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Susan Stellin / New York Times:
Offline Involuntarily — Five years ago, the main challenge for data-hungry business travelers was finding a hotel that offered high-speed Internet access. Then came a shift to wireless and even free connections. — But these days, the top priority for many is simply getting consistent …
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VoIP Watch
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Digg continues to battle phony stories — Digg continues to crack down on users who plant phony stories on behalf of marketers, recently deleting a user who posted a story about a company that offered to compensate him. — The news aggregate site, which allows users to play editor and decide …
Richard Siklos / New York Times:
AOL Chief Has a View, a Long One — If AOL were being dressed up for a sale, as has been rumored on and off for several years, Randy Falco is an odd choice to be the new chief executive. — As Mr. Falco notes, he is hardly a short-term guy. Before starting at Time Warner's AOL unit this month …
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Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar:
Google Deprecates Their SOAP Search API — In an odd move Google has quietly deprecated their Search SOAP API, will no longer be issuing keys, and have removed the SDK from their site. They did not even issue a blog post about it. They will continue (for how long?) to support existing users, but will not do any bug fixes.
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Quoderat, Things That, Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life, onfocus.com and Google Operating System
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Australian court rules against MP3 link site — update Linking to copyright music posted elsewhere online without permission can be illegal, an Australian appeals court ruled Monday. — The issue before a three-judge panel at the Federal Court of Australia was whether Stephen Cooper …
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Mike / Techdirt:Allowing Linking To MP3s Still Illegal In Australia; Ruling …
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Weatherall's Law
EE Times:
Verizon joins Asian consortium to build $500-million U.S.-China network — Verizon Business said Monday that it has signed an agreement with a group of Asian telecommunications firms to build an advanced undersea optical cable system linking China with the U.S. mainland.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Polar Rose: Europe's Entrant Into Facial Recognition — Malmö, Sweden based Polar Rose is having its coming out party today and pre-announcing a product release slated for early next year. CEO Nikolaj Nyholm gave me demo of what's coming last weekend.
Alice Z. Cuneo / AdAge:
Ford Denies Connection to Web-Concert Porno Promo — Launches Investigation of MSN Event It Is Sponsoring — SAN FRANCISCO (Adage.com) — An entertainment company promoting a Ford Motor Co.-backed concert has come up with a new way to tie its advertising into celebrity content …
Rcade / Workbench:
My Battle with MGM Over Wargames.Com — For the past three months I've been privately engaged in a time-consuming dispute with Nathan J. Hole, a lawyer representing MGM Studios who claims that Wargames.Com, a domain that I've owned since April 16, 1998, is the rightful property of the film company …
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Digital Life
Ben Charny / MarketWatch:
Google's radio ad tests hit snag — analyst — SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Google Inc.'s nascent radio advertisement business, known as Google Audio, has run into an unexpected snag: it seems Google doesn't have access to enough radio airtime for would-be advertisers to thoroughly test out the initiative, an analyst said Monday.
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Samsung:
SAMSUNG Launches the World's First 'Optical Joystick' Phone — Samsung's SCH-V960 features optical sensor button for user convenience — Samsung Electronics , a leading provider and innovator of mobile phones, launches the world's first mobile phone featuring a n optical joystick for a whole new mobile experience.
Opera:
Opera Introduces Fraud Protection, Powered by GeoTrust and PhishTank: New release expands Opera's commitment to secure browsing — Opera Software today introduced real-time Fraud Protection in its award-winning Web browser. Fraud Protection includes technology from GeoTrust …
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Associated Press:
Matsushita to offer new lithium battery — TOKYO - Japanese electronics maker Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Monday it will begin mass production of a new lithium-ion battery that is safe from the overheating problems that prompted a massive recall of Sony Corp. batteries this year.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
PixSense, offering auto-storage of mobile photos & video, raises $5.4M — PixSense, a service that lets you automatically save and store your mobile phone photos — without the pain of syncing with a PC — has just raised $5.4 million in a first round of funding.
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Ilene Adler / beta.pixsense.com:PixSense Secures $5.4 Million in Series A Funding for Mobile Photo …
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Google Blogoscoped:
Google Maps With Multiple Destinations — Google added a feature that lets you add multiple destinations to your driving directions. For example, I'm searching Google Maps for [from stuttgart, germany, to cologne, germany]. Then there's a link titled "Add destination..." …
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Search Engine Land
Riva Richmond / Wall Street Journal:
Software to Spot 'Phishers' Irks Small Concerns — Joy Viren Murphy will be getting a lump of coal in her stocking this year. — The entrepreneur has been selling handmade Christmas stockings for 12 years, the last eight of them online. Working from the attic of her three-story Rock Island …
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