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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
For Vista, WGA gets tougher — For Windows Vista, Microsoft is rolling out a new version of its Windows Genuine Advantage anti-piracy program, complete with a new name: the Windows Software Protection Platform. This time, they mean business. — Let's call it WGA Plus, shall we?
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Download Squad, Engadget, TechBlog, The PC Doctor, Smalltalk Tidbits … and Ed Bott's Windows Expertise
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Brian Steinberg / Wall Street Journal:
Web-Video Spots Present Dilemma For Advertisers — Web video is a regular part of Dima Abelsky's routine. The 19-year-old University of Georgia sophomore enjoys looking at sports reports and entertainment news, watching as many as seven to eight videos a day.
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The Universal Desktop, AdJab, Beet.TV, IP Democracy, TechEffect, Search Engine Journal and ClickZ News Blog
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Damon Darlin / New York Times:
Ex-Head of H.P. Faces Charges — Patricia C. Dunn, the former chairwoman of Hewlett-Packard, and four other people will be named in indictments expected to be filed by California's attorney general today in the spying case at the company, according to lawyers involved in the case.
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Black Voices:
You've got to see it to believe it — The new AOL OpenRide™ Beta software helps you do what you want online in fewer clicks and fewer hassles. No more jumping from one window to the next - everything you need is right there the moment you need it. — OpenRide is more than just a browser.
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TechCrunch, Search Engine Journal, Office Evolution, Download Squad, Screenwerk, ContentBlogger and InsideGoogle
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Rick Segal / The Post Money Value:
Our B5 Media Investment — Today we've closed a financing round with our co-lead, Brightspark Ventures into B5 media. At first, I really wanted to just sit back and let the rocks fly and blogosphere go nuts with the who/what/why and the zillions of opinions.
Official Google Blog:
The new Groups experience — Today, the Google Groups team launched a new beta version, available to anyone at groups-beta.google.com. It may have been awhile since you thought of Groups as cool or sexy — if you ever did — but I couldn't have been more excited to work on the team responsible …
Reuters:
Newspaper website readership up 31% — NEW YORK (Reuters) — The average number of monthly visitors to U.S. newspaper websites rose by nearly a third in the first half of 2006, a study released on Wednesday said, though print readership at some larger U.S. newspapers fell.
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Yahoo serving up search ads on mobile phones — Yahoo on Wednesday launched a beta version of sponsored search results on mobile phones in the United States and United Kingdom. — Like Yahoo's sponsored search results on the Web, advertisers will bid in an auction on keywords that will display their ads on the search results page.
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BBC:
Geekspeak still baffles web users — Britons are increasingly tech-savvy but are still bamboozled by tech jargon. — According to research from Nielsen/NetRatings, people are buying cutting-edge technology but often don't understand the terms that describe what their device actually does.
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Wayne Rash / eWEEK.com:
T-Mobile to Announce UMTS, Sources Say — T-Mobile sources have told eWEEK that the company is scheduling a press conference for Oct. 6 in New York for the purposes of making a major announcement in the wake of the company's win in the recent frequency auction.
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
WalMart's MySpace Clone Dead on Arrival — TheHub, WalMart's ill-fated attempt at building a social network for kool kidz who just happen to like shopping at Walmart, has gone offline. The site, which was up for 10 weeks, tried to keep content wholesome, and featured profiles and videos from …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Competitio.us: track your competitors online — Competitio.us is a very useful looking competitive intelligence service built in Ruby on Rails that launched today. It's a simple but powerful way to keep track of competing companies online. This is something that I think many of our readers …
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Froosh / HipMojo.com:
YouTube IS Wildly Profitable - No Doubts About It — YouTube cofounder Chad Hurley is looking to pull a Google on the $75 billion TV ad industry by introducing contextual ads. Hey, crazier things have happened, and if any one online video company can make it happen, it just might well be Steve Chen and Hurley's brainchild, YouTube.
BBC:
Google launches literacy portal — Search engine Google has launched a portal to connect literacy organisations around the world. — The Literacy Project enables teachers, organisations, and those interested in literacy to use the internet to search for and share literacy information.
Steve Dowling / Apple:
Apple's Special Committee Reports Findings of Stock Option Investigation — Fred Anderson Resigns from Apple Board of Directors — Apple® today announced that the special committee of its board of directors has reported its findings after a three month investigation into Apple's stock option practices.
USA Today:
What's Teoma, you ask? You could ask Jeeves, but he's become ... Teoma — Hard to believe that while I was attending Rutgers University — in a building not far from the grain-alcohol frat parties that I may or may not have gone to, depending on who's asking — the history of Teoma was taking shape.
