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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
US House: Schools must block MySpace, many other sites — US House Resolution 5319, the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA), was passed by a 410 to 15 vote tonight. If the Resolution becomes law social networking sites and chat rooms must be blocked by schools and libraries or those institutions …
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Declan McCullagh / ZDNet:
Chat rooms could face expulsion — Web sites like Amazon.com and MySpace.com may soon be inaccessible for many people using public terminals at American schools and libraries, thanks to the U.S. House of Representatives. — By a 410-15 vote on Thursday, politicians approved a bill …
Tony Ruscoe / Tony Ruscoe's Blog:
What's in Google's Sandbox? — It's been a while since I've done any digging around Google's servers to try and find some new services, so I thought I'd have a quick go tonight. — I started by looking at one of the subdomains I found when I first ran my Google subdomains sniffing script last year:
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Lots of New Secret Google Services Uncovered — UK developer Tony Ruscoe has the scoop: while sniffing around a subdomain he found a while ago, sandbox.google.com, he was able to grab a kind of Google tester account. Even though this didn't seem to give him full testing powers …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Launches Messenger 8 With 180 Plugins — Yahoo Messenger Version 8 for Windows, which can be downloaded here, launched out of beta today. Our previous writeup of the beta launch is here. — The key new feature of Messenger 8 is that it is open to third party developers to create widgets that work within the client.
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
In Microsoft Plan for Future, All Roads Lead to Internet — REDMOND, Wash., July 27 — In a daylong meeting with analysts on Thursday, Microsoft executives detailed how the company was spending heavily to build Internet services into all its products, from operating systems to video games.
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Kieren McCarthy / The Register:
United States cedes control of the internet - but what now? — In a meeting that will go down in internet history, the United States government last night conceded that it can no longer expect to maintain its position as the ultimate authority over the internet.
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Jim Puzzanghera / Los Angeles Times:U.S. Unlikely to Yield Web Oversight Yet
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Carlo Longino / MobHappy:
Well, That's Certainly One Way To Do Mobile Music — Geriatric rockers The Rolling Stones have hopped on board the mobile music train — sort of. Through a service called Listen Live Now!, fans will be able to listen live to their concert today in Paris via their mobile phones.
Steve Bryant / Google Watch:
Feds Retrieve Google Records after Gmail Used for Hate Speech — Federal agents requested and retrieved records from Google concerning a Gmail account that contained threatening speech, Google Watch has learned. — The agents requested the records on June 22nd, 2006 after the National Association …
Wired News:
Make Your Blog Popular — David L. Sifry, founder and CEO of Technorati, keeps tabs on more than 45 million weblogs. Here's his advice for cracking his site's Top 100 list. — 1) React quickly. Commentators like Andrew Sullivan and Michelle Malkin draw megatraffic with immediate rebuttals …
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
MySpace Screws Up Again: Accounts Being Deleted? — I'm getting multiple reports in the comments (30 so far) that MySpace is "deleting" user accounts today - users visiting their pages see this message: … But these aren't just isolated incidents - the same experience is being reported across blogs and forums.
BBC:
Stolen mobiles 'will be blocked' — Around 80% of mobile phones will be blocked on all five UK networks within 48 hours of being reported stolen in future, industry leaders have pledged. — That pledge is part of a charter to reduce phone crime launched by the Mobile Industry Crime Action Forum.
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Steve Gelsi / MarketWatch:
YouTube CEO: IPO would be 'exciting' — NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — As red-hot YouTube's profile rises its CEO isn't ruling out an initial public offering in the future. — The buzz around the new brand has built in recent days as YouTube founder Chad Hurley, 29, emerged as the latest Internet whiz kid …
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Jan Chipchase:
Mobility Is Relative II — A mobile and wireless phone kiosk in Kamapala draws its power from a car battery (in the red box, photo below). Despite its bicyclesque design they were not particularly mobile - one or more tyres were often flat and they remained tethered in one place for the duration of the day.
Ina Fried / ZDNet:
Microsoft shows off mobile phone-PC prototype … The software maker is looking at whether it can build a cheap PC for emerging markets by building it into a mobile phone — Microsoft on Thursday showed a prototype of a mobile phone-based computer that could one day find a use as a cheap PC for emerging markets.
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Torvalds critical of new GPL draft — The second draft of a revised General Public License has been released, but Linus Torvalds—founder and leader of the best-known software project governed by the GPL—remains unconvinced of its merits. — Torvalds' concern is with the clause …
