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Google Will Apply to Participate in FCC Spectrum Auction — Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it will apply to participate in the Federal Communications Commission's upcoming auction of wireless spectrum in the 700 megahertz (MHz) band. — As part of the nationally mandated transition …
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Who's going to win the spectrum auction? Consumers. — Posted by by Chris Sacca, Head of Special Initiatives — Here at Google, we see the upcoming 700 megahertz spectrum auction at the Federal Communications Commission as one of the best opportunities consumers will have to enjoy more choices in the world of wireless devices.
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When Networks Collide — AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson this week said what I have been saying since last July — that Apple and AT&T would soon introduce an iPhone that works with AT&T's faster 3G wireless data network. I said it because I had heard last summer that AT&T was already testing 3G iPhones …

Google To Announce Bid For Spectrum, As Expected
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Breaking: Facebook Updates Beacon — Facebook has just announced that they will be updating their Beacon system. Stories will no longer be published "without a user proactively consenting." According to Facebook here is how the Beacon changes work:
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Facebook Retreats on Online Tracking — Faced with its second mass protest by members in its short life span, Facebook, the enormously popular social networking Web site, is reining in some aspects of a controversial new advertising program. — Within the last 10 days …


Attack of the interns: recommendations and drag-and-drop — One of the great things about Reader, and feed readers in general, is that they let you follow sites much more efficiently than you could just by visiting them directly. This means that once you get into the flow of it …
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Facebook Nabs $60 Million Investment from Li Ka-shing — While a lot of people were beginning to doubt Facebook's ability to raise more money after getting a lofty $15 billion valuation following a $240 million investment from Microsoft last month, it seems the stakes are not too high …


New feature: OpenID commenting — Blogger in Draft now lets you enable OpenID-based commenting, in your blogs' Settings | Comments tab: — (OpenID comments work in both the Anyone and Registered Users modes) — This means that users of OpenID-enabled services — such as LiveJournal and WordPress …

Leopard is the New Vista, and It's Pissing Me Off — Before Apple makes any more smug OS-related attacks on Microsoft, it ought to take a good look in the mirror. — I'm not sure what ticks me off more about Leoptard (I can't take credit for that nickname—some Brit coined it) …

'Exploding Cell Phone' Was a Lie — The death of a quarry worker in his 30s in Cheongwon County, North Chungcheong Province on Wednesday was not caused by an exploding mobile phone but by a heavy vehicle accident, police said Thursday. Police said a colleague of the victim's lied about the cause of death to conceal his fault.
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Sprint Declines Two-Part Offer: Investment, Return of Donahue — Companies Featured in This Article: Sprint Nextel, Embarq, Procter & Gamble, Comcast, AT&T, Verizon Communications, Vodafone Group — Sprint Nextel Corp. recently rejected an offer by South Korea's SK Telecom …
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Gamespot Editor Fired Over Kane & Lynch Review? [Rumor] — We've heard an unsettling rumor today from an anonymous tipster that longtime game reviewer Jeff Gerstmann from Gamespot has been let go. That wouldn't necessarily be newsworthy, but the conditions under which he was allegedly dismissed were.
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Motorola Names Greg Brown Chief Executive Officer, Succeeding Edward J. Zander Who Remains Chairman — Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT - News) today announced that its Board of Directors has elected Greg Brown, 47, as Chief Executive Officer of Motorola, effective January 1, 2008.
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Ironic, Yes, But Zuckerberg's Privacy Violated — So exactly why did Facebook unleash such a massive legal fury on 02138 magazine yesterday over documents the publication posted online? — Because, said sources, those documents-including an application to Harvard University-contained …

Hackers re-poison Google search results — Watch online now - The findings of The Register's Virtualization Study — Hackers have responded to a purge of malicious links within search results by Google with a fresh effort to subvert the search giant's page rank system.
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