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Verizon's FiOS: 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 …
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Between the Lines, paidContent.org, DSLreports, Telecompetitor, GigaOM, Know It All and Beet.TV
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Google's Satisfaction Soars Propelling E-Business to an All-Time High in Latest American Customer Satisfaction Index — Yahoo! and MSN fall farther behind, says report from ACSI partner ForeSee Results — Customer satisfaction with e-business websites reaches a new high …
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VentureBeat, Kelsey Group Blogs, TechCrunch, Blog World Expo Blog and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
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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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Electronista, MacRumors, InformationWeek, MacDailyNews, Datamation, The Tech Report, Hardware 2.0, WebProNews, TechSpot and Search Engine Land
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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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LEAKED: First Shots of iPhone Nike+ Interface — We've long known that Nike+ has been in development for the iPhone. Now we're finally getting a peek at the first shots of the interface. From what we can skim, Nike+ users will get all of the nifty performance graphs right on the phone …
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Key News Audiences Now Blend Online and Traditional Sources — Audience Segments in a Changing News Environment — For more than a decade, the audiences for most traditional news sources have steadily declined, as the number of people getting news online has surged.
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Google Launches Enhanced 404 Widget — Google has launched a new tool within Google Webmaster Tools that allows Webmasters to create custom 404 pages. — To access the tool, go to Google Webmaster Tools, then click on tools on the left and then click on “Enhance 404 pages.”
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Google Blogoscoped
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Make your 404 pages more useful
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Google Operating System
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Google Will Offer Services for Bloggers at the Conventions — WASHINGTON — Google Inc. will help set up a two-story, 8,000 square-foot headquarters for hundreds of bloggers descending on the Democratic convention in Denver next week, and it will offer similar services at the Republican convention …
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Ars Technica, ZDNet Government, Epicenter, dailywireless.org, Blog World Expo Blog, Gawker and WebProNews
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Emily is Not Real: The End of “Real” Actors? — I have seen the future of computer-generated video game animation, her name is Emily, and Emily is not real — or is she? See for yourself in the following clip just released from 3D facial animation company Image Metrics, and which I read about in The Times Online this morning.
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The Inquisitr
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IDF: Intel gets behind start-up MetaRAM's server memory solution — Silicon Valley start-up MetaRAM is announcing its second-generation chip set today with backing from Intel. MetaRAM's technology can quadruple the memory capacity in a server, cutting the server costs as much as 90 percent.
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eWeek
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Palm Quietly Unveils the Treo Pro Smartphone — Early this morning, Palm released two official press photos of the Treo Pro along with a short video of the handset in action. The company didn't reveal a whole lot of information other than the following: the Treo Pro smartphone features …
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CNET News.com, Engadget, Electronista, Gadget Lab, Gadgetell, PalmInfocenter, Gizmodo, The Register, The Mobile Gadgeteer, PalmAddicts, I4U News and WMExperts
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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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Missing YouTube Founder Flees Facebook Froth In Valley, Seeks …
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Valleywag
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Microsoft relaxes virtual-machine rules — Microsoft on Tuesday announced a change in its licensing policy to make it easier for businesses that want the ability to shift server software that is running in a virtual machine from one physical machine to another.
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Mapping Facebook's Growth Over Time — Using Google's new Insights for Search tool, Inside Facebook has mapped Facebook's US and international search growth over time from its launch in February 2004 to the present. Note that while these are not visits, searches and visits do generally correlate.
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Facebook to move to Stanford Research Park
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VentureBeat
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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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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.
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Silicon Alley Insider
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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.
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A third of Vista PCs downgraded to XP — Vista's death march picked up some pace yesterday, after a metrics researcher revealed that nearly 35 per cent of PCs built to run the Windows operating system have been downgraded to XP. — In a survey of more than 3,000 computers …
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Ed Bott's Microsoft Report, The Open Road, BetaNews, TG Daily and Microsoft Subnet's blog
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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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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.