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James S. Granelli / Los Angeles Times:
AT&T to target pirated content — It joins Hollywood in trying to keep bootleg material off its network. — AT&T Inc. has joined Hollywood studios and recording companies in trying to keep pirated films, music and other content off its network — the first major carrier of Internet traffic to do so.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
AT&T willing to spy for NSA, MPAA, and RIAA — In a move that has executives from movie studios and record labels grinning from ear to ear, AT&T has announced that it will develop and deploy technology that will attempt to keep pirated content off its network.
comScore:
"comScore Widget Metrix" Service Launched to Track Widget Usage Across the Web — Photo-related Widgets Dominate the Top 10; — Slide Ranks #1 with Worldwide Reach of 117 Million People — comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced the launch of comScore Widget Metrix …
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Vauhini Vara / Wall Street Journal:'Widgets' May Snag More Ads
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Juan Carlos Perez / PC World:
EBay Pulls Ads From Google's U.S. Ad Network — EBay Inc. has pulled all of its paid search ads from Google Inc.'s AdWords network in the U.S., an eyebrow-raising move likely to be interpreted in the industry as a sign of deteriorating relations between the two Internet giants.
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Molly Graham / Official Google Checkout Blog:
Update to our event on 6/14 — eBay Live attendees have plenty of activities to keep them busy this week in Boston, and we did not want to detract from that activity. After speaking with officials at eBay, we at Google agreed that it was better for us not to feature this event during the eBay Live conference.
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Mahalo Greenhouse Launches — Two weeks ago we launched the human-powered "search service" Mahalo.com in alpha at the WSJ's D conference in California. The tag line of Mahalo is "we're here to help," and after 15 days of tremendous feedback we've learned one thing: you want to help too!
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Thomas Wagner / Associated Press:
Church asks Japan to join Sony campaign — LONDON - The Church of England on Wednesday urged the people of Japan to join its campaign against a violent Sony Corp (NYSE:SNE - news). computer game that allegedly uses a British cathedral as a backdrop. — "For a global manufacturer to recreate …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Pics and specs of Dell's unannounced Inspirons: HHDs, Blu-ray, and RAID? — Attention Wal-Mart shoppers, we've got pics-a-plenty from Dell's new Inspiron lineup. Better yet, French forum lesDelliens proclaims to have the specs on not only the 1520, 1521, 1720, and 1721 already churning in the rumor mill …
Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
DID FACEBOOK UNDERESTIMATE THE PLATFORM'S SUCCESS? — SECOND UPDATE: Check the end of this post for some more information from Facebook and ViddYou. — I think most of the Web has reached the consensus that Facebook Platform, the social networking site's new initiative to open up its service …
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Google Custom Search:
Custom Search on the fly — Starting today, there's a new feature that makes Custom Search Engines (CSEs) even easier to create and keep up to date. — You can now create a CSE by simply placing a small piece of tailored code on a page on your site. With that one piece of code …
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Vanessa Fox / Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:
Duplicate content summit at SMX Advanced — Last week, I participated in the duplicate content summit at SMX Advanced. I couldn't resist the opportunity to show how Buffy is applicable to the everday Search marketing world, but mostly I was there to get input from you on the duplicate content issues …
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Cisco's new acquisition talisman — newsmaker Ned Hooper is the latest in a long line of executives at Cisco Systems to head the company's mergers and acquisition unit. But will he be able to keep the magic alive that has made Cisco such a successful acquirer?
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Spartan DX personal DNA tester goes for a mere $15k — Just we always wanted, a DNA tester to call our very own! We've been waiting for them to break that crucial $15k pricepoint, and now Spartan Bioscience has finally accomplished such a feat with its Spartan DX Personal DNA Analyzer.
Seth Godin / Seth's Blog:
The vibe — Have you ever been at a banquet or in a boutique or at a concert or a meeting or a company where the vibe was incredibly positive? — I think you know what I mean. A time and place where there was an overflow of positive energy. You felt surrounded by possibility …
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fbi.gov:
Over 1 Million Potential Victims of Botnet Cyber Crime — Today the Department of Justice and FBI announced the results of an ongoing cyber crime initiative to disrupt and dismantle "botherders" and elevate the public's cyber security awareness of botnets. OPERATION BOT ROAST …
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
New video-game league seeks mass appeal — BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.—To Kat Hunter, it was a no-brainer to make Vanessa Arteaga the very first draft pick for a new pro video-game league. — "Vanessa is a guaranteed win," said Hunter, general manager of San Francisco's team in the new Championship Gaming Series league.
Maxconsole:
Confirmed: MS conducting hardcore turning on ROD Xbox 360's - Extra Cooling! — Just yesterday we reported on how French Xbox 360's were being repaired by Microsoft with extra cooling. And today, Czech reader Ikari mailed us in pictures of his newly repaired Xbox 360 from Microsoft complete …
Vanessa Fox / Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:
More ways for you to give us input — At Google, we are always working hard to provide searchers with the best possible results. We've found that our spam reporting form is a great way to get your input as we continue to improve our results. Some of you have asked for a way to report paid links as well.
comScore:
comScore Reports Growth in Internet Yellow Pages Searches Yellow Book Network Shows Fastest Growth in IYP Search Queries Conducted — comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its qSearch Internet Yellow Page (IYP) search rankings for Q1 2007, which revealed …
Sandisk:
SanDisk Signs Licensing Agreement to Support DivX Format Video — Relationship will Allow Consumers to Enjoy High-Quality DivX Video in the Home or on the Go — DivX, Inc. (NASDAQ:DIVX) and SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) today announced a licensing agreement allowing SanDisk …
BBC:
Microsoft to reflect UK dialects — A Microsoft project to create downloadable dictionaries to reflect the UK's rich local dialect heritage is drawing to a close. — Users around the UK have been asked to submit their favourite regional dialect words. — The software giant said it has had thousands of responses so far.
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