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Condé Nast Buys Wired News — Lycos is selling its Wired News unit to Condé Nast Publications for $25 million, Lycos parent Daum Communications announced in Korea late Tuesday, a deal that brings Wired.com and Wired magazine under the same owner after an eight-year separation.
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The Long Tail, TechCrunch, GigaOM, Anil Dash, Ross Mayfield's Weblog, Rex Hammock's Weblog, rev2.org and digg
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Business Wire:
Time Warner To Present AOL's Future Business Strategy At August 2 Earnings Announcement — NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—July 11, 2006—Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX - News) today announced that it will present the future business strategy of its AOL division at a separate meeting with investors …
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Matthew Karnitschnig / Wall Street Journal:
Time Warner Expects Offering AOL Free Will Be Costly — Time Warner Inc. expects its AOL unit to sacrifice nearly $1 billion of operating profit through 2009 under a proposed plan to offer the online service free of charge to some customers, according to internal company forecasts.
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Bruce Gain / Wired News:
Park the Beamer by Bot — Driving your car into a cramped parking space can be a harrowing experience, but BMW says it has developed a robotic parking system to solve the problem. — The luxury carmaker's parking-assist technology will park your car for you as you stand outside and watch …
Bill Tancer / Hitwise US:
MySpace Moves Into #1 Position for all Internet Sites — Today Hitwise issued a press release reporting that for the first time, www.myspace.com has surpassed Yahoo! Mail as the most visited domain on the Internet for US Internet users. To put MySpace's growth in perspective …
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advancedmp3players.co.uk:
Samsung Z5 Speaker Docking Station … The Samsung YA-DS100 Z5 Speaker Dock (£59.99) is currently Out Of Stock — All prices include VAT — This product is currently expected to arrive in stock on Wednesday 16 August, 2006. You can still purchase this product now …
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Bill Slawski / Search Engine Watch Blog:
New Search Patent Applications: July 11, 2006 - Google Patent Filings by the Dozen — Twelve Google patent applications where published this past week, including seven that focus upon geographical information and local search. — (1) How good a match ads may be to the content on pages …
Gizmodo, The Gadget Guide:
Microsoft Zune Update — More Zune news courtesy of various people in various places of product development. This time our tipster says the Zune is only the flagship product of a new line of portable devices. Think the iPod Video in relation to the iPod Nano and the iPod Shuffle.
Hollywood Reporter:
Rather eyeing online gig — AOL might have a new message for the Internet: You've got Dan. — The Time Warner-owned Internet company is in negotiations with representatives for veteran CBS anchor Dan Rather to play a role in original programming for its online video offerings, sources said.
Kevin Poulsen / Wired News:
Crazy-Long Hacker Sentence Upheld — A federal appeals court upheld a nine-year prison term Monday for a hacker who tried and failed to steal customer credit-card numbers from the Lowe's chain of home improvement stores. — Brian Salcedo, now 23, has been in custody since 2003 …
Associated Press:
Hackers target State Dept. computers — Widespread break-ins appear aimed at HQ, East Asian office — WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is recovering from large-scale computer break-ins worldwide over the past several weeks that appeared to target its headquarters and offices dealing …
Michael Rogers / MSNBC:
How Washington will shape the Internet — The Web was the Wild West - until the sheriff rode into town — Michael Rogers — The most potent force shaping the future of the Internet is neither Mountain View's Googleplex nor the Microsoft campus in Redmond.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
MySpace may face legislative crackdown — Politicians on Tuesday accused MySpace.com and other social-networking sites of failing to protect minors from sexual predators and other malign influences and said a legislative crackdown may be necessary. — During a hearing before a House …
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Techdirt
Staci / paidContent.org:
NYTimes's Personalized Service "My Times" Debuts In Limited Beta — One of the linchpins of the new NYTimes.com design is slipping into place finally ... personalization feature My Times is now in limited beta for 5,000 registered NYTimes.com users who showed early interest (Some screenshots here).
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TechCrunch
Stephen Bartholomeusz / Sydney Morning Herald:
G9 plays joker, but Telstra has trump — THE Group of Nine's proposal for a national broadband upgrade isn't, as many have interpreted it, a serious bid to build a new fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) network. Telstra will never let that happen. — Nor is there any realistic chance that the consortium …
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Susan Crawford blog
Leander Kahney / Wired News:
Are Apple's Customers Rebelling? — There's been rash of press recently suggesting Apple is weathering a growing consumer recoil following claims about poor quality control, anti-iTunes legislation and allegations about Chinese sweatshops. — "Are we falling out of love with iPod?" asks the Daily Telegraph.
