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Robert Tait / Guardian:
Iran bans fast internet to cut west's influence — Iran's Islamic government has opened a new front in its drive to stifle domestic political dissent and combat the influence of western culture - by banning high-speed internet links. — In a blow to the country's estimated 5 million internet users …
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Touchscreen iPod Comes This December — Touchscreen iPod Comes This December — The iPod/iPhone rumour mill is something so clouded that as TR News Ed I made the executive decision to circumvent the vast majority of it a long time ago, but yesterday I had a conversation with an extremely well informed exec which I'm going to share.
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Nathan Weinberg / InsideMicrosoft:
Apple Sells Infected iPods, Blames Microsoft — Apple posted a notice that 1% of video iPods shipped after September 12 of this year went out with a little present: the RavMonE.exe worm, which spreads via removable media. Apparently, one of the computers at the contract manufacturer was infected, and it just spread from there.
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Yahoo! Q3 2006 Earnings Call Transcript — Executives — Terry S. Semel - Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer — Susan L. Decker - Chief Financial Officer; Executive Vice President, Finance and Administration — Daniel L. Rosensweig - Chief Operating Officer — Analysts
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Staci / paidContent.org:
Earnings: YHOO: Semel Promises; Panama Launches; Social Media Delivers — Yahoo Chairman & CEO Terry Semel didn't exactly say "please, sir, may I have another" during Tuesday's lengthy earnings call but he did start the conversation with a quasi act of contrition.
Adam Sherwin / Times of London:
Amateur 'video bloggers' under threat from EU broadcast rules — THE Government is seeking to prevent an EU directive that could extend broadcasting regulations to the internet, hitting popular video-sharing websites such as YouTube. — The European Commission proposal would require websites …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Sun's Project Blackbox — datacenter in a container — We're typically not of the ilk to bust out a post on a Sun datacenter solution or yet another clustered supercomputer, but technically Sun's Project Blackbox is portable — if you consider a shipping container portable.
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Joshua Chaffin / Financial Times:
Universal sues video-sharing websites — Universal Music, the world's largest record company, has launched the established media industry's first legal action against user-generated internet sites in the wake of its distribution deal last week with YouTube, the most popular video-sharing website.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google: Security Mishaps and User Trust — Google is pushing full steam ahead with their office strategy, and their hope is to convince a lot of individuals and businesses to trust Google enough to store their documents on Google's servers instead of their own computers, or servers under their control.
Tom Simonite / NewScientistTech:
'DNA computer' is unbeatable at tic-tac-toe — A computer that uses strands of DNA to perform calculations has mastered the game tic-tac-toe. — MAYA-II, developed by researchers at Columbia University and the University of New Mexico in the US, uses a system of DNA logic gates to calculate its moves.
Tom Yager / InfoWorld:
Apple's Xserve Xeon: Built to fall apart — A couple of weeks ago, Apple invited me to its campus to get a close-up look at Apple's Xserve Xeon. It is a marvel of physical design, so much so that I find that it implausible that Xserve Xeon and Xserve G5 could have been designed by the same company.
Kiyoshi Takenaka / Reuters:
Sony to recall own batteries — TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp. (6758.T) said on Tuesday it may change its full-year earnings forecast because of costly recalls of its batteries and a price cut for its PlayStation 3 video game console. — Sony also said it would recall 90,000 …
Sprint:
Sprint Nextel Teams With QUALCOMM and Lucent Technologies to Extend Industry-Leading Push-To-Talk Services with QUALCOMM'S QChat Solution — Technology to Enable High Performance Push-to-Talk (Walkie-Talkie) Calls On AND Between All Sprint Networks, Beginning in 2008
Nicola Pytell / news.cornell.edu:
Cornell University Library announces partnership with Microsoft that will allow global access to its world-class resources — ITHACA, N.Y. — Cornell University Library will soon be able to offer more of its exceptional resources to scholars worldwide, thanks to a long-term partnership …
Alec / Alec Saunders .LOG:
T@lkster: A New Voice 2.0 Company — The preferred attack point for cellular VoIP plays today seems to be disintermediating mobile long distance from the handset. For the last few weeks I've been playing with and alpha release of T@lkster, a new Voice 2.0 offering which does exactly that.
