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Parija B. Kavilanz / CNNMoney.com:
Wal-Mart launches digital movie downloads — Retailer kicks off its own video downloads service beginning with an exclusive 'Superman Returns' DVD bundle. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Wal-Mart Stores on Tuesday announced the launch its own video downloads service beginning with an exclusive …
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Sarah Jane Tribble / Mercury News:
YouTube in deal with Verizon — YouTube plans to announce a deal with Verizon Wireless today to bring user-submitted videos from the Web to mobile phone customers nationwide, marking the biggest marriage yet between a video Web service and mobile phone carrier.
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Bubble Burst 2.0 — In the late 90s, the period of irrational exuberance, we knew the end would come, and we knew what the end would look like — a stock market crash of the dotcom sector. So, if Web 2.0 is a bubble, and if like all bubbles it bursts, how will we know when it happens?
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Reuters, Between the Lines, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, Rex Hammock's weblog, Scobleizer, Valleywag and David Galbraith
Donna Bogatin / Digital Micro-Markets:
Google Radio EXCLUSIVE: Audio Ads in pictures! — Google is nearing its one year anniversary of the dMarc Broadcasting acqusition, purchased to further Google's mission to bring "targeted, measurable advertising" to the entire world, including radio. — Google is also nearing its promised launch date for Google Audio Ads "beta."
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Frank Barnako, Google Watch, Seeking Alpha, Googlified, Search Engine Watch Blog and WebProBlog
Brian Morrissey / Adweek:
TiVo Tries Fresh DVR Ad Approach — NEW YORK TiVo upped its efforts to include advertising in its digital video recording service with its most intrusive effort to date. The company will embed ads after a recorded program plays. — The graphical ad unit, which TiVo calls a "program placement …
Christopher Elliott / New York Times:
The Socket Seekers — Just when travelers thought they had run out of things to complain about at the airport, their fading laptops and cellphones have signaled yet another problem: a shortage of power outlets. — Airport concourses, particularly older ones, were never known for their abundance of electrical sockets.
EFF: Breaking News:
EFF Accepts Barney's Surrender — Purple Dinosaur Backs Off and Pays Up; Free Speech Rights Preserved — San Francisco - The corporate owners of the popular children's television character Barney the Purple Dinosaur have agreed to withdraw their baseless legal threats against a website publisher …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Court sides with alleged 'vacation' spammer — When antispam activist Mark Mumma received unsolicited e-mails advertising cruise vacations two years ago, he posted a report on his Web site and threatened to sue Omega World Travel. — But Mumma met with an unpleasant surprise …
Scott Small / BBspot:
MPAA Lobbying for Home Theater Regulations — Los Angeles , CA - The MPAA is lobbying congress to push through a new bill that would make unauthorized home theaters illegal. The group feels that all theaters should be sanctioned, whether they be commercial settings or at home.
opera.com:
Opera Mini drives social networking from mobile phones — Opera Mini™ upgrade released today with new level of interactivity — Today, Opera Software introduces Opera Mini 3.0, the latest version of the award-winning mobile browser already used by eight million people worldwide
Kate Norton / Business Week:
Private Equity May Give EMI a Spin — The music company's shares surged Tuesday on news of a potential takeover bid — EMI has got a new suitor — and long-suffering shareholders of the world's third-largest music company are overjoyed. Shares soared more than 11% in U.K. trading …
Meridith Levinson / CIO.com:
Windows vs. Linux vs. OS X — A celebrity CIO reviews the desktop operating system contenders in search — of the next-generation office computer — Final Conclusion: Which Operating System Wins? — Macs Could Make an Enterprise Move — After three months of experimentation and comparison,
Barry / New Scientist Invention blog:
Body-wired headphones — Sony's Tokyo research lab has found a way to connect headphones to portable music and video players without the need for fiddly wiring. They simply feed an audio signal straight through the listener's body. — Existing wireless headphones use Bluetooth radio …
Jo Best / silicon.com:
Google: 'iPod will hold all the world's TV in 12 years' — The future of music inspires the future of mobile — The idea of fitting your entire music collection into a single device the size of a packet of cigarettes might have seemed outlandish 15 years ago. But that was before the iPod.
Frank Gruber / Somewhat Frank:
WHY ISN'T INTERNET ACCESS FREE FOR TRAVELERS? — I have been traveling quite a bit lately and have had to rely on public Internet access. Much to my dismay I have found that most hotels and airports still do not offer free Internet access. Why isn't airport and hotel Internet access a standard free feature?
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Presto: Because Computers Scare Old People — A silicon valley startup called Presto has quietly launched a new service aimed at people who don't currently have Internet access, but want to be able to receive emails and photos from loved ones. It combines a special printer produced …
