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Maija Palmer / Financial Times:
ISPs warn BBC over new iPlayer service — Leading UK internet service providers are warning they may have to restrict customers' access to the BBC's new iPlayer service unless the corporation contributes to the cost of streaming videos over the internet. — Internet companies such as Tiscali …
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IP Democracy, Ars Technica, mathewingram.com/work, last100, The Globe and Mail, TECH.BLORGE.com, Ian Fogg, The Pondering Primate and Beet.TV
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Andrew Murray-Watson / The Independent:
Internet groups warn BBC over iPlayer plans — ISPs fear that introduction of web broadcasts will overload their networks as users download 'catch-up' TV — Some of the largest broadband providers in the UK are threatening to "pull the plug" from the BBC's new iPlayer unless …
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The Register, WebProNews, Mashable!, blognation, paidContent.org, dslreports.com, Podcasting News, Inquirer, Guardian Unlimited and Rob's Digital Life
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Broadband ISP's Fear of the Web Video — BBC's controversial iPlayer P2P video client is drawing the ire of Internet service providers in UK, many of them including Tiscali and Carphone Warehouse threatening to either use traffic shaping or boycott the service all together.
CNET News.com:
How search engines rate on privacy — Price wars are public blessings. Ask anyone who has comparison shopped between Advanced Micro Devices and Intel microprocessors or bought a cheap Harry Potter novel thanks to fierce bookseller price battles. — In the last few months …
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Robert Lemos / SecurityFocus:
German sites close, as anti-hacking law arrives — Security researchers in Germany continued to pull down exploit code from their sites last week, scrambling to comply with a German law that makes illegal the distribution of software that could be used to break into computers.
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
iVillage-NBC Dreams As Yet Unfulfilled — The NYT reports on the first year of the rocky NBC-iVillage marriage. The ad dollars on iVillage seem to be flowing finally, but the network has had to relearn the tough lessons it learned back in the first Internet boom, when it tried to play catch …
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Glen / Mac Daddy World:
Two-way Video Conferencing for iPhone — in which we make the world's first useful video phone — Update: Our demo won first place for Iron Coder Live this afternoon! Thanks for your votes everyone! — This weekend's C-4 developer conference features "Iron Coder Live", a contest in the same vein as MacHack.
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iLounge, Engadget, O'Grady's PowerPage, Mobility Site, Gizmodo, The iPhone Blog and digg
Jackson West / NewTeeVee:
The Joost Problem: American 'Broadband' — Joost, despite an early lead when it comes to the P2P television is beginning to get some criticism about its video quality. A skeptical report on JoostTeam points out that the bit rate is about half that of video from DivX Stage6 or the iTunes Store.
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Search Engine Watch:
Google's Local Search Land Grab — Attention, college students! You no longer need to donate plasma to get beer money. Quit your part-time job, buy a digital camera and a notebook, and walk down the street. Take pictures of every business you see. Then write down the address …
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Reuters:
Kids justify illegal downloads, study finds — Children in Europe are aware of the risks of illegal downloading but often rationalize their act by saying that everyone—including their parents—is doing it, according to a major European Commission survey. — Other excuses included …
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Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Xbox 360 Out of Order? For Loyalists, No Worries — Imagine your blender breaking down twice. The vacuum cleaner giving up the ghost three times. The espresso maker repeatedly going kaput. Then imagine replacing the item with the same model over and over while keeping your brand loyalty and sanity.
Chris Silver Smith / Search Engine Land:
Geolocation: Core To The Local Space And Key To Click-Fraud Detection — Geolocation is bandied about quite a bit when discussing aspects of online marketing with location-specific components, but many are blurry as to how it works and how it's being used, so I thought it'd be helpful …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
VideoEgg: Suddenly They're A Facebook Ad Network — VideoEgg has been exceptionally good at thinking ahead in their business and changing strategies when it made sense. — They launched in September 2005 as a way to publish video to the web from mobile and other devices.
Holly M. Sanders / New York Post:
AD MAN, AT LAST — M'SOFT GOES BEYOND GEEKDOM TO FILL KEY ONLINE JOB — Microsoft will announce another management overhaul of its online ad businesses after wrapping up a $6 billion deal for Web ad firm aQuantive this week, The Post has learned. — Under the changes …
