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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ooma Launches Free Consumer Phone Service — An ambitious and long awaited new consumer VOIP startup - Ooma - launches on Thursday morning. Much like Vonage and the ill-fated SunRocket, Ooma allows consumers to use their normal phones to make and receive telephone calls, but at drastically reduced prices.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Ooma wants voice to be free — Voice over the Internet, so far, has been a game of cheap minutes, shoddy quality, and unreliable connections. It's also been a money-losing proposition. The promise of voice being free has remained just that - a promise. Palo Alto-based startup Ooma promises …
Walt Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Ooma Puts Out a Call to Ditch Landlines for Web-Based Service — It has been possible for several years now for Americans to dump their landline phone companies and pay much less with services that route calls over the Internet instead of over the regular phone network.
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
VoIP goes Hollywood — What do Ashton Kutcher and voice over IP technology have in common? — Kutcher, best known for his role on That '70s Show and MTV's reality show Punk'd, is "creative director" for a Silicon Valley start-up called Ooma, which has developed a device that will allow users …
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New York Times
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Skype losing its voice? — eBay just reported its second quarter (Q2) 2007 earnings, and we are going to get to the details later, but lets just focus on Skype, that strangely seems to be making money even as it usage is flattening. — New Registered Users, an ambiguous number at best …
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CNNMoney.com:
Senate looking at Google-DoubleClick — Executives from search engine firm, its target DoubleClick, and competitors expected to appear at antitrust hearing. — WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Lawmakers in Congress plan to hold hearings to air concerns about Google Inc.'s proposed acquisition of Web advertising supplier DoubleClick Inc.
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Congress to Examine Google-DoubleClick Deal — Google executives are expected to be called to testify before House and Senate subcommittees about the company's planned $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick, a deal that is already facing close scrutiny from federal antitrust regulators.
Tony Hung / Deep Jive Interests:
When You Play With Fake, Expect To Be Found — Let's put aside for a second that Fake Steve Jobs is neither funny nor witty, and ask ourselves why we should believe the shrill outrage of the author of a blog that is *purported* to be funny and witty.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
WiMax goes mainstream: Sprint, Clearwire to build national network — Sprint and Clearwire are pooling resources in a venture that could take WiMax nationwide. — The two companies said Thursday that they plan to build a national WiMax (4G) network. The partnership, which is a 20-year agreement …
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Computerworld
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Scripps Buys User-Gen Recipes Site Recipezaar; Reportedly Around $25 Million — Scripps Networks, which has been looking at bulking up its online effort with acquisitions, has made one: it has bought Recipezaar, a Seattle-area based online recipe site. It was started in 1999 under …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Scholastic Loses It Over Harry Potter/BitTorent Story — It didn't take long for Scholastic, the U.S. publisher of the Harry Potter books, to send us a takedown notice for our post "The Latest Harry Potter Book Hits BitTorrent." — In an email yesterday, Mark S. Seidenfeld …
Ed Burnette / Ed Burnette's Dev Connection:
Apple iPhone KO's Cisco network at Duke — Earlier this year, Cisco and Apple ended a legal spat when Cisco allowed Apple to use its "iPhone" trademark (though there was some debate whether Cisco really owned it). In return, Apple agreed to "explore opportunities for interoperability …
whitestar.linuxbox.org:
[fuzzing] The truth — Since the cover is becoming more difficult to maintain, I've decided to stop this. It simply can't stand anymore and I can't let this harm my company and its customers. — I am David Maynor. I made up the LMH identity for bashing Apple and appearing on the media …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
$298 Wal-Mart PC features OpenOffice.org, no crapware — Looking to get a jump on the lucrative back-to-school shopping season, Wal-Mart has begun selling a sub-$300 PC. The Everex IMPACT GC3502 comes with Windows Vista Home Basic and OpenOffice.org 2.2 installed on a system that includes …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch Acquires InviteShare — Getting invitations to private betas can be a frustrating experience for early adopters. If you don't know someone who's already in the beta it could end up being a very long wait. Over the last few years invitations for some betas were so hard …
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