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Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Why Wi-Fi Networks Are Floundering — Faced with weak user demand, AT&T and other telecoms are vowing to tear up their muni Wi-Fi contracts if cities don't foot more of the bill — The static crackling around municipal wireless networks is getting worse.
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
DIRECTV plugs into broadband over power line — One of the biggest competitive problems for satellite TV providers is that they cannot directly compete with the triple-play bundles of voice, video, and data that cable companies and telecoms offer their customers.
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Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy:
DirecTV to Partner with Current on BPL — Now that municipal Wi-Fi networks have been discredited as viable technologies for mounting a third broadband pipeline into the home, all we're left with in the short-term is an even more difficult technology, broadband-over-power-lines (BPL).
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Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Citrix to buy virtualization company XenSource for $500 million — One day after a spectacular public offering of virtualization company VMWare, Citrix Software said that it intends to acquire open-source virtualization company XenSource for about $500 million.
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Marketing Week:
NATMAGS AXES ONLINE TEEN TITLE JELLYFISH — The National Magazine Company (Natmags) has axed plans to launch Jellyfish, its digital teen title, after failing to overcome "distribution challenges". The publisher of titles including Cosmopolitan and Harper's Bazaar ended a 20-week online trial this week.
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Ingrid Lunden / paidContent.org:Hearst's UK Jellyfish Goes Belly Up
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Candace Lombardi / Webware.com:
HARPERCOLLINS OFFERING EXCERPTS FOR IPHONE — Publisher HarperCollins released digital excerpts from 14 books on Wednesday that can be read from an Apple iPhone. — The digital excerpts are accessible from a special HarperCollins mobile Web site that can be accessed from the iPhone's Safari Web browser.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook + iPhone = UltraCool — A pairing of the two most hyped tech products of the year: Facebook released what is arguably the single best iPhone-customized website to date at iphone.facebook.com. Like the Netvibes iPhone site which launched late yesterday, it isn't much to look at in a normal browser.
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Report: Cable companies facing big bandwidth crunch — If you're starting to become frustrated with the download speed of your cable ISP or the relatively low number of HD channels available, you ain't seen nothin' yet. Your local cable provider will soon be faced with a serious bandwidth crunch …
Scott Karp / Publish2 Blog:
Introducing Publish2: Networked News — It's time to pull the curtain up on our new venture, Publish2, Inc. — Publish2 is a social media company, on the eve of launching in Beta — the purpose of this announcement is to explain our vision, what we're building, who's involved …
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Riva Richmond / Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo Banks on SmartAds To Lift Display Business — In the middle of Yahoo Inc.'s plan to reinvigorate its big, sluggish display-advertising business lies a new breed of diminutive, chameleon-like advertisements. — The ads, which the Internet giant began offering to travel-industry advertisers …
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
HDMI-equipped Xbox 360 Premiums still carry 90nm chips — Well it appears that despite all of our wishing, hoping, and positive-thinking exercises, Microsoft has failed to deliver on a small dream of ours, namely, 65nm chips for the new HDMI-rocking Xbox 360 Premiums.
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Alex Iskold / Read/WriteWeb:
How JavaScript is Slowing Down the Web (And What To Do About It) — A single line of JavaScript is what powers a lot of blogging technologies these days. Widgets, sharing tools, visitors tracking, advertisers. In many cases a single line of JavaScript is all that a blogger needs to add a new technology to their blog.
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
C4[1] in a Nut … Here's some of what you missed: — JONATHAN RENTZSCH ON THE INDIE ETHOS — What exactly does it mean to be an "indie developer"? Wolf's definition: working for a non-large company, writing commercial software. But it's more than that, clearly …
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USA Today:
How many trees did your iPhone bill kill? — LOS ANGELES — Early adopters of Apple's iPhone are getting their first service bills from AT&T (ATT) — and some customers say they are so detailed they belong in libraries. — Justine Ezarik, a Pittsburgh graphic designer and active Internet blogger, got her first bill on Saturday.
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BBC:
Tiny wind engines cool computers — Minuscule wind engines could help to take computing power to the next level, scientists believe. — US researchers have developed a prototype device that creates a "breeze" made up of charged particles, or ions, to cool computer chips.
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Anil Dash / Movable Type:
Presenting Movable Type 4.0 — Welcome to the all-new movabletype.com, redesigned to proudly present our all-new platform: Movable Type 4.0. — This is the biggest release of MT ever, a complete redesign of both the front end information architecture and the back end scaling infrastructure.
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