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Charlie Paglee / voipwiki.com:
Skype Protocol Has Been Cracked — At the end of 2005 I made some predictions about the VoIP industry which I will review further in a day or two. While a couple of my predictions have already proved correct, perhaps the most interesting was: … Today I received a call through Skype …
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Tropicaljantie / Webtown:
Skype Protocol Has Been Cracked. The Skype protocol will be reverse engineered by August 2006 and application code will be offered for license. — It has been done. IT HAS BEEN DONE. I am doing a total cut and paste job here. Read below. Very bold statements here below.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Skype Cracked? — Can Skype be reverse engineered? That has been the $2.6 billion dollar question Skype watchers often ask themselves. Alec Saunders points to this blog post by Charlie Paglee that claims that a bunch of chinese engineers have done exactly that - cracked Skype.
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Alec / Alec Saunders .LOG:Skype Cracked — According to reports coming from Asia …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Technorati scores $7.6m more funding — Blog search engine Technorati filed an SEC report of $7.6 million in Series C funding in June, according to a report today originally from VentureWire. Listed as investing in this round are Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Mobius Venture Capital.
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paidContent.org, Mathew Ingram, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, Mashable* and Jeremy Zawodny's blog
ilounge.com:
What's in the Sport Kit Package? — For the $29 asking price, you get one sensor and one receiver, which use a proprietary flavor of 802.11 wireless technology to communicate wirelessly with each other. Each of the items is incredibly small. The box also includes an unusually thick instruction manual …
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Bill Herman / Policy Blog:
Responding to Felten (& Co.), squared — Submitted by Bill Herman on July 13, 2006 - 11:42pm. — My response to Ed Felten's policy recommendations (Felten suggests we wait and see before imposing network neutrality mandates), has garnered its own response.
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Judge dismisses suit over Google ranking — A California judge on Thursday dismissed a Web site's lawsuit against Google over its fall in the Google search index, but left the door open for the lawsuit to be amended and refiled. — KinderStart, a directory and search engine for information related …
Ryan Singel / Wired News:
MySpace Kills Internet Tube Song — After hearing Sen. Ted Stevens' now infamous description of the internet as a "series of tubes," Andrew Raff sang the senator's words over a folksy ditty and anonymously posted it to MySpace.com, where about 2,500 people listened to the tune, thanks to a link from one of the net's top blogs.
Laura Bosworth / one2one, Dell's Weblog:
No Magic Wands For Customer Service — So... you wanna talk about service? Let's do it. WARNING: this post will be a bit longer than the norm and is just the tip of the iceberg. I'll kick it off and then we will take it where you want to go. — The good news is that we know what we need to do.
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Earthlink Debuts RSS Reader, Social Bookmarking Site — EarthLink has quietly launched an RSS reader called the myEarthLink Reader that's tightly integrated with a new social bookmarking site that's similar to del.icio.us. I discovered the reader in my referrer logs.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Brand your life story with Dandelife — Dandelife is a fascinating new "social biography network" that launched its beta this week. Users tell their life stories with text, photos, videos and time lines. Part of the business model will be to license users' stories to corporations seeking case studies and brandable narratives.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Apple abandons effort to unmask leaker — Apple Computer has abandoned a high-profile legal effort to unmask whoever leaked details about a still-unreleased music accessory. — The company's deadline to continue a legal battle to find out who leaked the information to independent online journalists …
knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu:
Online Video: The Market Is Hot, but Business Models Are Fuzzy — On July 11, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment became just the latest media giant to put its heft behind a small startup, as the white-hot online video market has players both big and small placing bets on digital distribution.
Bruce Schneier / Wired News:
Google's Click-Fraud Crackdown — Google's $6 billion-a-year advertising business is at risk because it can't be sure that anyone is looking at its ads. The problem is called click fraud, and it comes in two basic flavors. — With network click fraud, you host Google AdSense advertisements on your own website.
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Publishing 2.0, The Paradigm Shift, ReveNews Online Revenue …, Don Park's Daily Habit and Slashdot
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
GoogleFi, Almost Live For Some — Live from Mountain View-A few months ago a Google exec told me a story about a city resident who took a swing at him after a public hearing on Google's WiFi plans. Naturally, when I heard about a public WiFi training session for Mountain View residents at the Googleplex last night, I had to stop by.
