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Chairman Julius Genachowski / OpenInternet.gov:
Preserving a Free and Open Internet: A Platform for Innovation, Opportunity, and Prosperity — “Preserving a Free and Open Internet: A Platform for Innovation, Opportunity, and Prosperity” — Prepared Remarks of — The Brookings Institution, Washington DC
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Vint Cerf / Google Public Policy Blog:
FCC announces plan to protect access to an open Internet — During a speech at the Brookings Institution this morning, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski outlined a proposal for explicit rules that would protect consumer access to an open Internet. The proposed rules would preserve …
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
FCC Outlines Its Net Neutrality Proposal — The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski, today outlined a framework aimed at ensuring that both wireline and wireless carriers don't discriminate against traffic traversing their networks based on the type of traffic or the application.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo Adds Zimbra to the Garage Sale as It Tries to Shed What Isn't “You!” — According to numerous sources, Yahoo has been shopping around Zimbra, the open-source email company it bought in late 2007 for $350 million. — Zimbra is only one of the many assets of Yahoo (YHOO) …
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Suzanne Vranica / Digits:Yahoo's New Ad Pitch: 'It's You!'
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Steve Lohr / Bits:
Netflix Awards $1 Million Prize and Starts a New Contest — Netflix, the movie rental company, has decided its million-dollar-prize competition was such a good investment that it is planning another one. — The company's challenge, begun in October 2006, was both geeky and formidable …
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content.dell.com:
Dell to Acquire Perot Systems for $3.9 Billion, Creating Comprehensive, Customer-Focused IT-Solutions Company — Dell and Perot Systems have entered a definitive agreement for Dell to acquire Perot Systems in a transaction valued at approximately $3.9 billion.
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Matt Cutts / Google Webmaster Central Blog:
Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web ranking — Recently we received some questions about how Google uses (or more accurately, doesn't use) the “keywords” meta tag in ranking web search results. Suppose you have two website owners, Alice and Bob. Alice runs a company called AliceCo and Bob runs BobCo.
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Sharon Nguyen / MySpace Blog:
MySpace Syncs with Twitter — Today we're beginning the global beta rollout of a new functionality on MySpace that empowers our users to sync their MySpace status updates with their Twitter feed. Any U.S. user can opt-in to sync their status so that any update created on MySpace will appear …
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Andrew Yoon / Joystiq:
Square Enix head predicts new Wii in 2011, says motion ‘impact’ for Xbox, PlayStation will be ‘small’ — The new motion controllers for both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 are likely to make big appearances at this year's Tokyo Game Show. While both Microsoft and Sony are attempting to take away …
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Rene Ritchie / The iPhone Blog:
Apple Seeking More Info From iPhone 3.1 Users Reporting Poor Battery Life — An undisclosed number of users who have posted on Apple's discussion boards about poor battery life following the iPhone 3.1 software update are being contacted by AppleCare helpdesk with a hefty list of 11 follow-up questions.
Matthew Moore / Telegraph:
Gay men ‘can be identified by their Facebook friends’ — Homosexual men can be identified just by looking at their Facebook friends, according to unpublished research by two students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. — The study found that it was possible to predict men's sexual orientation …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
EU releases dirty details of evidence against Intel in antitrust case — The European Union's antitrust division released a public version of its May antitrust ruling against Intel, detailing for the first time the evidence that led to a record $1.45 billion fine.
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
AT&T's 3G MicroCell does unlimited calling, but it ain't cheap — How much would you expect to pay to cover AT&T's dead zone using your own internet bandwidth? We appreciate that these guys can't blanket every nook and cranny with HSPA, but carriers need to understand that femtocells …
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Jon Healey / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Netgear offers a networked hard drive for the masses, with a caveat — The tech industry is gradually persuading Americans to set up home networks, but it's had a tougher time selling consumers on the idea of storing all their data on a single device within their homes.
Adam Penenberg / Fast Company:
Exclusive Interview: Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg on the Value of Viral Loops — This interview was conducted during research for my book, Viral Loop. You can read an excerpt here at Fast Company, or find out what your friends are really worth by installing the Viral Loop widget.
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx coming next year — The folks at Canonical are putting the final touches on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala which should be available next month. But in one of the first steps toward looking even further ahead, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has announced the alliterative codename …
Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab:
Russian Billionaire Installs Anti-Photo Shield on Giant Yacht — Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich has a rather curious new addition built in to his latest oversized yacht. The 557-foot boat Eclipse, the price tag of which has almost doubled since original plans were drawn to almost $1.2 billion …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Pink and Microsoft Tablet (Take 2): A couple of updates — Project Pink and the rumored remake of a Microsoft Tablet are back on the rumor treadmill this weekend. — It's been quiet out there lately on both fronts. Here's a recap — plus a couple of small updates — that I've heard recently about these two skunk-works efforts.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
AOL: More Org Chart Shuffles Coming; So Are Ad Dollars. But Mum on Microsoft. — It's Advertising Week in New York! Which means that for the next few days, ad sellers will be meeting, greeting and buttering up ad buyers in hopes of prying some of their dollars free. Just like every week in New York.
Seagate Technology:
Seagate Ships World's Fastest Desktop Hard Drive; First Drive to Feature Serial ATA 6Gbit/Second Technology — Seagate Teams With Technology Leaders to Bring SATA 6Gbit/s Complete Solutions to Market — Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) today began global shipments of the world's fastest …
Erin Barker / Contentinople:
News Corp.'s Miller: MySpace Fell Behind — NEW YORK — MySpace fell behind other social networks on innovation, says the new CEO of the digital media group at parent company News Corp. (NYSE: NWS) But the company is working to regain its mojo by putting a new team in place.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Hollywood, We Have Plenty Of Half-Services. It's Time For A Whole One. — I was reading over a pitch tonight for a new streaming movie service called Epix HD, when I looked up from my computer to my TV stand. On it, I saw an Apple TV, an Xbox 360, and a cable box.
Micheal Lopez / The Official Google Blog:
A mysterious series for H.G. Wells — You might have noticed an unexplained set of doodles on the Google homepage and a couple tweets from our official Twitter stream, @google, over the last two weeks. On September 5th, we posted a doodle with the abduction of our second ‘o’ and a coded tweet …
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