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Todd Shields / Bloomberg:
Comcast to Slow Some Web Traffic for Up to 20 Minutes — Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) — Comcast Corp. plans to slow Internet service to its heaviest users during periods of congestion, after regulators ordered the company to devise a new method for managing its Web traffic.
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:Comcast Vows to Throttle Customers, Not BitTorrent
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Kyle Peterson / Reuters:
American Air kicks off in-flight Internet service — CHICAGO (Reuters) - AMR Corp's American Airlines began offering Internet access on long-haul domestic flights on Wednesday, making American the first U.S. airline to offer full in-flight broadband. — The world's largest airline …
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Intel® And Yahoo!® To Bring The Internet To Television — TV Widgets Bring “Best of the Internet” Experience to Complement TV Viewing — INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20, 2008 - Intel Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. today previewed plans for the Widget Channel, a television …
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Michael Wolf / NewTeeVee:
Intel and Yahoo Look to Widgetize the Living Room Web — This morning at the Intel Developer Forum, Intel and Yahoo announced a joint initiative to bring Internet widgets to TV. The two companies are teaming up in an effort they believe may help jump-start the nascent living-room-web market …
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Edward C. Baig / USA Today:
Apple tries to de-bug iPhone — Apple (AAPL) acknowledged Tuesday that a software update for the iPhone partly fixes the connection snags that have caused a global firestorm for the new iPhone 3G. — Though mum on details, Apple spokeswoman Jennifer Bowcock said on Tuesday …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Social Median Disregards 75 Years Of Securities Regulations With Sale Of Stock On Twitter — SocialMedian founder Jason Goldberg wrote a Twitter message moments ago letting people know that they are raising a new round of funding, up to $500k, and to contact him if you're interested.
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Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:
EBay Is Planning to Emphasize Fixed-Price Sales Format Over Its Auction Model — SAN FRANCISCO — Acknowledging that most online shoppers cannot be bothered with auctions, eBay plans Wednesday to announce changes to its fee structure that emphasize fixed prices over bidding.
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The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
LG's PRADA II? — We don't have much to go off of besides this picture right now, but it looks as if LG is keeping the PRADA line of mobile handsets around for a little bit. The PRADA II, as it's pictured, adds a slide-out QWERTY keyboard for easier text entry.
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft, Sony offer new video-game gizmos — There's lots of video-game controller and peripheral news coming out of the Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany, today. Here's a roundup: — New keyboard: Microsoft, continuing the revival of its SideWinder gaming peripheral brand …
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Brian Ashcraft / Kotaku:Japan Is TOTALLY Sold Out of Xbox 360s (New Shipment Next Month!)
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
An Unexpected Look at an All-New Google News — Google has long liked to test new features by randomly surprising a subset of its visitors with them to gauge their response. Seems like I'm always reading blog posts from folks who have stumbled upon something unexpected and interesting …
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Palm, Once a Leader, Seeks Path in Smartphone Jungle — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — If anyone knows how best to survive a corporate near-death experience, it is Jon Rubinstein. — In 1997 the former Hewlett-Packard engineer was asked by Apple's founder, Steven P. Jobs, to lead …
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Libby Purves / Times of London:
Computer games industry threat to downloaders: 'pay up or we'll sue' — The computer games industry has launched an unprecedented assault on illegal downloads, demanding payment from thousands of families who obtained the latest releases over the internet without paying.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Sony gets official with PSP-3000 — It's not like Sony could really keep this thing under wraps for much longer, but the company finally did the deed by announcing the PSP-3000 at the Leipzig Games Convention. The unit itself will look exactly like the PSP-2000, though it will feature an …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
HillCrest Labs: Nintendo's Wii Infringing Our Patents … NewTeeVee recently shot a demo video of the Hillcrest remote in action: — Hillcrest is a venture-backed company and had raised $25 million earlier this year. It has raised a total of $50 million from NEA, Columbia Capital …
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Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
Nvidia to announce x86 chip next week — Not IDF San Francicsco So say the whispers — THE HOT RUMOR going around IDF is one that we discussed a long time ago when Nvidia bought Stexar: that the company will do an x86 part. The background whispers say that the part will be announced next week …
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
What's $100 Million Between Frienemies? … But they're at it again, with Microsoft heaping more money into the dowry. There won't be a divorce until Microsoft says so. — About 25 minutes ago, the companies announced that they had expanded their interoperability agreement. Again.
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Stryde Hax:
Hack the Olympics! — There's been some widely publicized controversy regarding the competition age of the Chinese women's gymnastics team recently. Rather than be too CNN, I decided to take a page from my friend Johnny and investigate on my own. I have an Internet connection …
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Salesforce.com Announces Record Fiscal Second Quarter Results — First Ever Software as a Service Company to Exceed $1 Billion Annual Revenue Run Rate — Company Announces Strategic Acquisition of InStranet, Inc. to Accelerate Growth in Salesforce CRM Customer Service and Support
