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Washington Post:
What is the Sponsored Blogroll? — The Sponsored Blogroll is an index on the washingtonpost.com homepage that promotes bloggers who are participating in a partnership with the advertising team of WPNI. If you are a blogger or blog network looking to expand your readership and advertising …
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Washington Post Launches Blogroll Ad Network — Jeff Burkett at WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive blogs that the WashingtonPost has launched a brand new program that helps marketers find blogs to advertise on. It's called the Sponsored Blogroll. — Basically, the way this works …
Paul Bond / Reuters:
EchoStar must disable DVRs, judge rules — LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - A judge has ordered EchoStar to disable the digital video recorders used by several million subscribers to its Dish satellite TV service because they infringe on patents held by TiVo.
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Business Wire:
EchoStar Asks Federal Court to Stay Texas Injunction — ENGLEWOOD, Colo.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Aug. 18, 2006—EchoStar Communications Corporation (Nasdaq:DISH) issued the following statement regarding recent developments in the Tivo Inc. v. EchoStar Communications Corp. lawsuit:
Thomas Crampton / New York Times:
Boeing to End Its Service for Using Internet Aloft — Maybe it was the Internet bubble in the sky or perhaps it was just that the business plan could not fly. — Boeing announced on Thursday that it planned to scrap its in-flight Internet service, saying there was not enough demand.
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Agence France Presse:
Boeing abandons in-flight Internet service — CHICAGO (AFP) - US aerospace giant Boeing Co. said it was abandoning its Connexion unit providing high-speed Internet service on planes after only a handful of airlines signed up. — "Over the last six years, we have invested substantial time …
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apple.com:
Report on iPod Manufacturing — Like many of you, we were concerned by reports in the press a few weeks ago alleging poor working and living conditions at a manufacturing facility in China where iPods are assembled. Our Supplier Code of Conduct mandates that suppliers of Apple products …
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Matt Andrejczak / MarketWatch:
Dell adds AMD chips to desktop PC line — SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Dell Inc., the world's No. 1 PC maker, will use microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. in some of its consumer desktop computers, breaking its exclusive PC chip supply agreement with Intel Corp.
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Alan / gedankengang:
Amazon's Digital Video sneak peek: "Amazon Unbox" — It seems Amazon might soon be launching their digital video download store, called "Amazon Unbox Video". According to what I can find, it'll have purchase and rental capability, as well as support for devices other than your PC (Your TV and Creative Zen Vision at least).
Microsoft:
Microsoft Announces Preliminary Results of Tender Offer — Company expects to acquire 155 million shares at $24.75 per share; boosts ongoing share repurchase program by $16 billion. — Microsoft Corp. today announced the preliminary results of its modified "Dutch Auction" tender offer …
Jim Dalrymple / Macworld:
MacBook Wi-Fi hack didn't use Apple drivers — In early August a senior researcher at SecureWorks said he had revealed a vulnerability in Apple's MacBook wireless software driver that would allow him to take control of the machine. While the researcher did find a vulnerability …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Does Kiko predict more Web 2.0 failures? — I was reading Don Dodge, former executive from Alta Vista. He's seen his share of failure so I always learn something from him. Anyway, he links to an interesting analysis of why Kiko (a Web-based calendar) failed.
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:Hindsight 2.0, Lessons from a Failed Web 2.0 startup
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Aline van Duyn / Financial Times:
Computers write news at Thomson — First it was the typewriter, then the teleprinter. Now a US news service has found a way to replace human beings in the newsroom and is instead using computers to write some of its stories. — Thomson Financial, the business information group …
Anders Bylund / Ars Technica:
MPAA push-polling the public to change copyright views — The MPAA seems to be employing tried-and-true political campaign tactics to sway public opinion of piracy and file sharing toward its own worldview. A few weeks ago, the association announced MyMovieMuse.com, a research forum …
Ars Technica:
Quad-core race heats up — The past few days have seen a burst of quad-core-related news items from both AMD and Intel. In this post, I'll take a look at announcements from both companies and try to put them in the larger context of the Intel-AMD rivalry. — Intel's Kentsfield to face off against AMD's 4x4
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Tim / O'Reilly Radar:
Round 2: Dial Tone — In a conversation yesterday, John Fandel, the general manager of The O'Reilly Network, made an interesting point: he wants to build our web publishing tools around the model of delivering "dial tone." — As we talked, the idea took hold.
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