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Karen / Google Health Advertising Blog:
My opinion and Google's — Posted by Lauren Turner, Account Planner, Health — Well, I've learned a few things since I posted on Friday. For one thing, even though this is a new blog, we have readers! That's a good thing. Not so good is that some readers thought the opinion I expressed …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Faux Pas Retracted — I'm betting that Lauren Turner's job duties at Google will no longer include blogging. Yesterday she wrote an anti-Sicko (Michael Moore's new movie lambasting the U.S. health care industry) post on the Google Health Advertising blog, and encouraged health care companies …
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
U.S. healthcare industry: Google wants to protect you from Michael Moore's Sicko — Taking a break from reading the wall-to-wall iPhone coverage on TechMeme, I ran across a post from Lauren Turner, who works for Google as an account planner selling ads to the healthcare industry.
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
How Apple Will Use The iPhone To Take Over The Wireless Industry — Steve Jobs isn't stupid. He knows that AT&T Wireless sucks. So why lock the revolutionary iPhone into a crappy network? — Because Jobs knows that everyone will buy an iPhone anyway, even if they hate the network.
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Jeremy Toeman / Jeremy Toeman's LIVEdigitally:
Why Apple will NOT Take Over the wireless industry — In response to the article How Apple Will Use The iPhone To Take Over The Wireless Industry, I'm opening by saying "take over" is a ludicrous claim. Do you have any idea the sheer volume of mobile handsets sold worldwide?
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Umair / Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab:
Research Note: iStrategy — What's Apple's larger strategy behind the iPhone? Is there even one, or is the iPhone just a pretty face? — Since - to my surprise - it's not transparent, let me try and offer my perspective. — 1) Pick an industry which sucks (ie, imposes significant …
Jonathan Dee / New York Times:
All the News That's Fit to Print Out — When news broke on May 8 about the arrest of a half-dozen young Muslim men for supposedly planning to attack Fort Dix, alongside the usual range of reactions — disbelief, paranoia, outrage, indifference, prurience — a newer one was added …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Poll: got iPhone activation problems? — We heard yesterday that despite some issues over AT&T way, iPhone activations would (hopefully) be up and running smoothly by as early as this morning. Of course, evidenced by the flood of users continuing to tip us, we'd say a great deal of you are still experiencing activation problems.
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David Reid / BBC:
Beating congestion with mobiles — Working out how people use a city's roads and planning for it, can be difficult, but research into mobile phone use may hold the key to preventing traffic jams in the future. — If you do not like crowds, congestion, chaos - and few do - then you might want to avoid Rome's rush-hour.
Wendy / Wendy's Blog:
AGING THE INTERNET PREMATURELY, ONE PDP AT A TIME — After blogging about ICANN's new gTLD policy or lack thereof, I've had several people ask me why I care so much about ICANN and new top-level domains. Domain names barely matter in a world of search and hyperlinks, I'm told …
GigaOM:
And now the French Web 2.0 Wave — France leads Europe in its enthusiasm for Web 2.0 startups, an industry that has doubled in size across the continent since 2005. According to Dow Jones/Venture One data French start-ups raised close to $40 million in venture capital in 2006 …
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
How to port 'ineligible' mobile numbers to AT&T and iPhone — Some iPhone customers trying to port their mobile numbers from carriers such as Verizon are being told by the iTunes software and AT&T customer service reps that their current mobile number 'cannot be transfered,' is 'ineligible' for a port …
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Mansur Mirovalev / Associated Press:
Cyber attacks engulf Kremlin's critics — MOSCOW - A political battle is raging in Russian cyberspace. Opposition parties and independent media say murky forces have committed vast resources to hacking and crippling their Web sites in attacks similar to those that hit tech-savvy Estonia …
Kent / Newsome.Org:
From Creation to Abandonment: the 5 Stages of Blogging — Between my earlier ScobleFeeds series and my current swivel feeds experiment, I have read a lot of blogs. During this time, I have been looking for patterns and commonalities. While it's hard to draw too many universal conclusions …
