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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
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Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org: Jury's Still Out On Verizon's FiOS; A $6 Billion Hole In The Wall?
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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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.
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.
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Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:Missing YouTube Founder Flees Facebook Froth In Valley, Seeks …
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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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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.
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Apple customer satisfaction scores gain at rivals' expense — Apple blew away its PC industry peers in this year's American Customer Satisfaction Index, perhaps because it was the only company that didn't release a Windows Vista PC. — The University of Michigan released its annual ACSI scores Tuesday …
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Jim Kerstetter / CNET News.com:Google tops among search sites for customer satisfaction
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Don Reisinger / Mashable!:
Lotame Grabs $13 Million in Funding for New Advertising Idea — Online advertising is the key to the future for companies that want to be successful, but a small firm called Lotame has just raised $13 million in Series B funding to take aim at advertisers and provide a unique way of getting in front of the target audience.
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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.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Is the enterprise ready for cloud computing? — Guest post: This is a post by Barry X Lynn, CEO of 3Tera, in response to a discussion about whether cloud computing is industrial strength. Lynn can be found on the 3Tera blog. — There have been multiple white papers and articles written on the topic …
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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 …
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BBC:
Reports of iPod Nanos overheating — The Japanese government is investigating a possible battery defect in the iPod Nano music player. — There have been two reports of Nanos overheating in Tokyo, scorching nearby paper. — Economy, Trade and Industry ministry official Hiroyuki Yoshitsune …
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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.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Mobile handset sales down in 2Q: Market share race has three horses — NPD Group on Tuesday announced its second quarter handset sales tally and 28 million units were shipped to consumers, down 13 percent from a year ago. — According to NPD, second quarter handset revenue was $2.4 billion, down 2 percent from a year ago.
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.
Microsoft:
New Microsoft Licensing and Support Eases Path to Virtualization — Customers “Get Virtual Now” with increased flexibility and broader support when virtualizing Microsoft server applications. — New licensing, expanded product support policies and a worldwide series of events …
Google:
Google.org invests more than $10 million in breakthrough geothermal energy technology — Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) could supply thousands of times US energy needs — Mountain View, California (August 19, 2008) - In the continuing effort to develop electricity from renewable energy cheaper …
