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Wall Street Journal:
Google Wants Its Own Fast Track on the Web — The celebrated openness of the Internet — network providers are not supposed to give preferential treatment to any traffic — is quietly losing powerful defenders. — Google Inc. has approached major cable and phone companies that carry Internet traffic …
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The made-up dramas of the Wall Street Journal — I got off the plane from Boston to find my inbox filled with anger about an article in the Wall Street Journal. To those who were angry, I hope you will direct any anger at the Wall Street Journal after you read what follows.
Richard Whitt / Google Public Policy Blog:
Net neutrality and the benefits of caching — One of the first posts I wrote for this blog last summer tried to define what we at Google mean when we talk about the concept of net neutrality. — Broadband providers — the on-ramps to the Internet — should not be allowed to prioritize traffic based …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:Google NOT Turning Its Back on Network Neutrality
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Peter Burrows / Business Week:
Palm Pins Its Hopes on Nova — The smartphone maker debuts its new operating system, code-named Nova, at January's CES. Palm says its phones for it will bridge the BlackBerry-iPhone gap — Jon Rubinstein got the call in mid-2007 while he was living on the Pacific Coast of Mexico …
Arn / MacRumors:
iPhone Nano Rumors Revived in Otherwise Quiet Lead-in to Macworld — Questionably reliable iDealsChina publishes information and renderings of what it claims to be an “iPhone nano”. — It is the same height as the just release Nano but wider and thicker and with the same iPhone 3G contours.
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Wall Street Journal:
The Secrets of Marketing in a Web 2.0 World — Consumers are flocking to blogs, social-networking sites and virtual worlds. And they are leaving a lot of marketers behind. — For marketers, Web 2.0 offers a remarkable new opportunity to engage consumers. — If only they knew how to do it.
Business Week:
Google's Mayer: Staying Innovative In a Downturn — The mantra that's been flooding the Googleplex this year? ‘Scarcity brings clarity,’ explains Marissa Mayer, Google Vice-President — When Larry Page and Sergey Brin co-founded Google (GOOG) 10 years ago, few people imagined the kind …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Q: What Do You Get When You Add Karate Belts To a Q&A Service? Mahalo Answers. — Mahalo is now answering your questions. The human-curated search engine/ condensed wiki guide is adding a Q&A service called Mahalo Answers to its mix. It is a combination of Yahoo Answers …
Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
News About News, in 140 Characters — With staff changes and reductions across the media industry, even a blog post can be too time-consuming a way to announce who is in and out of a job. That is why a public relations employee turned to the instant-blogging platform Twitter to create The Media Is Dying …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
OpenX Shows Impressive Growth, Ramps Up Revenue Streams — OpenX (which used to be called Openads), provider of an open-source ad serving solution for web publishers - we use it at TechCrunch -, is growing like weed under the leadership of former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller, who is the company's chairman …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Stickam API Lets You Build Your Own Live Video Site — Stickam, a live video streaming service that competes with the likes of Justin.tv and Ustream.tv, is releasing a new API that effectively allows anyone to build their own streaming video startup with a minimal amount of effort.
Bill Ray / The Register:
Are iPhone users just tight? — I'd buy that for a dollar — Analysis Companies developing software for the iPhone are seeing their creations drown in a sea of one-dollar mediocrity as they struggle to gain visibility in the increasingly cluttered Application Store, and some have taken their complaints to Steve himself.
Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
Ways to Monetize Twitter — Plus Ways to Waste Time on the Web — 1. CHARGE FOR IT — Of course, companies can already use the service for free, so what, exactly, would be new? Ian Schafer, CEO of Deep Focus, has some ideas: more-customizable profile pages, a dashboard to manage followers and tech support.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple: Goldman Cuts Rating On Consumer Spending Woes — Apple (AAPL) shares are coming under early selling pressure this morning after Goldman Sachs analyst David Bailey cut his rating on the stock to Neutral from Buy, citing concerns about consumer spending and “Apple's valuation premium.”
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google AdWords Gets Ready For Holidays With Special Dividers — Every year, Google dresses up the dividers between the organic search results and the paid search results with special holiday icons. This year is no different. David notified me that the special holiday dividers are now up.
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Zapproved launches its decision-making email application — Zapproved, the web application that uses email to simplify group decision-making, is officially launching today. That means it's taking the beta testing tag off its product and rolling out its plans to make money.
Electronista:
BlackBerry Curve 8350i PTT phone ships for Sprint — Sprint today began shipping its promised BlackBerry Curve 8350i. The smartphone is the first modern BlackBerry for the carrier's Nextel iDEN push-to-talk (PTT) network and also brings Wi-Fi, which lets users tap the cellular network …
GPS Tracklog:
Magellan to sell consumer GPS division to MiTAC — Magellan Navigation announced this morning that it is selling its consumer products division to MiTAC International, which also owns Mio. The transaction is expected to close in January. The Magellan consumer products division created …
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Larry Dignan / CNET News:
Oracle's second quarter to be a mixed bag — Oracle reports its fiscal second-quarter results on Thursday, and analysts are expecting weaker-than-expected license revenue, healthy maintenance subscriptions, a potential earnings miss, and some belt-tightening on deck. In other words, expect a mixed bag.
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Tim Weber / BBC:
Can Microsoft make its future mobile? — You want a phone that can do it all? Internet, music, photos, films, documents, texting, instant messaging, diary, contacts and ... err ... phone calls? — Then a smartphone is right for you. But as the market for high-end mobiles gets ever more crowded, which should you pick?
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Matt Asay / The Open Road:
MySQL getting too big for its corporate britches? — For anyone interested in seeing just how different and game-changing open source can be, there's really no need to look beyond MySQL, the open-source database leader. Jeremy Zawodny, formerly of Yahoo!, and now of Craigslist …
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Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:
Studios (temporarily?) gain upper hand in Blu-ray DRM battle — Movie studios and software companies fought to maintain (and crack) the efficacy of Blu-ray's BD+ DRM scheme throughout all of 2008, but the content industry has won a round of its own as the year draws to a close.
