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Mozilla:
Firefox Release Notes — Firefox 2 is the next generation release of the award-winning Firefox web browser from Mozilla. — These Release Notes cover what's new, download and installation instructions, known issues and frequently asked questions for Firefox 2.
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Brandon McCormick / Google:
Google Expands Print Advertising Program — Program makes newspaper print advertising available to hundreds of thousands of Google advertisers creating new revenue opportunities for publishers — Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced the expansion of the size and the scope of its Google Print Ads™ advertising initiative.
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AdAge:
Google Print Ads Now Used by 225 Newspapers — Trial Program Turns Into Real Service to Place Offline Ads — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Google's foray into print-ad sales is showing every sign of turning into an extended stay. Following a limited test of its Print Ads program …
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Haitham Jendoubi / MarketWatch:
E.U. court adviser says Telefonica not required to reveal client data — BRUSSELS (MarketWatch) — Spanish broadband Internet provider Telefonica (TEF) isn't required to reveal the identity of clients who may have illegally downloaded music recordings, an adviser for Europe's highest court said Wednesday in a legal opinion.
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Matt Hamblen / Computerworld:
Microsoft joins JiWire to test muni Wi-Fi advertising — Companies will test use of ads to subsidize Wi-Fi network — July 18, 2007 (Computerworld) — Microsoft Corp. today announced an alliance with mobile advertising provider JiWire Inc. to begin placing ads on municipal Wi-Fi networks …
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:Microsoft teams with JiWire to offer ad-based muni Wi-Fi
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Sony:
SONY UNVEILS BOOMBOX AND CLOCK RADIO WITH DOCKS FOR IPOD — Sony's latest clock radio (model ICF-C1iP) and boombox (model ZS-S2iP), unveiled at a special "Holidays in July" event held in New York City today, let consumers enjoy their iPod® music players without being tethered to headphones …
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Wall Street Journal:
Dow Jones Board Approves Sale — Backing of News Corp. Offer — Puts Pressure on Family; — A Bancroft Exits Meeting — The board of Dow Jones & Co. voted to approve News Corp.'s $5 billion bid for the company last night, with two directors abstaining from the vote and one leaving the meeting early …
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
FBI remotely installs spyware to trace bomb threat — The FBI used a novel type of remotely-installed spyware last month to investigate who was e-mailing bomb threats to a high school near Olympia, Wash. — Federal agents obtained a court order on June 12 to send spyware called CIPAV …
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Ars Technica, Threat Level, Wired News, Alice Hill's Real Tech News, GigaLaw.com Daily News and The Olympian
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Nothing too "Lite" about new $299 TiVo Series 3 unit — Consensus seems to be that the standard TiVo Series 3 is too expensive for the mass market, and TiVo agrees. CEO Tom Rogers revealed in May that TiVo will have "a mass appeal priced HD unit... later this year," but TiVo has been mum on the topic since.
Business Wire:
IBM Reports 2007 Second-Quarter Results — Diluted earnings of $1.55 per share, including a gain from sale of Printing Systems; earnings per share were $1.50, up 15 percent without the gain; — ARMONK, N.Y.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—IBM (NYSE: IBM - News) today announced second-quarter 2007 diluted earnings …
Emily Steel / Wall Street Journal:
Newspapers' Ad Sales Show Accelerating Drop — Even as News Corp. negotiated to buy Dow Jones & Co. over the past few weeks, a grim reality was increasingly evident to executives on both sides of the discussion: The downturn in the newspaper industry is getting worse.
Vince Veneziani / CrunchGear:
Everex Sub-$300 Green PC Launches — When you stroll into Wal-Mart today to pick up some cheap meds and plentiful toilet paper, you may notice a new PC for sale in the electronics section. Everex has released the Impact GC3502, its new $298 "green" PC that uses 20W of power at most thanks to a 1.5GHz VIA C7-D processor.
Austin American-Statesman:
Apple expanding in Austin — Company adding 80,000 square feet to Northwest Austin campus — By By M.B. Taboada — Apple Inc. is expanding its operations in Austin, with plans for a new 80,000-square-foot building at its campus in Northwest Austin, according to real estate sources.
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Calling All Videos — Alex Gurevich loves to log on to YouTube to watch music videos and comedy sketches on breaks from work. But the 24-year-old entrepreneur from San Francisco fretted that he couldn't take the fun with him on his cellphone. Mr. Gurevich assumed that signing …
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
3D Mailbox: Worst. App. Ever. — Do you find dealing with email boring? Would your day be brighter if your email was rendered as characters in a SecondLife style universe, complete with spam eating sharks? Were you dropped on your head as a child? Introducing 3D Mailbox.
Chris Gaylord / USA Today:
Economists puzzled by irrational eBay buyers — In the 12 years since eBay's launch, the online auction house has established itself as a one-stop shop for all things rare, kitschy, and collectible. But recently, a small group of economists have mined the site for a different prize: clues on how people spend their money.
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Local.com: Hearst Apparently Sells Entire 22% Stake — Hearst Corp., which earlier this year made a private placement investment in local search engine Local.com (LOCM) debt and warrants convertible into a 22% stake in the company, has apparently converted the securities into common stock and sold all of its share in the open market.
