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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Cuil Exits Stealth Mode With A Massive Search Engine — Menlo Park based Cuil will launch later this evening with an index of 120 billion web pages, making them arguably the most comprehensive search engine on the web (Google doesn't disclose the size of their index, although they claim …
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Vince Sollitto / Cuil:
Cuil Launches Biggest Search Engine on the Web — Technology Company Offers New Look at Search — Cuil, a technology company pioneering a new approach to search, unveils its innovative search offering, which combines the biggest Web index with content-based relevance methods, results organized by ideas, and complete user privacy.
Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:
Steve Jobs Walks Into the Trap — What was Steve thinking? I don't pretend to understand the pressures he's under, both physically and professionally, but calling New York Times columnist Joe Nocera with an “off the record” health update was a big mistake, completely unnecessary, and serves only to fan the flames.
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Dan Lyons / Real Dan Lyons Web Site:
Imagine if any other CEO pulled bulls**t like this — Here's an interesting experiment. Imagine what the reaction would be if a different CEO, one who isn't worshipped as a man-god by a small but vocal portion of the world's population, did what Steve Jobs just did to Joe Nocera.
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The Open Road
ABCNEWS:
High Cost of the FCC's Free Wireless Network — Critics Argue That ‘Pre-School Test’ for Content Is Unconstitutional, Limiting — OPINION by LESLIE HARRIS — The Federal Communications Commission may set aside spectrum for a free wireless broadband network.
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Robert M. McDowell / Washington Post:
Who Should Solve This Internet Crisis? — The Internet was in crisis. Its electronic “pipes” were clogged with new bandwidth-hogging software. Engineers faced a choice: Allow the Net to succumb to fatal gridlock or find a solution. — The year was 1987.
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New York Post:
‘CAPITAL’ UNREST CASTS GLOOM OVER YAHOO! — Yahoo! may have made peace with activist investor Carl Icahn, but its second-largest shareholder is still furious with Chairman Roy Bostock and CEO Jerry Yang and is considering withholding votes for them, sources told The Post.
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Verizon:
Verizon FiOS TV Delivers 100 High-Definition Channels to New Yorkers - on the Network Built for HD — FiOS TV in New York Metro Area Now Offers More HD Channels Than Time Warner or CablevisionNew Sports and Multicultural Programming in Standard Definition Also Joins FiOS TV Lineup
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Ken Belson / New York Times:Verizon Begins Competing for Cable TV Customers
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Verizon counts on wireless for profits — Verizon Communications' wireless business continues to boost the company's profits as its landline business sputters, according to second-quarter earnings reports. — On Monday, Verizon reported a 12 percent increase in second quarter net income.
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David Chartier / Infinite Loop:
iPhone, App Store problems causing more than just headaches — It has been a couple weeks since Apple deemed iPhone OS 2.0 to be ripe enough for us to pluck from its digital tree. While third-party software (albeit from a walled garden) is indeed an appetizing treat, widespread reports …
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Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Brandstreaming: What Is It & Who's Doing It? — If there's a hot new social media trend happening, you can bet that companies are trying to find a way to use it too. It happened of course with blogging, it happened with Twitter, and it is now happening with FriendFeed and other lifestreaming apps.
InfoWorld:
IBM to buy Ilog for $340 million — IBM has agreed to buy French software company Ilog for around €215 million ($340 million). IBM plans to combine Ilog's business rules management systems with its own business process management and business optimization tools, it said Monday.
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Calendar Adds CalDAV Support — After many months of testing, Google Calendar finally adds CalDAV support. “CalDAV is an open protocol that allows calendar access via WebDAV. CalDAV models calendar events as HTTP resources in iCalendar format, and models calendars containing events as WebDAV collections.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Hires Mozilla Exec Mike Schroepfer As Director Of Engineering — Mike Schroepfer, the extremely well regarded VP Engineering at Mozilla, is now Facebook's Director of Engineering. — He'll be heading up Facebook Platform and the main product front end, he said by telephone this morning …
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Mike Shields / Mediaweek:
Web Content Producers Turn Focus to Dramatic Fare — Among the more ambitious projects is Foreign Body, a 10-week, 50-episode, adult-targeted soap produced by Michael Eisner's Vuguru — Web content producers are hoping there's room among the angry landlord babies and lazy Sundays for some serious drama.
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Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
$80 Billion? Online Display Market Is Being Overhyped — For All the New Media Spin, It's Just an ‘Old’ Media — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The exuberance isn't so rational this time, either. — It's déjà vu all over again as the web giants scurry to build massive internet-ad networks …
