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about.skype.com:
Packard Bell & Skype Announce The World's First "Skype Edition" Notebook — Built-in Webcam With One-Touch Skype Calling Button — High-Performance Intel Dual-Core Processor — LUXEMBOURG & PARIS, June 21st 2006, Packard Bell, one of the leading home PC brands in Europe, and Skype …
Yahoo! Local & Maps Blog:
We Now Support Microformats — Starting today, we're happy to announce Yahoo! Local fully supports the hCalendar, hCard, and hReview microformats on almost all business listings, search results, events, and reviews. There are a few reasons behind this change, which for now, will be transparent to almost everyone.
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adobe.com:
Adobe and Google Team to Distribute the Google Toolbar with Adobe's Macromedia Shockwave Player, Additional Adobe Products in the Future — SAN JOSE, Calif. — June 21, 2006 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the signing of a multi-year agreement with Google Inc. …
Robert McMillan / InfoWorld:
Researchers hack Wi-Fi driver to breach laptop — One of many flaws found allowed them to take over a laptop by exploiting a bug in an 802.11 wireless driver — Security researchers have found a way to seize control of a laptop computer by manipulating buggy code in the system's wireless device driver.
Timbl / timbl's blog:
Net Neutrality: This is serious — When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that is going end in the USA. — I blogged on net neutrality before, and so did a lot of other people.
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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
MySpace to Add Restrictions to Protect Younger Teenagers — Starting next week, MySpace, the popular online hangout, will make it harder for strangers to send messages to younger teenagers. — The site, which has more than 70 million members, has been under pressure because members …
Robert Sinke / dapreview.net:
iUbi Blue (PMP2500B) popping up at AMP3 — Interesting. We're kind of in need of fresh PMP materials, so any addition to the currently-established elite (Archos AV5x0, Cowon A2 et cetera) is much-welcomed over here. Our buddies over at AdvancedMP3Players.co.uk managed to get their hands on a batch of Elentec iUbi PMP2500Bs.
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Richard Lawler / HD Beat:
Sony BDP-S1 Blu-ray player really IS delayed: October 25 — The internet went ablaze a couple weeks ago when someone finally noticed that the Sony BDP-S1 Blu-ray player had been delayed until August on their SonyStyle website (even though it had been like that since April).
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
FCC approves new Internet phone taxes — WASHINGTON—An estimated 4 million subscribers to Internet phone services like Vonage could see new fees on their bills under a plan approved Wednesday by federal regulators. — The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously at its monthly meeting …
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Oren Michels / Praxis:
Introducing Mashery — There's a reason my blogging has been relatively sparse of late - I've been working on a new startup, and I'm pleased to announce that it's taking shape quite nicely. Mashery, Inc. was incorporated on May 15. What's a Mashery? Well, it's a place where mashups are made.
lessig.org:
Net Neutrality - the dark other side — So Gary Reback, who was one of the important initial actors pushing the government to focus on the Microsoft case, has been focusing on telecom mergers. He's been pushing what's called as a "Tunney Act" proceeding (on behalf of a group called …
Pam Belluck / New York Times:
Young People's Web Postings Worry Summer Camp Directors — Summer camp directors have a new scourge, and it is not mosquitoes or impetigo. It is the Internet, specifically sites like MySpace, Facebook and Friendster, where young people often post personal or revealing information.
pitchforkmedia.com:
100 Awesome Music Videos — If it seems like lately we've been slower than usual to answer your e-mails or update in the morning, we might claim it's because we've been revamping our website. But honestly? We've been spending hours enjoying YouTube, falling in love with the music video all over again.
San Francisco Chronicle:
AT&T rewrites rules: Your data isn't yours — AT&T has issued an updated privacy policy that takes effect Friday. The changes are significant because they appear to give the telecom giant more latitude when it comes to sharing customers' personal data with government officials.
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Google Blogoscoped:
Google's Site Operator Was Broken — Googler Adam Lasnik at Digg writes about an error with Google's site operator. The site operator is supposed to show the approximate number of pages indexed for any given domain (e.g. when you search for site:yahoo.com, Google says there are "about 317,000,000 from yahoo.com").
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Seeking Alpha:
Google Launches ValueClick Killer — David Jackson submits: Last night, after market close, I received the following email from Google's AdSense team: … The attachment contained the following: … In other words, Google is launching a fully-fledged cost-per-action — otherwise known as affiliate marketing — network.
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Drew Cullen / The Register:
Voda trumpets UK first for HSDPA cards — Vodafone is first to the UK market with HSDPA - or 'Super3G' - laptop data cards. The cellco opens its doors to customers officially on Thursday, 22 June. But a couple of Reg readers tell us their account managers have already tipped them the wink - one is buying his card tomorrow.
