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Condé Nast Buys Wired News — Lycos is selling its Wired News unit to Condé Nast Publications for $25 million, Lycos parent Daum Communications announced in Korea late Tuesday, a deal that brings Wired.com and Wired magazine under the same owner after an eight-year separation.
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Bill Tancer / Hitwise US:
MySpace Moves Into #1 Position for all Internet Sites — Today Hitwise issued a press release reporting that for the first time, www.myspace.com has surpassed Yahoo! Mail as the most visited domain on the Internet for US Internet users. To put MySpace's growth in perspective …
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Matthew Karnitschnig / Wall Street Journal:
Time Warner Expects Offering AOL Free Will Be Costly — Time Warner Inc. expects its AOL unit to sacrifice nearly $1 billion of operating profit through 2009 under a proposed plan to offer the online service free of charge to some customers, according to internal company forecasts.
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Fred / A VC:
Social Media Musings — I just spent some time on the june comscore media metrix numbers and all the big social networks (and many of the smaller social networks) are basically flat june over may. It's probably the summer months, kids getting off from school, doing something other than staring …
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Anything But iPod:
Samsung YA-DS100 Speaker Dock for the Z5 — The proprietary connection on the bottom of the Samsung Z5 was a good indication that there would be specific Z5 accessories in the future. The future is almost here and one of the first accessories to hit the shelves is a pair of speakers with this proprietary dock.
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Associated Press:
Hackers target State Dept. computers — Widespread break-ins appear aimed at HQ, East Asian office — WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is recovering from large-scale computer break-ins worldwide over the past several weeks that appeared to target its headquarters and offices dealing …
Hollywood Reporter:
Rather eyeing online gig — AOL might have a new message for the Internet: You've got Dan. — The Time Warner-owned Internet company is in negotiations with representatives for veteran CBS anchor Dan Rather to play a role in original programming for its online video offerings, sources said.
Jessica Lee / Google Maps API Official Blog:
Zoooooooom! — Today we're enabling some new zoom features on Google Maps. We're making these features available to API v2 users as well, so please test them out and send us your feedback! — Double-click to zoom. Instead of double-clicking to recenter the map …
Kevin Poulsen / Wired News:
Crazy-Long Hacker Sentence Upheld — A federal appeals court upheld a nine-year prison term Monday for a hacker who tried and failed to steal customer credit-card numbers from the Lowe's chain of home improvement stores. — Brian Salcedo, now 23, has been in custody since 2003 …
Staci / paidContent.org:
NYTimes's Personalized Service "My Times" Debuts In Limited Beta — One of the linchpins of the new NYTimes.com design is slipping into place finally ... personalization feature My Times is now in limited beta for 5,000 registered NYTimes.com users who showed early interest (Some screenshots here).
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Leander Kahney / Wired News:
Are Apple's Customers Rebelling? — There's been rash of press recently suggesting Apple is weathering a growing consumer recoil following claims about poor quality control, anti-iTunes legislation and allegations about Chinese sweatshops. — "Are we falling out of love with iPod?" asks the Daily Telegraph.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
MySpace may face legislative crackdown — Politicians on Tuesday accused MySpace.com and other social-networking sites of failing to protect minors from sexual predators and other malign influences and said a legislative crackdown may be necessary. — During a hearing before a House …
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Stephen Bartholomeusz / Sydney Morning Herald:
G9 plays joker, but Telstra has trump — THE Group of Nine's proposal for a national broadband upgrade isn't, as many have interpreted it, a serious bid to build a new fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) network. Telstra will never let that happen. — Nor is there any realistic chance that the consortium …
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Associated Press:
Gates: Vista likely to be ready in January — Microsoft chief says 80 percent chance new OS software will be available — CAPE TOWN, South Africa - Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday there was an 80 percent chance the company's next-generation operating system, Windows Vista, would be ready in January.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Porn Browser Heatseek Launches (yeah, porn browser) — Heatseek is a pornography focused browser that quietly launched today. The point of this software is to make porn browsing more efficent and more secure. The browser is available on Windows machines only, and is built on top of Internet Explorer.
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Some friendly advice from Dell — Well, golly, look at this. I get a comment' on the post below from someone who says he's working for Dell: … The guy who left that post was too chicken to leave his or her last name. But Chris did leave his or her domain and it does, indeed …
