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Juan Carlos Perez / IDG News Service:
Amazon Payment Services Debut — Amazon on Tuesday launched hosted e-commerce payment services for merchants who want to outsource all or some of their online transaction processing tasks. — The two new offerings, called Checkout By Amazon and Amazon Simple Pay, are the latest services …
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Amazon Offers Other Sites Use of Its Payment Service — SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon wants its customers to take their wallets with them when they leave the giant Web store. — The Seattle-based online retailer unveiled on Tuesday a new payment service that it will offer other online retailers to use on their Web sites.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Amazon aims to make Mechanical Turk more business friendly — Amazon on Wednesday rolled out new features to its Mechanical Turk web service designed to expand its appeal to a broader set of businesses. Mechanical Turk is a work marketplace that can be used to outsource software development.
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Justin Scheck / Wall Street Journal:
Dell Tests Player to Renew iPod Battle — Music Device Is Key To Broader Strategy — Dell Inc. failed once to move into Apple Inc.'s digital-music turf. Now, it is plotting another foray. — In recent months, Dell has been testing a digital music player that could go on sale as early as September, said several Dell officials.
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Richard Koman / ZDNet Government:
FCC set to slap Comcast's wrist — It's almost official. In the latest step forward, a majority of FCC commissioners voted Friday to “affirm” a complaint against Comcast for blocking BitTorrent traffic, the Washington Post reports, although the punishment is likely to be a “slap on the wrist,” according to one analyst.
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Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:
Comcast Illegally Interfered With Web File-Sharing Traffic, FCC Says — A majority of the Federal Communications Commission has concluded that cable operator Comcast unlawfully disrupted the transfer of certain digital video files, affirming the government's right to regulate how Internet companies manage Web traffic.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
How To Lose Your Cuil 20 Seconds After Launch — The hype cycle now lasts less than a day. Take yesterday's over-hyped launch of stealth search startup Cuil, which was quickly followed by a backlash when everyone realized that it was selling a bill of goods. This was entirely the company's own fault.
David Worthington / SD Times On The Web:
Microsoft's plans for post-Windows OS revealed — Microsoft is incubating a componentized non-Windows operating system known as Midori, which is being architected from the ground up to tackle challenges that Redmond has determined cannot be met by simply evolving its existing technology.
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Scobleizer, Steve's Photo Blog, GottaBeMobile, Furrier.org, BroadDev, All about Microsoft, Microsoft Watch and Valleywag
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
T-Mobile Sidekick 2008 Review — The Gadget: The Sidekick 2008, which follows up the Sidekick LX and Sidekick Slide as a “main” unit (read: not low-end like the iD) in the Sidekick series. It's got improved features like a 2.0-megapixel camera, 2.6-inch display (400x240), video recording/playback …
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John Biggs / CrunchGear:T-Mobile's Sidekick 2008: Yes, it kicks ass and yes you can have ours
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace Announces Five New Senior Execs (Four Of Them Have MySpace Pages) — MySpace COO Amit Kapur apparently meant it when he told me earlier today that MySpace is continuing to hire despite letting 5% or so of staff go in the coming days. He introduced five new senior executives …
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
AT&T Says It Will Cut Off P2P Wireless Users; But What About Pandora Users? — from the be-careful-on-that-iPhone dept — While those who like to claim that the US broadband market is more competitive than it really is like to point to the rise of 3G wireless networks as proof …
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
SoCal earthquake a powerful reminder of Twitter's potential — This morning a 5.4 magnitude earthquake struck Southern California near Los Angeles. Well before the information was anywhere on the major news outlets, tweets (Twitter messages) were flowing in at a rapid clip.
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David Kravets / Threat Level:
MPAA Seeks Internet Removal of Two ‘Infringing’ Sites — The Motion Picture Association of America is suing two websites accused of acting as a for-profit, “one-stop shop” for allegedly infringing copies of Hollywood's copyrighted works. — The sites, fomd.com, known as “Free Online Movie DataBase …
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Jeremy Horwitz / iLounge:
iPod nano 4G: a Zune-alike? — It may be hard to believe, but from what we've now heard from multiple sources, it's true: the fourth-generation iPod nano will look like... a Microsoft Zune. Well, sort of. — Contradicting speculation that Apple was planning to transform the new nano …
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Google UK Extending Financial Services Comparison Trial : Death to UK Quotes Sites? — Comparing quotes from financial services is a big market in the UK, as sites which deliver quotes from unsecured loan, car insurance and even pet insurance providers battle for top rankings in both paid search and organic search on Google UK.
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Charles Arthur / Guardian Unlimited:
Apple's cult of secrecy begins to bug its developers — Apple's cult of secrecy has been much in the news in the past couple of weeks, but one area where it's being felt - and hard - is by developers trying to write for the iPhone. They're caught in a catch-22: if they want to program for it …
Tim Wu / New York Times:
OPEC 2.0 — AMERICANS today spend almost as much on bandwidth — the capacity to move information — as we do on energy. A family of four likely spends several hundred dollars a month on cellphones, cable television and Internet connections, which is about what we spend on gas and heating oil.
