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Jerry Yang / Yodel Anecdotal:
Where does Yahoo! head next? — There's been much curiosity and speculation about what's been happening here at Yahoo! over the past few months. Roughly 100 days into our business review, I'm ready to start sharing some of the framework for where we see the future of Yahoo!.
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Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Jobs confirms iTunes Plus price drop across the board — Not a full day after our initial report that Apple planned to drop the price of all its iTunes Plus tracks (as well as add a number of indie labels to the mix), many users started seeing the changes slowly trickle down from iTunes' servers.
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Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
Apple Reduces Prices on iTunes Songs Without Anti-Copying Software — Apple Inc. is reducing the price of all songs on its iTunes Store without anti-copying software to 99 cents from $1.29, bringing Apple's prices on such tracks closer to those offered by Amazon.com Inc., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and other rivals in online music.
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Michelle Quinn / Los Angeles Times:
Apple reduces price of unrestricted iTunes songs — The cost falls from $1.29 to 99 cents a track amid rivals' moves to drop anti-piracy software. — Apple Inc. said Tuesday that it was lowering the price of songs it sells without anti-piracy software from $1.29 to 99 cents …
Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
MYSPACE, SKYPE TO PARTNER FOR VOICE FUNCTION ON IM CLIENT — MySpace and Skype are set to announce on Wednesday that the eBay-owned telephony client will be providing voice chat services for the News Corp.-owned social network's instant messaging client, MySpaceIM. Financial terms of the partnership were not disclosed.
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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
The RIAA Attacks Usenet — In an ideal world, people would not talk about Usenet. In an ideal world there would be no such things as copyright infringement lawsuits. Sadly, we do not live in an ideal world. — Today we simply have to talk about Usenet and we have to talk about lawsuits.
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
RIAA tries to pull plug on Usenet. Seriously. — The Recording Industry Association of America has found a new legal target for a copyright lawsuit: Usenet. — In a lawsuit filed on October 12, the RIAA says that Usenet newsgroups contain "millions of copyrighted sound recordings" in violation of federal law.
New York Times:
Silicon Valley Start-Ups Awash in Dollars, Again — Silicon Valley's math is getting fuzzy again. — Internet companies with funny names, little revenue and few customers are commanding high prices. And investors, having seemingly forgotten the pain of the first dot-com bust …
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
The New Drama: Google vs. Facebook — First it was Yahoo vs. Google, then it became Google vs. Microsoft and now it's Google vs. Facebook. People love drama and journalists in particular seek to tell dramatic stories with uncertain outcomes. Regarding this most recent drama (Google vs. Facebook) …
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Craig Rubens / NewTeeVee:
Next New Networks Ponies Up for its Crush on Obama Girl — Next New Networks has acquired BarelyPolitical.com for an undisclosed sum, adding the creator of viral video phenomenon Obama Girl to its growing array of niche channels. BarelyPolitical, founded in June by Ben Relles …
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:NextNew Networks Acquires Obama Girl Site BarelyPolitical.com
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Megan McCarthy / Valleywag:
Rumormonger: Could MySpace buy RockYou to mess with Facebook? — Shriveled-up megamogul Rupert Murdoch, the pint-sized force behind News Corp. and MySpace, is presenting the keynote at tomorrow's Web 2.0 conference. What big surprise does he have planned for the audience?
Oracle:
Oracle Critical Patch Update - October 2007 — A Critical Patch Update is a collection of patches for multiple security vulnerabilities. It also includes non-security fixes that are required (because of interdependencies) by those security patches. Critical Patch Updates are cumulative …
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
iPhone dev team releases free 1.1.1 unlock — The industrious rebels of the iPhone Dev Team have joined in the iPhone unlock chess match today, with the release of AnySim 1.1, a free unlocking app that enables iPhones with both firmware version 1.02 and 1.1.1 to operate on any GSM network.
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Small Steps at Yahoo Bear Fruit — Jerry Yang's plan for reviving the fortunes of Yahoo, the company he co-founded and now runs, does not involve the kind of shock therapy for which some investors had hoped. — Mr. Yang's measured strategy got a slight lift on Tuesday as Yahoo surprised Wall Street …
Dsifry / Sifry's Alerts:
Technorati brings back charts and authority filtering to search results pages — Ah, I'm really proud of the Technorati team. Richard and the team rolled out a bunch of updates tonight to the core search results that should make a bunch of people happier, as they are direct responses …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Docs Mobile Released — Google Docs Mobile went live now, after traces of it were spotted a month ago. It's a minimalist reformatting of the "Google Office suite" for cellphone display. What you will see is a search box as well as recent documents - word processing, spreadsheets, or presentations - below it.
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