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Annalee Newitz / Wired News:
I Bought Votes on Digg — It was Tuesday, 1:22 a.m. on the West Coast, and influential news recommendation site Digg was hopping. A new story about a blog dedicated to showing photographs of crowds had just gotten enough diggs to make the "popular" list on the tech/design page, and several people were commenting on it.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Digg Should Sue Wired — Wired Magazine seems hell bent on convincing the world that Digg is falling apart. I have a problem with that because Wired Magazine's parent company, Condé Nast, owns Digg competitor Reddit. And because Wired isn't just reporting Digg news …
Inside AdWords:
Invalid Clicks - Google's Overall Numbers — Over the past year, we've been working hard to share more information about how we protect you against click fraud. Last July, the invalid clicks report was released to provide you with the number of invalid clicks we detect (and don't charge for) in each individual account.
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Citysearch snaps up Insider Pages in local search race — Citysearch, the division of IAC focuses on local reviews of restaurants and other services, has acquired the struggling local review start-up, Insider Pages. — The purchase (amount undisclosed) comes at a time of increasing competition …
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Search Engine Journal, rev2.org, Mark Evans, PaidContent, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and Search Engine Land
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Troubled Insider Pages Acquired By CitySearch — The Insider Pages acquisition rumors that we posted on last week were accurate - later today Citysearch, a division of InterActive Corp., will announce that they have acquired the company. — The size of the transaction is not being disclosed …
USA Today:
AT&T slows 'Lightspeed' release goals — New year, new target. — AT&T (T) won't reach 18 million homes this year with its "Lightspeed" broadband network, after all. Instead, it will reach less than half the original target: 8 million. — AT&T unveiled its latest 2007 target …
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www-307.ibm.com:
Battery recall — Select your preferred language from the list below: — Dear Lenovo Customer, — Lenovo is currently offering free-of-charge replacement batteries due to two unrelated battery recalls. You may click here to determine if your battery has been recalled.
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Matthew Elliott / Crave: The gadget blog:Lenovo recalls 100,000 ThinkPad batteries
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Jessica Mintz / Associated Press:
Microsoft: Google Was `wake-Up Call' — Watching Google Inc. rake in advertising revenue "was a wake-up call within Microsoft," the company's top technical executive, Ray Ozzie, said Tuesday. But he said Microsoft plans to do more than simply mimic Google by rolling out Web-based versions …
Jeannie Choe / Engadget:
BitTorrent Entertainment Network disappoints, frustrates — It's no surprise that BitTorrent's new venture peddling movies, TV shows, and video game downloads has failed in the eyes of many a new user, including the fine folks at Ars Technica. Their initial review reported positive marks …
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New York Times:
Oracle Deal for Hyperion Is Expected — Oracle is near a deal to acquire Hyperion Solutions, which makes software that allows corporations to analyze and track their performance, for more than $3.1 billion, according to people briefed on the deal. — The acquisition is expected to be announced as early as today, these people said.
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Matt Asay / Open Sources:
More on what constitutes an open source company — So, now Alison has chimed in on what constitutes an open source company, taking the position that EnterpriseDB is emphatically so: … Let's be clear: EnterpriseDB's business is in selling proprietary extensions to PostgreSQL. Period.
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
RIAA slams FAIR USE Act — Although the FAIR USE Act introduced yesterday by Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA) and Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA) will have little more than a symbolic effect on the DMCA, that isn't stopping the Recording Industry Association of America from unloading on the bill with both barrels.
europa.eu:
Competition: Statement of Objections to Microsoft for non-compliance with March 2004 decision - frequently asked questions — HTML: — EN — PDF: — EN — DOC: — EN — MEMO/07/90 — Competition: Statement of Objections to Microsoft for non-compliance with March 2004 decision - frequently asked questions
Three Speech:
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW - PHIL HARRISON ON BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY — Yet again, a seemingly innocent press release from Sony - detailing the specification of the PAL territory PlayStation 3 - has been met with the reception you'd expect if the sky started falling in.
Gregg Keizer / Macworld:
CompUSA to shutter more than half its stores — CompUSA will close more than half of its retail computer and electronics stores in the next two to three months. — In a statement Tuesday, CompUSA said it would shutter 126 stores — it currently operates 225 in the U.S. and Puerto Rico …
Heather Hopkins / Hitwise UK:
Social Networks Can Drive Traffic - Case Study of ASOS and TopShop — TopShop.co.uk and ASOS.com last week received more than twice as much traffic from MySpace than from MSN and Yahoo! Search combined. Our column in this week's Technology Guardian (sorry our Siteseeing columns …
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Zune Insider:
Zune Firmware Update 1.3 - Coming Mid-March — Yesterday I had a meeting w/ James, the Zune release manager and he spilled the beans on the next firmware update. In Mid March, we're going to release Zune Firmware Update 1.3. Here's what's in the update:
Mike Yamamoto / Crave: The gadget blog:
A purse that can charge up your phone — Regardless of what you think of its design, this is no ordinary handbag. The "Power Purse's" name refers not just to its importance as a fashion accessory but also to its functionality—as a portable source of solar energy.
