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Wall Street Journal:
From PC to TV — via Apple — We Test Gadget That Lets You — Play Digital Video, Music, — Photos on Your Widescreen — The race to connect your TV to your computer and the Internet is about to kick into high gear this week when Apple Inc., the company many believe is best positioned …
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PR Newswire:
Apple TV Now Shipping — Watch Internet-Delivered Movies, Movie Trailers, TV Shows, Music, Podcasts & Photos on Your Widescreen TV — CUPERTINO, Calif., March 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple® is now shipping Apple TV(TM), an easy to use and fun way to wirelessly play …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Digesting Google's New PPA Advertising Product — Google announced the testing of a new pay-per-action, or PPA, advertising product today. It's important for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that Google controls so much of the online advertising market that just about anything …
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google Tests an Ad Idea: Pay Only for Results — Google is experimenting with a new proposition for advertisers: if you don't get results, you don't pay. — The company said Tuesday that it would expand a test of a system that allows advertisers to pay only when an ad spurs a consumer to take an action …
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The Key, Techdirt, SearchViews, Guardian Unlimited, CCUCEO and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Microsoft probes possible Xbox Live fraud — Microsoft is investigating possible fraud on its Xbox Live online gaming service, the company said Tuesday. — The investigation comes after gamers reported having their Xbox Live accounts hijacked and their credit cards used to buy "Microsoft Points …
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Download Squad, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Opposable Thumbs, Things That, Game | Life, 901am and Joystiq
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Sydney Morning Herald:
Google quashes mobile phone talk — Google has poured cold water on claims it is developing a mobile phone. — The search giant said it was more logical to form partnerships with existing handset makers instead. — Google's South-East Asia managing director of sales and operations …
Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal:
Sales of Music, Long in Decline, Plunge Sharply — Rise in Downloading — Fails to Boost Industry; — A Retailing Shakeout — In a dramatic acceleration of the seven-year sales decline that has battered the music industry, compact-disc sales for the first three months of this year plunged 20% …
BBC:
Laptops set to out sell desktops — Laptops will overtake desktop PCs as the dominant form of computer in 2011, according to a report by analysts IDC. — The demand for bulky machines will continue to slowly grow but at a declining rate as portable machines become quicker and more efficient.
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CrunchGear, Hardware 2.0, The Mobile Technology Weblog, Gadget Lab and Dvorak Uncensored
Eric Auchard / Reuters:
U.S. judge throws out defamation suit against Google — SAN MATEO, California (Reuters) - A U.S. judge has thrown out a lawsuit challenging the fairness of how Web search leader Google Inc. calculates the popularity of Web sites in determining search results, court papers show.
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Paul Kapustka / GigaOM:
Google's MCI Vet to fix 'Neutrality' Message — Fear not, network neutrality fans: Google is still on your side, and is working hard to make sure its sometimes mixed messages on the topic are more harmonious in the future. — That was the word from Rick Whitt Tuesday, as Google's new …
Seeking Alpha:
Oracle F3Q07 (Qtr End 2/28/07) Earnings Call Transcript — Executives — Krista Bessinger - Vice President, Investor Relations — Safra A. Catz - Co-President, Chief Financial Officer — Lawrence J. Ellison - Chief Executive Officer — Analysts — Presentation — Operator
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Lee Gomes / Wall Street Journal:
Some Traditional Sites, Aiming to Be Hip, End Up the Opposite — For the John Edwards presidential campaign, last week was, as usual, busy. There was a college rally on Tuesday, speeches to firefighters and boilermakers on Wednesday, a swing through New Hampshire on Thursday and then a three-city tour on Friday.
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The Jason Calacanis Weblog
Fred Aun / ClickZ:
Videos Starring Amanda Congdon Aim to Perk Up DuPont's Image — Venerable DuPont is experimenting with an ultra-modern form of marketing: Weblog videos it hopes will give it a young-at-heart image while chatting up the virtues of several of its products. Featuring perky video blogger Amanda Congdon …
Downes / Half an Hour:
Why the Semantic Web Will Fail — Don't get too excited by the title. But I do want to share a few thoughts... It was running through my head just now, the work that we were doing here in Moncton to work on an e-learning cluster. Because I saw that 'cluster building' is still …
USA Today:
Get an earful of offbeat podcasts — The surprise about podcasting isn't that millions are listening — the surprise is that millions are listening to some fairly arcane stuff. — To wit: Lectures on Byzantine emperors. Video seminars on the Mona Lisa. Archaeological treatises on prehistoric America.
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MediaShift
