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BBC:
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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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
SAP admits to corporate espionage against Oracle — Uh oh, we've got ourselves a true-blue corporate [competitive intelligence] espionage fiasco exploding on the international stage. Germany's SAP has admitted to "inappropriate downloads" from arch-rival, Oracle in the US.
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Makes FeedBurner MyBrand 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 Keyhole (now Google Earth), Picasa, SketchUp …
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Makes FeedBurner's TotalStats & MyBrand Free — In light of Google's acquisition of FeedBurner, Google has made the two fee-based FeedBurner services free: MyBrand and Stats PRO. — FeedBurner Stats PRO gives you a more details look at your feed readers.
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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The New / New York Times:
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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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 …
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.
Sid Yadav / Rev2.org:
Zoho Launches Facebook Apps: Web Office Meets the Young — One of the web office suites I'm fond of is Zoho, which has been slowly building up its user base since day one. Today, Zoho announced three applications for Facebook — Writer, Sheet, and Show — which might just do their part …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Techdirt Will Pay Up To $1 Million For Proof Of BSA Million Dollar Pay Out — from the please-note-the-up-to-part dept — The Business Software Alliance (BSA) is no stranger to bogus numbers. It puts out its easily debunked (even by the firm that did the research) claims of "lost sales" …
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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 …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Hollywood hates pirates, but can it use them? — news analysis Attorney Nancy Prager sees only thievery in file sharing. Don't even try to suggest anything otherwise to her. — Director Michael Moore's Sicko is coming off a glittering debut weekend at the box office.
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Hollywood Reporter
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 …
Internet Stocks on Seeking Alpha:
Three Developments Driving Local.com Shares Into A Frenzy — Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: Yowza! Local.com (LOCM) has been, until recently, a sleepy stock, trading nearly by appointment, with a focus on operating a search engine intended to help people find local businesses.
Richard Martin / InformationWeek:
Former FCC Chair: iPhone Hindered By Network Limitations — Reed Hundt notes that the iPhone's popularity underscores the need for ubiquitous high-speed wireless coverage in the United States. — Comparing the newly released iPhone to a Ferrari forced to drive on dirt roads …
Theo Valich / Inquirer:
AMD Barcelona performance promises revealed — $800 CPU paper promises to slay the competition — WHILE ENGINEERS ARE working full throttle at making the K10 (10h family) work, performance figures are becoming an integral part of marketing presentations and so on.
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