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4:50 PM ET, October 5, 2007

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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.
Discussion: TechCrunch
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
A real bidding war: Google's price target
Discussion: Digital Daily
Mike Sachoff / WebProNews:
Internet Ad Revenues Set Record
Discussion: Epicenter and Mashable!
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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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.
Discussion: paidContent.org and DigitalBattle
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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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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BBC:
Sony offers cut-price PlayStation
Discussion: WinBeta
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
Yahoo! Search Blog:
Yahoo! oneSearch Gets More Knowledgeable  —  Today we're integrating Yahoo! Answers content into our mobile search service, oneSearch, and launching it globally in 18+ countries.  —  We're rolling this out today to Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Indonesia …
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Why Hannah Montana Should Sell $200 Tickets  —  The WSJ reports on the fascinating court battle between IAC's Ticketmaster and RMG Technologies, a Pittsburgh company that runs TicketBrokerTools.com, a scalping/reselling service.  IAC says RMG has created bots that can outsmart Ticketmaster's …
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Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal:   Hannah Montana Battles the Bots
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 …
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" …
Discussion: Gadget Lab
PrimeNewswire:
Virgin America and Boing Boing TV Announce Exclusive Inflight Entertainment Partnership Virgin America Flyers Will be Seeing Red With Boing Boing TV  —  PRIME NEWSWIRE) — Virgin America, the next-generation airline, today announced that it has entered into an exclusive partnership …
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).
Darryl K. Taft / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft Pushes Secure, Quality Code  —  Microsoft is adding new code analysis features to its upcoming Visual Studio 2008 tools suite.  —  Microsoft is continuing its thrust to help developers write more secure and better quality code.  —  The Redmond, Wash., software company is putting …
Discussion: InfoWorld
 
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I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
You Can't Get There From Here  —  Several years ago I wrote …
Darren Murph / Engadget:
HP offers up HD DVD / Blu-ray drives on select Pavilion desktops
Discussion: Gadgetell and TechSpot News
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Nike's Amp+ watch: hearts your heart and iPod, too
Techdirt:
Open Standards Are the Ultimate Media Extender
Discussion: last100
Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Apple exploring pressure-sensitive touchscreens, touchpads
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Verizon:
Verizon Wireless "Gleams" With New Stylish Clamshell
Discussion: Crave, Gizmodo and Mobility Site
 Earlier Items: 
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook to Launch iTunes Competitor
Peter Burrows / Business Week:
Reinventing Sun Microsystems
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Google: Bear Stearns Ups Ests; Sets $700 Target Price
Discussion: Epicenter and WebProNews
John Leyden / The Register:
Spammers turn YouTube into spam relay channel
Discussion: Marshal, Read/WriteWeb and PC World
Peter Sayer / InfoWorld:
Orange aims to improve GSM coverage for businesses
Discussion: The Register
Christopher Hogg / Digital Journal:
Exclusive: Holt Renfrew Insider Says iPhone Coming to Canada in Two Weeks
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
China Blocking RSS Feeds
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
A deep dive into Paramount's sale to Skydance; sources: Skydance may integrate Pluto into Paramount+, and CBS head George Cheeks is expected to be head of TV

Kimberly Nordyke / The Hollywood Reporter:
News Corp and Telstra agree to sell Australian pay TV company Foxtel Group to sports streaming platform DAZN in a deal worth ~$2.1B

 
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