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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 …
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
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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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
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 …
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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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
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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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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Mashable!
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.
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.
Anick Jesdanun / Associated Press:
Imbalance in Net speeds impedes sharing — NEW YORK - Blame the Internet's legacy systems if Jay Glatfelter falls asleep Thursday mornings. — Co-host of an online audio show about "Lost," Glatfelter must wait about 40 minutes to finish posting his program to the Internet in the hours after ABC's Wednesday night broadcast.
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.
Bruce Houghton / hypebot:
Amazon To Enter Crowded Download Market With MP3 Only Store — Late last week Amazon began circulating contracts to labels aiming for a late 1st Q '07 music download store launch. Rumors of an Amazon entry have been circulating all year, but died down as attention shifted first to the URGE launch and then to Microsoft's ZUNE.
