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Danny Sullivan / Daggle:
Google's Love For Newspapers & How Little They Appreciate It — It was a hostile audience. It was June 2007, at a conference center in London, where newspaper and magazine publishers were hearing how a new industry-backed search engine rights standard called ACAP was coming along.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:AP eyes news aggregators; Risks exposing its lack of value add
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:A.P. Seeks to Rein in Sites Using Its Content
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Google Watch, Nieman Journalism Lab, Screenwerk, Network World, BuzzMachine, Associated Press, MediaMemo, Newsome.Org, ap.org, Ars Technica, Silicon Valley Watcher, InformationWeek, Pulse2, Reuters, Dow Jones Newswires, TECH.BLORGE.com, TechCrunch, broadstuff and Epicenter, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Sony Ericsson:
More music and more fun with your first Walkman™ phone — Bring your beat to the street with the new Sony Ericsson W205 Walkman™. The W205 makes the Walkman™ phone experience more accessible to consumers and is perfect for those who want all the classic Sony Ericsson mobile phone features …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
iTunes Store now infected with variable pricing, Amazon still $0.99 — As promised, variable pricing has now been implemented at the iTunes music store. Already, we're seeing most of top 10 singles and 33 of the top 100 hitting the top price-point of $1.29 (encoded as DRM-free 256kbps AAC).
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last100, MediaMemo, The Register, MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, Boy Genius Report, Obsessable, blogs.chron.com, TomsTechBlog.com and Smalltalk Tidbits …
Stephen D. Crocker / New York Times:
How the Internet Got Its Rules — TODAY is an important date in the history of the Internet: the 40th anniversary of what is known as the Request for Comments. Outside the technical community, not many people know about the R.F.C.'s, but these humble documents shape the Internet's inner workings …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Apple Store down globally (update: new Xserve) — Here we go again. It's Tuesday and the Apple store has gone down in the US, Europe, and across Asia which is a pretty good indicator of new product(s). So what are we looking at? 2TB Time Capsule, Xserve refresh (yawn) …
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MacRumors, Digital Daily, Obsessable, The Toybox, SlashGear, ITworld.com, 9 to 5 Mac and TUAW
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
FriendFeed Is In Danger Of Becoming The Coolest App No One Uses — FriendFeed is a wonderful application that allows users to track what their friends are doing online. Photos, videos, blog posts and anything else that's published online with a RSS feed can be brought into the service …
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Leigh's Blitherings, MarketingVOX, Webomatica, WebWorkerDaily, The Real McCrea, Alec Saunders SquawkBox, Newsome.Org and louisgray.com, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Sony Ericsson:
Capture daily moments the easy way with the Sony Ericsson S312 — Be one click away from recording life's special moments - all it takes is a sharp eye and a click on the dedicated video camera key. — Record videos in an instant on the Sony Ericsson S312.
Chris James / Sony PSP, Nintendo DS …:
PSP 2 coming pre-Christmas will be an iPhone beater — Sony's new compact handheld console will feature sliding touchscreen and dual analogue sticks — Whether it's labelled the PSP 4000 or the PSP 2, there's been a lot of rumour recently about an imminent successor to Sony's handheld console.
pm.gov.au:
NEW NATIONAL BROADBAND NETWORK — The Rudd Government today announced the establishment of a new company to build and operate a new super fast National Broadband Network. — This new super fast National Broadband Network, built in partnership with private sector, will be the single largest …
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Rob Taylor / Reuters:Australia to build $31 billion broadband network
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Between the Lines, DSLreports, Associated Press, Wall Street Journal and Squash, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Boxee Continues To Innovate With API And New Alpha Version For Mac, Apple TV — Free entertainment hub Boxee keeps on getting better and better. A couple of hours ago, the venture-backed startup released a full API that allows developers to build applications for the open-source platform using …
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Kit Eaton / Fast Company:Could MacHeist Prompt Apple into an App Store for Macs?
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Frank Rose / The Underwire:
Nine Inch Nails iPhone App Extends Reznor's Innovative Run — LOS ANGELES — Trent Reznor was backstage one afternoon last summer, fooling around with his iPhone to stave off boredom before a show, when he realized that fans standing in line outside were broadcasting photos from the scene using their iPhones.
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The iPhone Blog, Music Ally, Obsessable, CrunchGear, Gizmodo, MobileContentToday and Imaging Insider
David / TmoNews:
Ready for 3G Galore?? — We're holding this in the rumor column for now, as it appears to be a real screenshot sent our way but we're still working toward 100% confirmation. We have, what appears to be a list of 3G cities going live this year for magenta.
Ed Oswald / Technologizer:
Blockbuster-R.I.P.? — The death knell may be ringing for Blockbuster. Today the video-rental giant admitted that if it cannot complete the financing deals that it is currently working on, there is a good chance the company may be forced to shut its doors.
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PC World, Associated Press, The Constant Observer, Wall Street Journal, CrunchGear and Reuters, Thanks:atul
Steven Grady / SlashGear:
Blackberry Storm 2 due in September, has WiFi — According to a source very close to the issue, Verizon has given the go for RIM to release the BlackBerry Storm 2 in September of this year. The followup to the groundbreaking Storm that was released last year as the first touchscreen Blackberry …
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eWeek, PC World, The Toybox, InformationWeek, Silicon Alley Insider, Edible Apple, IntoMobile, jkOnTheRun, ChannelWeb, Electronista, Boy Genius Report, Pulse2, CrackBerry.com blogs, Unwired View, Gadgetell, Electricpig.co.uk, GPS Obsessed, MobileContentToday, Pocket-lint.com, CrunchGear, MobileCrunch, SlashPhone, Gadget Lab, Gizmodo, BlackBerryNews.com and Phone Arena
Telegraph:
Xbox game based on Iraq conflict battle angers veterans — A video game based on one of the bloodiest battles during the Iraq conflict has been branded ‘crass and insensitive’ by those affected by the fighting. — Six Days In Fallujah, published by Japanese games giant Konami …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple tops in cap growth, bottom in CEO pay — Here's an interesting pair of lists. — On Seeking Alpha, Birinyi Associates' Cleve Rueckert lists the 40 S&P 500 stocks with the largest changes in market capitalization so far this year. Although other shares have scored higher percentage gains …
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Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:
Data Robotics releases planet-crushing 8-drive Drobo Pro — In the wide world of NASes, the Drobo is still my sweetheart. It's foolproof, sexy, and there are even cool apps for it now. They refreshed it a while ago but I knew they had to have something more up their collective sleeve.
Troy Wolverton / Mercury News:
Yahoo revamps its music site — Yahoo is opening up its music site, allowing users to access content and buy songs and other items from a range of providers. — Beginning today, consumers who visit the artist pages on Yahoo Music will be able to gain access to music videos stored on YouTube …
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Coming Next: Using Your PC as a Cable Box — While the top executives at the Cable Show last week were jockeying to cut deals to distribute major cable networks over the Web (for paying customers), the engineers in the background were talking about a completely different approach to getting cable programs onto computers.
