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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Google Aims to Speed the Online Checkout Line — In its quest to "organize the world's information," Google now wants to keep track of your credit card number and where you live. — The company is introducing Google Checkout today, a service that will allow users to make purchases …
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Chris Sherman / Search Engine Watch:
Google Launches Checkout, not the Rumored GBuy — Google has launched Google Checkout, a payment system for online retailers that's tightly integrated with Google AdWords. Checkout isn't the rumored PayPal killer, but it does offer some compelling features for both merchants and online shoppers alike.
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Charlene Li / Charlene Li's Blog:
Google Checkout Supports Its Core Search Business — Google unveiled its long-awaited wallet service, codenamed "GBuy" and officially called "Google Checkout". While frequently described as an "eBay killer", I believe that it's actually positioned to solve a perplexing and core problem at Google …
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CNET News.com:
Senate deals blow to Net neutrality — update WASHINGTON—A U.S. Senate panel narrowly rejected strict Net neutrality rules on Wednesday, dealing a grave setback to companies like eBay, Google and Amazon.com that had made enacting them a top political priority this year.
Owen Thomas / CNNMoney.com:
Brain Drain: Another Microsoft exec jumps to Google — One more Microsoft executive looks at the Google threat - and concludes, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — It hasn't been a good month for Microsoft's Google-fighters. So bad that one left abruptly last week …
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
VoIP features expected in Apple's Leopard — Software engineers at Apple Computer have been toiling away on a new set of features that will allow users of its next-generation Mac OS X operating system to place phone calls over their Internet connection, AppleInsider has learned.
Colin Barker / ZDNet:
Sun: Open source is about self-interest — For open source to prosper, people need to stop thinking of it as "free" and instead think of it as "connected capitalism," delegates at an open-source conference in London were told on Tuesday. — Speaking at the Open Source Business Conference …
Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Sony to Ship 8GB NW-A1200 Music Player — We've seen these Sony A-series MP3 players before, but the NW-A1000 models were only capable of holding 6GB. Now Sony has decided to unleash an 8GB model on the US market, the NW-A1200, which will be available in either pink or purple.
Bruce Meyerson / Associated Press:
Verizon Wireless to ease up on fees — NEW YORK - Targeting a top gripe by cell phone users and breaking ranks again with its industry, Verizon Wireless plans to prorate the fee it charges subscribers who break a contract so they only pay an amount proportional to the time left on their agreements.
Lynne Marek / LAW.com:
Online Peers Stand Up for Craigslist in Lawsuit — Google, Amazon.com, AOL and Yahoo are helping defend online peer Craigslist against a lawsuit that would hold the Web site liable for discriminatory housing ads that appeared on its site. — The online companies last week filed an amicus brief …
lightreading.com:
Time Warner Goes Dualmode — Time Warner Cable Inc. is working with Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S - message board), BridgePort Networks Inc. , and Siemens AG (NYSE: SI - message board; Frankfurt: SIE) to roll out a dualmode cellular/VOIP phone service to subscribers, according to Time Warner and one vendor involved in the project.
Om Malik / CNNMoney.com:
How Fox Interactive got so sly — Ross Levinsohn's wheeling and dealing to get News Corp. back in the Web game has been ridiculed by many as profligate and late. But he may yet prove them all wrong. — SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2. Magazine) — News Corp. executive Ross Levinsohn …
Thomas Mennecke / Slyck:
RIAA Shifts Lawsuit Strategy — June 26, 2003, marked the day the Recording Industry Association of America began collecting evidence and preparing lawsuits against individual file-sharers. At the time, the effort was the main spearhead in a multifaceted campaign to stem the unchecked growth of file-sharing.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Yahoo! Messenger releases Mac IM 3.0 — The Yahoo! IM team just released the 3.0 version of Yahoo! IM for Mac. Yahoo! Messenger for Mac was last updated in September, 2003. Its feature set is interesting, but it appears to lack two of the PC version's most compelling qualities …
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
The new publishing model (or, "On Rafat, Om, Federated Media, AdBrite, and Blogads.") — My VC pal Fred Wilson is trying to figure out what Om and Rafat are raising venture capital since the whole discussion over the past couple of years has been that media companies don't need a lot of capital.
