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Mylene Mangalindan / Wall Street Journal:
Google Gets Ready to Test GBuy, A New Online-Payment Option — For years, consumers who didn't want to give Web merchants their credit-card information faced limited options when it came to making purchases online. This week, consumers could get access to another electronic-payment option …
Sascha Segan / Gearlog:
The EV-DO ExpressCard Is Here! (From Dell) — Dell just released the first ExpressCard for Verizon's high-speed EV-DO network: The Dell Wireless 5700 Mobile Broadband ExpressCard. This is a rebranded version of the Novatel XV620 that I tested back in April, and it will sell for $179 on Dell's Web site by the end of this week.
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Dan Goodin / Associated Press:
Marvell paying $600M for Intel unit — SAN FRANCISCO - Intel Corp., facing slowing demand for personal computers and stiffer competition, is selling its division that makes processors for handheld devices in a $600 million deal announced Tuesday with Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
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Mike / Techdirt:
Cable Guy Says Portals Are Toast — from the haven't-we-heard-that-before? dept — Leo Hindery is a cable guy. He's always been a cable guy. He was the head of TCI which eventually got bought by AT&T and became AT&T Broadband. Later he was head of GlobalCenter and was there as that telco bubble-era play popped.
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Mike / Techdirt:
Why Is There So Little Honesty In The Net Neutrality Debate? — from the is-it-so-hard? dept — We've been bashing both sides of the net neutrality debate for stretching their arguments to ridiculous extremes — but what's bothersome is that even when things are clearly untrue and been disproved …
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
Is Microsoft about to release a Windows "kill switch"? … Two weeks ago, I wrote about my serious objections to Microsoft's latest salvo in the war against unauthorized copies of Windows. Two Windows Genuine Advantage components are being pushed onto users' machines with insufficient notification …
Barry Fox / NewScientistTech:
Invention: Password-protected bullets — For more than 30 years, Barry Fox has trawled through the world's weird and wonderful patent applications, uncovering the most exciting, bizarre or even terrifying new ideas. His column, Invention, is exclusively online. Scroll down for a round-up of previous Invention articles.
Aaron Rutkoff / Wall Street Journal:
Social Networking for Bookworms — If bookcases are a way to casually display interests dear to the owner, the Internet throws open the doors on reading habits. Social-networking and book retailers' sites are already rife with lists of readers' favorite material, allowing people to compare notes on taste and compatibility.
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Tobias Buck / Financial Times:
EU poised to rule against Microsoft — The European Union's top antitrust regulator is poised to issue a formal ruling that finds Microsoft guilty of breaking EU competition rules. The ruling is likely to be accompanied by fines for the US software group of up to €2m ($2.5m) a day.
Robert Young / GigaOM:
Google and MySpace: Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda!! — In the latest (July) issue of Wired magazine, Rupert Murdoch claims that Google... So that means Google could have acquired MySpace a year ago for about $290 million. Talk about a strategic blunder... the thought of Google and MySpace, combined, boggles the mind.
Gary Gentile / Associated Press:
Warner Bros. sells films via Guba.com — LOS ANGELES - Warner Bros. began selling its movies and TV shows over the Internet video site Guba.com Monday, marking the second deal the studio has made to distribute content over Web sites that have offered pirated video in the past.
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Jellyfish's Liquid E-Commerce Market — It's nothing new. — I get this comment all the time when I'm trying to describe what I think is a (r)evolutionary change. It's human instinct to cleave to what we already know, to hope that we can continue to live comfortably in the world that we've already wrapped our minds around.
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Mark McGuire / Jellyfish:Unveiling Jellyfish.com and VPA Advertising
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Andrew Wallenstein / Hollywood Reporter:
NBC to run TV promos on YouTube — NBC and YouTube are going from foes to friends. — The network is announcing a deal today that will see select clips of NBC series embedded on the popular viral-video site beginning this week, sources said. — NBC and YouTube declined comment.
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Online Effort Is Planned Against Child Pornography — In the face of government pressure, a group of Internet companies is undertaking a cooperative effort to help combat child pornography online. — The group, organized last week by AOL, includes Yahoo, Microsoft, Earthlink and United Online.
Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Is Jajah really cool, or really lame? Offers free phone calls, maybe — Jajah, a Mountain View start-up, is supposedly offering free phone calls beginning today to any land or mobile phone in the United States, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan.
Microsoft:
Put the Pedal to the Metal: Take the 2007 Microsoft Office System Out for a Spin — More than 2.5 million people already using the Beta 2 release. — REDMOND, Wash. — June 26, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. today announced a "try it before you buy it" program allowing people to take an online test-drive …
