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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Four reasons why the RIAA won a jury verdict of $220,000 — The Recording Industry Association of American got a chance on Thursday to show everyone just how heavy and intimidating the legal club of copyright law can be. — As my colleague Greg Sandoval wrote a few hours ago …
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Interactive Advertising Bureau:
INTERNET ADVERTISING REVENUES CONTINUE TO SOAR, REACH NEARLY $10 BILLION IN FIRST HALF OF '07 — Historic Second Quarter: Revenues Exceed $5 Billion for the First Time — The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) today released the IAB Internet Advertising …
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Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com:
Google's Shock and Awe: 40% of US Online Ad Revs in Q1 and Q2 — One thing stood out in the IAB's report that online ads clocked in over $10B in the US alone. — How much went to Google? — Google generated $3.66B in Q1 2007 revenues and $3.871B in Q2 2007, that's $7.531B.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:A real bidding war: Google's price target
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Bernstein's Yahoo (YHOO) Break-Up Plan: Ridiculous — The normally astute firm Sanford Bernstein appears to have developed brain rot this morning, at least with regard to a purported Yahoo break-up plan. According to Reuters and 24/7 Wall St, Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay posits …
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24/7 Wall St.:
Details Of Yahoo! (YHOO) Break-Up From Bernstein Research — 24/7 Wall St. has obtained a copy of the Bernstein Research report on the break-up of Yahoo!. — The first model done by Bernstein assume that the company is broken into three parts. — The first piece is Display Advertising.
Microsoft:
Microsoft and Bungie Studios to Evolve Relationship — Companies to forge new long-term relationship. — Microsoft Corp. today announced a plan for Bungie Studios, the developers of the "Halo®" franchise, to embark on a path to become an independent company.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Five reasons why the Bungie-Microsoft split is a smart move for Microsoft — When rumors first surfaced a week ago that the Bungie team that designed Halo was going to split from Microsoft, there was a lot of negative backlash. This was the proof Microsoft was not really committed to the gaming market, some said.
WSB-TV:
iPod Sets Man's Pants On Fire — ATLANTA — The new iPod Nano is hot. But one Douglasville man said his old Nano got even hotter — hot enough to burst into flames. — "So I look down and I see flames coming up to my chest," said Danny Williams. — Williams said the burn hole …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:iPod "nana" spews chest-high flames from trousers — lawsuit at 11
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Sony Computer Entertainment Europe:
New PLAYSTATION®3 Model to Take Holiday Season by Storm Aggressively priced hardware and a terrific software line-up make for an unbeatable combination — New 40GB PS3 at €399 — Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) today announced details of its exciting new PLAYSTATION®3 …
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Rich Brown / Crave: The gadget blog:
Mac Mini to be replaced by Mac Nano? — We approach all Apple-related rumors with skepticism, but sometimes we get a certain feeling about them, and today's from Mac OS Rumors gives us that tingle of plausibility. Word from one of that site's "oldest and most reliable sources in Cupertino" …
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Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Liveblogging the big iPhone 1.1.1 hack — Last night, iPhone hackers "dinopio" and "Edgan" brought 1.1.1 hacking into a new arena. By using symbolic links before doing a 1.1.1 upgrade, they were able to gain access to the entire 1.1.1 file tree. Today, I'll be liveblogging my attempt to duplicate their hack.
Associated Press:
Kim Jong Il: I'm an Internet expert — SEOUL, South Korea - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il called himself an "Internet expert" during summit talks with South Korea's president this week, a news report said Friday. — The reclusive leader made the remark after South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun asked …
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
Fashion: Wi-Fi Detector Shirt, Self-Detects Geeks — The Wi-Fi Detector shirt does everything you'd dream it could do: detect Wi-Fi signals and share them, via your chest, with the entire world. Spotting both 802.11b and 802.11g networks, signal strength is displayed in real time (big animated gif post-jump).
rentzsch.com:
apple's antiCAPSLOCK — About a month ago I picked up a new Apple keyboard. That's the new thin model, the wired variant. — I'm rather pleased with it: like all keyboards, the previous model had a propensity of collecting debris+cruft. Unlike most other keyboards …
High-Def Digest:
Playback Problems Reported on 'Silver Surfer,' 'Day After Tomorrow' Blu-ray Discs — Two of the most eagerly anticipated next-gen releases in recent memory have hit a series of playback snags on select Blu-ray players, but a fix is said to be on the way. — As we've previously reported …
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Marcus Yam / DailyTech:Hitachi Develops 100GB Blu-ray Disc Compatible With Existing Drives
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