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Villu Arak / Heartbeat:
Where we are at 1100 GMT — As Europe has woken up to a new day and Asia is entering the evening hours, here's the latest on the sign-on problem. — We're on the road to recovery. Skype is stabilizing, but this process may continue throughout the day. — An encouraging number of users can now use Skype once again.
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George Ou:
Skype still down - Published DoS exploit may be culprit — It's been a day and Skype is still down for me. The task tray Skype logo never turns green for me and it keeps trying to connect. The service was intermittently up on Thursday afternoon Pacific Standard Time but it hard down now.
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Error in Skype's Software Shuts Down Phone Service — The online telephone service Skype was not working for much of the day on Thursday, leaving its 220 million users, some of them small businesses that had given up their landlines, without a way to call colleagues, customers and friends.
Villu Arak / Heartbeat:
The latest on the Skype sign-on issue — Apologies for the delay, but we can now update you on the Skype sign-on issue. As we continue to work hard at resolving the problem, we wanted to dispel some of the concerns that you may have. The Skype system has not crashed or been victim of a cyber attack.
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:Major Skype outage in progress: "12-24 hours" for a fix (updated)
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:Skype is back (for some); damage to reputation is done
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks: Does Skype Matter? Calacanis: Not really; TechCrunch Riley: Yes $1B Worth
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Biggest Facebook App Acquisition Yet: TripAdvisor Reportedly Acquires Where I've Been for $3 Million — Update: We are still awaiting comment from TripAdvisor. No official confirmation yet. — Just two months after asking, "I Have 250,000 Users, Now What?", Craig Ulliott has an answer.
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Adario Strange / Epicenter:
TripAdvisor Spokesman: Acquisition Rumors Are Untrue — It looks like our skepticism regarding the $3 million TripAdvisor Facebook application acquistion rumor was well founded. TripAdvisor representative Brian Payea got back to us with the following statement regarding the InsideFacebook rumor.
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Eric / Technology & Marketing Law Blog:
American Airlines Sues Google Over Keyword Ads — American Airlines v. Google, 4:07-cv-00487 (N.D. Tex. complaint filed Aug. 16, 2007) [Warning: 4.4MB file] … Well, this is interesting. It's not unusual for a trademark owner to sue Google for keyword-triggered ads—been there, done that.
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Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:American Airlines Sues Google for Trademark Infringement
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BBC:
Compact disc hits 25th birthday — Exactly 25 years ago the world's first compact disc was produced at a Philips factory in Germany, sparking a global music revolution. — More than 200 billion CDs have been sold worldwide since then and it remains the dominant format despite the growth in digital downloads.
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Sourcefire Network Security:
Sourcefire Acquires ClamAV Open Source Network Anti-Virus Project — Acquisition Expands Company's Open Source Portfolio and Commercial — Open source innovator and SNORT (R) creator, Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq:FIRE), today announced that it has acquired ClamAV(TM), a leading open source gateway anti-virus and anti-malware project.
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Matt Hines / InfoWorld:Sourcefire acquires ClamAV open-source anti-malware project
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Lyrics sites out of tune with copyrights — news analysis How does that song go? We've all used the Internet to search for the lyrics to songs whose tune we know but words we just can't muster. — Often the Web sites we end up on have misspellings, incomplete and inaccurate lyrics, not to mention annoying pop-up and flashing ads.
David Pogue / New York Times:
Apple Takes a Step Back With iMovie '08 — Last week, Apple released a new version of its iLife suite—its $80 package containing iPhoto, iMovie, iWeb and GarageBand. The suite also comes preinstalled on every new Mac. — The enhancements in iPhone, iWeb and GarageBand are great.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
SF Chronicle's Stages Of Google Grief Lead To Suggestion For Google To Just Buy Newspapers — First off, before someone brings it up in the comments, I'll point out that the following post refers to the views of various columnists at the SF Chronicle, rather than any sort of discussion among …
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Stuart Elliott / New York Times:
Now, the Clicking Is to Watch the Ads, Not Skip Them — FOR generations, advertising interrupted the entertainment that Americans wanted to read, hear or watch. Now, in a turnabout, advertising is increasingly being presented as entertainment — and surprisingly, the idea of all ads, all the time, is gaining some favor.
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
The Mix Tape USB Drive remembers your roots — Sure, the compact disc may have just celebrated 25 years in the biz, but nothing says quasi-old school like a double-sided cassette tape. Granted, it's a bit harder to effectively distribute mix tapes on a format rarely appreciated this day in age …
Michael Calore / Compiler:
First Look: Roxio Popcorn 3 Adds iPhone Support, TivoToGo — Later this month, Roxio is releasing an upgrade to Popcorn, its popular desktop DVD burning and video conversion client for the Mac. Popcorn 3 features support for the iPhone and Apple TV, better video quality settings and TiVoToGo functionality …
