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Jon's Radio:
A conversation with Jon Udell about his new job with Microsoft — For today's podcast I decided to interview myself about my upcoming new gig. It's a short episode, under six minutes, and the transcript follows. — Note: I actually meant to push this to the server later today …
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Rex Hammock / Rex Hammock's weblog:
My soon-to-be favorite Microsoft blogger — Jon Udell is leaving his job at InfoWorld and joining Microsoft in January. — He may see this as a change of employment, but I believe Microsoft has just acqhired a media brand. I feel certain that no media investment bankers were involved …
Inside AdWords:
Bringing radio advertising to Google advertisers: an update — There's been a lot of speculation about what we're doing in radio advertising so we thought we'd give you a quick update regarding what we've been working on since the acquisition of dMarc Broadcasting earlier this year.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google tunes into radio ads — Google is allowing some of its existing online marketers to use its automated advertising system to broadcast ads on radio stations around the United States, the company said on Thursday. — The beta test of Google Audio Ads is the result of the integration …
Damon Darlin / New York Times:
H.P. Will Pay $14.5 Million to Settle Suit — Hewlett-Packard said Thursday that it would pay $14.5 million to settle a lawsuit by the California attorney general over the company's use of private detectives to obtain private phone records of board members and journalists.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:Washington uses new spyware law, gets $1 million settlement
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Video Startup That May Never Launch — This is a rumor that just won't die: The major television networks are considering creating a new online video service joint venture to compete with YouTube. — We first heard about this when the Google-Youtube acquisition news broke, and wrote briefly about it here (see last paragraph).
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Techdirt, Mathew Ingram, The Next Net, Search Marketing Gurus, Lost Remote, John Furrier and Technically Speaking
Business Wire:
BitTorrent Acquires uTorrent — SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—BitTorrent, Inc., home to the world's leading peer-assisted digital content delivery platform, today announced it has acquired uTorrent, a lightweight and efficient implementation of the BitTorrent protocol.
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Scott Gilbertson / Wired News:
BitTorrent's Move From PCs to TVs — If the thought of having BitTorrent, the world's most famous file-swapping software, available on your set-top box to download high-definition movies from major Hollywood studios seems far-fetched, you're not alone. — In an e-mail interview with Wired News …
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
A Wish List for the iPhone — If you're dreaming of a mobile phone that downloads and shares music, carries your files, and makes movies, why not put all your Apples in one basket — Let me go out on a limb here and say that Apple Computer will probably not launch a wireless phone of any kind early next year.
microsoft.com:
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification — As part of the monthly security bulletin release cycle, Microsoft provides advance notification to our customers on the number of new security updates being released, the products affected, the aggregate maximum severity and information about detection tools relevant to the update.
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TechBlog, Donna's SecurityFlash, M-Dollar, F-Secure Antivirus …, Neowin.net and Slashdot
Tony / Deep Jive Interests:
Diggers Are Getting Paid — But Not By Kevin Rose — It seems like there is a long running meme in the blogosphere about gaming Digg, and it even made it as an article on CNet the other day (despite a few inaccuracies). Despite the controversy, there is one thing that Kevin Rose has always maintained …
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BBC:
Concern over mobile music-sharing — Children are increasingly swapping music via mobile phones, often without realising they can be breaking the law. — A survey of almost 1,500 eight to 13-year-olds found almost a third shared music via their mobiles. — Children are using the built …
James Bannan / APC:
Pirates crack Vista Activation Server — Pirates have released another ingenious workaround to Vista's copy protection: a hacked copy of Microsoft's yet-to-be-released volume licencing activation server, running in VMware. — Volume Activation 2.0 is one of the more controversial features of Vista …
Yuval Kossovsky / Computerworld:
First look: A guided tour of Apple's Leopard Server OS — Look for Leopard to be 'an exciting release,' says Yuval Kossovsky — Recently, I had a chance to sit down with a few folks from Apple Computer Inc. who gave me a guided tour of Apple's upcoming server operating system …
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Thomas Christensen / DoCopenhagen:
Top 50 Music Videos Of 2006 — Here we go again... Our top 50 videos of 2005 was a huge success. This year we decided to do things a little bit differently. All the videos are from You Tube and can therefore be watched in the browser. If you want to download the videos to your computer …
