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USA Today:
New rules could rock wireless world — NEW YORK - Coming soon could be a wireless broadband world in which consumers get to pick any smartphone or other device and load any software on it - not have to take what the wireless carrier wants to sell. — That's the goal of Federal Communications …
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Richard Whitt / Google Public Policy Blog:
The promise of open platforms in the upcoming spectrum auction — As I've written before, Google has become increasingly involved in U.S. spectrum policy issues this year. One of our top public policy objectives is to expand the Internet's reach to more Americans.
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InsideGoogle, WebProNews, GigaOM, IntoMobile, John Battelle's Searchblog, mocoNews.net, dslreports.com and Public Knowledge
CNN:
FCC Draft Auction Rules A Win For Google, Hi-Tech Industry — WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The hi-tech industry, led by Google Inc. (GOOG), scored a big victory over incumbent broadband providers this week as draft rules released by FCC Chairman Kevin Martin for a highly anticipated radio-spectrum auction …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:FCC Chairman's draft rules for 700MHz auction call for open access
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Will It Blend?:
iPhone — Everybody knows that the iPhone can make phone calls, play movies & music, surf the web, and a lot more. But, Will It Blend? That is the question. — Ever wonder what would happen if you stuck a can of EZ Cheese in blender? Yeah, us too. — Carny Cuisine — Category: Don't Try This @ Home
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Channel 9, wirelessinfo.com Blog, Life On the Wicked Stage, Gizmodo, ben barren, Gadget Lab and digg
Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Microsoft Live CRM pricing undercuts Salesforce.com — Microsoft today is giving a more detailed glimpse of how it will try to compete with Salesforce.com in the market for Web-based customer relationship management software. For starters, Microsoft will bring its new Dynamics Live CRM …
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Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
JP Morgan retracts. Now says "No" to near term "Nano" iPhone — JP Morgan has just issued a note retracting Kevin Chang's earlier projection about a near term iPhone Nano. The new report says that the majority of Chang's assumptions appear to have come from a review of the patent …
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:JPMorgan now not so sure about an iPhone Nano
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Reuters:
TiVo, Amazon to sell movies straight to TV sets — NEW YORK (Reuters) - TiVo Inc. on Tuesday said many of its customers can now order pay-per-view movies and television shows from Amazon.com's download service directly from their TV, without a personal computer.
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Windows Server 2008 launch set for February — DENVER—Confirming what many had expected, Microsoft announced on Tuesday that the next version of its server operating system, Windows Server 2008, won't formally launch until next year. — Microsoft said it will launch the product …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-036 - Critical — Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution (936542) — Version: 1.0 — General Information — Executive Summary — This critical update resolves one publicly disclosed vulnerability and two privately …
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Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
Eleven lessons learned about blogging, so far — This post is to share lessons I have learned about blogging so far, five weeks into this blog. — First, it's hard to believe it's only been five weeks. "Internet time" lives, I can tell you that. — Second, I'd like to truly thank everyone …
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Old Media Jumping to New Media — People are getting antsy this summer! Sources tell us this afternoon that PC Magazine editor in chief Jim Louderback has left to become the new CEO of Revision3, and CNET host Veronica Belmont has left to make video for Jason Calacanis' search startup Mahalo.
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James Sherwood / The Register:
Xbox 360 price set to crash? — Receive the day's biggest stories by email, sign up here — Hot on the heels of Sony's recent $100 60GB PS3 price drop, gamers and industry analysts the world over are predicting that Microsoft will soon announce a cheaper Xbox 360.
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Thor Larholm / Larholm.com:
Internet Explorer 0day Exploit — There is an input validation flaw in Internet Explorer that allows you to specify arbitrary arguments to the process responsible for handling URL protocols. This is the same type of input validation vulnerability that I discovered in the Safari 3 beta …
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eWEEK.com, Compiler, ZDNet, TECH.BLORGE.com, TechSpot News, Donna's SecurityFlash, BetaNews and p2pnet
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Mike Cane / Mike Cane's Blog:
iPhone Death Star Upgrade Coming — Oh. My. God. — I hope all of this is true. It would just slaughter every other phone that's out there (well, except for you directionless people who need GPS in your frikkin phone!). — I'm clipping the entire Hackint0sh post.
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Good Morning Silicon Valley, ParisLemon, Zatz Not Funny!, TeleRead, TechBlog, Valleywag and The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
The Boy Genius Report:
Hello Sidekick Slide — 5 comment(s) for this post. — Sweet Even without anything I am still the first to post. I hope people can post actual comments and not some gibberish.
BBC:
The Tech Lab: Charles Stross — UK science fiction writer Charles Stross, author of novels Accelerando and Singularity Sky, posits a future in which all human experience is record on devices the size of a grain of sand. — We've had agriculture for about 12,000 years, towns for eight to 10,000 years …
