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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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Brad Stone / New York Times:Error in Skype's Software Shuts Down Phone Service
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George Ou:Skype still down - Published DoS exploit may be culprit
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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:Major Skype outage in progress: "12-24 hours" for a fix (updated)
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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Biggest Facebook App Acquisition Yet: TripAdvisor Reportedly Acquires Where I've Been for $3 Million (Updated) — Update: TripAdvisor's Brian Payea has responded: "This is untrue. Beyond that, we do not have any comment." Payea would not specifically comment on whether acquisition …
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Update: TripAdvisor denies Facebook Platform app acquisition — Ouch, here's a zinger: contrary to reports, travel site TripAdvisor apparently did not purchase the Facebook Platform application Where I've Been for $3 million. The news was originally reported on Inside Facebook on Thursday night.
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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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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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.
Heather Hopkins / Hitwise Intelligence:
YouTube Replace Searches for Funny Videos — We are working on some analysis for a report on how consumer search behaviour has changed over the past couple of years and I wanted to share a fun bit of data that we found. Analysis of search term content, or the words that consumers use …
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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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Pandia Search Engine News:
Fast Search & Transfer lets go of 148 employees — CEO John Markus Lervik has a plan for how to get the search engine company Fast back on the right track. — According to Aftenposten/E24 the troubled search engine company Fast Search & Transfer will let go of 148 employees.
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:Fast Search Laying Off 148 Employees; Does Restructuring
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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 …
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.
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.
Valleywag:
Exclusive: Fark founder accuses Fox newsman of hacking — Local TV reporters are infamous for practicing "ambush" journalism — but as they try to take their gotcha practices to the Web, increasingly they're the ones ambushed. The first rule of hacking, after all, is "Don't get caught."
Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Second class-action suit filed over alleged iPhone battery fraud — A Bay Area resident is the next to join the ranks of those filing lawsuits against Apple and AT&T, arguing that both companies have tricked customers into paying for frequent battery replacements.
Hugh Macleod / gapingvoid:
BLOGGING ISN'T DEAD, IT'S JUST A SUBSET OF SOMETHING MUCH LARGER AND MORE IMPORTANT — It seems that my last post, "Why We're All Blogging Less", got a lot of pickup in the blogosphere. Some people inferred that I was down on blogging, or that I thought blogging was dead, or even that I was quitting blogging altogether.
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 …
Eric Savitz / Barron's Online:
Apple: RBC Sees Strong Back-To-School Mac Sales; Finds "Sustained iPhone Momentum" — Pounding the table on Apple (AAPL) this morning, RBC Capital's Mike Abramsky reports that there are indications of "increased Mac momentum" in the back-to-school quarter. He says RBC's "technology adoption panel" …
