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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Can German engineering fix Wikipedia? — An experimental feature planned for the German version of Wikipedia could eventually improve the quality of editing for the online encyclopedia and open its front page to public edits for the first time in years. — In an interview with CNET News.com …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Can the Germans fix Wikipedia? — How bad things have things gotten at Wikipedia? It's common knowledge that the site suffers from hoaxsters, inaccurate information, and a vandalism problem that might be funny if it weren't so pervasive. Even the vandalism page has now been vandalized.
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Mark Goldberg / Telecom Trends:
Blocking content — The news will be breaking shortly, so you might as well read about it here first. Late in the day on Tuesday afternoon, I helped in filing the first application requesting the CRTC to authorize Canadian carriers to block internet content.
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Mark Evans, Michael Geist's Blog, robhyndman.com, Don Dodge on The Next … and Alec Saunders .LOG
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Steve Dowling / Apple:
Apple & Creative Announce Broad Settlement Ending Legal Disputes Between the Companies — Apple® and Creative Technology, Ltd. today announced a broad settlement ending all legal disputes between the two companies. Apple will pay Creative $100 million for a paid-up license …
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Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: Amazon Readies Utility Computing Service — Amazon Web Services are readying their latest service called EC2 which will allow users to setup and run servers and computing capacity in the cloud. Users of the service can setup a server instance which is hosted with Amazon …
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
The Web 2.0 Economic Conundrum — Regulars here know that I am a huge proponent for the little guy. Hence, the name of my blog. I want to see everyone who's publishing a blog to try to make money achieve their wildest dreams (and ours). However, there's a dirty little secret we should discuss …
USA Today:
Verizon, Cablevision skirmish as war nears — NEW YORK — Nobody would mistake the lush, trimmed lawns of suburban New York City for the OK Corral. But you can almost hear the jingling spurs and blasting revolvers of a corporate gunfight erupting that could affect virtually all consumers.
Graeme Wearden / silicon.com:
Redmond red-faced over Gervais video leak — How did David Brent's day at Microsoft make it onto YouTube? — Microsoft is investigating how two internal training videos created by UK comedy duo Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant have surfaced on the internet.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
YouTube could be a steal at $1 billion — news analysis By agreeing to pay $65 million for Grouper—a profitless video-sharing company with negligible market share—Sony has helped establish a benchmark for other companies in the space and sent industry insiders speculating wildly about what market leader YouTube may be worth.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Wablet's going to rock web IM — I got a preview of the forthcoming web IM system Wablet yesterday. I posted about the first rumors about Wablet three weeks ago. It's a Flash service that can access all your accounts on the major IM services or users can get a Wablet username.
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Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple, others working on battery standard — Leading notebook makers Apple, Dell, and Lenovo will hold a summit meeting in San Jose, Calif. next month to begin development of standards for the manufacture of lithium ion batteries for portable and handheld electronics.
Peter Rip / EarlyStageVC:
Venture 2.0 - Preamble — This the first in a series of posts on the idea of "Venture Capital 2.0." I thought it was appropriate to first set the stage of Venture Capital 1.0 as the point of contrast. This first post is obvious stuff to those of us who have been in the business for a while, but less so for the casual observer.
Katie Hafner / New York Times:
Researchers Yearn to Use AOL Logs, but They Hesitate — When AOL researchers released three months' worth of users' query logs to a publicly accessible Web site late last month, Jon Kleinberg, a professor of computer science at Cornell, downloaded the data right away.
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podcasting site roundup — Let's face it folks: There are a lot of podcast directories and services. Is anyone using these sites? Are they growing or shrinking? Who's growing and shrinking? What does it all mean? — I have lots of thoughts on the subject, but won't offer much analysis here.
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Cameron's Brain
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
IBM's continues to gorge itself on acquisitions — IBM has a kind of eating disorder. The company can't stop its acquisition binge. Today, IBM bought Internet Security Systems (ISS) for $1.3 billion, shortly after ingesting FileNet, MRO Software and Webify.
Louisa Hearn / Sydney Morning Herald:
Safety first for carry-on Dells — Qantas is issuing an advisory to all passengers on its flights on the safe use of Dell notebooks following the recall of 4.1 million batteries announced by the PC manufacturer last week. — The airline said that although passengers would be allowed …
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Matthew Miller / The Mobile Gadgeteer:
TyTN: Smartphone of your dreams? — Two years ago I started using Pocket PC Phone Edition devices with the T-Mobile MDA II device and since that time I have owned or tried the MDA III, i-mate JasJar, TORQ P100, TORQ P120, and HTC Wizard (the QTEK 9000, i-mate K-JAM, and T-Mobile MDA versions).
