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Adam Curry Caught in Sticky Wiki — Former MTV veejay and podcasting entrepreneur Adam Curry appears to have been caught anonymously editing the podcasting entry on Wikipedia to remove credit from other people and inflate his role in its creation. — When someone edits Wikipedia without logging …
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
RIM gets good news in patent case — Battered by two recent setbacks in court, Research In Motion won a round in its long-running patent fight against NTP on Thursday when the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejected one of the claims by RIM's adversary. — Patent-holding firm NTP contends …
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Mike / Techdirt:
There Goes The Other Reason eBay Bought Skype — from the two-strikes-and-you're-out dept. — Back when eBay bought Skype for $2.6 billion (potentially $4.1 billion), the company tried to justify the decision with a variety of vague statements. However, two specific rationales stood out …
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Jonathan Berr / TheStreet.com:
Big eBay Users Shun Skype — eBay (EBAY:Nasdaq - news - research - Cramer's Take) chief Meg Whitman, whose Web site lets people buy everything from DVDs to boats, has plenty of selling to do. — Whitman is due to address investors Thursday morning at a Credit Suisse First Boston conference in Phoenix.
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IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
SNARFing your way through e-mail — With the world's in-boxes overflowing with unread messages, researchers at Microsoft are offering up a tool they hope will help people sort through the morass. — The software maker this week released a free utility that aims to sort e-mail in a new way …
Reuters:
Yahoo using online behavior to target ads — NEW YORK—Yahoo aims to boost the effectiveness of its advertising—and rates—by targeting ads to users based on their surfing behavior on its site, the company's advertising sales chief said on Thursday. — "The new, new thing at Yahoo …
Susan Mernit / Susan Mernit's Blog:
Inside Craig: SFWeekly writer profiles The Listman — Ryan Blitstein's done a lovely job profiling Craig Newmark in SF Weekly, digging into both Craig's smart simplicity and the profound disruption his efforts have caused. — Favorite snippets: — Describing Craig monitoring CL …
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Worker Bees Blog
Arshad Mohammed / Washington Post:
Video Phones Offer Face Time, Even if Consumers Aren't Ready — George Jetson, his boy Elroy, Dick Tracy and Capt. James T. Kirk have used video phones for decades, calling people across the universe with unselfconscious ease. — But Americans have never embraced the technology which …
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Techdirt
Lone Ronin / The Lone Ronin:
Life Meditation IV — I have spent the better part of the last month actively negotiating on behalf of my company, kozoru. It is always a strange feeling when I realize I am focused on negotiation and not focused on building a technology. I remember this feeling well …
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Search Engine Watch Blog
WebGuerrilla / webguerrilla.com:
The Truth About Click Fraud — Over the past year, there have been literally hundreds of articles and blog posts written about the topic of click fraud. I'm at the point that I actually get the urge to vomit every time I see a new one. I don't think I've ever read so much about a topic and yet learned so little.
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Oliver Thylmann
sunbelt-software.com:
Sunbelt Software to acquire Kerio Personal Firewall — Best of breed firewall will become part of company's desktop security product line — Clearwater, Florida, USA — December 1, 2005 — Sunbelt Software and Kerio Technologies, Inc. today announced that the parties have signed an agreement …
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Lisa Vaas / eWEEK.com:
Podcast Hijacked, Held for Ransom — In an assault reminiscent of the early days of the Internet, Podcaster Erik Marcus recently found that his RSS feed had been inexplicably redirected. — According to Marcus, rather than fully cooperate to address the situation, the cyber-squatter …
Peter Galli / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft Touts Vista's Restart Manager Feature — Microsoft Corp. is working on a significant new feature for Windows Vista, known as Restart Manager, which is designed to update parts of the operating system or applications without having to reboot the entire machine.
eurekalert.org:
NIST physicists coax six atoms into quantum 'cat' state — Scientists at the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have coaxed six atoms into spinning together in two opposite directions at the same time, a so-called Schrödinger "cat" state that obeys the unusual laws of quantum physics.
