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Paul Sloan / Business 2.0:
The man who owns the Internet — Kevin Ham is the most powerful dotcom mogul you've never heard of, reports Business 2.0 Magazine. Here's how the master of Web domains built a $300 million empire. — (Business 2.0 Magazine) — Kevin Ham leans forward, sits up tall, closes his eyes, and begins to type — into the air.
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Paul Sloan / The Key:
Yahoo Outsmarts Google in Cameroon Domain Play — Yahoo takes a lot of heat for always playing catch up to its cross-valley rival, Google (GOOG). But Yahoo did do something back in 2004 that, while small, deserves some credit—it registered the domain name Yahoo.cm.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
New Microsoft-funded study finds developers don't want GPL to cover patent deals — Microsoft is expending an awful lot of time and energy to try to derail the next version of the Free Software Foundation's General Public License (GPL). — On May 22, yet another in a long line …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Message to Michael: Just Say, Well, No. — In what I can only describe as a sentimental-veering-toward-weepy riff on the ongoing saga of "Silicon Valley Bubble: The Sequel," TechCrunch blogger Michael Arrington waxes on about the need for a downturn to stop the madness.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:Why I'm in a malaise... I've been in a blog malaise lately.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:Silicon Valley gets a bad case of startup-itis; the doctor is in
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Charles Douglas / The Boy Genius Report:
Apple iPhone to be available for prepaid users — One thing we know about the Apple iPhone launch, is that we don't really know much. Today we received a few screen shots that shed some light on one of the major questions regarding the sales of the iPhone – who will be eligible to buy this new dream gadget?
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USA Today:
AT&T eager to wield its iWeapon — The Apple iPhone, due out next month, has been breathlessly hailed as offering consumers the ultimate wireless experience. — It also could give AT&T, its exclusive U.S. distributor, the ultimate experience for a wireless carrier: an easy way to handcuff rivals and steal customers.
Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
The Future of Ask.com: Search? How About Advertising — Allen Stern over at CenterNetworks has an interesting post today about Ask.com, in which he lays out his strategy for getting the search engine back on track. That caught my eye because last night when looking over the latest search data …
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Ask.com goes "all in"... and my strategy suggestions to help them fight the beast — Update: Josh at Read/WriteWeb dives into my suggestions and offers up some of his own. — Also, let me make one thing clear... Ask spending $100 million on this stupid "xxxx hates the algorithm" ad campaign is downright stupid.
Karen / Official Google Blog:
What's hot today? — For more than six years, we have compiled a regular list of popular searches called the Google Zeitgeist. This has been our way to highlight the sorts of queries people type into the Google search box every day. More recently, we unveiled Google Trends to show …
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Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
Google Gets Trendy — Google today launched an improvement to their Trends service, Hot Trends, which lists the top 100 break out searches of each day. These are not the top searches, but the ones that deviate the most from their normal search pattern. — Clicking on a trend leads …
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Music industry offers deal to small Webcasters — Facing an outcry over imminent royalty fee increases for Internet radio operators, the music industry body that lobbied for the changes has attempted a peace offering. — SoundExchange, the nonprofit group that collects the fees on behalf …
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
SoundExchange offers olive branch to small webcasters over royalties — Smaller webcasters will not have to pay higher royalties on Internet broadcasts, at least not until 2010. SoundExchange, the licensing authority backed by the Big Four labels, has relented on its desire for higher royalties …
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Michigan man arrested for using cafe's free WiFi from his car — A Michigan man is being prosecuted for using a cafe's free WiFi... from his car. Sam Peterson was arrested under a Michigan law barring access to anyone else's network without authorization, according to Michigan TV station WOOD.
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
House passes more tech-friendly antispyware bill — In their third effort to enact a federal law targeting spyware, members of the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved criminal penalties aimed at anyone implanting certain types of malicious software on computers.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation:
'Electric Slide' Creator Calls Off Online Takedown Campaign — Agreement Ends Copyright Threats Over Non-Commercial Use of Popular Dance — San Francisco - The man who claims to have created "The Electric Slide" has agreed to call off his online video takedown campaign …
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:'Electric Slide' creator backs down from DMCA claim
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Financial Times:
Google's goal to organise your daily life — Google's ambition to maximise the personal information it holds on users is so great that the search engine envisages a day when it can tell people what jobs to take and how they might spend their days off. — Eric Schmidt, Google's chief executive …
