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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News:
Verizon, AT&T: Net neutrality not OK for wireless — The wireless industry is gearing up to fight new Net neutrality rules that the Federal Communications Commission is formulating to keep the Internet open. — On Monday, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski gave a speech at the Brookings Institute …
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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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David L. Cohen / Comcast Voices:Does the Internet Need More Regulation? FCC to Decide
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Matt Asay / The Open Road:
Linus Torvalds: ‘Linux is bloated’ — Linus Torvalds, founder of the Linux kernel, made a startling comment at LinuxCon in Portland, Ore., on Monday: “Linux is bloated.” While the open-source community has long pointed the finger at Microsoft's Windows as bloated, it appears that with success …
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Guardian:
Murdoch's digital news cartel will not persuade people to pay for content — The market research revelation that only 5% of UK web users would pay for online news doesn't surprise me in the least. But I doubt that it will stop Rupert Murdoch in his tracks.
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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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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
A $1 Million Research Bargain for Netflix, and Maybe a Model for Others — Even the near-miss losers in the Netflix million-dollar-prize competition seemed to have few regrets. — Netflix, the movie rental company, announced on Monday that a seven-man team was the winner …
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Steve Lohr / Bits:Netflix Awards $1 Million Prize and Starts a New Contest
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Franklin Paul / MediaFile:
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings on Xbox, Youtube, iPhone — We caught up with Netflix CEO Reed Hastings at the movie rental company's event where it awarded a $1 million prize after a contest aimed at improving the accuracy of movie recommendations. He spoke about his hopes of working with Apple on the iPhone …
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:Netflix CEO: We'll Get to the iPhone...Eventually
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Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Microsoft poaching Apple store managers and sales staff — Microsoft is beginning looking to Apple for more than just inspiration for its retail stores, the company is now also starting to hire away its retail employees. — People that have spoken to The Loop on condition of anonymity confirm …
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Kim Zetter / Threat Level:
Bank Sends Sensitive E-mail to Wrong Gmail Address, Sues Google — A Wyoming bank sent an e-mail containing sensitive customer data to the wrong Gmail account, and now wants Google to reveal the identity of the account holder who received the data. — According to a court document in the case …
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook to Partner With Nielsen — Facebook Inc. plans to announce a deal with online measurement company Nielsen Co., in a step to address advertisers' frustration with measuring how their ads perform on the social network. — Under the partnership, terms of which aren't expected to be disclosed …
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Jeff Smykil / Ars Technica:
Apple makes lame attempt at placating App Store developers — Apple has made a new resource available to iPhone application developers called the App Store Resource Center intended to assist devs in steps such as app submission and managing applications once they are in the store.
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Aubrey Sabala / All Shook Down:
There Goes the Neighborhood: How Foursquare is Subtly Threatening Your Anonymity — Imagine the following scenario: You're quietly enjoying your tea while reading a newspaper at your local cafe, when someone you've never before seen interrupts your morning respite by hollering your name from the next table.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Bing's Slow Growth Continues — Microsoft's Bing search engine grew its share of the U.S. market for its third month in a row, according to comScore. — Bing represented 9.3% of searches in August, up from 8.9% in July and 8.0% in May, according to comScore.
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Gordon Mah Ung / Maximum PC:
It's Official: AMD Confirms Hexa-Core Thuban CPU — Backwards Compatility with AM3 is the Big Surprise — Eat that Gulftown: AMD officials have not only confirmed that it will release a hexa-core processor next year - but it will be backwards compatible with existing AM3 and AM2+ motherboards.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Foursquare Hasn't Started Playing The Monetization Game Just Yet — There's some hoopla today that the location-based social network Foursquare has found its business model (and as such, has beaten the more mature Twitter to one). But hold your horses. While Foursquare does have an idea …
Richard Mitchell / Joystiq:
Microsoft confirms Xbox 360 802.11n adapter — Late last week, we reported that Italian site MondoXbox had spotted an ad for an Xbox 360 802.11n adapter in the Gears of War 2 Game of the Year Edition box. Prior to that, the device was reviewed by the FCC.
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Dan Primack / PE Hub Blog:
Microsoft Buys Interactive Supercomputing — peHUB has learned that Microsoft has acquired Interactive Supercomputing, a VC-backed maker of the Star-P interactive parallel computing platform. — An official announcement is expected tomorrow. No word yet on price.
EU Press Room:
Antitrust: Commission publishes decision concerning Intel's abuse of dominant position — The European Commission has today published a non-confidential version of its Intel Decision, adopted on 13 May 2009 ( IP/09/745 and MEMO/09/235 ), together with a summary of the key elements of the Decision.
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:EU releases dirty details of evidence against Intel in antitrust case
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Darren Murph / Engadget:
First USB 3.0 product gets certified, floodgates get closer to breaking — You heard it here first, folks: SuperSpeed USB is a reality. After waiting around for what feels like ages, USB 3.0 can now say it has its first certified product in NEC's xHCI host controller.
Sridhar / Zoho Blogs:
The Real Cost of Acquisitions: the Zimbra Story — Boomtown reports that Yahoo has put Zimbra on the block. Honestly, this came as no surprise at all to us at Zoho. I remember scratching my head when the acquisition was made; I didn't see how an enterprise/business focused open source offering …
