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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google tunes into radio ads — Google is allowing some of its existing online marketers to use its automated advertising system to broadcast ads on radio stations around the United States, the company said on Thursday. — The beta test of Google Audio Ads is the result of the integration …
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Inside AdWords:
Bringing radio advertising to Google advertisers: an update — There's been a lot of speculation about what we're doing in radio advertising so we thought we'd give you a quick update regarding what we've been working on since the acquisition of dMarc Broadcasting earlier this year.
Business Wire:
BitTorrent Acquires uTorrent — SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—BitTorrent, Inc., home to the world's leading peer-assisted digital content delivery platform, today announced it has acquired uTorrent, a lightweight and efficient implementation of the BitTorrent protocol.
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Reuters:
McCartney cries 'Help!' on song copyrights — Music copyrights in the UK last only 50 years, so early Beatles songs could be up for grabs by 2012. — LONDON (Reuters) — Paul McCartney and Robbie Williams joined thousands of other performers on Thursday in an appeal for an extension to British copyright on their recordings.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo's Semel Says No Layoffs, Sort Of — Yahoo CEO Terry Semel blasts some of the rumors out there about Yahoo, including reports (by us) of layoffs, that he was leaving and that Dan Rosensweig and Susan Decker were taking a joint role to lead the company until a replacement was found.
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Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
A Wish List for the iPhone — If you're dreaming of a mobile phone that downloads and shares music, carries your files, and makes movies, why not put all your Apples in one basket — Let me go out on a limb here and say that Apple Computer will probably not launch a wireless phone of any kind early next year.
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog
microsoft.com:
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification — As part of the monthly security bulletin release cycle, Microsoft provides advance notification to our customers on the number of new security updates being released, the products affected, the aggregate maximum severity and information about detection tools relevant to the update.
Mark Wallace / Wired News:
Firefly Reborn as Online Universe — Like Capt. Mal Reynolds stumbling in after a bar fight, the short-lived but much beloved sci-fi series Firefly will soon make an unexpected return, not as a TV show, but as a massively multiplayer online game. — Now that's shiny.
BBC:
Concern over mobile music-sharing — Children are increasingly swapping music via mobile phones, often without realising they can be breaking the law. — A survey of almost 1,500 eight to 13-year-olds found almost a third shared music via their mobiles. — Children are using the built …
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Techdirt
Thomas Christensen / DoCopenhagen:
Top 50 Music Videos Of 2006 — Here we go again... Our top 50 videos of 2005 was a huge success. This year we decided to do things a little bit differently. All the videos are from You Tube and can therefore be watched in the browser. If you want to download the videos to your computer …
Tony / Deep Jive Interests:
Diggers Are Getting Paid — But Not By Kevin Rose — It seems like there is a long running meme in the blogosphere about gaming Digg, and it even made it as an article on CNet the other day (despite a few inaccuracies). Despite the controversy, there is one thing that Kevin Rose has always maintained …
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Mathew Ingram
yvoschaap.com:
A Problem Must Be Solution, Resolved, Or Dissolved — 8 questions about the web you always wanted answers to — The most popular 10,000 websites analyzed - 8 Questions & Answers — Last week I had the urge to do some real quantitative data analysis. After several days …
Lifehacker:
Choose the best blank DVDs — Ever wonder if that cheapo spindle of blank DVDs is really a better deal than the Sony spindle that costs five bucks more? Digital-services site digitalFAQ.com evaluated and ranked blank DVDs from dozens of manufacturers.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Video Startup That May Never Launch — This is a rumor that just won't die: The major television networks are considering creating a new online video service joint venture to compete with YouTube. — We first heard about this when the Google-Youtube acquisition news broke, and wrote briefly about it here (see last paragraph).
BBC:
1200-year-old problem 'easy' — Schoolchildren in Caversham have become the first in the country to learn about a new number - 'nullity' - which solves maths problems neither Newton nor Pythagoras could conquer. — Dr James Anderson, from the University of Reading's computer science department …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Washington uses new spyware law, gets $1 million settlement — The Washington State Attorney General's office has announced a $1 million settlement in the state's first anti-spyware case. Using a new spyware law, Attorney General Rob McKenna went after Secure Computer earlier this year …
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Jon's Radio:
A conversation with Jon Udell about his new job with Microsoft — For today's podcast I decided to interview myself about my upcoming new gig. It's a short episode, under six minutes, and the transcript follows. — Note: I actually meant to push this to the server later today …
