Techmeme: Leo Laporte on Monetizing Podcasts (Phil Windley's Technometria)

9:45 PM ET, September 28, 2006

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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:

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Phil Windley's Technometria:

Leo Laporte on Monetizing Podcasts — Leo LaPorte, the host of TWiT gave the closing keynote at Podcast Academy. This was one of those talks that's pretty fun to listen to, but hard to blog. — Leo mentions that TWiT has started to take ads. Interestingly he gets quite a bit of pushback …

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Daniel Gross / Slate:

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It's Official: Mobile ESPN To Cease MVNO Ops Dec. 31; Will Seek Licensing — The announcement we told you last night was on the way just came out ... Mobile ESPN will cease operations as an MVNO Dec. 31 and will refund the purchase price of all Mobile ESPN handsets. Sales are discontinued effective immediately.

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Battery recall — Select your preferred language from the list below: — Dear Lenovo Customer, — Lenovo and IBM Corporation, in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and other regulatory agencies, have announced the voluntary recall of certain lithium-ion batteries manufactured by Sony Corporation.

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Brian Krebs / Washington Post:

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H.P. Counsel Resigns as Hearings Open — Hewlett-Packard's general counsel, Ann O. Baskins, has resigned from the company, and her lawyer said she will not answer questions at the Congressional hearing scheduled for today. — As Hewlett-Packard's chief in-house lawyer …

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