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Reuters:
Cingular sues telemarketers for unsolicited calls — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cingular Wireless, a joint venture between AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T - news) and BellSouth Corp. (NYSE:BLS - news), on Tuesday said it filed three lawsuits in a U.S. federal court against telemarketers to stop them from making unsolicited …
PR Newswire:
Salesforce.com Announces Apex, the World's First On-Demand Programming Language and Platform — For the first time, third parties will be able to write code that runs automatically on salesforce.com's multi-tenant, shared architecture — Apex will dramatically expand the reach, scope …
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Tristan Louis / The TNL.net weblog:
No Bubble 2.0 yet — The recent acquisition of YouTube by Google for a stunning $1.65 billion made me wonder whether we were seeing a rise in the price. While the New York Times sees a return to the crazy valuations of the 90s, a look at the acquisition landscape does not seem to support their conclusions.
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MSNBC:
Google buys YouTube for $1.65 billion — Search giant's purchase of video sharing service biggest in its history — SAN FRANCISCO - Internet search leader Google is snapping up YouTube for $1.65 billion, brushing aside copyright concerns to seize a starring role in the online video revolution.
Steve Bryant / Google Watch:
Google to Merge Writely and Spreadsheets to Form Google Docs — Breaking news: Google will announce tomorrow at the Office 2.0 conference a new product called Google Docs, which will merge Writely and Google Spreadsheets into a collaboration and document management solution, according to sources.
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Introducing VentureBoard, a marketplace for start-ups — VentureBeat is pleased to introduce VentureBoard, a marketplace for the technology start-up community of Silicon Valley and other regions. — VentureBoard serves two main purposes, and we think it is particularly relevant for the post YouTube acquisition era.
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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Storing Music Tags in the Qloud — A small Washington D.C. startup named Qloud is beta-launching today a collaborative filtering system for music along the lines of Last.fm. If it can achieve critical mass, the startup wants to be a social search engine for music, built on users tagging …
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USA Today:
Liberty Media chief: Telecoms could take big hit in cable wars — NEW YORK — John Malone, the chairman of Liberty Media, says the coming cable-phone wars could turn out to be a bloodbath for AT&T and Verizon. — "Cable guys right now have a huge advantage," Malone told USA TODAY.
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Will Voice-Enabled Mobile Search Kill Directory Assistance? — Local media research firm The Kelsey Group just forecast "portal-backed wireless voice search [will] reach 1.45 billion queries in 2010" and cause "a significant disruption of the directory assistance market." On one level, this is self-evident.
Palm:
Palm, Inc. Announces DigitalLife Press Conference on Oct. 12 — Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM) President and Chief Executive Officer Ed Colligan today invites media to join him for a press conference at DigitalLife on Thursday, Oct. 12, to announce a new Treo(TM) product.
Zephoria / apophenia:
comScore misinterprets data: MySpace is *NOT* gray — Read the ComScore press release. Completely. Read the details. They have found that the unique VISITORS have gotten older. This is _not_ the same thing as USERS. A year ago, most adults hadn't heard about MySpace.
Adam Bennett / NEWS.com.au:
Laser TV unveiled — IT'S being hailed by its developers as the next revolution in visual technology - a laser television that will make plasma screens obsolete. — Soon-to-be-listed Australian company Arasor International and its US partner Novalux unveiled what they claimed to be the world's …
John P. Falcone / Alpha.CNET.com:
Copy never: DRM 'glitch' keeps TiVo Series3, JVC A/V receivers from playing nice — Connecting a TiVo Series3 to a JVC A/V receiver via HDMI seems to awaken an otherwise dormant copy-protection feature in the DVR. At least, that's what happened during testing in the CNET Labs.
Tom Green / Digital Web:
The Rise of Flash Video, Part 1 — In 2003, I was in Seattle getting ready to do a presentation on Flash Video at Digital Design World when Jim Heid, the Conference Organizer, saw the title slide of the presentation and mentioned that I might be facing a rather tough crowd.
Jack Slocum / Jack Slocum's Blog:
WordPress Comments System built with Yahoo! UI — For quite some time I have wanted to upgrade my WordPress comments system. I had some free time yesterday so I decided to go through the WordPress internals and figure out how some of it worked. Before I knew what had happened, it was 3:00am and I had a working prototype.
New York Times:
Venture Firm Shares a YouTube Jackpot — Even in Silicon Valley, it is rare for so much money to be made so fast — and by so few. — The biggest winners in the $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube by Google are YouTube's founders, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, who have parlayed their stakes …
Msrcteam / the Microsoft Security Response Center Blog:
October 2006 Bulletin Release — Hey everyone, Craig Gehre here. We're in the process of releasing our October 2006 Security Bulletins and I wanted to go ahead and update you on it. — We're releasing ten new Security Bulletins this month: — MS06-056 addresses a vulnerability …