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Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
Comcast blocks some Internet traffic — Tests confirm data discrimination by number 2 U.S. service provider — NEW YORK - Comcast Corp. actively interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet subscribers to share files online, a move that runs counter to the tradition of treating all types of Net traffic equally.
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Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
AP tests Comcast's file-sharing filter — NEW YORK - To test claims by users that Comcast Corp. was blocking some forms of file-sharing traffic, The Associated Press went to the Bible. — An AP reporter attempted to download, using file-sharing program BitTorrent, a copy of the King James Bible …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Marketing Chief Leaving Yahoo — Chief Marketing Officer and head of its Customer Experience Division Cammie Dunaway will be leaving Yahoo Nov. 2. — Yahoo officials confirmed the departure to me and said Dunaway (pictured here) was seeking "new opportunities."
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Megan McCarthy / Valleywag:
Exits: A shaken Sue Decker shakes up Yahoo marketing — Looks like Yahoo marketing head Cammie Dunaway's departure caught Sunnyvale offguard — much like sales chief Wenda Harris Millard's. Yahoo president Sue Decker's followup email, sent out after Dunaway's announcement …
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Megan McCarthy / Valleywag:
Exits: Yahoo marketing chief escapes — Yahoo marketing head Cammie Dunaway, last seen reporting to Sue Decker, has left the also-ran search engine for a new gig. (Kara Swisher at AllThingsD broke the news this morning.) Although Dunaway "can't share specifics" about her new position until next week …
Mozilla:
Firefox Release Notes — Firefox 2 is the next-generation release of the award-winning Firefox web browser from Mozilla. — These Release Notes cover what's new, download and installation instructions, known issues and frequently asked questions for Firefox 2.
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David Carr / New York Times:
Media Executives Arrested in Phoenix — Two executives from Village Voice Media — a company that owns a number of alternative weeklies including The Village Voice, The LA Weekly and The Phoenix Times — were arrested Thursday night in Phoenix on charges that a story published earlier …
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Eliot Van Buskirk / Listening Post:
Estimates: Radiohead Made $6-$10 Million on Initial Album Sales — Thom Yorke's representative told me that the band have "decided not to give out any figures" for sales of Radiohead's In Rainbows album, but that isn't stopping people from making their best guesses based on what little information is available.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
StubHub Loses in Court, Moral Ambiguity Abounds — The now-EBay property StubHub has lost a battle in court and handing over the names of 13,000 of its users to the New England Patriots American football team. The suit was filed last November - two months before the acquisition of the site was announced …
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Bruce Mohl / Boston Globe:Patriots get StubHub users' names
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Roger / Roger's Information Security Blog:
NASA Bans IE? — I heard that NASA is telling employees and contractors not to use IE due to malware affecting Internet Explorer and Real Player. … I haven't heard anything about attacks through realplayer and IE, much less through common sites that have been exploited.
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:Attacks exploiting RealPlayer zero-day in progress
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Natasha Lomas / CNET News.com:
Analyst: Social networking faces uncertain future — Social-networking sites will enlist 230 million active members by the end of the year and will keep attracting new users until at least 2009, according to an analyst report. But investors are still wary—and for good reason, as long-term growth is by no means certain.
Nick / Rough Type:
Twine: a social network with brains — Radar Networks has been flying under the radar for a few years now, but on Friday the startup's mastermind, Nova Spivack, unveils its first product, a brainy social network called Twine. Twine is a digital data dump with structure - what Spivack calls (what else?) a "semantic graph."
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InfoWorld:
AT&T sues Vonage for patent infringement — AT&T filed a lawsuit against VoIP provider Vonage on Friday seeking damages for alleged patent infringement. — The lawsuit comes just days after Vonage settled a patent-infringement lawsuit with telecom provider Sprint Nextel.
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InfoWorld:
AT&T unsure about bidding in 700MHz auction — AT&T hasn't decided whether it will bid for the highly desirable 700MHz band because it doesn't know if it can build a profitable business, given the open-access rules set for the wireless spectrum by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission in July.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Flickr To Add Online Photo Editing Tools Via Picnik — Fotoflexer may be my personal favorite among the many online photo editing tools, but Flickr has chosen Seattle-based Picnik (profile) to handle the long requested photo editing feature for Flickr users.
