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BBC:
Online video 'eroding TV viewing' — The online video boom is starting to eat into TV viewing time, an ICM survey of 2,070 people for the BBC suggests. — Some 43% of Britons who watch video from the internet or on a mobile device at least once a week said they watched less normal TV as a result.
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
The Air Is Free, and Sometimes So Are the Phone Calls That Borrow It — Gary Schaffer looked out his window here last week to discover a reporter standing on his lawn, pirating his wireless Internet access to test a new mobile phone. — The phone, made by Belkin, is one of several …
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VoIP Watch, IP Democracy, Screenwerk, 21talks, GigaOM, broadbandreports.com and Lost Remote
Tim Arango / Fortune:
Beatles: only on iPod? — After years of refusing to make the move to MP3, the Beatles may give Steve Jobs' iTunes an exclusive, reports Fortune's Tim Arango. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — Click on the iTunes music store and punch in "Beatles" under artist search.
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Rational rants, Engadget, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Gizmodo, Blogging Stocks, CrunchGear and Tech Trader Daily
Christopher Mason / New York Times:
Web Tool Said to Offer Way Past the Government Censor — Deep in a basement lab at the University of Toronto a team of political scientists, software engineers and computer-hacking activists, or "hactivists," have created the latest, and some say most advanced tool yet in allowing Internet users …
Jason D. O'Grady / The Apple Core:
Apple tablet coming soon? — It's no secret that I'm a big fan of the concept of an Apple tablet. It would be a great machine for commuting, allowing me to keep up with news and email on-the-go. New reports indicate that Apple may be close to releasing such a beast in 2007.
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David Richards / smarthouse.com.au:
Apple Mac Tablet PC With Docking Station In 07 — Apple researchers have built a full working prototype of a Mac tablet PC and three Companies in Taiwan are now costing a product for a potential launch in mid 2007. — Sources in Taiwan have said that the focus has been more on the home …
PRWeb:
Mobile Adult Content Market to Grow to $3.3bn by 2011, Driven by a Strong European Market and New Products for Casual Users. — The mobile adult content market is forecast to grow from its 2006 level of $1.4 billion to over $3.3 billion by 2011 according to Juniper Research latest study.
Valleywag:
Second Life hucksters — Linden Lab's online community, in which participants' avatars chat, and trade virtual goods such as artworks and real estate, has fed on the credulity of the press. Ooh, the world's first virtual Reuters correspondent! A virtual land baroness! Online marketers discover Second Life!
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Kathy Sierra / Creating Passionate Users:
Why Web 2.0 is more than a buzzword — Many people hate the phrase "Web 2.0" even more than they hate what they believe it represents. No, that's not quite right... many people hate the phrase precisely because they think it represents nothing. Or they're annoyed by the idea of a web version number.
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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life, Scobleizer, Mad Techie Woman, O'Reilly Radar and Enterprise Web 2.0
Cliff Edwards / Business Week:
Time to Rename the Cell Phone? — They're not just for making calls, and they don't have a lot to do with cells. Maybe it's time to name the ubiquitous gadget something else — You see them everywhere. The minute the plane hits the tarmac, someone whips one out.
Seeking Alpha:
The Ten Best Internet Acquisitions Ever — Ashkan Karbasfrooshan submits: After reading the Ten Worst Internet Acquisitions Ever (my commentary) and Part 2, I could not help but come up with this list and offer you the following ten "best" Internet acquisitions of all time. — Criteria:
Eliot Van Buskirk / Wired News:
Zune, Creative Commons Don't Mix — To see the insanity of the music industry's antipiracy paranoia look no further than Microsoft's Zune. — The device has been marketed as a way to help people get around the music industry's tough antipiracy restrictions through a novel wireless file-sharing feature …
Rob Hof / Tech Beat:
Shoveling on Digg — As much as I like the idea of Digg—a site where a community chooses the most interesting or relevant news—I must confess that I just don't use it that much. The reason became obvious once I started using Google Reader, which streams new RSS posts from all my chosen feeds as they come in.
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
More-Savvy Web Retailers Expect More Holiday Profits — NEARLY a decade into the e-commerce era, the growth in online holiday shopping has shown few signs of slowing down, executives and analysts said. Fueled by Web searches for iPods, Elmos, gift cards and video game consoles …
Reuters:
Size matters — DisplaySearch forecasts that the plasma TV market will start shrinking in 2009 after hitting $24 billion in 2008, while it sees LCD TV demand reaching $75 billion in 2008 and $93 billion in 2010 - a trend that will likely make companies offering both LCD and plasma lines think twice about their strategy.
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Louise Armitstead / Times of London:
Media group to release grip on PR Newswire — THE private-equity group Apax is planning a bid for PR Newswire (PRN), the highly profitable press-release distribution business that constitutes one of the biggest parts of United Business Media (UBM). — The London-based private- equity house …
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