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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
eBay squares off with Craigslist, launches classified service — Auction giant eBay has launched an online classifieds service that will compete with the market's powerhouse, Craigslist. — Kijiji, a site eBay has operated overseas for two years, is now available in about 220 cities in every U.S. state …
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Craigslist grapples with competitor on board — Craigslist, the pioneering online classified Web site, is facing a large new competitor, one that has accumulated insider knowledge of Craigslist's business. — On Friday, eBay's online classified service, Kijiji, made its U.S. debut.
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Where TomorrowNow goes from here — Embroiled in controversy, SAP's third-party maintenance and support company TomorrowNow is facing challenging days ahead. — SAP disclosed late Monday that its TomorrowNow subsidiary had inappropriately downloaded Oracle's proprietary software.
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Traci / Burning Questions:
FreeBurner for Everyone — One of the many benefits that FeedBurner publishers will enjoy now that FeedBurner is part of the Google family is a little something we like to call, "more for free!" Beginning today, two of FeedBurner's previously for-pay services, TotalStats and MyBrand, will be free.
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Dave Sifry / The Technorati Weblog:
Farewells and Welcomes — In the life of companies, there are moments of welcoming and there are times when one must bid a fond farewell. For Technorati, at this moment, we must say a warm goodbye to our colleagues Adam Hertz and Tantek Celik. I remember when both started …
Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
World's richest? Gates may have cashed it in — Second place would suit Microsoft chairman fine — After 13 years as the world's richest person, Bill Gates appears to have been dethroned. But there will probably be no sobbing inside his Medina estate.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Is It Copyright Infringement To Embed An Infringing YouTube Video On Your Blog? — from the questions,-questions,-questions dept — While there has been a great deal of discussion (and a few lawsuits) concerning the legality of YouTube hosting infringing videos, one question where we haven't seen …
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MacNN:
iPhone shatters AT&T record, dwarfs RAZR [u] — Apple over the weekend sold more than 700,000 iPhones to rocket past analyst predictions and shatter AT&T's record by selling more iPhones in three days than Motorola's RAZR did in its first month. Apple's supply of iPhones depleted …
Todd Haselton / Ars Technica:
European Commission to Hollywood: Why is Blu-Ray winning? — According to the Wall Street Journal, the European Commission recently sent letters to Hollywood movie studios asking for communication records and agreements between the movie studios and HD-DVD and Blu-Ray DVD format representatives.
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Penelope Trunk / Brazen Careerist:
My run-in with Marc Benioff, and tips to be a star performer — Time magazine just hired me to write a piece about workplace trends among young people. One of the things I wrote about was how much people value the opportunity to volunteer for non-profit organizations through their company.
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storage.itworld.com:
Sony patents liquid airbag — Sony has filed for a U.S. patent on a liquid airbag for electronics - in particular, for hard disks. The idea is that the electronics will be wrapped in a fluid-filled bag so if the outer case suffers a shock, the liquid acts as a cushion.
Robert McMillan / InfoWorld:
After attacks, US government sending team to Estonia — (InfoWorld) - Two months after much of Estonia's online infrastructure was targeted by an online attack, the U.S government is sending cyberinvestigators to help the Baltic state better understand what happened.
Maximus / Just Another Mobile Phone Blog:
Nokia unveils 7500 Prism — Today, Nokia held a fashion event in China where the 8600, 8800 Sirocco gold, 6110 navigator, 5700 XpressMusic, 6500 classic, 6500 slider, 3500 classic and a new phone was displayed. The new phone unveiled is the Nokia 7500 Prism.
Alexkoc / Windows Genuine Advantage:
There's more to it than code... www.HowtoTell.com gets an update — Typically on this blog I post about issues closely related to WGA. In the interest in providing a broader context of the space in which WGA lives, I will broaden the scope of my posts and this blog somewhat.
Eric / Reuters:
SL business sues for copyright infringement — SECOND LIFE, July 3 (Reuters) - Second Life entrepreneur Kevin Alderman filed a copyright infringement lawsuit on Tuesday against Second Life resident Volkov Catteneo, and Alderman's lawyer said he plans to subpoena Linden Lab to force it to disclose Catteneo's real-world identity.
