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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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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Makes FeedBurner MyBrand Free — Google Makes FeedBurner PRO Free — Google is about making things accessible to everyone and one of the way to make this happen is to buy a service or software that used to cost money and release it for free. Google did this with Keyhole …
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SAP admits Oracle downloads — SAP has admitted its TomorrowNow unit carried out "inappropriate downloads" of documents from its rival Oracle, but said SAP had not accessed the material. — Oracle is suing SAP, accusing it of hacking into its computer network and stealing vital product information.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
SAP admits to corporate espionage against Oracle — Uh oh, we've got ourselves a true-blue corporate [competitive intelligence] espionage fiasco exploding on the international stage. Germany's SAP has admitted to "inappropriate downloads" from arch-rival, Oracle in the US.
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The New / New York Times:
Russian Online Music Service Closes — AllofMP3.com, a Russian online music service accused of skirting copyright law, has shut down but may be back in business elsewhere on the Internet, authorities said yesterday. — The Web site gained attention for selling digital albums cheaply …
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Russian download site shut down — The controversial Russian music download site allofmp3.com has closed. — The service, which sold songs at a fraction of the cost of other sites, claimed to be the second biggest seller of music downloads after iTunes. — It was the subject …
CNN:
Nintendo Wii Outsells Sony PS3 6-to-1 In Japan - Publisher — TOKYO (AP)—Nintendo Co.'s (NTDOY) Wii video game console outsold Sony Corp's (SNE) PlayStation 3 by six to one in June in Japan, a Japanese publishing company said Monday. — Although the Wii has been on sale since late last year …
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Bloomberg:
Google Purchases Web Phone Service — Google said yesterday that it had bought GrandCentral Communications, acquiring a service that lets people use a single number for all their phones. — Terms of the purchase were not disclosed. — GrandCentral users can also create a single mailbox …
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Wesley Chan / Official Google Blog:
All aboard — We're pleased to announce that we have acquired …
All aboard — We're pleased to announce that we have acquired …
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Louise Story / New York Times:
Engaging at Any Speed? Commercials Put to Test — In new experiments for NBC, people are hooked up to sensors as they watch television, and researchers observe changes in their heart rate, palm sweat, eye movement and breathing patterns. — But the panelists are not watching just NBC programs.
Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 6: How much funding is too little? Too much? — In this post, I answer these questions: … The first question to ask is, what is the correct, or appropriate, amount of funding for a startup? — The answer to that question, in my view …
Sid Yadav / Rev2.org:
Zoho Launches Facebook Apps: Web Office Meets the Young — One of the web office suites I'm fond of is Zoho, which has been slowly building up its user base since day one. Today, Zoho announced three applications for Facebook — Writer, Sheet, and Show — which might just do their part …
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Agence France Presse:
Youtube, SKorea's LG agree to develop mobile phone — SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea's LG Electronics said Tuesday it has signed an agrement with YouTube, the world's biggest video-sharing website, to develop a mobile phone which can operate the service. — LG Electronics said the proposed model …
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Ellen Lee / San Francisco Chronicle:
Apple denies big record label may quit iTunes — Universal reportedly won't sign a long-term contract for music — Apple Inc. denied reports Monday that record label Universal Music Group did not plan to renew its contract to sell songs on its online iTunes Store.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Hollywood hates pirates, but can it use them? — news analysis Attorney Nancy Prager sees only thievery in file sharing. Don't even try to suggest anything otherwise to her. — Director Michael Moore's Sicko is coming off a glittering debut weekend at the box office.
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Matthew Elliott / CNET News.com:
Microsoft: sorry for the lack of Vista Ultimate Extras — Be patient, Vista Ultimate owners. That's what Microsoft is telling those that plunked down for the flagship version of Vista. One of the selling points of Vista Ultimate—aside from it combining the multimedia-friendly features …
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