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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Jason Calacanis Punches Comscore In The Face. Comscore Punches Back. Fred Wilson Drags Us Into It. $SCOR — Jason Calacanis, our partner over the years on the TechCrunch50 conference, wrote quite a rant yesterday about analytics company Comscore. His argument: that Comscore …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Comscore's Bogus Logic For Its Blackmail Fee: We Don't Make That Much Money — As we described last week, in response to a decade of complaints about under-counting web traffic, Comscore is changing its web ratings methodology to include site-side server tracking.
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Why We Should Boycott ComScore (and *perhaps* why traders should short their stock) — From my email newsletter today.... if you want these first, sign up for it! — Forwarded message — From: Jason Calacanis
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Bruce Schneier / CNN:
U.S. enables Chinese hacking of Google — Editor's note: Bruce Schneier is a security technologist and author of “Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World.” Read more of his writing at www.schneier.com. — (CNN) — Google made headlines when it went public …
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T-Marco / Cell Phone Signal:
Confirmed!! Motorola Sholes “MotoRoi” will arrive soon with T-Mobile 3G bands — Yes T-Mobile users, we had confirmed that the new Motorola device that just passed FCC few weeks ago carrying WCDMA AWS T-Mobile 3G bands (1700/2100) bands is the Motorola Sholes.
Robert Andrews / mocoNews:
Tap's Revenge: Profiting From Pirates; Shazam Booming, Too — iPhone app piracy may have cost Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) an estimated $450 million (really?) - but mobile pirates may also provide app developers with a rich new income stream, according to a fascinating insight from the stage at the Midem music conference in Cannes...
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Eric Pfanner / New York Times:
Swedish Music Fans Start to Steer Clear of Pirates — PARIS — Martin Thornkvist, who runs a record label in Sweden, was looking online for the new album from the American band Vampire Weekend a few weeks ago. He turned first to Spotify, a free, legal digital music service; unable to find it there …
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95% of email is spam — The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) released its new spam report which looks at spam budgets, impact of spam and spam management. — The survey targeted email service providers of different types and sizes, and received replies from 100 respondents …
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Inside the multitouch FingerWorks tech in Apple's tablet — The hyped anticipation surrounding the Apple Event later this week is looking for clues as to exactly what the company might deliver. One element of the anticipated new tablet's software side is related to Apple's 2005 acquisition …
Shawn Oliver / HotHardware.com News:
Will AT&T Lose Their iPhone Exclusivity On Wednesday? — It's sort of hard to believe all the hype from CES is already over and done with. Larger companies spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to introduce and showcase new products at the show, and now all anyone wants to talk about in the tech world is Apple.
Robert Andrews / paidContent:
@ MIDEM: MySpace Eyes Virtual Goods, Will Help Pay Musicians $15 Million — The social gaming phenomenon may be commonly associated with Facebook - but MySpace seems keen to get its own slice of this growing pie. — Asked at the Midem music conference in Cannes whether the site may consider …
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
MidemNet 2010: Shazam now selling 300,000 tracks a day — Mobile music discovery app Shazam is now generating 300,000 track purchases a day, according to CEO Andrew Fisher, talking at MidemNet 2010's mobile apps and music panel session today. — He was responding to a question from the audience …
