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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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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google Gives Up on Competing With eBay's Big Boston Party — It had all the appearances of a marketing stunt gone awry, the Internet industry's version of a wily playground taunt that quickly escalated into a tense standoff, until the taunter — Google, in this case — blinked. — Here's what happened.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
eBay Stares Down Google And Wins — Not much commentary is needed on this one. Here's what happened: — eBay doesn't allow merchants to use Google Checkout to settle eBay transactions. Google invited eBay online sellers attending eBay Live! in Boston this week to a party that they called the Google Checkout Freedom Party.
Juan Carlos Perez / InfoWorld:
After eBay pulls ads, Google cancels offending party — (InfoWorld) - A contrite and repentant Google canceled a party that irked eBay and that a source said led eBay to remove all of its ads from Google's U.S. network earlier this week. — On Monday, Google announced it would throw a party …
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
AT&T to hunt down pirates... anyone else realize this is part of Apple iPhone deal? — So the big news today is that AT&T is now going after their customers who illegally pirate and steal music. Techmeme has all of the various links and it appears that the LA Times has the lead.
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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 …
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Computerworld, Security Fix, Security to the Core, Threat Level, CNET News.com, Digital Daily and SecurityFocus
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Tim Anderson / Yodel Anecdotal:
Give your Photos the fun of Flickr — You may have recently seen the announcement that we'll be closing Yahoo! Photos and focusing all our efforts on Yahoo's photo sharing community, Flickr. — If you use Yahoo! Photos, fear not. We're still committed to doing what is best for you …
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Josh / Windows Connected:
Ultimate Extras, Where are you? — It has been over three months since we last saw anything from the Ultimate Extra team. Intially this was offered by Microsoft as one of the big value adds to the Ultimate version of Windows Vista, but to date I can't say they have delivered that much value.
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Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Windows Ultimate Extras is a sham - where's the responsibility? — I was going to write about this on June 30, because that would have marked the half-year anniversary of Windows Vista, but since Josh Phillips has already started the conversation, I thought I should keep it rolling.
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Sydney Morning Herald:
Microsoft Signs Another Linux Deal — Microsoft Corp. announced Wednesday that it will license instant messaging and digital media technology to a small desktop Linux distributor, Linspire Inc., adding to a growing number of deals meant to help the Windows operating system work more smoothly with open-source software.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
ComScore Widget Metrix, more like a Widgetbean Contest — When reading about comScore's new list of top ten widgets (and their reach) in The Wall Street Journal, it reminded me of jellybean contests that involve guessing the number of jellybeans in a jar. While most people try and win …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Facebook's Infrastructure Non Issues — A story in the Times of London asserts that the recent success of Facebook platform had the Palo Alto-based hot social environment scrambling for server space, and had to raise emergency cash in order to support the growth surge.
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Richard Koman / Silicon Valley Watcher:
Exclusive interview with Google video platform director Jennifer Feikin — When Larry Page announced at the national cable convention a few weeks back that Google would start allowing users to upload digital video, he described it very much as an experiment.
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Xbox-Scene News:
New Pictures of 2nd GPU HeatSink on Xbox 360 - Update: Video — >> =Ikari= sent us these pictures of his Xbox360 he just got back from repair (after RoD problem) ... another confirmation of the new 2nd heatsink/pipe technology we talked about yesterday that Microsoft installs to provide additional cooling for the Xenos GPU.
SPACE.com:
Europe Unveils Space Plane for Tourist Market — PARIS - Europe's biggest aerospace company, EADS, has concluded that carrying wealthy tourists to 100 kilometers in altitude for several minutes of weightlessness could be a multibillion-dollar industry in 20 years and is seeking co-investors …
Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
CNN, YOUTUBE TO UNVEIL PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE DETAILS THURSDAY — In a press call on Thursday morning, CNN and YouTube will unveil the details for the cable news channel's upcoming presidential debate coverage, claiming that the two are "teaming up to provide an unprecedented debate format offering voters …
