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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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Ogle Earth, The Technology Liberation …, VoIP Blog, Tom Raftery's I.T. views, CrunchGear, Techdirt and Slashdot
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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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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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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.
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IPcentral Weblog, Reuters, TechEffect, TechCrunch, Coolfer, Web Publishing Blog, Smalltalk Tidbits … and Lost Remote
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google: Security Mishaps and User Trust — Update: Danny Sullivan disagrees with some of my points, and adds a few other security incidents to the list. — Google is pushing full steam ahead with their office strategy, and their hope is to convince a lot of individuals and businesses …
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.
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Ask.com Using Paid Search On Google As Promotion — I reported at the Search Engine Roundtable that Ask.com Advertises on Google.com To Promote Search Quality of Engine. A search on Raccoon brings up an AdWords ad that is marketing Ask.com's search results.
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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Mashable!, What Will You See Next?, Bloggers Blog, Web Publishing Blog, Guardian Unlimited, digg and Slashdot
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Zimbra: 4 Million Paid Mailboxes and Counting — What do Digg, Mozilla, the University of Bern Switzerland and the Times of India have in common? According to an announcement today, they are all among the 1000+ customers of web based open source communication and collaboration suite Zimbra.
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.
Chris Messina / FactoryCity:
Dodgeball goes Gauth, reveals GOOG's masterplan to p0wn your ass — Don't say I didn't warn you, but now when you try to log into your favorite neighborhood spyware, you'll be greeted by a prompt to login with either your old skool Dodgeball account credentials or your Gauth account …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
FBI director wants ISPs to track users — FBI Director Robert Mueller on Tuesday called on Internet service providers to record their customers' online activities, a move that anticipates a fierce debate over privacy and law enforcement in Washington next year.
Robert McMillan / InfoWorld:
Spamhaus appeals possible shutdown ruling — U.S. court ruling threatens to shut down the volunteer organization's database of known spammers — The Spamhaus Project has told a U.S. court that it plans to appeal a recent ruling that threatened the volunteer organization with millions …
Robustyoungsoul / Soul Kerfuffle:
The View From the Top — The top of what you ask? The height of World of Warcraft greatness. — A few weeks ago, a good friend of mine quit playing Warcraft. He was a council member on what is now one of the oldest guilds in the world, the type of position coveted by many of the 7 million people …
Scott McNulty / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Screenshots of SlingPlayer for the Mac — We've mentioned that Sling Media, the makers of the TV streaming Slingbox, are planning on a late October/early November release for the OS X version of SlingPlayer. SlingPlayer is the client that allows you to watch TV streamed from the SlingBox …
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 …
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All about Microsoft, Microsoft News Tracker, Windows-Now.com and Windows Vista Team Blog
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
AllOfMP3 loses Visa account, switching to ad-supported — AllofMP3, the notorious Russian music-selling site, has lost its Visa account and says it will switch to giving away free, ad-supported music. The site claims that its activities are legal under Russian law.
