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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ok, Ok. All Of You (even YouTube) Invented Video Overlay Ads "First" — When I wrote a post earlier today suggesting that YouTube was not the first to use a Flash overlay advertisement for online video, I didn't realize I'd be getting so many emails and comments disputing exactly who first invented the unit.
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Vauhini Vara / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Gets Personal With Ad Targeting Plan — Social-networking Web site Facebook Inc. is quietly working on a new advertising system that would let marketers target users with ads based on the massive amounts of information people reveal on the site about themselves.
Tom Mainelli / PC World:
Rock Your iPod With an Open-Source Upgrade — Rockbox, free firmware for digital music players, can teach your old iPod some useful new tricks. — Recommend this story? — Life is too short to listen to crappy digital music. So I recently decided to begin ripping all of my newly purchased CDs …
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USA Today:
Handcuffs chafe wireless users — To many, the Apple (AAPL) iPhone is the ultimate wireless device — a seductive blend of technology, function and dead-on cool, all wrapped into a sleek package. — To others, it's a glaring example of what's wrong with the U.S. wireless industry in general.
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Awnoes: iPod Nano Spy Shots Confirmed as Real by Apple Legal — Apple Legal has asked Giz to take down the iPhone nano spy shots from earlier today because they are their "intellectual property." Out of respect for The Steve, we've complied. This pretty much confirms they belong to Apple, whether they are final or a prototype.
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KathrynV / dslreports.com:
SoundExchange Gives Small Broadcasters A Break - At least for a couple more years ... but they don't want it — After much lobbying and media coverage about the negative effect of higher royalty rates on small Internet radio broadcasters, SoundExchange put a halt on realizing the rates until a better deal could be worked out.
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Mary Meeker's YouTube Math — Morgan Stanley's Internet analyst Mary Meeker was a good deal more optimistic than we and most others were about the revenue impact of YouTube's new overlay ads. Specifically, Mary concluded that the overlays could immediately add $4.8 billion of gross revenue …
Katie Hafner / New York Times:
AT&T's Overstuffed iPhone Bills Annoy Customers — When Justine Ezarik, a video blogger in Pittsburgh, saw that a box from AT&T had been delivered to her doorstep a couple of weeks ago, she thought that perhaps she had been sent a complimentary accessory for her new iPhone.
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Ashlee Vance / The Register:
Sun boots workstation roots in favor of JAVA ticker — In a rather odd marketing ploy, Sun Microsystems will change its ticker symbol from SUNW to JAVA. — The ticker switch takes hold next Monday on the NASDAQ exchange. We're not sure what the flip gives Sun other than a constant reminder that it's the company behind Java.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Sony achieves world's highest output from sugar battery — Another day, another fuel cell milestone. This time, it's sugar at the bio-electrical base. Unfortunately, the world's highest output they're touting is just 50mW per cell. Still, if you daisy chain a few together then you've got enough juice …
Judy / Inside AdWords:
Improved top ad placement formula now in effect — Two weeks ago, we posted about an upcoming improvement to the formula used to determine which ads are placed in the top spots above Google search results. The change offers advertisers more control over when their ads achieve top placement …
Elizabeth Montalbano / InfoWorld:
Nokia offers Windows Live services on handsets — (InfoWorld) - Microsoft has partnered with handset manufacturer Nokia to deliver some of its Windows Live services on wireless handsets in Europe and the Middle East. — Beginning Wednesday, users of Nokia's S60 handsets — specifically …
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InfoWorld:
E-mail's future, pumped look — (InfoWorld) - With IBMs launch earlier this month of Lotus Notes 8 and this week's unveiling of Lotus SameTime Version 8, industry analysts say we are beginning to see the evolution of the e-mail client from a communications tool into a coordination channel.
scee.presscentre.com:
PSP™ (PLAYSTATION®PORTABLE) VIDEO DOWNLOAD SERVICE — Download service to revolutionise handheld entertainment — Leipzig, 22 August 2007. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) today provided more information on its joint venture with British Sky Broadcasting (Sky) …
Jon Brodkin / InfoWorld:
Google Apps no match for MS Office, report says — (InfoWorld) - Deploying Google Apps could be a "career-limiting move for enterprise architects" if they expect too much from the software-as-a-service collaboration suite and its "rudimentary" feature set, the Burton Group research and consulting firm says in a new report.
TFOT - The Future Of Things:
Mempile - Terabyte on a CD — Home >> Articles >> Storage — Revolutionary new optical-storage technology currently under development will allow the equivalent of 250,000 high-quality MP3s or more than 115 DVD-quality movies and about 40 HD movies on a single CD-size medium.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Pluggd raises $6M for audio-video word search — Pluggd, a Seattle company that lets you search audio and video files for words or themes, has raised just under $6 million in financing. — Pluggd is a hot company because it does something well that few others have been able to match.
