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Murdoch: We'll probably remove our sites from Google's index — Rupert Murdoch has suggested that News Corporation is likely to make its content unfindable to users on Google when it launches its paid content strategy . — When Murdoch and other senior News Corp lieutenants …
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Video: Murdoch Making News Invisible To Search Engines? Not So Fast — Rupert Murdoch was in Sydney for the latest News Corp earnings call but that wasn't the only talking he did down under. The News Corp (NYSE: NWS). chairman and CEO was interviewed by some of his own newsies …
Bobbie Johnson / Guardian:
Murdoch could block Google searches — Murdoch's plan for paywalls ‘raises questions of anti-trust law’ — Rupert Murdoch says he will remove stories from Google's search index as a way to encourage people to pay for content online. — In an interview with Sky News Australia …
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
EA Acquires Playfish For Up To $400 Million — Electronic Arts (ERTS) has acquired Facebook games-maker Playfish for up to $400 Million. We've been reporting rumors about the deal for weeks. — Playfish revenues were reportedly set to reach $75 million this year.
Brigid Andersen / ABC News:
Australian admits creating first iPhone virus — A 21-year-old Australian man has admitted creating what is thought to be the first virus to infect Apple iPhones. — The virus, which can spread from phone to phone, changes the iPhone's wallpaper to a photograph of 1980s singer Rick Astley …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Google making Waves across all its Apps? — We just received a set of screengrabs from an anonymous source giving us a glimpse at what appears to be Google's (and thus, the world's) future interface to its web applications, Gmail in particular. While we were originally tempted to ignore them …
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Firefox Tops Vulnerability List — New study places Firefox at the top of vulnerability list for for the first half of 2009. — Application security vendor Cenzic today released its security trends report for the first half of 2009 application. In it, Cenzic claims that the Mozilla's Firefox browser led …
Paul Krill / InfoWorld:
Microsoft buys bridge between Java and .Net developers — The company is acquiring SourceGear's Teamprise suite, which lets Java developers build apps via Visual Studio TFS — Microsoft plans to acquire technology that has enabled Microsoft's TFS (Team Foundation Server) software to be an ALM …
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Nvidia CEO says ‘no’ to Intel-compatible chip — Despite persistent rumors, Nvidia's chief executive says the graphics chip supplier is not working on an Intel-compatible chip. — CEO Jen-Hsun Huang was asked about the possibility of Nvidia coming up with its own x86 (Intel-compatible) …
Stephanie Strom / New York Times:
Confusion on Where Money Lent via Kiva Goes — Last month, David Roodman, a research fellow at the Center for Global Development, pressed a button on his laptop as his bus left the Lincoln Tunnel in Manhattan and started a debate that has people re-examining the country's latest celebrated charity, Kiva.org.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Apple Still Not Allowing VoIP Calls Over 3G — Earlier today in response to my post about Nimbuzz, a good pal emailed to find out why the service didn't work over the iPhone's 3G connection. After all, a few weeks ago AT&T announced support for VoIP over 3G with much fanfare …
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Investing in a mobile future with AdMob — We're happy to announce today that we have signed an agreement to acquire AdMob, a mobile display advertising company based in San Mateo, CA. AdMob is a great Silicon Valley story — founded in 2006 by Omar Hamoui when he couldn't find good ways to generate traffic for his mobile site.
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
Shazam launches premium Shazam Encore iPhone app — Shazam has revealed the next stage in its plans for mobile app world domination, launching a new iPhone app called Shazam Encore. It's essentially a premium version of the company's existing iPhone app, offering quicker tagging …
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Nokia to replace 14 mln chargers of China's BYD — HELSINKI (Reuters) - Top cellphone maker Nokia said on Monday it would replace 14 million chargers made by China's BYD Co Ltd, saying the chargers could fall apart. — “We are undertaking this exchange programme as a proactive, precautionary measure.
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
Seven perfectly legal ways to get Windows 7 cheap (or even free) — Only suckers pay retail. — If you've read any reviews of Windows 7, you've seen references to its price list, which ranges from $120 for a Home Premium upgrade to $320 for a fully licensed copy of Windows 7 Ultimate.
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Mitch Anderson / bizjournals:
Best Buy teams with Dr. Dre to bolster DJ offerings — Best Buy Co. Inc. is launching in-store sections for DJ equipment, building on last year's move to add sections devoted to music instruments. — The Richfield-based retailer is launching the venture, called Club Beats …
Andrew LaVallee / Digits:
Twitter Start-Up CoTweet Launches Paid Service — CoTweet, a start-up that helps businesses manage their Twitter accounts, is rolling out its first fee-based services, with McDonald's, Ford and SunTrust among its paying customers. … The San Francisco company said over the summer …
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Refining the Twitter Explosion — DOES Twitter have a T.M.I. problem? — And, no, I don't just mean the Twitter users who share too much information about their lives, social, medical or otherwise. — Simply put, there is way too much information on Twitter — lately, it defies navigation.
Chris Dixon / cdixon.org:
Presenting Founder Collective — As readers of this blog know, I'm a huge fan of the startup and venture capital world but also a sometimes critic of how the venture capital industry works. For a long time I've wanted to do more than talk about this and actually start a new kind of venture firm …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Skype snags chief technology strategist from Cisco — Skype said Monday that it has named Jonathan Rosenberg as its chief technology strategist. — The move comes shortly after Skype settled a distracting legal spat with the co-founders of the company, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Forget iPhone MMS, Share 100 Pictures In An Instant With Knocking — As we were all painfully aware, it took AT&T forever to bring MMS to the iPhone. A new app has just been released that hopes to one-up it. — Knocking, made by Pointy Heads Software, is basically a photo-sharing app on steroids.
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
First iPhone, now Droid. Who needs Windows? — If the iPhone didn't finish off Windows Mobile in the smartphone market, the Motorola Droid may. — Windows Mobile is losing the last glimmers of its mojo—if it really had any to begin with—as the Droid and other phones based …
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Matthew Garrahan / Financial Times:
Empty MySpace office blow for News Corp — News Corporation is paying more than $1m a month to rent an empty office complex in Los Angeles that it has been unable to sub-lease since scrapping an ambitious plan to move MySpace and its other digital businesses there.
Lauren Goode / Digits:
App Watch: HD Radio for the iPhone — Third time's a portable charm — at least, that's what iBiquity Digital, the company behind HD Radio technology, is hoping with its new app. — The first portable HD Radio device hit shelves through Best Buy's Insignia brand in July, followed by the launch of Microsoft's Zune HD in September.
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Dusan Belic / IntoMobile:
iPhone app business on sale on eBay — Just caught the press release, so I'm not sure this is still valid, but it's interesting nonetheless. — The Texas-based developer Brice Milliorn is selling its company called JBMJBM on eBay. What's interesting about it is that the company makes iPhone apps …
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