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4:00 PM ET, March 1, 2007

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Inside AdWords:
Invalid Clicks - Google's Overall Numbers  —  Over the past year, we've been working hard to share more information about how we protect you against click fraud.  Last July, the invalid clicks report was released to provide you with the number of invalid clicks we detect (and don't charge for) in each individual account.
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Google says click fraud is less than .02%  —  Google reports today that click fraud is less than .02% of all ad clicks.  Danny Sullivan at SearchEngineLand has a detailed analysis of the Google claims.  I have long suggested that click fraud is lower than most estimates, but these numbers from Google surprised me.
Annalee Newitz / Wired News:
I Bought Votes on Digg  —  It was Tuesday, 1:22 a.m. on the West Coast, and influential news recommendation site Digg was hopping.  A new story about a blog dedicated to showing photographs of crowds had just gotten enough diggs to make the "popular" list on the tech/design page, and several people were commenting on it.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Citysearch snaps up Insider Pages in local search race  —  Citysearch, the division of IAC focuses on local reviews of restaurants and other services, has acquired the struggling local review start-up, Insider Pages.  —  The purchase (amount undisclosed) comes at a time of increasing competition …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Troubled Insider Pages Acquired By CitySearch  —  The Insider Pages acquisition rumors that we posted on last week were accurate - later today Citysearch, a division of InterActive Corp., will announce that they have acquired the company.  —  The size of the transaction is not being disclosed …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
RIAA slams FAIR USE Act  —  Although the FAIR USE Act introduced yesterday by Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA) and Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA) will have little more than a symbolic effect on the DMCA, that isn't stopping the Recording Industry Association of America from unloading on the bill with both barrels.
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Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
RIAA Pressures Students To Stop Illegal Downloads
Discussion: PaulStamatiou.com and Neowin.net
USA Today:
AT&T slows 'Lightspeed' release goals  —  New year, new target.  —  AT&T (T) won't reach 18 million homes this year with its "Lightspeed" broadband network, after all.  Instead, it will reach less than half the original target: 8 million.  —  AT&T unveiled its latest 2007 target …
Discussion: VoIP & Gadgets Blog
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Sanford Nowlin / MySanAntonio.com:
AT&T readies for aggressive U-verse expansion
www-307.ibm.com:
Battery recall  —  Select your preferred language from the list below:  —  Dear Lenovo Customer,  —  Lenovo is currently offering free-of-charge replacement batteries due to two unrelated battery recalls.  You may click here to determine if your battery has been recalled.
Discussion: Engadget, I4U News and Shop Talk
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Matthew Elliott / Crave: The gadget blog:
Lenovo recalls 100,000 ThinkPad batteries
Discussion: Gizmodo
Jessica Mintz / Associated Press:
Microsoft: Google Was `wake-Up Call'  —  Watching Google Inc. rake in advertising revenue "was a wake-up call within Microsoft," the company's top technical executive, Ray Ozzie, said Tuesday.  But he said Microsoft plans to do more than simply mimic Google by rolling out Web-based versions …
Discussion: Google Watch and Slashdot
Matt Asay / Open Sources:
More on what constitutes an open source company  —  So, now Alison has chimed in on what constitutes an open source company, taking the position that EnterpriseDB is emphatically so: … Let's be clear: EnterpriseDB's business is in selling proprietary extensions to PostgreSQL.  Period.
Discussion: Open Source and Jeremy's Blog
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Allison Randal / O'Reilly Radar:
EnterpriseDB is/n't Open Source
europa.eu:
Competition: Statement of Objections to Microsoft for non-compliance with March 2004 decision - frequently asked questions  —  HTML:  —  EN  —  PDF:  —  EN  —  DOC:  —  EN  —  MEMO/07/90  —  Competition: Statement of Objections to Microsoft for non-compliance with March 2004 decision - frequently asked questions
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
First look: BitTorrent video download store  —  BitTorrent joined the masses of legal video download services yesterday with offerings from five movie studios and a handful of TV networks.  The service offers movie rentals for $2.99 to $3.99 and TV download-to-own episodes for $1.99 …
Discussion: CrunchGear and Slashdot
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Jeannie Choe / Engadget:
BitTorrent Entertainment Network disappoints, frustrates
Discussion: broadbandreports.com
Three Speech:
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW - PHIL HARRISON ON BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY  —  Yet again, a seemingly innocent press release from Sony - detailing the specification of the PAL territory PlayStation 3 - has been met with the reception you'd expect if the sky started falling in.
Discussion: I4U News and Joystiq
Gregg Keizer / Macworld:
CompUSA to shutter more than half its stores  —  CompUSA will close more than half of its retail computer and electronics stores in the next two to three months.  —  In a statement Tuesday, CompUSA said it would shutter 126 stores — it currently operates 225 in the U.S. and Puerto Rico …
Heather Hopkins / Hitwise UK:
Social Networks Can Drive Traffic - Case Study of ASOS and TopShop  —  TopShop.co.uk and ASOS.com last week received more than twice as much traffic from MySpace than from MSN and Yahoo! Search combined.  Our column in this week's Technology Guardian (sorry our Siteseeing columns …
Discussion: Clickinfluence
Zune Insider:
Zune Firmware Update 1.3 - Coming Mid-March  —  Yesterday I had a meeting w/ James, the Zune release manager and he spilled the beans on the next firmware update.  In Mid March, we're going to release Zune Firmware Update 1.3.  Here's what's in the update:
New York Times:
Oracle Deal for Hyperion Is Expected  —  Oracle is near a deal to acquire Hyperion Solutions, which makes software that allows corporations to analyze and track their performance, for more than $3.1 billion, according to people briefed on the deal.  —  The acquisition is expected to be announced as early as today, these people said.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Morfik's Ajax Platform Set To Challenge Google, Adobe, Microsoft  —  There's been lots of talk recently about desktop/web platforms.  Last week we mentioned more News Reader desktop apps powered by Microsoft's WPF platform, and of course this week Adobe has featured twice on R/WW due to its unveiling of Apollo.
Discussion: Profy.Com and Cloudy Thinking
 
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Connie Guglielmo / Bloomberg:
Apple Says IPhone to Sell Since Free Phones Worthless (Update3)
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Netflix Watch Now: Secret Technique for Cutting In Line, Get Streaming Now
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Helio Turns Up the Heat with Digg-Touting Samsung Slider
CNET News.com:
Adobe to take Photoshop online
David Berlind / Berlind's Testbed:
Photo Gallery: AMD claims its ATI R600 is primed, ready to beat NVidia's 8800
Discussion: The Tech Report and Slashdot
David Kaplan / PaidContent:
Earnings: As Viacom's Digital Content Revenues Grow, Lines Between …
Discussion: Lost Remote
Mike Yamamoto / Crave: The gadget blog:
A purse that can charge up your phone
Discussion: Gizmodo, Popgadget and MobileWhack
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Bill Kee / Google Talkabout:
Twittering with Google Talk
Discussion: Download Squad
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Tricking the social voting sites
John R. Quain / New York Times:
Coaxing More Bars Out of That Cellphone
Discussion: Gizmodo
Mitchell Oke / Gear Diary:
Spectec SDW-822 miniSDIO WiFi Review
James Edward Gray II / The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC:
TextMate
Mike / Techdirt:
If Terrestrial Radio Broadcasters Don't Compete With Satellite Radio …
Discussion: Orbitcast
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Why Dell and other major hardware vendors won't do desktop Linux preinstallation
Eliot Van Buskirk / Listening Post:
RIAA Launches P2PLawsuits.com