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Traci / Burning Questions:
FreeBurner for Everyone — One of the many benefits that FeedBurner publishers will enjoy now that FeedBurner is part of the Google family is a little something we like to call, "more for free!" Beginning today, two of FeedBurner's previously for-pay services, TotalStats and MyBrand, will be free.
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Google Makes FeedBurner PRO Free — Google is about making things accessible to everyone and one of the way to make this happen is to buy a service or software that used to cost money and release it for free. Google did this with Blogger PRO, Picasa, Keyhole (now Google Earth), Urchin …
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SAP admits Oracle downloads — SAP has admitted its TomorrowNow unit carried out "inappropriate downloads" of documents from its rival Oracle, but said SAP had not accessed the material. — Oracle is suing SAP, accusing it of hacking into its computer network and stealing vital product information.
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Russian Online Music Service Closes — AllofMP3.com, a Russian online music service accused of skirting copyright law, has shut down but may be back in business elsewhere on the Internet, authorities said yesterday. — The Web site gained attention for selling digital albums cheaply …
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Russian download site shut down — The controversial Russian music download site allofmp3.com has closed. — The service, which sold songs at a fraction of the cost of other sites, claimed to be the second biggest seller of music downloads after iTunes. — It was the subject …
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Paul Miller / Engadget:AllOfMP3.com finally shut down, replacement already launched
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Agence France Presse:
Youtube, SKorea's LG agree to develop mobile phone — SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea's LG Electronics said Tuesday it has signed an agrement with YouTube, the world's biggest video-sharing website, to develop a mobile phone which can operate the service. — LG Electronics said the proposed model …
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CNN:
Nintendo Wii Outsells Sony PS3 6-to-1 In Japan - Publisher — TOKYO (AP)—Nintendo Co.'s (NTDOY) Wii video game console outsold Sony Corp's (SNE) PlayStation 3 by six to one in June in Japan, a Japanese publishing company said Monday. — Although the Wii has been on sale since late last year …
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Gates no longer the richest man in the world? — Bill Gates appears to have been dethroned as the world's richest man. But based on his past comments, he probably isn't disappointed. — The Microsoft Corp. chairman and co-founder has been overtaken on the world's richest list …
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Adario Strange / Epicenter:Bill Gates Loses 'Richest' Crown To Mexican Telecom Mogul
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Louise Story / New York Times:
Engaging at Any Speed? Commercials Put to Test — In new experiments for NBC, people are hooked up to sensors as they watch television, and researchers observe changes in their heart rate, palm sweat, eye movement and breathing patterns. — But the panelists are not watching just NBC programs.
Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 6: How much funding is too little? Too much? — In this post, I answer these questions: … The first question to ask is, what is the correct, or appropriate, amount of funding for a startup? — The answer to that question, in my view …
Ellen Lee / San Francisco Chronicle:
Apple denies big record label may quit iTunes — Universal reportedly won't sign a long-term contract for music — Apple Inc. denied reports Monday that record label Universal Music Group did not plan to renew its contract to sell songs on its online iTunes Store.
Bloomberg:
Google Purchases Web Phone Service — Google said yesterday that it had bought GrandCentral Communications, acquiring a service that lets people use a single number for all their phones. — Terms of the purchase were not disclosed. — GrandCentral users can also create a single mailbox …
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
HP Compaq 2710p tablet PC gets FCC approval — Just as we mentioned in May, the HP Compaq 2710p Tablet PC is definitely on its way, having just received FCC approval. The 3.6-pound, 12.1-inch tablet runs on an Intel Core 2 Duo ULV, features Bluetooth, 802.11/a/g/n, and offers an integrated EvDO …
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Straight dope from Fake Steve Jobs — newsmaker For months now, one of the best-read blogs in technology circles has been the starkly funny, pull-no-punches Secret Diary of Steve Jobs. — Otherwise known as "Fake Steve Jobs (FSJ)," the author—who writes as if he is, in fact, Steve Jobs …
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