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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
At AOL, a Plan for a Clean Break — Should AOL sacrifice its cash cow in hopes of finding a prosperous future? — In two weeks, the board of Time Warner Inc., which owns AOL, will hear a proposal from Jonathan Miller, AOL's chief executive, calling for a near halt in marketing …
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21talks, IP Democracy, J. LeRoy's Evolving Web, Digital Micro-Markets and robhyndman.com
Paperghost / Vitalsecurity.org:
Teenagers used to push Zango on Myspace? — Wouldn't it be nice if someone found a network of websites apparently designed to do nothing else but spread Adware around Myspace? Not only that, but get the innocent end-users themselves to do the job of pushing that Adware for the guy making all the money …
Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
A quick note on Click Fraud — There has been a slight upturn in the debate over clickfraud. — The generic response seems to be that its "self correcting". The logic goes that if advertisers using CPC services arent getting the return on investment they expected or need …
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Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Shopping by Phone, on the Move — SOMETIMES it seems hard to figure out whether younger consumers enjoy shopping more than using their cellphones, or vice versa. Soon, readers of a Condé Nast magazine will be invited to do both at once. — The magazine, Lucky …
PR Newswire:
Xplore Technologies Launches New iX104C3 Mobile Computer — Highlights of Security and Accessibility Features in New Rugged Offering — AUSTIN, TX, July 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Xplore Technologies® Corp. (TSX:XPL - News), an innovative manufacturer of rugged mobile computers worldwide …
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Joe Gratz / joegratz.net:
D. Colo.: CleanFlicks Infringes Movie Copyrights — Judge Richard P. Matsch of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado on Wednesday filed this opinion granting partial summary judgment in favor of the movie studios, finding that CleanFlicks infringes copyright.
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Richard Gray / Scotsman:
Apple pips its rivals with the iPod that talks — FROM Walkman to Talkman. Not content with changing the world's music-listening habits, Apple has come up with another innovation: the talking iPod. — A new generation of machines will use sophisticated software to convert the names of bands …
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The Digital Music Weblog, Gizmodo, The Browser, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, textually.org, Slashdot and Guardian Unlimited
BBC:
'Magnetic memory' chip unveiled — A microchip which can store information like a hard drive has been unveiled by US company Freescale. — The chip, called magnetoresistive random-access memory (Mram), maintains data by relying on magnetic properties rather than an electrical charge.
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
In YouTube Clips, a Political Edge — It starts off like a typical negative ad, with swelling music and pictures of John McCain: "Flip-Flopper? Yes. Waffler? Yes." — But then the Internet spot takes a strange turn: "Eh, whatever. He should still be president," the graphics say.
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Robert Sinke / dapreview.net:
Venzero adds lilOne to the "One" collective — So you think the 8GB Venzero One is too bulky and/or expensive (289 Euro)? Not quite satisfied with the MiniOne's price point (119-169 Euro) or capacity range (1 and 2GB)? Well, apparently Venzero has you covered on this one too.
Associated Press:
Student, Phone Home — CINCINNATI — For Ron Chicken and other freshmen at Montclair State University, the new freedoms that presumably came with college age included a mandatory cell phone with which the school could pinpoint their whereabouts on or off campus.
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Gizmos for Geeks
Ryan Singel / Wired News:
Site-Lookup Service Foils Fraud — Few netizens think about the internet's domain name system: the architecture that invisibly translates a browser's request for, say, wikipedia.org into the numeric IP address where the site is hosted. — But a new startup is hoping to make DNS …
Drew / Dembot:
CaseCamp — Setting aside all of the drama of Rocketboom going down right now, there are a few facts I wanted to set straight because nearly every writer on the face of the internet seems to not know. It's because I haven't said clearly so its no big deal, but its just simply starting to annoy me.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Kool IM Launches to Battle Meebo — Michigan based Kool IM, an Ajax web chat service that compares to Meebo and eBuddy, launched today. — These services are very popular, particularly with employees and students who are unable to download and use normal IM clients on their computers.
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Phill Ryu / PhillRyu.com:
Announcing the Fake Leopard Screenshot Contest — I'm sure I'm not alone when I say that I am starting to get really pumped up for WWDC, now just under a month away. Why? Well, I'm definitely expecting some new hardware from Apple. Mac Pros seem pretty likely.
CoCaman / Geekness:
GOOGLE TESTING GDRIVE (CODENAME PLATYPUS) — Okay, Writely accepts new users, no big deal here. And because I am a very interested person, I wanted to know on which system (programming language) it now runs. So I started to append index.jsp, index.py and so on at the URL.
Flërnk:
A GUIDE TO OS X SOFTWARE FOR SWITCHERS — I HAVE YET TO SEE — a Switcher's Guide that actually focuses on the Switcher. Most seem more concerned with listing a few personal favorite programs or touting some of the wonderful features of OS X itself. My goal is to simply outline …
