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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Plaxo launches new social network, Pulse—and it's a lot like Pownce — As expected, address and calendar organizer Plaxo unveiled on Monday its Pulse social-networking site. — Rumors about Plaxo expanding into social networking have been floating about recently; the company confirmed …
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Scott Gilbertson / Wired News:
Slap in the Facebook: It's Time for Social Networks to Open Up — Damn the Facebooks and the MySpaces. The last time we checked, there was this thing called the internet that had 6 billion users. It's time to take our personal data out of Mr. McGregor's little gardens and put it back where it belongs …
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IAC Leaves DoubleClick for Atlas — IAC Advertising Solutions has switched ad servers, abandoning DoubleClick in favor of aQuantive's Atlas. — The ad sales division of IAC/InterActiveCorp said its goal in making the move was to consolidate IAC's myriad Web properties …
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Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com:Why IAC Dropped Doubleclick for aQuantive
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David Krug / Telegraphik:
Bloggers Pushing For A Labor Union — Agh, I hate to be quoting Fox News but it's one of the few places that seems to be talking about this issue. Bloggers are fed up with payrates, we want insurance, and we want to be able to set standards on how this industry — online publishing is run.
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Jeff Pulver / Business Week:
Confessions of a LinkedIn Dropout — Blogger Jeff Pulver quit the professional network in favor of Facebook and urged his friends to do the same. Here's why he's not looking back — Are you on Facebook yet? Maybe you should be. — I made this pronouncement on my blog recently …
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Louise Story / New York Times:
It's an Ad, Ad, Ad, Ad World — It is only a matter of time until nearly all advertisements around the world are digital. — Or so says David W. Kenny, the chairman and chief executive of Digitas, the advertising agency in Boston that was acquired by the Publicis Groupe for $1.3 billion six months ago.
Microsoft:
Groundbreaking Digital Experience for Endeavour Shuttle Launch — Microsoft's Photosynth 3-D imagery gives people around the world unprecedented views of the shuttle vehicle and its launchpad. — For the first time, people around the world can view 3-D images of the space shuttle Endeavour …
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Lenovo, Novell partner to offer Linux on the ThinkPad — ThinkPad customers will soon have a new configuration option, as Lenovo and Novell have announced that the popular laptops will begin shipping with SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (SLED) preinstalled.
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Laurie Sullivan / NewTeeVee:
EdgeCast Ready To Take On Akamai, Limelight — Paying less for bandwidth to serve-up streaming media and downloadable video clips on websites could become the bait that hooks the customer. At least that's what James Segil, co-founder and president of content delivery network EdgeCast Networks, hopes.
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Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com:Are CDNs Becoming Commoditized, Again?
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
L337: iPhone Unlocked for $96 with Forged SIM, Tested in Europe — While the wizards are still working on a software-only complete unlock for the iPhone, hackers in Europe claim that they have completely unlocked the JesusPhone, allegedly using a SIM reader/writer and a blank SIM card to obtain full calling and SMS capabilities.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
ICQ Founders Start KnockaTV — We just heard about a new Israeli video/TV startup called KnockaTV, which has the tagline "The People Have Taken Over." — KnockaTV is self described as: … They are also looking for original content producers to submit content to the service.
Ben Drawbaugh / Engadget:
Toshiba's HD-A3x third generation HD DVD players get official — Looks like we won't have to wait 'til CEDIA to learn more about Toshiba's next generation HD DVD players. Amazon had the model numbers and prices right, which are in-line with the last generation of players …
Anil Dash:
Fake Steve Jobs and the Triumph of Blogs — Daniel Lyons, author of the heretofore-anonymous Fake Steve Jobs blog, which comments extensively on companies in the technology industry, was also the author of Forbes' November 2005 cover story "Attack of the Blogs", a 3000-word screed vilifying anonymous bloggers …
Dan Nystedt / InfoWorld:
Congress to probe Yahoo over jailed China journalist — (InfoWorld) - A U.S. congressional committee plans to investigate whether or not Yahoo lied during testimony over its role in a human rights case in China that sent journalist Shi Tao to jail for 10 years.
Peter Cohen / Macworld:
VMWare releases Fusion for Mac — As first noted last week, VMWare has released Fusion, its virtualization softwqre for the Macintosh. The software costs $79.99, and is available for online purchase and download. You can download a 30-day evaluation license from VMWare's Web site.
Eliot Van Buskirk / Wired News:
SoundExchange Entrenches Position as IREA Faces Music — A federal bill that would reset music royalties at a more affordable rate for thousands of internet radio stations is losing steam in the House of Representatives, raising new fears for the future of webcasting.
