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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The FCC Needs To Listen To Google — I was very pleased to see Google publicly wade into the upcoming FCC auctions for the 700MHz spectrum that will occur early next year. Should all go well, the new spectrum could be used to create a new open-access wireless broadband "pipe" into people's homes and devices.
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Why Feedburner is trouble — When Feedburner first came online I warned that there was danger in giving so much power to one company. They argued that they were just a little company, struggling to make a go of it, and no one should fear them. Some of them even took the predictable political tactic …
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Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
Ten P2P Distribution Platforms for Online Video Makers — P2P is where it's at for online video these days. Not a week goes by without an announcement of a new P2P platform or distribution deal. It's easy to see why folks are excited about this: distributed data delivery can save you a lot of money …
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Jenna Johnson / Washington Post:
Google's View of D.C. Melds New and Sharp, Old and Fuzzy — As you take a bird's-eye tour of downtown Washington, compliments of Google Maps' updated satellite feature, you hit a haze over the Mall. — Suddenly, instead of crisp, yellow taxis, white buses and red pickup trucks, the vehicles look like little blobs.
Jon Pareles / New York Times:
The Once and Future Prince — I'VE got lots of money! " Prince exults in "The One U Wanna C," a come-on from his new album, "Planet Earth" (Columbia). There's no reason to disbelieve him. With a sponsorship deal here and an exclusive show there, worldwide television appearances and music given away …
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Adaptive Path
Pixeleen Mistral / Second Life Herald:
Are Furries Doomed? — Fallout from enforcing bans on "Broadly Offensive" behavior may threaten furry avatars … Great Britain had many rules on the books for many years that it didn't enforce in the American colonies. They were there, sure, but they were largely ignored.
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Ryan Lenz / Associated Press:
School conducts anti-phishing research — EVANSVILLE, Ind. - The e-mail appeared to be a routine correspondence between two friends. "Check this out!" it read, then listed a Web address. — But the note was fake, part of an online ruse called phishing that has become a scammer's favorite …
Rex Hammock / rexblog.com:
Dear Facebook Friends, If you add this application to your account, you're no friend of mine — One of the worst things I believe to ever to happen to blogging, Pay-Per-Post, has created a beach-head application on Facebook. My complaint with pay-per-post schemes (and not just the company of that name) …
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Search Engines and Favoritism — While most search engines say they return unbiased results, it's interesting to compare how well the services of a company perform in the search engine of the same company and other competing search engines. I chose the top three search engines: Google …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Read/WriteWeb's New Comments Feature: SezWho — At the beginning of this week we introduced a new comments feature on Read/WriteWeb, called SezWho. Basically it introduces comment rating, reputation and filtering to this blog. SezWho was created by one of our occasional writers, Jitendra Gupta - whose team installed it onto R/WW.
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Duke now says Cisco, not iPhone, caused Wi-Fi snafu — Apple supporters blame Tarheels for rush to judgment — Duke University said yesterday that widely publicized problems with its campus wireless network it had originally blamed on Apple Inc. iPhones had instead been traced to Cisco Systems Inc. hardware.
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Ron Nixon / New York Times:
Africa, Offline: Waiting for the Web — ON a muggy day in Kigali in 2003, some of the highest-ranking officials in the Rwandan government, including President Paul Kagame, flanked an American businessman, Greg Wyler, as he boldly described how he could help turn their small country into a hub of Internet activity.
Randall Stross / New York Times:
When Mobile Phones Aren't Truly Mobile — WIRELESS carriers in the United States are spiritual descendants of dear Ma Bell: they view total control over customers as their inherited birthright. — The younger generation — Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile and the namesake child AT&T …
Scott Hanselman / Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen:
Blue Badge — I'm going to work for Microsoft. There, I said it. I'm going to work for ScottGu's team in the Developer Division. — Someone once showed me a diagram that looked something like the one at right. Most of us spend our time over in the red circle doing stuff someone will pay us to do.
Rui Carmo / The Tao of Mac:
Five Things Nokia Needs To Address To Beat The iPhone … So, all that mulling about the Series 60 and the daily use of a new 3rd Edition model has finally driven me to write about Nokia and what I think they should do. — The interesting thing about this article is that I could just as well write mostly …
