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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
NBC and Its Stations Venture Into Online Video Market — Hoping to profit from the fragmented market for video on the Internet, NBC Universal has created a new company that will distribute video programming to various Internet sites. — The new venture, called the National Broadband Company …
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About Skype:
Skype Introduces Video Calling for Macintosh Users — Cross Platform Support lets Mac and Windows Users see each other with free video calls — Skype, the global Internet communications company, has released the beta version of its popular communications software, Skype for Mac 2.0 …
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Google:
Google Introduces Featured Content for Google Earth — Pilot partners include United Nations Environmental Program, Discovery Networks, and National Park Service — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today released Featured Content for Google Earth, a new showcase of multimedia overlays in Google Earth …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Major Google/Intuit Partnership — Google and Intuit are announcing a partnership today at 1:15 pm California time. The meat of it seems to be that they are building Google services directly into Intuit's QuickBooks, so small business users will be able to list themselves on Google Maps …
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Intuit & Google Announce Major Local Search Marketing Partnership — In a development with potentially sweeping implications for local search and small business online marketing, Intuit has announced a partnership with Google that integrates AdWords campaign management and other Google-related …
Nick / Rough Type:
Open and shut — At the heart of the commerical internet is a conflict between technological structure and economic interest. The net's technological structure, developed without regard to the possible profit-making interest of any future commercial site owner, is one of openness …
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New York Times:
Apple Plans to Inhabit Living Room — Steven P. Jobs, Apple Computer's chief executive, concluded a much-anticipated company event on Tuesday with his usual tease, noting that he had "one last thing" to introduce. — Then, in an unusual departure from Apple's practice of announcing …
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Los Angeles Times:
Lonelygirl15 Is Brainchild of 3 Filmmakers — It turns out the people behind the wildly popular website lonelygirl15 are not studio executives, Internet moguls or, as some suspected, Satanists. Instead, they are aspiring filmmakers who met at a mutual friend's birthday party in April …
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AnandTech:
What about Quad Core? — Later this year Intel will be introducing pin compatible upgrades to its Core 2 and Xeon lines, except instead of two cores these processors will feature four. Codenamed Kenstfield (Core 2) and Clovertown (Xeon), Intel's new quad-core processors will dramatically increase …
Traci / blogs.feedburner.com:
A Peek Inside TechCrunch's 100k Subscriber Milestone — Seems like just yesterday we welcomed TechCrunch to the FeedBurner family (now 242,062 publishers strong). Quite a bit has happened since June 15, 2005 when founder Michael Arrington was writing the first profiles of such companies as Flickr, Del.icio.us, Digg and Bloglines.
Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
Don't Nix Netflix Just Yet — Apple's expected announcement of a movie-download service has many wondering what the DVD-by-mail provider has planned — E-commerce companies are rushing to catch the next wave in home entertainment: movie downloads. On Sept. 12, Apple (APPL) …
CNET News.com:
O2 Xda Stealth — DESCRIPTION: — Author: Asher Moses, CNET.com.au pda | STEALTH | smartphone | xda — Scheduled for release in Australia towards the end of September, the O2 Xda Stealth is so new that, at the time of writing this story, the product is nowhere to be found on O2's global website …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
iTunes 7 patches QTFairUse 2.2, QTFairUse 2.3 patches iTunes 7 — At some time around 10:22AM Pacific Time, by our estimations, Steve Jobs introduced to the world iTunes 7, Apple's latest and greatest hardware / software / service glue for their best-selling online media initiative.
SLHamlet / New World Notes:
HACKING UP A STORM — So last week, there was a black hat breach of Second Life's user database. The revelation has often led to confusion and rage, among Residents, many of them threatening (yet again) to abandon SL for good. (Then again, since the news, the peak number of Residents in-world has remained around 10,000, as before.)
Alexander Haislip / pewnews.com:
Flock CEO steps down — Bart Decrem in the hunt for a new startup to land at — Bart Decrem, founder of Web browser startup Flock, has stepped down as CEO and is looking to build another company, PE Week has learned. — Decrem says his departure isn't tied to anything wrong with the company.
AnandTech:
FBD Revisited — Thus far the only real downside we've seen to the Mac Pro is its use of Fully Buffered DIMM (FBD). As we mentioned in our initial article discussing the Mac Pro's specifications, the FBD spec calls for a serial interface between memory controller and memory modules …
Microsoft:
Microsoft Expands Digital Communications Line With Notebook LifeCam Featuring Industry's Highest Video and Still Resolution — Consumer demand drives new VoIP accessories optimized for Windows Live. — With laptop sales up 37 percent1 in 2005 and more than 30 million U.S. households expected to use VoIP …
