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11:55 AM ET, October 18, 2006

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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 …
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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
Andrew Goodman / Traffick:
No Turning Back: Panama Goes Live  —  As of today, the first wave of advertisers are converting over to Yahoo's new Panama ad system.  The system will be made available to all advertisers in the U.S. by year end.  Once they migrate, there will be no opting back for the current Direct Traffic Center …
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Ben Charny / MarketWatch:
Google to score ad revenues coup: eMarketer  —  SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Google Inc. is on track in 2006 to become the first company ever to pocket 25% of all U.S. online ad spending in a calendar year, according to a new report from eMarketer, an online ad tracker.
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Steve Poland / TechCrunch:
Microsoft and Yahoo Prepare to Battle Google
Discussion: HipMojo.com
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 …
Discussion: Ogle Earth and CrunchGear
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
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
PayPerPost tests your ethics, & Edelman's fake blog for Wal-Mart  —  PayPerPost is a Florida start-up that lets bloggers get paid for writing about products and other companies.  —  It has just got $3 million in funding from Silicon Valley venture firm Draper Fisher Jurveston and others.
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Windows virus worms onto some Apple iPods  —  update Apple Computer warned on Tuesday that some of its latest iPods have shipped with a Windows virus.  —  The company said that a small number of video iPods made after Sept. 12 included the RavMonE virus.  It said it has seen fewer …
Alexander Sliwinski / Joystiq:
EA clarifies Battlefield 2142's IGA spyware  —  Electronic Arts launched Battlefield 2142 yesterday and not too many people were happy to find spyware incorporated into the game.  EA is confused why players have an issue with the sheet describing advertising spyware in their copy of Battlefield 2142 …
Discussion: Blue's News and Game|Life
Spacegirl / Google Blogoscoped:
Weird Post on Official Blogger Blog  —  This is another of those "weird posts by Google" alerts.  The official Google blog covering Blogger just published this (twice, no less):  —  white chocolate sugar skulls  —  Diary of a Crafty Chica: White Chocolate Sugar Skulls  —  i love these!
Jonathan Schwartz / Jonathan Schwartz's Weblog:
Introducing Project Blackbox  —  As I've been saying for a while, our customers - more specifically, a segment* of our customers - face a diversity of tough challenges.  What does the CIO in midtown Manhattan do when she runs out of roof space or power?  How does an aid agency deliver basic connectivity …
Reuters:
Universal Music sues two online video sites  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Universal Music Group said on Tuesday it filed lawsuits against online video sharing sites Grouper and Bolt.com for allowing users to swap pirated versions of its musicians' videos.  —  Universal, whose artists include U2 …
Wired News:
Wired Travel Guide: Second Life  —  Taking a trip to the coolest destination on the Web?  Our guide tells you where to go, what to do - and how to buy sex organs.  —  So you've decided to take a trip to Second Life.  Good choice!  Whether you're coming for the uninhibited nightlife …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Firefox 2.0 Review  —  Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus.  Disclaimer: Alex's company AdaptiveBlue has a product called The blueorganizer, which is a Firefox extension.  —  In this post, we take a look at what the Firefox team is going to deliver in their upcoming major release: Firefox 2.0.
Discussion: Gizmodo and digg
Microsoft:
Software Assurance Add-on Delivers Dynamic Desktop  —  Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack for Software Assurance streamlines application deployment and management.  —  Alamance Regional Medical Center (ARMC) should have counted its blessings.  Instead of the hundreds of software applications needed …
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.
RawmeatCowboy / Go Nintendo:
Back of Wii retail box  —  The wonderful team at Wiixors was nice enough to let me know of some pics they grabbed from a local EB Games.  They snagged some pics of the Wii retail box, and it has some interesting info!  Click the thumbs below to check them out.  Thanks once again to the Wiixors team!
Discussion: Kotaku, Joystiq, CrunchGear, You NEWB and digg
 
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New York Times:
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David Weinberger / Joho the Blog:
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Zimbra: 4 Million Paid Mailboxes and Counting
Josh Greenbaum / Enterprise Anti-matter:
The Battle of the Ecosystems: SAP vs. IBM vs. Microsoft.  And Then There's Oracle
Discussion: Open Sources
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Watch Out Startups, Ad Spending is Falling and So is Your Sky
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google: Security Mishaps and User Trust
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Goodbye LG Chocolate, hello Shine!
Discussion: Gizmodo and CrunchGear
Guy Kawasaki / Signal Without Noise:
The Art of Commercialization
Discussion: digg
 Earlier Items: 
Cyrus Farivar / Engadget:
Xbox HD DVD drive to connect to PCs via USB
Discussion: CrunchGear and Windows-Now.com
Reuters:
Microsoft CEO forecasts $7.5 bln R&D spend in 2007
Tom Simonite / NewScientistTech:
'DNA computer' is unbeatable at tic-tac-toe
Robert McMillan / InfoWorld:
Spamhaus appeals possible shutdown ruling
Discussion: Techdirt
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Fujitsu Ten unveils DREC1000 in-car accident recorder
Discussion: digg
terrasoftsolutions.com:
Terra Soft to Provide Linux for the Sony PLAYSTATION®3.
Major Nelson / Xbox Live's Major Nelson:
Maintenance update and arcade preview
Discussion: Joystiq, Aeropause and Kotaku
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WGA East members working for PBS member stations reach a deal, averting a strike; the union says the deal expands protections to animation writers

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Jason Cowley, the editor-in-chief of UK magazine the New Statesman, is stepping down from the position at the end of December after 16 years

Ayodeji Rotinwa / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the Agora Center for Research, a Ugandan newsroom sitting between activism and investigative reporting, posting its work on various social media sites

 
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