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Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Newspapers' Web Revenue Is Stalling — Newspapers, already facing a grim economic forecast, are digesting another piece of bad news: the growth in online advertising they saw as their salvation has slowed to a crawl. — In the last few years, newspaper companies have been rapidly expanding …
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Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
$7.5B sales plunge forecast for newspapers — Unless the global economy miraculously turns around on a dime, newspaper advertising revenue may plunge some $7.5 billion in 2008, according to a new projection attempting to assess the impact of the meltdown on the industry.
LG:
Introducing the second Prada phone by LG - another quantum leap in mobile phone innovation and design by Prada and LG Electronics. — LG Electronics (LG), a worldwide technology and design leader in mobile communications, and PRADA Group (Prada) today announced that the partnership that created …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace Launches “My Ads” Self Serve Ad Platform: Is This Their Google Moment? — MySpace launches their self serve ad platform, called My Ads, tonight, which was first talked about a year ago. Like Facebook's similar product, it allows anyone to quickly create a targeted ad and serve it on MySpace.
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Eyealike VisualAd Hopes to Match Photos With Ads and Increase Social Network Monetization — We first reported on Eyealike a year ago when they launched their “dating service based on looks only” application. The idea was simple: upload a photo of a hottie and Eyealike will find other hotties …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Gartner's worst case for 2009 IT budgets isn't so bad — Gartner has revised its 2009 IT budget prognostications, a move that isn't surprising, but the firm's projections could be a lot worse. — Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president of research at Gartner, outlined the research group's …
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Robin Harding / Financial Times:
Sony rules out PS3 price cut for Christmas — Sony, the Japanese consumer electronics group, has ruled out cutting the price of the PlayStation 3 console before Christmas, insisting that the PS3 is better value than rivals half its price. — “The answer is yes, if you're asking …
Will Smith / Maximum PC all:
Microsoft Launches PC Advisor Repair Utility. Going After Apple Next? — This weekend, Microsoft quietly rolled out a preview release of the Microsoft PC Advisor to select members of the Windows Feedback Program. (Members of the Windows Feedback Program agree to let Microsoft monitor …
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Campaign Articles From Newsweek Become E-Books for Amazon Kindle — It would seem to be a magazine's dream in these straitened times: Take something you have already published and sold, repackage it and distribute it without all that expense of paper, ink and trucks, and then sell it again.
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David Cowan / Who Has Time For This?:
Take Back the Web! — When Tim Berners-Lee conceived the web, he dreamed of inter-connected documents, of surfing along from one person's page to the next, following a fluid path rich with information and discovery. — Instead what we we got is a big honkin' billboard, as commercial interests hijacked Tim's vision.
NEWS.com.au:
GasBag's iPhone petrol info supported by ads — AN Aussie-led Silicon Valley start-up could be one of the first groups in the world to develop an advertiser-supported business model for an iPhone application. — GasBag displays the prices of fuel at nearby petrol stations on a map on the iPhone and shows the way to a station.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
T-Mobile launches BlackBerry Pearl 8220, available today for $149.99 — The BlackBerry Pearl 8220 runs neck-and-neck with the Storm for the title of “most leaked RIM device of 2008,” but for what it's worth, T-Mobile is just now getting around to announcing a date and price for the most fliptastic phone …
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Cleve Nettles / 9 to 5 Mac:
What is the mystery port on the MacBook Pro? — So, today's case spy shots would reveal a couple of interesting nuggets if they turn out to be the final designs of Tuesday's MacBooks. Firstly, the 13 inch-ish case is sans Firewire. Systems Admins will have to move those Boot images over the network now for all but the Pro models.
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