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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
EBay Gambles on Google Partnership for Success of Skype, the Internet Phone Service — EBay is hoping its new partnership with Google will help it find new ways to make money from Skype, its Internet calling service. But experts wonder if enough people are willing to make the switch …
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Google:
Google and eBay Sign Multi-Year Agreement to Connect Users, Merchants, and Advertisers Around the Globe — Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) and eBay Inc. (Nasdaq: EBAY) today announced a multi-year agreement to benefit both companies' collective communities of users, merchants and advertisers around the globe.
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Danny Sullivan / Daggle:
Leaving Search Engine Watch — After ten years, I'm leaving Search Engine Watch and almost certainly leaving the Search Engine Strategies conference series as well. My contracts with their owners Incisive Media are expiring, and we've not been able to agree on new ones.
Chris Anderson / The Long Tail:
GOOGLE APPS AND THE POWER OF EMBEDDED FUNCTIONALITY — There been a lot of talk today about Google releasing a suite of hosted applications, starting with basic communications (email, talk) running on your own domain and then more Office-like apps such as word processing and spreadsheets.
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Gizmodo:
Philips READUS E-Reader Scroll Prototype — You've heard of e-ink devices, like the Sony Librie, or e-reader, or whatever. But you've never seen a real working prototype of an electronic reader based on a flexible e-paper, that rolls up like a scroll. And you've never seen a video …
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Zillow Blog:
Yahoo! Real Estate Adds More "Z" — In July we announced the first phase of our partnership with Yahoo! Real Estate which exposes Zestimates and comparable homes to their broad audience. Today we are equally excited to announce the next two phases in our partnership with Yahoo! Real Estate …
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New York Times:
Wireless Providers Poised to Win Spectrum Licenses — When the government's multibillion-dollar auction of radio spectrum licenses began two weeks ago, it looked as if newcomers might get the chance to buy their way into the mobile phone business, leading to more choices for consumers.
socialtext.net:
Wired Wiki — Attachments: — In an experiment in collaborative journalism, Wired News is putting reporter Ryan Singel at your service. — This wiki began as an unedited 1,059 word article on the wiki phenomenon, exactly as Ryan filed it. Your mission, should you choose to accept it …
Jeff / The Jeff Pulver Blog:
Jeff's Guide to "TV Shows Only Available on the Internet" — Somewhere between the world of professionally "produced" TV shows and personal video blogs lies the world of what can be best described as "TV Shows Only Available on the Internet." — This summer the team at pulver.com set …
Frank Rose / Wired News:
Can the PS3 Save Sony … Never try to introduce the same product twice. That was the lesson from the Electronic Entertainment Expo in May. A year earlier, at E3 2005 in Los Angeles, Sony had wowed the videogame industry with demonstrations of the upcoming PlayStation 3's unprecedented graphical muscle.
Reuters:
Internet, TV are no rivals: Google — The rise of the internet is as revolutionary as the invention of the printing press, a senior Google Inc. executive said on Saturday - but old media like television should not fear it. — Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of search products and user experience …
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Site Mail comes to Netscape (or "on the 'death'of IM and MySpace page view goosing") — Update: My pal Sean Bonner rips on MySpace for page goosing nonsense. — Update2: Make sure you go vote this story on digg! http://digg.com/tech_news/Netscape_ Adds_in_Site_Mail
Financial Times:
Universal backs free music rival to iTunes — Universal Music, the world's largest music company, is backing a start-up that will allow consumers to download songs for free. It will rely on advertising for its revenues, offering a different business model from that of Apple Computer's popular iTunes music store.
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Singapore: One nation under Wi-Fi — By the end of the year, it will be possible to roam almost anywhere in Singapore and get a wireless signal. — As part of its Intelligent Nation 2015 program, the island nation will be able to boast of countrywide Wi-Fi coverage in a few months …
Brett Thomas / bit-tech.net:
Parallel Worlds — "But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. — "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're ALL mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." — "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. — "You must be," replied the Cat. "Or you wouldn't have come here!"
Tom Zeller Jr / New York Times:
Times Withholds Web Article in Britain — If Web readers in Britain were intrigued by the headline "Details Emerge in British Terror Case," which sat on top of The New York Times's home page much of yesterday, they would have been disappointed with a click.
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Newsmaker: Can Linux save the Palm OS? — newsmakers Access is betting that the Palm community could use a little push from a penguin. — More than two years have passed since PalmSource—the Palm OS developer purchased by Access in 2005—released an update to the venerable operating system.
Aragoto / dottocomu:
Japanese government prepares online lie-detector — Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications is, for reasons best known to it, earmarking Y300 mn in its 2007 budget to produce what the Asahi Shimbun terms a lie-detector for online information.
