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Ryan Hayward / Inside AdSense:
Introducing video units — AdSense isn't just for ads anymore; it's also a place to get video content for your site — and earn extra revenue at the same time. — We're excited about the launch of video units — a new way to enrich your site with quality, relevant video content in an embedded, customizable player.
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google to Put YouTube Videos on Its Ad Network — Google is taking the first steps toward turning its powerful advertising network, which places ads on hundreds of thousands of Internet sites, into a system for distributing content — and more ads — across the Web.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
Here Comes the Money: YouTube Videos Coming to AdSense — According to early reports from the Associated Press and Variety, Google is set to make a major announcement tomorrow concerning YouTube integration with AdSense. Selected YouTube videos will be available to AdSense publishers and will appear wrapped in banner ads.
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Michael Liedtke / NEWS.com.au:Google to show YouTube videos on other websites
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Brad Stone / Bits:
Is TiVo's Comeback the Real Deal? — TiVo, the DVR pioneer, is announcing on Tuesday that it is bringing a wide selection of music to users of its increasingly versatile TV set-top boxes. Users whose TiVo boxes are connected to the Internet can now sign up for RealNetworks' Rhapsody music service …
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Ryan Block / Engadget HD:TiVo picks up Rhapsody support, learns to love music
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Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Wal-Mart's Latest Sale: Broadband — The retail giant's ISP turn is likely to push down prices and squeeze out competition. Will other big-box stores follow suit? — Broadband sellers, beware. A new provider is on the scene—and it's a known price cutter.
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
BitTorrent jumps into enterprise market with content delivery service — Peer-to-peer company BitTorrent is set to announce on Tuesday morning the availability of a new enterprise content delivery product, BitTorrent DNA. Designed for companies that use streaming video …
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Burn: Nine Inch Nails Dumps Record Labels, Going Direct to Fans — Hear that? It's the RIAA quaking in their diamond-coated boots as yet another A-list band gives labels the finger: Pretty hate machine Trent Reznor announced today that "as of right now Nine Inch Nails is a totally free agent …
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
iPhone, iPod touch v1.1.1 jailbroken, apps ported and running — Well lookey see here, sounds like v1.1.1 isn't all doom and gloom after all. The iPhone dev community's apparently not only moved past accessing the nigh-unbreakable file system protections Apple implemented in the latest iPhone …
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BBC:
Disk technology takes Nobel Prize — French scientist Albert Fert and Peter Grunberg of Germany have won the 2007 Nobel Prize in physics. — They have been honoured for "the discovery of giant magnetoresistance", the technology that is used to read data on hard disks.
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Jeff Smykil / Infinite Loop:
Rocks found in place of girl's brand new iPod... twice — Nearly every teenager either has an iPod or wants one. There are a few exceptions, but the vast majority of teens sport (or pretend to sport) Apple's wildly-popular digital audio player. So imagine yourself, for a moment …
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Amazon Web Services Blog:
Amazon S3 At Your Service — Virtually everyone on the Amazon Web Services team has occasion to interact with our developer customers from time to time. This rich source of product feedback gives us a lot of insight into ways that we can do an even better job of meeting their needs as we grow and enhance each of our web services.
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Google tools to power virtual worlds — Get ready for online games set in your favorite Google Earth locations. — Virtual-worlds platform developer Multiverse Network is set to announce a partnership Tuesday that will allow anyone to create a new online interactive 3D environment …
CNN:
Ask.com Ad Pact With Google Ends Soon — Oct. 9, 2007 (Investor's Business Daily delivered by Newstex) — In February, Barry Diller spoke confidently when he said his Ask.com would soon renew its long-running ad pact with Google that expires at year's end.
Burke Hansen / The Register:
Online casinos hit by bot armies — Don't bet against money laundering robots — Botnets are fulfilling law enforcement fears that online casinos could prove fertile ground for money laundering, according to a recent, little-noticed report by risk compliance firm Fortent.
Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times:
Web companies eye market for local ads — Online players are courting mom-and-pop businesses as consumers turn to the Internet to find services in their neighborhoods. — SAN FRANCISCO — When it comes to finding local products and services, consumers are increasingly letting their fingers do the clicking.
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