeballs Are Valuable Again on the Web — THE great eyeball chase is back in full swing. And it does not matter that the eyeballs may not be buying anything. With online advertising revenues growing quickly, new information-rich sites of all kinds are mushrooming across the Web.
John Heilemann / New York Magazine:
Suit 2.0 — Back in the nineties, Jason Calacanis was a Silicon Alley cowboy. Now, at AOL, he's in full corporate harness. Is that the only way for an entrepreneur to get to the top? — B — ack in the fall of 1998, on the night after AOL announced that it was undertaking …
Times of London:
Former Gizmondo chiefs face SEC probe — AN American telecoms firm started by executives from the bankrupt UK computer-games group Gizmondo is being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. — The US watchdog has demanded information about what Los Angeles-based Xero Mobile …
