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Joosep / Heartbeat:
Problems with Skype login — UPDATED 14:02 GMT: Some of you may be having problems logging into Skype. Our engineering team has determined that it's a software issue. We expect this to be resolved within 12 to 24 hours. Meanwhile, you can simply leave your Skype client running and as soon …
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TechCrunch, GigaOM, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, The Register, Ars Technica, CNET News.com, Ian Fogg, VoIP Watch, BetaNews, Skype-watch.com … and MacUser
Business Wire:
Sprint Nextel Demonstrates Key Technologies for Mobility Strategy — Product Branding and WiMAX Business Plans Showcased — RESTON, Va.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Sprint Nextel (NYSE:S) today demonstrated key technologies and described operational plans to provide unique new services to meet …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Removes Blog Showing Leaked Facebook Code — FacebookSecrets, the blog that posted the accidentally released source code for the Facebook main index page, has been taken down. The blog was hosted on the Google-owned Blogger blog network and was removed pursuant to a DMCA take down notice from Facebook.
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Henry Blodget / Internet Outsider:
The Great Advertising Share Shift: Google Sucks Life Out Of Old Media — [From Silicon Alley Insider] Everyone talks about advertising dollars shifting online, but when you're fighting all day in the trenches it's tough to get a handle on what this really means. Here's what it means:
Marc Graser / Variety:
Industry pair to dish help on website — Tercek, Edelman set to launch PeopleJam — Dr. Phil's about to face some serious competition online: Hollywood execs Robert Tercek and Matt Edelman are prepping to launch PeopleJam, a website set on helping people improve their lives.
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Holy Cow: People Selling iPhone Sexy Touch Time in India — People Selling iPhone Sexy Touch Time in India — According to fellow Indian journo and Giz reader Aswin R, someone in India is selling sexy touching time with the iPhone using Facebook's marketplace.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
OMG! Study finds iPhone texting 2x slower than QWERTY — A study has determined that iPhone's touchscreen is two times slower than QWERTY phones when it comes to texting. — OMG! — This study was conducted by User Centric, a Chicago-based usability consultant. User Centric concludes:
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
USAToday's Social Network Experiment May Not Be Paying Off — When USAToday relaunched its site in March as a social network around news, I and others thought it was big news. — They integrated Pluck's new Social Media Suite, a group of social networking products that a number of high profile news sites have adopted.
Globe and Mail:
The resurrection of free — With The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal said to be looking at removing the "pay wall" around their online content, and others - including CNN, Google and AOL - having already done so, one question springs to mind: Are we seeing the death of paid content online …
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Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:
New robots.txt feature and REP Meta Tags — We've improved Webmaster Central's robots.txt analysis tool to recognize sitemap declarations and relative urls. Earlier versions weren't aware of sitemaps at all, and understood only absolute URLs; anything else was reported as Syntax not understood.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Online Video Site Bolt.com Shuts Down — We just received a tipoff that Bolt.com, the online video site that settled a lawsuit with Universal in March, has ceased operations and closed its website. More on this as it develops, but for now this is the message on Bolt's website:
Chris Ziegler / Engadget Mobile:
Three of i-mate's five Ultimate devices canceled? — We wish we could say we were surprised about this, we really do. It seems that i-mate has canceled arguably the three most interesting versions of its Ultimate line: the 5150 slider, 7150 QWERTY flip, and 9150 numeric flip.
John Spooner / ChipLand:
Penryn comes home for the holidays — Intel is indeed planning to launch 45-nanometer Penryn chips this year, several reports say. News.com's Tom Krazit, for one, says to expect Penryn server chips to arrive before Thanksgiving. (Link: Here.) — Intel appears to be using the relative health …
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Brian Garrity / New York Post:
EMI NAME GAME — NEW OWNERS MAY GO OUTSIDE MUSIC BIZ — Now that Guy Hands' Terra Firma has picked up shareholder approval for EMI, questions are swirling around the future leadership of the British recorded music giant. — Multiple sources said the private-equity firm is looking …
Raven Zachary / 451 CAOS Theory:
Citrix acquires XenSource — As you have no doubt heard by now, Citrix announced its acquisition of open source virtualization company XenSource today for $500m (press release). — We issued a TechDealmaker QuickTake early this morning concerning this news entitled, "Citrix pays $500m for XenSource …
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