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Christopher Grant / Joystiq:
TGS: Xbox 360 to add 1080p support, PS3 to lose bullet point — At their pre-TGS press briefing in Tokyo today, Microsoft announced that the Xbox 360 will support 1080p content through a software upgrade. The "p" stands for parity. — Microsoft's announcement — which effectively parries …
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Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
Alarm.com Signs VOIP Deal; Looks Next To ISPs — Alarm.com has signed its second VOIP partnership deal, with SunRocket. Executives said they're looking ahead to partnerships with ISPs, providing yet another tier of service to existing "triple play" relationships.
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Garrett Smith / Smith On VoIP:
Alarm over IP - Giving VoIP Pure Plays "Triple Play" Potential? — Alarm.com has struck another deal with a prominent Voice over IP provider to offer residential security service and Voice over IP service bundles. Fresh off a deal with Vonage, Alarm.com announced today that SunRocket …
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Al Gore's Current TV Joins With Yahoo for a Video Venture — Yahoo said yesterday that it was creating an online video programming venture with Current TV, the media company founded by former Vice President Al Gore. The service will combine professional and user-generated video clips.
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Robert McLaws:
Mary Jo Foley: The Exit Interview — Alright, I admit it. I knew what was going on all along. Mary Jo Foley dropped a bombshell this afternoon, announcing she was leaving MicrosoftWatch to branch out on her own after 11 years at ZiffDavis. What are her plans for the future?
Fred / A VC:
YHOOuch — On July 20th, I blogged that I was going to buy Yahoo (YHOO). I did just that and was up 15% on the trade until yesterday when Terry Semel announced that the Sept quarter is going to be at the low end of the range on revenues and earnings. The stock is back down below $26, and my 15% gain is up in smoke.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:Again, The Need For Search Ad Revenue To Stand Alone
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CNET News.com:
Gonzales: ISPs must keep records on users — WASHINGTON—Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Tuesday stepped up his efforts to lobby for federal laws requiring Internet providers to keep track of what their customers do online. — Gonzales asked senators to adopt "data retention" …
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shephard.co.uk:
INFLIGHT ONLINE EXCLUSIVE: Panasonic reaches for the Connexion torch — JUST when the Inmarsat community was relishing the prospect of an unobstructed run at the passenger broadband market, Panasonic has announced a plan to take up where Connexion by Boeing left off.
David Berlind / Between the Lines:
SMBs should outsource everything and vendors must adjust — Yesterday was EMC day for me. I spent a pretty good chunk of the day in Bedford, MA at RSA Security (recently acquired by EMC) and then, by pure coincidence, last night, I attended an EMC-hosted dinner at Sauciety …
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Dell battery explodes at Yahoo HQ, hundreds evacuate — We just got word that a Yahoo employee's laptop went up in flames today at their Mission College campus down in Silicon Valley, causing hundreds of Yahoo employees to be evacuated from an 8-story building.
Ryan / CyberNet Technology News:
Download The First Release Candidate Of Firefox 2 RC1 — Bookmark This: del.icio.us - Digg it - Furl - reddit - Spurl - Yahoo MyWeb — Okay, this one was a little bit of a tongue twister so I wasn't quite sure how to say it. Technically I should say Firefox 2 RC1 RC1 but I guess …
Auren Hoffman / venturebeat.com:
Why I hate Evite — (Editor's note: This one resonated with us. And since Auren's pieces so far have been well liked, we're going with it.) — Like some of you, I get a lot of Evites. In fact, too many. In the past 8 months alone, I received 228 Evites. Annually that's 342 Evites - almost one a day!!!
Michael Calore / Wired News:
Web 2.0 Winners and Losers — A few weeks ago, I implored readers of the Monkey Bites blog to sumbit their votes for the best and worst Web 2.0 sites out there. — I asked them to build a list of their own can't-live-without-it and oh-please-make-it-stop destinations.
Ryan / CyberNet Technology News:
Google Base Gets A Redesign And Loses A Search Box — Bookmark This: del.icio.us - Digg it - Furl - reddit - Spurl - Yahoo MyWeb — Google Base has revamped their homepage and it doesn't seem that different to me. In fact, one thing that they did do was remove the search box which really puzzles me.
Brian Bremner / Business Week:
Will Nintendo's Wii Strategy Score? — If the Japanese company attracts new gamers with its innovative but not quite cutting-edge console, it could alter the industry — Killer processing power, high-definition graphics, WiFi connectivity, massive storage capacity—when it comes to game consoles …
Jay Rosen:
Journalism goes pro-am — Today I am announcing at Comment is free and PressThink, my blog, that Reuters is giving $100,000 to NewAssignment.Net. That's the experiment I plan to launch next year with others who think there is something to the idea of open source journalism …
Jonny Evans / Macworld UK:
Apple Support docs address some iTunes 7 bugs — Apple has begun publishing tech support documents to address some reported bugs in iTunes 7. — The release of the software generated the usual wave of fault reports, mainly (but not exclusively) from Windows users of the application.
Washington Post:
Extensive Spying Found At HP — Feb. Report Sent to 4 Senior Executives — The Hewlett-Packard Co. spying effort that has sparked criminal investigations was wide-ranging and included physical surveillance, photographs and spyware sent via e-mail, and it also targeted wives and other relatives …
