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Knox / Celebs & Tech Gossips!:
No Porn On Sony HD-DVD Blu-ray? — Has Sony gone mad? Prominent adult movie producer Digital Playground (site) says it is forced to use HD DVD instead of Blu-ray, because Sony does not allow XXX-rated movies to be released on Blu-ray. — It does not matter how you stand to porn.
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Aaron McKenna / TG Daily:
CES 2007: HD DVD versus Blu-ray - The porn industry says HD DVD — Las Vegas (NV) - Knowing their audience quite well, the adult entertainment industry holds their annual get together in Las Vegas to coincide with the CES. There is also a very pertinent crossover between the adult and tech industries …
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NewTeeVee, Things That, Gadget Lab, Monkey Bites, Neowin.net, Joystiq, UNEASYsilence and Slashdot
Carlo / Techdirt:Will Sony's Apparent Anti-Porn Stance Doom Blu-Ray?
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Celebs & Tech Gossips!
Business Week:
The Small Fry Sour On Search Ads — Priced out by brand giants, the outfits that pioneered the medium are looking elsewhere — For years, running those little four-line text advertisements on Web search engines brought in a profitable stream of new customers to BabyAge.com.
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SEO Book.com
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Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Maturation of Paid Search Means the End of the Free Lunch — There's certainly been a lot of noise being generated by medium-sized companies, complaining they're no longer getting the same ROI from paid search - especially from Google AdWords. — I've been taking a look at the trends …
Nick / Rough Type:
Search advertising and the little guys — Search-based advertisements, like the ones distributed through Google's AdWords service, were supposed to be a boon for small businesses. Cheap and precisely targeted, they would, for the first time, put the little guys on equal footing with the big guys in the ad market.
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Tech Beat
Michael Gartenberg:
Jobs on the iPhone being a closed system — Steven Levy points to his writeup on the iPhone and talks to Steve Jobs about the iPhone being a closed platform. According to Steven, Jobs said the following on the subject. … Really? What about other smartphones that run on Cingular's network …
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David Pogue / Pogue's Posts:The Ultimate iPhone Frequently Asked Questions
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Fractals of Change, PalmAddicts, Mark Evans, 43 Folders, Kevin Maney and The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Ronald Grover / Business Week:
Why Hollywood Snubbed Jobs at Macworld — Most of Tinseltown won't buy into the Apple chief's digital vision until he ponies up more money and gets more serious about protecting content — By all accounts, Steve Jobs gave a socko performance, delivered with his usual charm and controversial style …
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The Technology Liberation …
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Mike / Techdirt:
Hollywood To Steve Jobs: We Need Stronger DRM — from the bad-ideas dept — Rajesh writes in to point to a Business Week article about Hollywood's fear of Apple. It's not, apparently, because Apple has tremendous power over the recording industry thanks to their iTunes lock-in …
Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
AT&T Prepares to 'De-Brand' the Cingular Wireless Name — One of the biggest "de-brandings" in advertising history is to begin Monday when AT&T, now the sole owner of Cingular Wireless, starts changing all Cingular marketing to adopt the AT&T name. — AT&T will not disclose the budget for the campaign …
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David Greiner / Campaign Monitor Blog:
Microsoft takes email design back 5 years — As I type this post I still can't believe it. I'm literally stunned. If you haven't already heard, I'm talking about the recent news that Outlook 2007, released next month, will stop using Internet Explorer to render HTML emails and instead use …
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Webware.com, All about Microsoft, UNEASYsilence, Jeremy's Blog, Smalltalk Tidbits … and digg
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
How Apple could fight Cisco — news analysis A cell phone is to an Internet phone as an airplane is to a faucet? — That analogy isn't likely to appear on the SATs next year. But that's precisely the question at the heart of the legal dispute over whether Apple will be allowed to use the iPhone name …
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Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Exclusive - Yahoo Using Dirty Tactics to Switch Google & Firefox Users? — The power struggle between Yahoo and Google for your desktop just took an evil turn, with evidence that suggests Yahoo is covertly trying to switch Google search users without their explicit permission.
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Techdirt, SearchViews, Search Engine Journal and SoloSEO Blog
Google Blogoscoped:
Google Security Hole Allows Account Hijacking — It's your worst nightmare - someone reads parts of your Google emails, views your docs, modifies your spreadsheets, checks out your reading habits on the Google personalized homepage or Google Reader, and goes through your search history.
Chris Tew / PVR Wire:
DirecTV not looking after its customers: DirecTiVo problems, faulty HR20s, HD Lite, and home networking issues — Despite some good news and announcements coming out of DirecTV CES camp this week including 100 new HD channels, the possibility of cheaper PVRs due to improved satellite receiver chips …
Hugh Macleod / gapingvoid:
THE LONDON CULTURALLY-DEPRIVED GEEK DAY OUT: SUNDAY 21ST JANUARY — Having spent most of the last few years in front of a computer screen, immersed in a tangled web of blogging, business and cartooning, I'm starting to feel a bit deprived of culture. And I'm sure a lot of techie/geek/entrepreneurs types out there feel the same.
Om Malik / NewTeeVee:
Exclusive: Inside The Venice Project, Built On Mozilla — The Venice Project is not just another online video start-up. The Luxembourg-based company is the latest co-production of the two-person hit factory of Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. The founders of Kazaa and Skype are hoping …
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
PayPal to offer password key fobs to users — eBay is getting ready to offer its PayPal users a password-generating key fob that promises to increase the security of the online payment service. — The device displays a new one-time password in the form of a six-digit code about every 30 seconds.
Mindy McAdams / Teaching Online Journalism:
Getting (and keeping) a job in journalism — How many j-schools are permitting students to graduate with a journalism degree and inadequate skills to pursue a career in journalism? — I'm not asking for a count, but the question needs to be raised — and perhaps even shoved into the face of some deans and department heads.
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Innovation in College Media
