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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google, Microsoft Said To Be Preparing Bids For Digg — User-generated news site Digg has been working with influential investment bank Allen & Co. (the ones that recently got Slide a half billion dollar valuation) for a few months now, and pitching big tech and media companies on a sale.
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Microsoft's Google Obsession, MicroHoo's Asian Outlook And Competing For Digg — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is perhaps showing signs of a mildly unhealthy obsession with rival Google. At Microsoft's MIX08 online technology conference in Las Vegas yesterday he told interviewer Guy Kawasaki …
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:Digg To Microsoft or Google? Research Shows 52% of Diggers Block Ads
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
iPhone SDK And Restrictions: Some Of The Details Aren't Great. — Obviously Steve Jobs and team didn't go through all the details today when they announced the availability of the iPhone SDK. It was more of a high level pass. But details are what third party developers need …
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Anthony Rose / BBC Internet Blog:
BBC iPlayer On iPhone: Behind The Scenes — Today was a big day for BBC iPlayer: it's the day that it first became available on a portable device. BBCiPlayer is now available on iPhone and iPod touch. — To play BBC programmes on your iPhone or iPod touch, you'll need to be online via …
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Steve O'Hear / last100:
Look mum, no DRM: BBC launches iPlayer on iPhone and iPod touch — As promised, the BBC has launched a version of iPlayer for use on Apple's iPhone and iPod touch mobile devices. — Currently in Beta, the specially designed version of the BBC's UK-only TV catch-up service utilizes H.264 video streaming …
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BBC iPlayer comes to the iPhone — The BBC has launched a version of its iPlayer video on demand service for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. — It is the first time the software has been available on portable devices. — The software, which allows users to download programmes from the last seven days …
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Louise Brown / Toronto Star:
Student faces Facebook consequences — Freshman hit with 147 academic charges for online study network at Ryerson University — Study groups may be a virtual trademark of the Ivory Tower - but a virtual study group has been slammed as cheating by Ryerson University.
Karl / DSLreports:
MobiTV Threatens HowardForums Shutdown - Because they couldn't be bothered to secure their own content — The great cellphone-centric resource HowardForums is being threatened by the creatively named mobile TV provider MobiTV. According to this post by site owner Howard Chui …
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Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times:
Google mappers banned from U.S. bases — The Web firm says it erred in posting images of Fort Sam Houston. The Pentagon cites security concerns. — SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. found itself at the center of a national security controversy Thursday. — The Pentagon banned …
Bloomberg:
Disney to Offer Some Vintage TV Series on Its Web Site — The Walt Disney Company will begin showing its classic television shows on the Internet, its chief executive, Robert A. Iger, told shareholders on Thursday. — “In the near future, you'll see more of that product available on Disney.com …
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
How to save money running a startup (17 really good tips) — The HowTo team at Mahalo has been an amazing surprise effort. We didn't plan on making howto articles, but when we built various how to search pages we realized that many howto articles were, well, lacking.
Benjamin J. Romano / The Seattle Times:
Microsoft's Ballmer dances, jokes and tackles all the subjects in onstage interview — LAS VEGAS — Amid a tempest of change, Microsoft's brash leader, Steve Ballmer, gave one of his most comprehensive and entertaining interviews in recent memory Thursday. — Microsoft is pursuing Yahoo …
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EXCLUSIVE: 60GB Xbox WILL Replace 20GB Model — It's world exclusive time again. — Following my outing of the 16GB iPhone I have once again have attained from a rock solid source that Microsoft WILL be replacing the 20GB hard drive on the standard Xbox 360 with a larger 60GB version.
I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
Antisocial — Do you remember Citizens' Band radio? Though established by the Federal Communications Commission in the 1950s, CB radio didn't become an overnight sensation until the 1970s when Moore's Law brought down the cost of radios to where it was economically viable to buy them solely …
Brandi Stewart / Fortune Small Business:
EBay's new in-house blogger sounds off — New eBay recruit and social media veteran Richard Brewer-Hay will launch a blog next month that aims to give eBay's users a direct, unfiltered communications link with the company. Can he repair the company's battered relations with its users?
