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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Follow the TechCrunch40 Conference Online — Couldn't snag a ticket to this year's TechCrunch40 conference? Head on over to techcrunch40.com to follow the action online. — We've put together a fully-featured website for the event, which starts this morning and continues through Tuesday evening.
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Paul Boutin / paulboutin.weblogger.com:
TechCrunch40 List 2007 — There are 39 companies in the TC40 so far. I've got 38 of them (they're on banners at the Palace Hotel) and hopefully correct URLs for most. But before you click through, be aware that the actual product launches aren't live yet.
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TechFold, Mark Evans, How To Split An Atom, Valleywag, Scripting News, blognation, Scobleizer and Tom Raftery's Social Media
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch 40 Session 1: Search & Discovery — Session one as follows, including our live notes. — Powerset — Powerset is a natural language search engine that can use everyday phrases and grammer to conduct more accruate web searches by understanding the search query and the pages it indexes.
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blognation, Download Squad, Business Week, Insider Chatter, CrunchGear, Epicenter, Webware.com, Bits, HipMojo.com and The Technology Chronicles
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
TC40: Mobile and Communications — Next up at TechCrunch 40 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, where connectivity is a crap shoot, is a panel on mobile and communications companies. — The judges are the same as the last panel: Wired's Chris Anderson, Netscape founder Mark Andreessen …
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BBC:
Microsoft loses anti-trust appeal — Microsoft has lost its appeal against a record 497m euro (£343m; $690m) fine imposed by the European Commission in a long-running competition dispute. — The European Court of First Instance upheld the ruling that Microsoft had abused its dominant market position.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:What will Microsoft's loss in Europe mean to customers?
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Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:EU court comes down hard on Microsoft in antitrust appeal
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Between the Lines
Business Wire:
AOL Realigns Business, Unveils Global Integrated Advertising Platform — The New Entity, Platform A, Will Offer Advertisers Access to the Largest Internet-wide Display Advertising Network and Most Sophisticated Tools; Builds on Success of Advertising.com and Integrates TACODA, Third Screen Media, Lightningcast and ADTECH
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Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Vista attacked by 13-year-old virus — A batch of laptops pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Premium was found to have been infected with a 13-year-old boot sector virus. — Those of you with a long memory will vividly recall the year 1994: Nirvana's lead singer Kurt Cobain died …
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Has smart money abandoned U.S. Web 2.0 companies? — Venture capitalists invested about six percent more into Web 2.0 companies in the first half of 2007, but the increase was attributable to more deals in Europe and Israel. — Notably, early investors in Web 2.0 slowed their pace.
Sprint:
Sprint Customers in Select Areas of Denver and Indianapolis Get AIRAVE for Enhanced In-Home Coverage and Unlimited Calling — Sprint introduces industry-first femtocell that works with any Sprint phone for convenient, reliable wireless use at home — Media Contacts: — Emmy Anderson, Sprint, 913-707-0618
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Associated Press, Between the Lines, Digital Trends, dailywireless.org, jkOnTheRun, Phone Scoop and textually.org
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:Sprint Airave signal booster goes on sale today — in Denver and Indy
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dslreports.com
Yahoo! News:
China man dies after three-day Internet session — China man dies after three-day Internet session — BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese man dropped dead after playing Internet games for three consecutive days, state media said on Monday as China seeks to wean Internet addicts offline.
Alex Veiga / Associated Press:
Free online music service launches — LOS ANGELES - SpiralFrog.com, an ad-supported Web site that allows visitors to download music and videos free of charge, was scheduled to launch Monday in the U.S. and Canada after months of "beta" testing. — The music service, which has arranged …
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:SpiralFrog's "free" music download service goes live
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Ars Technica
Agence France Presse:
Iran blocks access to Google — TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran has blocked access to the Google search engine and its Gmail email service as part of a clampdown on material deemed to be offensive, the Mehr news agency reported on Monday. — "I can confirm these sites have been filtered," …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo's Buys Zimbra — Yahoo is set to make yet another acquisition-this time of white-label open-source email provider Zimbra. Sources close to the deal said that the Internet portal will pay considerably upwards of its most recent valuation of $45 million for the email and calendar provider.
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google's Roald Dahl Logo Was Pulled — Last Thursday, Google put up a special Roald Dahl logo to celebrate the birthday of the author of works like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach. Some hours later the logo was gone, not getting its typical 1-day period in the spotlight*.
Andrew / Treonauts:
Treo 500 Unboxed — As promised Palm has sent me a brand new Treo 500 to review and I have to admit that I have not had the opportunity to be this excited about a new Treo in quite a while - it's a very slick, slim and light smartphone that feels absolutely great in your hands …
Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet — [Title with sincere apologies to Mitch Albom and his wonderful book.] — One of the hottest of hot topics these days is the topic of Internet platforms, or platforms on the Internet. Web services APIs (application programming interfaces) …
