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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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David Feng / blognation China:
Mind Your Step: "Cyberwar" with the Search Engines? — Is it just me, or did someone not get the facts totally right? If a TechCrunch article is to be believed, search engines like Google and Yahoo! seem to be, once again, invisible in the nation of 1.3 billion.
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Did Dalai Lama Award Cause China To Redirect Google, Yahoo & Microsoft Search Traffic To Baidu? — Reports have been coming in that people trying to reach Google, Yahoo and Microsoft from within China or via Chinese ISPs are being redirected to Baidu. — Some have accused Baidu of hijacking …
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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?
Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:Is China Attacking US Search Engines?
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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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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Studios unveil their copyright protection guidelines — A coalition of major media and technology companies is finally getting serious about copyrights on the Internet. — A who's who of media companies—CBS, News Corp.'s Fox Entertainment Group, NBC Universal, Viacom, and Disney …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Launches Drag-And-Drop App Builder Popfly — Microsoft just demoed on stage at the Web 2.0 conference a slick Silverlight application development service called Popfly, which just opened up in beta. Popfly lets anyone, even non-coders, create web mashups without writing a single line of code.
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David A. Utter / WebProNews:Microsoft Smacks Popfly Into Web 2.0
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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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Wall Street Journal:
Will Social Features Make Email Sexy Again? — Email providers are trying to steal some of social networking's thunder as fast-growing services like Facebook Inc. begin to encroach on their turf. — The biggest Web email services — including Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Time Warner Inc.'s AOL unit …
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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 …
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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 …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Microsoft's Ballmer: MSFT will acquire 20 companies a year — Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer just said at the Web 2.0 conference here in San Francisco that the software giant will acquire 20 companies a year for the next 5 year, ranging from $50 million to $1 billion.
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Chris Williams / The Register:Facebook flotation 'years out', says Zuckerberg
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David Meyer / CNET News.com:
Europe edges closer to mobile phones on planes — The likelihood of mobile-phone usage being allowed on flights within Europe increased on Thursday after telecommunications regulator Ofcom issued a consultation on the matter. — The issue has been brewing for many years but has been hampered until …
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Richard Martin / InformationWeek:
Google Says Its Health Platform Is Due In Early 2008 — Google plans to bring its immense data storage and organization capacities to the field of medical care and patient records, Marissa Mayer, the company's head of search, said at the Web 2.0 Summit. — Telling her audience to …
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Alex Pham / Los Angeles Times:
EBay posts $936-million loss — Its $936 million in red ink stems largely from a write-down of the online calling service. — EBay Inc. dialed up a steep third-quarter loss Wednesday, as the accounting effect of paying too much for the Skype Internet calling service offset strong growth …
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stevenberlinjohnson.com:
APPLE OPENS UP — It struck me yesterday reading Steve Jobs' personal note about plans for third-party apps on the iPhone that the most telling thing about the announcement was the opening five-word phrase: … Let me just say it. What we're starting to see here (and of course …
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
SocialMedia raises $3.5M to sell ads across social networks — SocialMedia, a company that lets small Facebook applications get exposure by bidding on ad links within Facebook popular applications, has just raised $3.5 million in financing. — Using the marketplace offered by SocialMedia …
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / eWEEK.com:
It's Here! Ubuntu 7.10 Arrives — The latest and greatest Ubuntu arrived on Oct. 18. — Ubuntu users rejoice. Ubuntu 7.10 is here. — Ubuntu, the remarkably popular desktop Linux distribution that tries to bring the latest and greatest open-source programs every six months, arrived Oct. 18.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Web 2.0: Cisco's Dan Scheinman Unveils EOS, Entertainment Operating System — Moving on, next at the Web 2.0 conference, Cisco's (CSCO) Dan Scheinman, to talk about the networking giant's strategy in social networking. (They have acquired Tribe and various other things.)
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