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Ina Steiner / auctionbytes.com:
eBay Bans Sellers from Using Google Checkout — eBay is banning sellers from requesting payment through Google Checkout. The online auction giant updated its Safe Payments policy this week to add Google's new payment service, Google Checkout to its list of online payment methods not permitted on eBay.
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Scot Wingo / eBay Strategies:
eBay BANS Google Checkout — eBay has updated it's "Safe Payments Policy" to specifically NOT allow Google Checkout. I suspect sellers (especially multichannel) will be pretty upset about this. — It will be interesting to see what lame excuse eBay uses to justify this.
Reuters:
EBay changes execs at PayPal, Skype in shakeup —Text+NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online marketplace eBay Inc. (EBAY.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Thursday said it would change top management at its international division, payments unit PayPal and Web phone service Skype as the company faces …
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM: The eBay Shuffle — The big news of the day seemingly is eBay banning Google Checkout.
Peter Rojas / Engadget:
Microsoft planning WiFi-enabled portable media player, working on MVNO for next year — Ok, by now it's more or less an open secret that Microsoft is going to shift away from its current model and go straight after the iPod with a portable media player of its own, but we've landed …
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Jeff Leeds / New York Times:
Looking to Take On Apple's iPod, Microsoft Plans Its Own Hand-Held Player — Microsoft has been developing its own hand-held music and video player to challenge Apple Computer's iPod and expects to have it in stores in time for the holiday season, entertainment industry executives briefed on the company's plans said last night.
Microsoft:
Microsoft Expands Document Interoperability — Company to sponsor open source project for Open XML-ODF file translation to deliver more choice for government customers and their constituents. — REDMOND, Wash. — July 5, 2006 — Expanding on its customer-focused commitment to interoperability …
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Frank Barnako / Barnako.com:
Rocketboom flameout — The Blogosphere is going nuts over this he said-she said Rocketboom story. … Memeorandum this morning listed 68 blog posts about the story. Jason(1) Calacanis(2) and Robert(1) Scoble(2) think Amanda's exit is so big they've posted about it several times.
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New York Times:
Motorola and Intel to Invest in Clearwire — SAN FRANCISCO, July 5 — The investment units of Intel and Motorola said Wednesday that together they would invest $900 million in Clearwire, a wireless Internet service provider, in hopes of speeding development of its high-speed wide-range network.
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Mike / Techdirt:
Intel Gives Clearwire $600 Million To Avoid Making WiMax Look Bad — from the how-it-all-works dept — If you've watched Intel's moves over the last few years in the WiMax space, it's become clear that they can't let the technology fail, despite plenty of questions about the technology.
Agence France Presse:
Taipei plans for 200,000 on wireless Internet phones by year-end — TAIWAN (AFP) - Taipei city expects to have 200,000 people using wireless Internet phones by the end of this year, providing a much cheaper alternative to the traditional mobile. — "This is the world's first Internet phone system using …
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Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
Free, Legal and Ignored — Colleges Offer Music Downloads, — But Their Students Just Say No; — Too Many Strings Attached — As a student at Cornell University, Angelo Petrigh had access to free online music via a legal music-downloading service his school provided.
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
Earthlink's To Introduce WiFi Phones — Earthlink's first muni WiFi network made news when it was launched in Anaheim, California, last week, but Earthlink's VoIP VP Steve Howe, revealed some interesting news to me in a conversation this week. He says Earthlink plans to start selling WiFi …
Chris Anderson / Wired News:
The Rise and Fall of the Hit … On March 21, 2000, Jive Records released No Strings Attached, the much-anticipated second album from NSync. The album debuted strong. It sold 1.1 million copies its first day and 2.4 million in the first week, making it the fastest-selling album ever.
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Anders Bylund / Motley Fool:
To Google or Not to Google — It's official: Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) really is a verb now. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), which bills itself as "The definitive record of the English language," added the company name as a verb in the latest round of updates, placing Google in such august company …
John Boudreau / Mercury News:
`Leopard' puts its prey on the spot — APPLE TAUNTS MICROSOFT WITH FASTER OS LAUNCHES — In 2004, when Apple Computer showed off its latest ``cat,'' Tiger, it couldn't help but taunt Microsoft. — The Redmond, Wash., software giant was working on its long-awaited next-generation Windows …
Erik / SEO Speedwagon:
A SERP of One's Own — With apologies to Virginia Woolf, a bit of SEO potpourri today, revisiting topics both old and recent. — Google Finally Knows Us. One of Tom's pet peeves has always (and I mean always) been that a Google search for [seo speedwagon] brought up Google's famous "did you mean...?" line, suggesting a typo.
news.vzw.com:
Verizon Wireless and Samsung Launch First 3.2 Mega Pixel Camera Phone in the United States — New Picture Quality Standard Set for Mobile Camera Phones — Media Contact Info — BASKING RIDGE, NJ and DALLAS — Samsung Telecommunications America (Samsung) and Verizon Wireless …
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Felisa Cardona / Denver Post:
Lightning zeros in on teenager's tunes — Castle Rock boy burned via iPod wires — Jason Bunch, 17, rests at home in Castle Rock on Wednesday after being released from the hospital. He was struck by lightning Sunday while mowing the lawn. The current may have traveled through …
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
DEAR WARNER: DON'T SHOOT YOURSELF IN THE FOOT - FREE BUGS (AGAIN!) ! John Kricfalusi, creator of the wonderful Ren & Stimpy series and an all around worthwhile fellow to know (and new FM author) just pinged me with the news that YouTube is disallowing his linking of old Bugs cartoons on his site.
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CNET News.com:
Microsoft: Shortcut 'trick' is legitimate feature — A Windows shortcut "trick," which could allow an executable file to be launched when a user types a Web address into Internet Explorer, is not a security vulnerability, Microsoft said. — Using Windows XP and Internet Explorer …
Christopher Grant / Joystiq:
Metareview - LOTR: The Battle for Middle-earth II (Xbox 360) [update 1] — The PC game already debuted in March to decent reviews so, instead of recapping what's right and wrong with the game as a whole, let's get right down to the issue we're all wondering about: the controls.
CBC News:
All bets off as casino refuses to pay jackpot — Two men from Manitoba have hired a lawyer and are threatening legal action after a Winnipeg casino refused to pay out more than $209,000 in slot-machine winnings. — The men were playing a computerized version of Keno last week when they matched all five numbers on the screen.
Keith Stuart / Guardian:
Sony ad casues white riot — A new billboard advert for Sony's white PSP has caused consternation across the US videogaming community. The ad shows a white model dressed entirely in white threateningly grasping the face of a black model. Next to them are the words, "PlayStation Portable.
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