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Susan Crawford blog:
The day the internet became cable television: Dec. 29, 2006 — As part of the AT&T/BellSouth merger that is expected to be approved today, AT&T is now pledging to keep its "wireline broadband Internet access service" neutral. — AT&T joins the trickster pantheon with this move.
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Mike / Techdirt:
And By The Time Anyone Reads The Sneaky Fine Print On AT&T's Concessions, The Merger Will Be Done — from the fooled-ya dept — A few hours ago, we wrote about the concessions AT&T agreed to in order to get their merger with BellSouth approved — possibly today.
Steve Dowling / Apple:
Apple Files 10-Q and 10-K — Apple to Record Non-Cash Charge of $84 Million — Apple® today filed its Form 10-Q for the quarter ended July 1, 2006 and its Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2006 with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC").
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Associated Press, Infinite Loop, MacUser, Seeking Alpha, O'Grady's PowerPage, Guardian Unlimited and Podcasting News
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New York Times:
Apple Says Options Probe Exonerates Executives — Apple Computer today exonerated its chief executive, Steven P. Jobs, of any wrongdoing in a stock options backdating probe. — In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Apple said that while its investigation revealed …
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PJ Doland / The Frosty Mug Revolution:
Genius Grant Please, or The NSFW HTML Attribute — UPDATE: The idea expressed below has been significantly improved and a brief spec document and example is now available. You might, however, still want to read what follows before proceeding to the aforementioned link.
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PJ Doland / The Frosty Mug Revolution:
A Semantic Solution for Presenting NSFW Content — THE PROBLEM WITH REL. — In an earlier post, we recommended the use of the REL attribute for indicating that content was "not suitable for work." The REL attribute has obvious benefits: — REL isn't widely (or even sparsely) implemented.
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Jeff / The Jeff Pulver Blog:
First John Edwards announces on YouTube. What Happens Next? — During my flight back to the States yesterday, a Washington, D.C. policy reporter who was covering the John Edwards YouTube announcement emailed me a request to do an interview. While I would have been happy to talk using Skype …
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Guba CEO steps down, says more execs may follow — Guba CEO Thomas McInerney has stepped down from the video-sharing site, marking the second executive shuffle within the sector in a week. — McInerney told CNET News.com that two other Guba executives are likely to follow him.
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NewTeeVee, HipMojo.com, Valleywag, GigaOM, splashcastmedia.com, Mashable! and Screenwerk
Marc Canter / Marc's Voice:
Original thinking — Hugh MacLeod accused me of being an Original Thinker when we were in Cork, Ireland recently. — I was struck w th how boring all the speakers were and how much fun it was to listen to Hugh. Both of us also spoke at LeWeb3 - so I was running into Hugh quite a lot.
Onethumb / SmugBlog:
Google's gone evil. — Some of you might remember how worried Google has been about the possibility of Vista and IE7 recommending Microsoft's Live.com search engine over Google when they shipped. — I certainly know I remember meetings at Google where this very fear was front-and-center …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Of Disappearing Sex Blogs & Google Updates — Last week, Barry Schwartz reported there seemed to be a Google update going, based on forum activity he was seeing. Google's Matt Cutts quickly followed up with a short refresher on the difference between algorithm updates, data refreshes and index updates.
Daniel Jalkut / Red Sweater Blog:
Macintendo Family Values — Nintendo and Apple Announce Strategic Partnership — Nintendo Co. Ltd. and Apple Computer Inc. today announced a multi-year, strategic partnership had commenced earlier this year and will culminate in the January 9, 2007 launch of the partnership's first product: Podfondo.
Gizmodo:
No Tunes For You: iTunes Store Gags on Christmas Download Traffic — Okay, so now we see why iTunes sales numbers allegedly plummeted 65% since January of this year: Forrester Research wasn't counting Christmas Day, when everyone who just got an iTunes gift card or shiny new iPod decided …
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
YouTube hosts New Year's Eve Bash — Forget Dick Clark and the Rockin' New Year's Eve party on ABC. YouTube wants you ringing in 2007 with them online. — The video sharing Web site now owned by Google is teaming up with Warner Music Group to produce the first-ever YouTube New Year's Eve Countdown.
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Paul Hampel / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Cartographers hit the road to bring updated online maps — In an SUV crammed with high-tech gear, Dan Donovan and Ben Woodley trolled last week through a new and virtually treeless subdivision in Troy, Ill. — A green arrow on a dashboard monitor connected to a roof-mounted Global Positioning …
Louis Hau / Forbes:
A Prescription For Big Music's Blues — If you're wondering where the digital music business is headed, you could do worse than to look up Bob Kohn. — Kohn is a co-founder of eMusic, the digital music pioneer that has sold more song downloads than any other vendor besides Apple Computer's …
Chris Ziegler / Engadget Mobile:
Meet your shiny new 2007 HTCs — If the X7500 "Athena" somehow managed to fail to attract your attention and you found the Vox, Libra, Love, and Cavailer positively forgettable, first verify that you have a pulse (because we really don't think that's normal) then check this out …
Ed Sutherland / internetnews.com:
Bloggers Rebuff Microsoft 'Gifts' — A tactic by Microsoft (Quote), AMD (Quote) and a PR firm to gain traction for Vista is instead reaping a whirlwind of controversy. — Edelman, the PR agency behind Vista's launch, sent Acer Ferrari laptops sporting the Windows Vista operating system and AMD processors to tech bloggers.
Michael Fahey / Kotaku:
Feature: The Decline of the PS3 Grey Market — The rise and fall of the PlayStation 3 on eBay is one of the most talked about gaming stories of the year. In order to paint a broader picture, I've tracked pricing trends from preorders to Christmas Eve and surveyed retailers to determine just how hard the PS3 grey market has crashed.
