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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
CNN snatching page out of YouTube's book — CNN wants some of the clips being uploaded to popular video-sharing sites, such as YouTube, to find their way to the cable news channel. — On Monday, CNN is expected to announce the launch of CNN Exchange, a page on the company's Web site …
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Yuki Noguchi / Washington Post:AOL Retools Video Site to Offer User-Made Content
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Brad Stone / Wired News:
Pinch My Ride — Ignition keys equipped with signal-emitting chips were supposed to put car thieves out of business. No such luck - but try telling that to your insurance company. — Last summer Emad Wassef walked out of a Target store in Orange County, California, to find a big space where his 2003 Lincoln Navigator had been.
Bruce Meyerson / Associated Press:
Verizon Wireless to end music download fee — NEW YORK - Verizon Wireless is eliminating the monthly $15 fee for its music download service in conjunction with the launch of a cell phone featuring an iPod-like click wheel and a memory card that can hold up to 1,000 songs.
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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
.Mac users mock Apple slogan during outage — Web publishing service .Mac just works, sort of... Apple Computer's latest advertising campaign, pegged to the slogan "It just works," is irritating some .Mac users as they wonder when the service will become operational again.
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Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
Boston WiFi: Non-profit or Non-funded? — In sharp contrast to Google's free model in Mountain View and Earthlink's for pay model in the city of Anaheim, Boston, home of Red Sox Nation, is exploring another model for planned city-wide wireless broadband. The Boston mayor unveiled plans …
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Dell / Gizmodo:
Another Flaming Dell Laptop — As the old saying goes, when you smell smoke there's probably a fire. In a Singaporian man's case, he smelled smoke, heard popping noises, and knew it was fire when he saw flames bursting coming out of his Dell laptop. He quickly plopped his machine into a sink put out the blaze.
Robert McLaws:
Vista Needs More Time: The Entry I Didn't Want To Write — I've been defending Microsoft's ship schedule for Windows Vista for quite some time. Up to this point, I've been confident that Vista would be at the quality level it needs to be by RC1 to make the launch fantastic.
Alex Mindlin / New York Times:
Does a DVR Boost Viewing Hours or Not? — It seems that adults in households that have digital video recorders watch less TV than adults in the general population, according to a recent analysis by Mediamark Research, an audience-measurement firm. — That finding, which comes …
Larry Osterman / Larry Osterman's WebLog:
WAIT, THAT WAS MY BUG? OUCH! — Over the weekend, the wires were full with reports of a speech recognition demo at the Microsoft's Financial Analysts Meeting here in Seattle that went horribly wrong. — Slashdot had it, Neowin had it, Digg had it, Reuters had it. It was everywhere.
Russell Buckley / MobHappy:
Background Tones — Way back in the late 90's, we had that weird idea that people could personalise the sound their phone made when it rang. And so, perhaps the least expected billion dollar market emerged since err...sms a few years earlier. — So don't scoff at background tones …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Zune to launch November 14th? — Alright everybody, we've all had a few days to cool down on the Zune stuff — hope you've been well rested. So with no further delay here's the latest from from the inside: a trusted source has given us a little more to go by on the hardware end …
Dan Dorfman / New York Sun:
Error Knocks Down Google $350 a Share — It was like a Wall Street version of one of those Keystone Cops comedies of the 1930s, but at least one investor wasn't laughing. According to his stockbroker, he almost had a heart attack as a result of what appeared to be an enormous plunge Thursday …
Adrian Croft / Reuters:
Blair seeks secret of Silicon Valley's success — SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) - A risk-taking culture and close ties with universities are big reasons for the success of the U.S. computer industry, some of Silicon Valley's brightest stars told Prime Minister Tony Blair on Sunday.
Jaikumar Vijayan / InfoWorld:
Banks face Web security deadline — Majority of banks are unprepared to meet Dec. 31 deadline for complying with guidelines — For some bank IT managers, last fall's release of federal guidelines on validating the identities of online users helped catalyze ongoing efforts to adopt so-called strong authentication measures.
USA Today:
EMusic's pitch: Download song — and own it — LOS ANGELES — The smash success of Apple's iPod is paying huge dividends for a less-well-known music industry player, online retailer eMusic. — Apple has sold nearly 60 million iPods since 2001, and music fans regularly frequent …
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Kimberly S. Johnson / Denver Post:
Gasping for air(waves) — When EchoStar Communications Corp. and DirecTV head to a Federal Communications Commission auction Aug. 9, they're not simply bidding on wireless airwaves but for survival in a broadband world. — The satellite TV companies have teamed up under the name Wireless DBS LLC …
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Why my cable DVR stinks — reporter's notebook I love my DVR, but only when it works. — After a long week of interviews and writing stories, I was excited to hunker down in my living room one Friday night to see who had gotten booted off that week's "Project Runway."
Colin Campbell / Next Generation:
ANALYSIS: Ten Reasons for E3's Collapse — The picture accompanying this story sums up E3. It was about big-ness, most especially big crowds. We won't see scenes like this again. So why did the hardware manufacturers and big publishers decide E3 was no longer tenable? Why did the other publishers follow suit.
Pew Research Center:
Online Papers Modestly Boost Newspaper Readership — Maturing Internet News Audience Broader Than Deep — Overview — A decade ago, just one-in-fifty Americans got the news with some regularity from what was then a brand new source the internet. Today, nearly one-in-three regularly get news online.
