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Wall Street Journal:
Mobile ESPN Will End Venture, Seek New Strategy — ESPN, a unit of Walt Disney Co., plans to pull the plug on its sports-themed mobile-telephone venture later this year but hopes to expand its wireless presence by licensing its Mobile ESPN application to other providers.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo's BBAuth Will Allow Better Mashups — Yahoo has released a new product called BBAuth just in time for its open HackDay today and tomorrow. It's a mechanism for non-Yahoo applications to access Yahoo's authentication mechanism and user data in a secure manner.
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Dan Theurer:
Launching the Un-Launch-Able — Opening up Yahoo! I've been looking forward to this day and writing this exact post for quite some time now! So this is it! Wow, this feels great! We just pushed Browser Based Authentication (BBAuth) out the door. — Let's start this post with what BBAuth is and what it can be used for.
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Ellen Sheng / Wall Street Journal:
As Internet TV Gains Popularity, Cable Firms Bulk Up Offerings — With Internet video gaining popularity, pay-TV companies are pondering a future in which they will have to share the spotlight with online video providers. — Video in all forms including first-run movies and television shows …
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Mark Cuban loves YouTube — Mark Cuban is a colorful, engaging, businessman and speaker. In a speech yesterday he said "Only a moron would buy YouTube". Hmmm... and only a genius would buy Broadcast.com for $6 Billion. Mark started Broadcast.com back in the 90s, recorded $14M in revenue its best quarter, then sold it for $6B.
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Sony issues global li-ion battery recall — Sony has finally bitten the bullet and issued a worldwide recall of all Sony-manufactured lithium-ion batteries used in notebook computers. Earlier in the day, Lenovo/IBM joined the ranks of Dell, Apple, and Toshiba in issuing a recall for all Sony batteries that ship with their notebooks.
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Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
GOOGLE READER EASTER EGG — Google Reader has one other cool new feature: A "Next" bookmark. Just add it to your browser toolbar, and clicking it will bring you to the next article in your reading list, automatically. Build a large enough RSS feed collection, add the bookmark …
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Richard / Aeropause:
The Wii - What Real People Think — I have been writing and reviewing games for quite some time and I always fear that I will become overly bias and way to picky when it comes to my job. That is why I decided to give a few young gamers I meet at the Wii Fusion Tour a chance to speak …
DigiTimes:
Quanta Storage seeking patent license from others besides Philips — Quanta Storage, the largest producer of slim-type optical disc drives (ODDs) in Taiwan, reportedly may partner with Sony for licensed use of ODD patents. In response to the news, Quanta Storage on September 29 indicated …
John Chow / John Chow dot Com:
Why Alexa Is Worthless — Alexa is a tool that many webmasters and advertisers used to gauge the size of a website. The Alexa ranking is based on a three month running average. The number shown is where a site ranks on the internet. For example, The TechZone has a ranking of 23,005.
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
HP to acquire Voodoo PC — update Voodoo PC has agreed to be acquired by Hewlett-Packard, Voodoo founder and Chief Technology Officer Rahul Sood announced on his blog Thursday. — Details of the transaction were not released. Rahul Sood and his brother Ravi, currently the CEO of Voodoo …
Brian Benzinger / Solution Watch:
Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 1 — With the start of the new school year, many teachers and students are seeking new products and technologies to help them through their upcoming academics. With the increase of teachers using blogs and wikis, and students networking …
Ted / Signal to Noise:
Ken SCATHES Rebtel and Jajah; I pile on — I'll take a liberty here and say that Ken Camp has an "old-school" telecommunications background. That's not a bad thing. It just means he knows HOW we got to WHERE we got. And I appreciate that. There are some younger VoIP bloggers …
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Frank Ahrens / Washington Post:
Hollywood Says Piracy Has Ripple Effect — Illegal Film Distribution Decreases Sales, Jobs and Tax Revenue, Study Says — Seeking another weapon in its war on piracy, the movie industry hopes to wow lawmakers today with a study that says the economic impact of illegal DVD …
Valleywag:
Guest post: Yahoo Finance employees flee for their lives — Written by a reader. Fact-checked by your mom. — Remember how Yahoo's Q2 earnings plummeted? They said it was slumping advertising from online finance (plus automotive). Remember that Nielsen NetRatings gives Yahoo 54% …
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Daniel Raffel / O'Reilly Emerging Telephony:
Microsoft Messenger for Mac 6.0 — A few days ago Microsoft recently released a long overdue version of Microsoft Messenger for Mac 6.0. After a few days poking around with it I gotta say it feels like a checkbox in a product matrix and not a quality release. — The pro's:
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Advisory (926043) — Vulnerability in Windows Shell Could Allow Remote Code Execution — Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in supported versions of Microsoft Windows. Customers who are running Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 …
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Kotaku:
Reggie To Hand-Out First U.S. Wiis — Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime told ABC News that he would be on hand in New York to personally hand-out the first Wiis in the U.S. … While Gamespot guesses that the store he will be hanging at will be the Nintendo Word Store in Rockefeller Plaza …
AppleInsider:
Apple looks towards flash-enabled notebooks — Intel Corp's plan to incorporate NAND flash memory into its next-generation notebook platform will enable PC manufacturers such as Apple Computer to develop systems that are twice as fast in some operations yet sustain longer battery life.
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
MyWorld: eBay Becomes MySpace — eBay is joining the hordes of existing businesses that are trying to become more like MySpace. Their new MyWorld product, which appears to have gone live last week, lets you create a profile page with a photo, your feedback score, interests, bio, eBay blog, items for sale, store items and more.
