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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Spinoff Wallop Launches — Wallop, previously a semi-forgotton Microsoft Research "sandbox" social network and photo sharing project, was spun off into a new, independent, venture backed business earlier this year (details here). Tonight at 9 pm California time, Wallop is launching a semi-public beta.
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Don Dodge on The Next …, paidContent.org, The Universal Desktop, Search Engine Journal and Ryan Stewart
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Rafe Needleman / CNET News.com:
Wallop, the social network where you pay for pretty — The "important" social network I mentioned in my post about Piczo is launching at DemoFall on Tuesday, and going into limited beta tonight. It's called Wallop. A lot of Wallop was developed inside Microsoft, but it's been spun out into a separate …
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Mashable!, The Technology Chronicles, John Cook's Venture Blog and Microsoft News Tracker
BBC:
Mobile web shake-up gets started — The mobile web is about to receive the biggest shake-up in years with the start of open registration for mobile phone-specific website addresses. — The general public can now register websites ending with .mobi (dotmobi) as the backers of the mobile net hope to overturn consumer apathy.
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Tom Braithwaite / Financial Times:
Arrival of 'dotmobi' domain raises concerns — New "dotmobi" internet domain names will go on general sale on Tuesday in an attempt to drive the use of mobile devices as platforms to surf the web. — More than 13,000 names have been registered in an initial period reserved for trademark holders …
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Jajah's Mobile Ambitions — The company hopes to become the Skype of the cell-phone world, and has introduced a service allowing users to call overseas on the cheap — You might call Jajah the clunkier Skype. Since February, the Mountain View (Calif.)-based startup has allowed people …
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IP Democracy
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against AOL Over Search Data Release — TechCrunch reports in Suit filed against AOL; seeks to block search history storage that a class action lawsuit has been filed against AOL seeking $1,000 in damages for each person whose search records were released last month.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Introducing ScobleShow — It's 1 a.m. and the engineering team, me, and Valerie, are still working at the office. But the show is slowly coming up. The URL is at http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/ — Stuff is still broken, and probably will be for a little while longer.
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Thomas Hawk's Digital …, Frank Barnako, ScobleShow, Laughing Squid and Clique Communications
iab.net:
INTERNET ADVERTISING REVENUES CONTINUE TO ACCELERATE AT AN UNPRECEDENTED RATE WITH A 36% INCREASE FOR FIRST HALF OF '06 — First Six Months of '06 hit $7.9 Billion and Q2 Exceeds $4 Billion — Today, during the MIXX Conference and Expo, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) …
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InterMedia, Dan Blank, paidContent.org, B2Day, E-consultancy, Lost Remote, ContentBlogger and Paul Kedrosky's …
Associated Press:
AOL Subscribers Sue Over Release Of Search Data — NEW YORK - Three AOL subscribers who suddenly found records of their Internet searches widely distributed online are suing the company under privacy laws and are seeking an end to its retention of search-related data.
Somasegar / Somasegar's WebLog:
Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Beta and Visual Studio support for Vista — Today, I'm pleased to announce the availability of the beta of Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1. — Based on your feedback, Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 addresses issues that were found through a combination of customer reports …
Ryan Katz / Think Secret:
Apple iPhone to be Cingular-exclusive at launch — Apple and Cingular have signed an agreement that will make the US' largest cell phone provider the exclusive carrier of Apple's forthcoming phone, sources report. Apple's iPhone remains on track for an early 2007 release.
Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
CinemaNow's Internet Cliff-Hanger — The online movie business hopes downloadable DVD services will start an industry-wide trend. But studios want to see strong sales first — The movie download business just got more fast and furious. On Sept. 26, online movie distributor CinemaNow announced …
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Hoping to Be a Model, I.B.M. Will Put Its Patent Filings Online — I.B.M., the nation's largest patent holder, will publish its patent filings on the Web for public review as part of a new policy that the company hopes will be a model for others. — If widely adopted, the policy could help …
New York Times:
Two Involved in H.P. Spying Are Summoned by Congress — Two Hewlett-Packard employees who directed the company's spying operations have been subpoenaed by a House committee to appear at a hearing this week after refusing invitations to testify, the committee said Monday.
John Markoff / New York Times:
Google to Push for More Electrical Efficiency in PC's — Google is calling on the computer industry to create a simpler and more efficient power supply standard that it says will save billions of kilowatt-hours of energy annually. — In a white paper to be presented Tuesday on the opening …
Mike / Techdirt:
Limewire Hits Back Hard: Sues RIAA For Antitrust And Consumer Fraud — from the this-may-get-interesting dept — Last month, the RIAA sued Limewire after Limewire wouldn't agree to simply roll over and pretend the RIAA's interpretation of the Supreme Court decision in the Grokster case was actually what the Supreme Court said.
