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Richard Siklos / New York Times:
A Video Business Model Ready to Move Beyond Beta — VIDEO mania is in full swing. Amazon is finally doing movie downloads. Apple is touting a new wireless gizmo to beam movies from laptops to TV screens. NBC is introducing a video syndication service that might pit it against Google and Yahoo …
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BBC:
iPod fans 'shunning iTunes store' — Despite the success of Apple iTunes, few people stock their iPod with tracks from the online store, reports a study. — The Jupiter Research report reveals that, on average, only 20 of the tracks on a iPod will be from the iTunes shop.
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Charles Jade / Infinite Loop:
"News" Flash: iPod and the iTunes Store are doomed — Taking a page from such journalistic luminaries as John Dvorak, the Observer was out there last week generating page views with a story on the coming iPodcalypse. … It goes on like that, trotting out the usual suspects for the iPod's future demise …
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Wal-Mart prepping a download store, too? — We've heard rumblings for a while — and Wal-Mart's purported intense opposition to the iTunes Movie Store might've had something to do with it as well — but now the rumors are coming hot and heavy in regards to a movie download store from the retail giant.
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Paul Lewis / Guardian:
For sale for £1,000: gadget that means you'll never lose at roulette again — Professional gamblers are rushing to buy £1,000 devices that they believe will enable them to win millions of pounds in casinos when the gambling industry is deregulated next year.
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Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
AOL, Intel link to bring movies to PCs and TVs — AOL will next week announce a deal with Intel that will let consumers download Gabe Kaplan's finest work to their PCs and watch it on TV. — Under the deal, AOL will let owners of Viiv PCs, an entertainment PC platform designed and promoted by Intel …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Happy Sunday — Christopher Coulter got kicked off his plane, so is coming tonight. Which means I have a few minutes to [read] watch the [blogs] vlogs. — Joey deVilla is offering his Asian mug to help conference diversity. Oh, and he promises something that I can't offer: an accordian performance.
San Francisco Chronicle:
Google will flex political muscles — PAC to raise money for causes, candidates; lobbyists on board — Under fire on Capitol Hill, Google Inc. has boosted its political muscle by creating its first political action committee while taking steps to reach out to Republicans.
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Google Syndicated Search coming soon — Google registered thirty variations of a domain on the 15th that hint at an upcoming "syndicated search" feature. When I think syndication, I automatically envision blogs — but Google already has Google Blog Search. Here is a list of the domains they registered on Friday:
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Bordee Creates Message Boards for Any Domain Name — Washington-based Bordee is preparing to launch a new free service, built with Ruby on Rails, that lets anyone create a topic-specific message board for any domain name. Bordee isn't a new idea - there are lots of message board services out there.
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David Barboza / New York Times:
The Rise of Baidu (That's Chinese for Google) — IN the summer of 1998 at a picnic in Silicon Valley, Eric Xu, a 34-year-old biochemist, introduced his shy, reserved friend Robin Li to John Wu, then the head of Yahoo's search engine team. — Mr. Li, 30 at the time, was a frustrated staff engineer …
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Wikipedia: Resistance is Absent — What happened was, I went to check out the new Microsoft search engine at live.com (it's not bad), and I started by looking for myself. I was kind of surprised when my Wikipedia entry came in ahead of ongoing. (Wikipedia's #2 at Google and Yahoo.)
Kent / Newsome.Org:
The Demise of Radio — In the New York times article about the plight of traditional radio, Richard Siklos sums up the problem in one sentence, while talking about a particular commuter who has tuned out over the air stations: … It's a two-headed monster that is killing traditional radio.
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robhyndman.com, Squash, Steve Newson DOT net, Digital Micro-Markets, The Technology Liberation … and StrayPackets
New York Times:
Zeroing In on Sources H.P. Used — Prosecutors looking into the internal spying operation at Hewlett-Packard are beginning to link together a chain of investigators from the company down to the detective agencies that may have been involved in obtaining the phone records of its directors and a number of journalists.
Andru Edwards / Gear Live:
TiVo Lying To VIP Customers About Series3 Orders — You know how TiVo released the new Series3 DMR on it's site a few days ago, apparently allowing people to get their hands on one earlier than they would be able to get one at retail? Oh, and the whole "if you buy direct from TiVo …
Nick / Rough Type:
Sanger forks Wikipedia — The man who invented Wikipedia now wants to bury it. Larry Sanger, the controversial online encyclopedia's cofounder and leading apostate, announced yesterday, at a conference in Berlin, that he is spearheading the launch of a competitor to Wikipedia called The Citizendium.
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