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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Cyberwar: China Declares War On Western Search Sites — Further to our earlier story on visitors to Google Blogsearch being redirected to Baidu in China, new reports have surfaced that would indicate that China has unilaterally blocked all three major search engines in China and is redirecting all requests to Baidu.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Baidu Hijacking Google Traffic In China — Google has done it hard in China. Confined to acting within both local laws and US copyright laws it has failed to take the lead in a market that will have more broadband users that the United States in the next 12-18 months.
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Google Blogoscoped:
Youtube is blocked in china — Live.com,yahoo.com and blogsearch.google.com is redirected to baidu.com — Strange. Very strange. — it seems that nearly all foreign search engines are abducted to baidu.com... Philipp Lenssen even www.google.cn? what about www.google.com?
Thomas S. Mulligan / Los Angeles Times:
Viacom to offer all clips of 'Daily Show' online — Switching gears, it will provide free views of the program in a bid to generate ad revenue. — NEW YORK — Media giant Viacom Inc. is suing YouTube Inc., but it's also taking lessons from the online video service.
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Kevin J. Delaney / Wall Street Journal:
Group of Net, Media Companies To Announce Copyright Guidelines — SAN FRANCISCO — A group of Internet, media and technology companies plans to announce today a set of guidelines they have agreed on aimed at protecting copyrights online, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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David Kaplan / paidContent.org:Viacom, Microsoft, News Corp., NBCU, Disney To Issue Guidelines …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Counterstrike: Murdoch, DeWolfe Announce MySpace Platform and New Privacy Controls — Rupert Murdoch and MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe announced some of their plans around the MySpace Platform (rumored since last week) this evening at the Web 2.0 conference during a Q&A with John Battelle.
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Donna Bogatin / Insider Chatter:
Facebook Frenzy? Not So MySpace AND LinkedIn Fast — Poor MYSpace? Playing catchup to Facebook, so goes conventional blogosphere "counterstrike" wisdom. — Irrelevant LinkedIn? Fighting off extinction due to Facebook, so goes conventional blogosphere "death" wish wisdom. — NOT SO BLOGGER FAST!
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Verizon lays out upcoming smartphone lineup; Samsung i760 comes first — No surprises in the mix here, but we're delighted to see that Verizon is finally getting official with four smart devices that have been rumored to be in its pipeline for ages. Of the four, only the i760 from Samsung's …
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Verizon:
New Smartphone, PDA Options From Verizon Wireless Make Staying Connected A Personal Choice — SCH-i760 from Samsung Offers Verizon Wireless Exclusivity on the Nation's Most Reliable Wireless Network — BASKING RIDGE, NJ — Verizon Wireless is heading into the holidays with a roster …
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Gates still has a long to-do list — SAN FRANCISCO—Bill Gates has some unfinished business. — For years, the Microsoft chairman has been a fiery advocate, inside the company and out, for the notion that computers should be controlled, not just by mouse and keyboard, but also by more natural means …
Bruce Meyerson / Business Week:
Skype Goes Mobile — Skype's new cell phone will deliver mobile access to its service. The beleaguered carrier hopes to jump-start revenues overseas — Bit by bit, big names in the computing world are barging into the cell-phone business. First came Apple's (AAPL) game-changing iPhone.
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Reuters:
Sony to sell new 40GB PlayStation 3 in U.S. — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Sony Corp (6758.T: Quote, NEWS , Research) will launch a cheaper model of its PlayStation 3 in the United States, hoping to attract more buyers as it goes up against rival game consoles from Microsoft and Nintendo this holiday.
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Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:Sony confirms $400, 40GB PS3 for the US, price drop for 80GB model
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Interwoven Inc.:
Interwoven To Acquire Website Optimization Pioneer Optimost — Combination of Interwoven's Content Management Solutions with Optimost's Multivariable Testing and Optimization Solution Helps Organizations Maximize Online Business Performance — Interwoven, Inc. (NASDAQ: IWOV) …
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Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
Facebook Expands Data Center Space — Facebook has leased space in a state-of-the-art data center in Ashburn, Virginia to power the huge growth of its social networking service. The addition of 10,000 square feet of space in a new facility built by DuPont Fabros Technology (DFT) …
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BBC:
Mobile phone use backed on planes — Passengers could soon be using their mobile phones on planes flying through European airspace. — Plans have been developed across EU countries to introduce technology which permits mobile calls without risk of interference with aircraft systems.
Candace Lombardi / CNET News.com:
Cisco employees in Brazil arrested — Federal Brazilian police have arrested Cisco Systems employees and temporarily closed the networking equipment giant's offices in San Paulo and Rio de Janiero, Brazil, the company said in a statement. — "I'm not going to comment on the investigation …
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Matt / Gravatar Blog:
Automattic Acquires Gravatar — The best ideas are often the simplest. (At least in hindsight.) The idea of globally-recognized avatar, or Gravatar, struck me from the first time I heard it. Of course I should be able to have my avatar wherever I go! Of course email is a great way to key it!
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