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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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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 …
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Gadgetell, Gizmodo, Alice Hill's Real Tech News, Engadget, CyberNet Technology News and digg
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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BBC:
Microsoft hit with 280m euro fine — Microsoft has been fined 280.5m euros ($357m; £194m) by the European Commission for failing to comply with an anti-competition ruling. — The software giant will appeal against the fine which follows a long-running dispute between it and EU regulators.
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Microsoft:
Statement on July 12 Fine Announced by European Commission — Fine not appropriate; key issue not compliance, but clarity of March 2004 decision. — REDMOND, Wash. — July 12, 2006 — Microsoft Corp. issued the following statement by General Counsel Brad Smith, following the decision …
Melly Alazraki / Blogging Stocks:
Yahoo! (not MySpace) is still Web traffic leader by most measures — Yesterday, reports came out late in the afternoon that Hitwise, Internet traffic measurement firm, has placed MySpace.com, the social networking web site, as the number one American web site, accounting for 4.46% of all U.S. Internet visits for the previous week.
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Gizmodo, The Gadget Guide:
Spy Camera Sunglasses Records What You See — It's amazing to see the lengths that people will go to snoop on their fellow man. These sunglasses promise to record exactly what you're looking at thanks to a built-in video camera. The camera, which uses MPEG4 to encode video, has a 92-degree field-of-view.
Lakshmi Sandhana / Wired News:
This Is a Computer on Your Brain — A new brain-computer-interface technology could turn our brains into automatic image-identifying machines that operate faster than human consciousness. — Researchers at Columbia University are combining the processing power of the human brain …
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 …
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 …
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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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Akamai Sues Limelight Networks — In the words of Yogi Berra, its like déjà vu all over again. Back in the first Internet bubble, we were all entertained and amused by legal wranglings of various content delivery networks. For a while it was all quiet, but the fireworks are starting again.
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Alec Saunders .LOG
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
crisscross.com:
Cell phone makers to unify charger specifications — DeepAir - the mobile market in Japan is different to elsewhere. Handsets cannot be freely bought and used with a provider of choice. Handsets here are made under license from the telephone providers who provide a basic set of specs …
Stephen Bryant / publish.com:
The Long Tail vs. Pirates of the Caribbean — Opinion: Chris Anderson says the success of Pirates II doesn't contradict his Long Tail thesis, but some critics aren't so sure. — "If you don't know Keira Knightly, she's basically a slightly more mannish version of Orlando Bloom."
