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PR Newswire:
Google CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt Joins Apple's Board of Directors — CUPERTINO, Calif., Aug. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple® today announced that Dr. Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google, was elected to Apple's board of directors at their meeting today.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Apple + Google = Worries For Everyone — A few days ago when Google announced what is a precursor to Google Office, many saw it as a big move against the long term nemesis, Microsoft. We read things differently, and don't really believe that it is going to have much of an impact.
Financial Times:
Universal backs free music rival to iTunes — Universal Music, the world's largest music company, is backing a start-up that will allow consumers to download songs for free. It will rely on advertising for its revenues, offering a different business model from that of Apple Computer's popular iTunes music store.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Universal to try ad driven music downloads through SpiralFrog - still with DRM — If you're familiar with this story, see the updated details at the end. Universal Music, the corporate parent behind labels like MoTown, Geffen Records and many more, announced this morning that they will be making …
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GigaOM, Boing Boing, Good Morning Silicon Valley, CrunchGear, Fast Company Now and Digital Music News
Windows Live QnA:
Welcome to the public beta for Qna.live.com! — It's with great pleasure, a lot of late nights, and barrels of caffeine, that our team launches the public Windows Live QnA beta. — For all you thousands of beta testers who took a chance on us, nagged us, mocked us, and made us better - we thank you.
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Red Herring:
Blogs Start Job Boards — Sites like GigaOm and TechCrunch are rushing to list help-wanted ads, but is there room for all? — The next wave after blogs targeted at particular interest may be niche job sites. — On Friday, GigaOm, the blogging network started by former Business 2.0 writer Om Malik, launched its own job board.
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Danny Sullivan / Daggle:
Leaving Search Engine Watch — After ten years, I'm leaving Search Engine Watch and almost certainly leaving the Search Engine Strategies conference series as well. My contracts with their owners Incisive Media are expiring, and we've not been able to agree on new ones.
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Matt Cutts, ResourceShelf, Frank Barnako, Search Engine Roundtable, Valleywag, Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog, WebMetricsGuru, SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog, SEO by the SEA, Daily SearchCast, Google Blogoscoped, Search Engine Watch Blog, paidContent.org, Jim Boykin's Internet …, Niall Kennedy's Weblog, Bloggers Blog, Online Marketing Blog, John Furrier, Pronet Advertising, Search Engine Guide Blog, Performancing.com, John Battelle's Searchblog, Greg Boser, InsideGoogle and The Jason Calacanis Weblog
Sprint:
Sprint Launches First EV-DO Revision A-Capable Mobile Broadband Card in the Nation — Sprint Media Contact: — Amy Schiska-Lombard, 913-794-2947 — Novatel Media Contact: — Carolyn McCartney, 858-320-8822 (phone), 858-812-3401 (fax) — pr@novatelwireless.com — Novatel Investor Relations:
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Gizmodo, Engadget, broadbandreports.com, GigaOM, dailywireless.org, Phone Scoop, Texas Startup Blog, Daily small biz tech news … and Mobilitee
socialtext.net:
Wired Wiki — Attachments: — In an experiment in collaborative journalism, Wired News is putting reporter Ryan Singel at your service. — This wiki began as an unedited 1,059 word article on the wiki phenomenon, exactly as Ryan filed it. Your mission, should you choose to accept it …
Jimmy Hsu / DigiTimes:
Blu-ray and HD-DVD to freeze competition until 2007 due to laser diode shortage — Since manufacturers of blue laser diodes are still unable to improve yield rates, the shortage may result in pushing back the competition between Blu-ray Disc (BD) and HD-DVD optical disc drives in the market …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Microsoft already on their way to patching FairUse4WM — Leave it to the Hawthorne Effect, right? It's been three days since we spilled the beans about the PlaysForSure-stripping FairUse4WM app, and already Microsoft's Windows Digital Media Division is issuing notices to its PlaysForSure licensees regarding patching up the problem.
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
EBay Gambles on Google Partnership for Success of Skype, the Internet Phone Service — EBay is hoping its new partnership with Google will help it find new ways to make money from Skype, its Internet calling service. But experts wonder if enough people are willing to make the switch …
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Google, Howard Lindzon, IP Democracy, Aswath Weblog, VoIP Blog, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, 21talks, Skype Journal, GigaOM and Google Talkabout
Tom Zeller Jr / New York Times:
A Watchdog Group Warns Against AOL's Free Software — Dealing yet another blow to AOL, a leading software watchdog group warned users away from AOL's free client software yesterday on the ground that it displayed characteristics consistent with "badware." — The term badware describes …
Frank Rose / Wired News:
Can the PS3 Save Sony … Never try to introduce the same product twice. That was the lesson from the Electronic Entertainment Expo in May. A year earlier, at E3 2005 in Los Angeles, Sony had wowed the videogame industry with demonstrations of the upcoming PlayStation 3's unprecedented graphical muscle.
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Scobleizer, Kotaku, Cathode Tan, Smalltalk Tidbits …, Joystiq, Computerworld Blogs blogs and Adaptive Path
