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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
A Smart Bet or a Big Mistake? — Four years ago, Verizon Communications embarked on an ambitious and expensive plan to run fiber optic cables, which can deliver ultra-fast Internet service and dozens of high-definition video channels along with old-fashioned telephone service, past 19 million homes, roughly half its territory.
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
A Bear Speaks: Why Verizon's Pricey FiOS Bet Won't Pay Off — As I discuss in an article published Tuesday, FiOS is a monumental bet by Verizon on the future. It will cost $23 billion to run fiber past 18 million homes, roughly half of those served by Verizon.
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Apple:
MobileMe: Supplemental 60-day extension eligibility and details — Learn about the 60-day extension to MobileMe subscriptions that Apple is providing to eligible members free of charge. — Note: This article will be updated when all 60-day extensions have been made available.
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Muxtape:
No artists or labels have complained. The site is not closed indefinitely. Stay tuned. — Beta users of Muxtape For Bands: you are unaffected by this outage.
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Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:RIAA issue prompts Muxtape hiatus
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Vincent Nguyen / SlashGear:
Palm Quietly Unveils the Treo Pro Smartphone — Early this morning, Palm released a couple of official press photos of the Treo Pro along with a short video. The company didn't reveal a whole lot of information other than the following that the Treo Pro smartphone features a one-touch Wi-Fi button …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Apple Is Flailing Badly At The Edges — My first computer, purchased by my parents after nearly a year of begging, was an Apple II+. That was 1982. I was a Windows user for the next 20 years, but went back to Mac when they switched to Intel chips a couple of years ago.
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Royal Pingdom:
New SSL policy in Firefox hurting tens of thousands of sites — With Firefox 3, Mozilla has changed the way Firefox handles SSL certificates. This change could scare away visitors from tens of thousands of websites that have expired or self-signed SSL certificates.
Tapan Bhat / Yodel Anecdotal:
See it. Love it. Buzz it. — In February, we introduced Yahoo! Buzz as a new way for you to discover, vote for, and share the content and stories that matter most to you. You also got a say in what stories might be read by millions, with the voting power to potentially get your favorite content on the Yahoo! Front Page.
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Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:Yahoo Buzz opens to everyone
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Thomas Lee / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
YouTube co-founder looks for his next success — St. Paul Central grad Jawed Karim talks about launching start-ups, being an entrepreneur and Silicon Valley. — Many university students spend summer break painting houses, backpacking through Europe or spending some quality time with Madden 08.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
NewsCred Goes Public With Credibility-Based News Source — NewsCred, the news aggregator that ranks stories by the credibility of their source, has launched to the public. Instead of relying on popularity as many social news sites do, NewsCred instead allows users to rate each story …
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Our Newest Report: Online Advertising VC and M&A Deals In The Last Year — Following our analysis of Social Media Deals, we've pleased to announce our first Online Advertising Deals Report, charting activity in venture capital and mergers & acquisitions from Q107 to Q208.
Chris Williams / The Register:
UK.gov to spend hundreds of millions on snooping silo — Exclusive The government is pressing ahead with plans to spend hundreds of millions of pounds on a massive central silo for all UK communications data, The Register has learned. — Home Office civil servants are working on plans …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Even Moms Love Mobile Data Cards — OK, that is a bit over the top! Nielsen Mobile came out with a report that points out that there were 13 million mobile data cards in the U.S. at the end of June 2008. Not a big surprise, since wireless carriers in the U.S. are having a blockbuster year …
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Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Is Linking to Yourself the Future of the Web? — Last year, Bill Janeway really got my attention (pdf) when he noted that “over time, Wall Street 'firms began to trade against their clients for their own account, such that now, the direct investment activities of a firm like Goldman Sachs dwarf …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
EngrishFunny Is Newest Site In Lolcats Empire — The company behind the popular ICanHasCheezburger site has launched a new website, EngrishFunny, which makes fun of grammatically incorrect variations of English (often found in Asia). Users send in photos of poorly translated or written products, signs, instructions, etc. to the site.
Yuri Kageyama / Associated Press:
Japan reports 2 iPods overheating, suspects defect — Japanese government reports 2 cases of Apple iPod Nano overheating in Tokyo — TOKYO (AP) — Japan is investigating a possible battery defect in the popular iPod Nano music player after reports that two overheated in Tokyo …
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