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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 …
Tony Smith / The Register:
Intel lets slip first dual-core Atom — IDF Intel has quietly introduced its first dual-core Atom processor, the 330, and a new motherboard to go with it. — The 45nm 330's a low-power part and - as the lack of an ‘N’ prefix shows - it's a desktop chip. Intel didn't say what clock speed …
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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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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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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.
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.
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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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 …
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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
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 …
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 …
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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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 …
