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Valleywag:
Geek out: Chris Pirillo pulls a Jackson at Gnomedex — Okay, since everyone asked, here's your fanservice. Now geez, Robert Scoble, stop with the booty calls. — Independence Day weekend and the no-free-pass policy may have kept you from the Seattle Gnomedex conference …
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Read/WriteWeb:
Doing The Silicon Valley Conference Circuit — My third trip to the US is almost over, as I'm flying back to good old NZ tomorrow. I thought I'd write a quick post about my experiences from this trip. In particular about the 3 conferences I went to: Supernova, BloggerCon and Gnomedex.
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Black Rim Glasses / blackrimglasses.com:Thoughts on Gnomedex — I'm waiting at the SeaTac airport …
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Ted Leung on the air
Stars & Stripes:
South Korea temporarily lifts decision to block VoIP services — Government will discuss Internet calling ban with USFK — SEOUL — The decision to block South Korea-based U.S. military community members from making phone calls via the Internet has been put on hold.
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Agence France Presse:
US firms accuse Qualcomm of unfair practices in South Korea — SEOUL, July 3, 2006 (AFP) - Two US technology firms have filed a complaint with South Korea's antitrust watchdog accusing US mobile phone chip developer Qualcomm of abusing its market dominance, officials have said.
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Engadget Mobile
Bill Slawski / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Ending Click Fraud with Pay-Per-Percentage — In Pay-Per-Percentage vs. PPC, Shimon Sandler points out an interesting new paper from the folks at Microsoft Research - Pay-Per-Percentage of Impressions: An Advertising Method that is Highly Robust to Fraud (pdf)
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Neville / NevilleHobson.com:
RSS subscription surprises in Feedburner stats — If you use Feedburner for distribution of your RSS feed, it's worth paying attention to the useful statistics about your feed such as how many people subscribe to it and which RSS reader they use. — Even if you only use FB's free standard stats rather …
Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Software Notebook: Mr. Firefox looks to the future — Blake Ross was a teenager in 2002 when he and fellow software developer Dave Hyatt launched the Mozilla Firefox project — a community-made Web browser that has won devoted fans and taken market share from Microsoft's dominant Internet Explorer …
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Blake Ross / Blake Ross on Firefox:Moving forward — As one or two tech bloggers might have heard …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Your exit interview of me — Thanks for asking great questions today. We had a great day here in the Scoble house. Had a nice goodbye party with tons of great people (we had just as many Google employees at the house today as attended Gnomedex yesterday). Lots of good New Orleans cookin!
Ryan Katz / Think Secret:
New chip, new case for next Pro Mac at WWDC — July 3, 2006 - When Apple unveils its Power Mac G5 replacement at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) next month, the top-of-the-line computer will sport a new enclosure, Think Secret has confirmed. — While specifics were not disclosed …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Supernova 12 — Over 100 startups applied to present their companies at the TechCrunch-sponsored Connected Innovators program at the Supernova conference last week. Twelve were selected and had a chance to launch their new products to an audience of hundreds.
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Don Lindich / centredaily.com:
HD-DVD clearly outshines Blu-ray — Q: What are your thoughts regarding the new HD-DVD and Blu-ray high definition video discs? — A: HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc are the two new formats competing to be the high-definition video disc of the future. Each promises to provide much better picture quality than standard DVD.
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huffingtonpost.com:
Shakeup At Gawker Media: Jesse Oxfeld Out; Shuffle Across Blogs; Two Properties Up For Sale — Big news at Gawker Media: on the eve of the July 4th weekend: a cross-company shakeup which has seen editors shuffled and dismissed, hierarchies re-established, and two sites put up for sale.
J. Nicholas Hoover / InformationWeek:
In Depth: Five Things You Must Know About VoIP — Ready to bring VoIP into your business? Getting pressure to implement it but trying to avoid it? Here's our five-point take on the state of the technology. — Like any emerging technology, voice over IP presents a painful series of …
Tony Smith / The Register:
Palm halts Euro Treo 650 shipments — Palm will ship no further Treo 650 smart phones into Europe, the company said last week. The reason: the handset doesn't pass Europe's Reduction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) legislation, which came into force this past Saturday.
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Engadget Mobile
Tom Espiner / CNET News.com:
Academics break the Great Firewall of China — Computer experts from the University of Cambridge claim not only to have breached the Great Firewall of China, but have found a way to use the firewall to launch denial-of-service attacks against specific Internet Protocol addresses in the country.
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The Technology Chronicles
Clive Thompson / Wired News:
Why No Lester Bangs of Gaming? — Why aren't there any famous critics of video games? — Chuck Klosterman wants to know. In a recent column for guy mag Esquire, he argues that games are the most important cultural medium of our times — "the culture equivalent of rock music in 1967" …
Marc / Wooster Collective:
ANOTHER CRATE PIECE FROM MELBOURNE — CRATE TETRIS BY SAM, JEROME, ED AND GAB,
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Bloomberg:
Yahoo China to Be Sued by Music Labels Including EMI (Update1) — July 3 (Bloomberg) — Yahoo China, the nation's second- largest search engine, will be sued by record labels for infringing copyright laws within ``a few weeks,'' according to a group representing companies including EMI Group Plc.
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Heather Green / Blogspotting:
The Meaning of Being Bearish on Blogs is.... I skimmed David Carr's column in the NYTimes about Nick Denton entitled "A Blog Mogul Turns Bearish on Blogs" trying to understand the meaning of the headline. What part of blogging is Gawker Media's Denton bearish about? — Frankly, I am still not sure.
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