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San Francisco Chronicle:
At least 20,000 without power in downtown S.F. — (07-24) 15:12 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — At least 20,000 customers of Pacific Gas and Electric Co. in downtown San Francisco lost power this afternoon, the utility said. — Brian Swanson, a spokesman for the utility, said outages …
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Artur Bergman / O'Reilly Radar:
365 Main datacenter power outage - Six Apart Technorati Craigslist — The Web 2.0 datacenter 365 Main, in the heart of SOMA, just lost power. Sites that are affected include Craigstlist, Technorati, Yelp and all Six Apart properties, TypePad, LiveJournal and Vox.
Scott Beale / Laughing Squid:Power Outages In San Francisco Bring Down Major Websites
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Donna Fuscaldo / Wall Street Journal:
AT&T's Profit Rises On Wireless Growth — AT&T Inc., reported a 61% rise in net income amid recent acquisitions and said it activated 146,000 iPhone subscribers the last two days of the quarter, 40% of whom were new AT&T Wireless customers. — AT&T has an exclusive deal with Apple Inc …
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Peter Lauria / New York Post:
AOL HAS AN EYE ON YOU — TO BUY AD TARGETER — After acquiring its way into the video and mobile ad-serving marketplace, CEO Randy Falco is moving AOL into the behavorial-targeting ad market with a deal to purchase Tacoda, The Post has learned. — Sources said AOL is paying between $200 million …
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Business Wire:
AOL Enters into Agreement to Acquire Behavioral Targeting Firm TACODA — Acquisition Will Build on AOL's Efforts to Offer Advanced Targeting Solutions to Advertisers and Publishers — DULLES, Va.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—AOL announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire TACODA …
Ashlee Vance / The Register:
Intel's Core-fueled Xeon MP arrives at 2.93GHz — Meanwhile, lab grunts notch silicon photonics win — Intel finally looks set to carry its Core processor architecture to midrange and high-end servers with the release of a new Xeon code-named Tigerton. — The chip maker today revealed …
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Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:Intel cranks up the speed on fiber for computers
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Dan Warne / APC:
Inflight internet lives again: Qantas introduces wireless broadband, laptop power in all classes — Laptop power will be available in every seat of Qantas' new Airbus A380s from August 2008, the airline has announced. It is also retrofitting existing Boeing 747-400s with a new cabin type …
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Laptop power, in-flight internet coming to Qantas — Those already giddy about their 2008 trip to Down Under should now pick up the phone and do whatever it takes to get on one of Qantas' forthcoming A380s or revamped 747-400s, as both planes will reportedly feature in-flight WiFi and laptop power.
heise.de:
Russian public prosecutor is demanding 3-year jail sentence for head of AllofMP3 — For the former operator of the Russian music download portal allofmp3.com the threat of a prison term in his own country is real. In the trial against Denis Kvasov, the former owner of the site …
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Russian prosecutors seek jail time for Allofmp3.com owner — Prosecutors in Russia have demanded jail time for the operator of Allofmp3.com, according to published reports. — Denis Kvasov, the former owner of the popular Russia-based music site that sold unauthorized music downloads …
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Upload videos to YouTube with a Verizon phone — Verizon Wireless customers can now shoot and record videos on a cellphone and then upload them to YouTube by dialing 98823, which happens to spell YTUBE. — You'll need to add your cellphone number to your YouTube account by visiting www.youtube.com/mobile.
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Business Wire:
DivX Announces Plans to Maximize Value and Growth Potential of Core Businesses and Stage6.com — Co-Founder and Chairman Jordan Greenhall to Focus on Stage6 Opportunity; President Kevin Hell Named Acting Chief Executive Officer — SAN DIEGO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—DivX, Inc. (NASDAQ:DIVX) …
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Respectance, a social network for people who have passed away — Respectance, a San Francisco company that operates a social network for sharing memories of people who have died, has raised $1.5 million in a first round of funding by Solid Ventures and Big Bang Ventures.
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Download Squad, StartupSquad.com, Roam4free, blognation, CenterNetworks, American Venture … and Mashable!
Kate Holton / Reuters:
UK rejects music copyright extension — LONDON (Reuters) - The British government rejected a plea to extend copyright laws for sound recordings to beyond 50 years on Tuesday, prompting the music industry to accuse it of not supporting musicians and artists.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
CIA venture arm invests in video improvement company, MotionDSP — In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the nation's intelligence services, has invested an undisclosed small amount of money into video enhancement company MotionDSP and also awarded it with contracts.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Universities win Senate fight over anti-P2P proposal — Updated Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has withdrawn anti-file sharing legislation that had drawn yowls of protest from universities this week. — Reid, without explanation, on Monday nixed his own amendment that would have required colleges …
Marcus Yam / DailyTech:
Facebook Founder Accused of Stealing Idea for Site — Court will hear tales of social networking allegations in Facebook vs. ConnectU — A Boston judge is expected to decide this week whether or not to proceed with a lawsuit alleging that the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg …
The Mozilla Blog:
RELATED SECURITY ISSUE IN URL PROTOCOL HANDLING ON WINDOWS — On July 10th, I posted about a security issue in URL protocol handling on Windows. In the previous example, Internet Explorer was the entry point and Firefox was the application receiving the bad data.
Business Wire:
Amazon.com Announces Second Quarter Sales up 35% Year over Year — Media Grows 27% — Electronics and Other General Merchandise Grows 55% — Record Free Cash Flow — SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN - News) today announced financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2007.
Ben Shen / cens.com:
Quanta Said to Have Acquired Orders From Apple for New Models of iPhone — Quanta Computer Inc., one of Taiwan`s leading manufacturers of cell phones, is said to have acquired orders from the U.S.-based Apple Computer for assembling new models of iPhone cellphones.
