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Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Why Wi-Fi Networks Are Floundering — Faced with weak user demand, AT&T and other telecoms are vowing to tear up their muni Wi-Fi contracts if cities don't foot more of the bill — The static crackling around municipal wireless networks is getting worse.
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Marguerite Reardon / ZDNet:
Community Wi-Fi comes to San Francisco — While EarthLink and Google are still hammering out details of their citywide Wi-Fi contract with San Francisco officials, a company called Meraki plans on blanketing the city with free Wi-Fi using volunteers who will deploy and manage the equipment themselves.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook + iPhone = UltraCool — A pairing of the two most hyped tech products of the year: Facebook released what is arguably the single best iPhone-customized website to date at iphone.facebook.com. Like the Netvibes iPhone site which launched late yesterday, it isn't much to look at in a normal browser.
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Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Movable Type's Version 4.0 Final Release — Movable Type is releasing the final version of their 4.0 platform tonight. We covered the beta, their turn towards open source, and new feature set previously. The new release, no doubt, comes under pressure from the success Wordpress has had as an open source platform.
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Gillian Wee / Bloomberg:
Time Warner Cable to Expand Video-on-Demand This Year — Aug. 13 (Bloomberg) — Time Warner Cable Inc., the second- largest U.S. cable company, plans to expand a service that lets viewers watch shows when they want as long as they sit through the commercials.
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:Time Warner Cable To Try No-Fee, No Ad-Skip Time Shifting
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Report: Cable companies facing big bandwidth crunch — If you're starting to become frustrated with the download speed of your cable ISP or the relatively low number of HD channels available, you ain't seen nothin' yet. Your local cable provider will soon be faced with a serious bandwidth crunch …
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Jeff Leeds / New York Times:
They've Just Got to Get a Message to You — As a teenage rock fan, all Dennis Vorreyer really expected of the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago two weekends ago was the chance to see his favorite bands perform live. — But he and his father, Jeffrey, who accompanied him to the festival …
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Facebook *is* opening up — And it's starting to happen right now, today in fact. — I reported earlier on a new feed in Facebook, allowing notifications to be visible outside the wall. — It's getting reallll interesting — I've found some more RSS feeds in Facebook's UI. — 1. Friends Status Updates.
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Inquirer:
Channel grumbles over further AMD Barcelona delays — Another glitch hits flagship microprocessor — SYSTEM INTEGRATORS who were told to expect supplies of AMD Barcelona processors during mid-August said there's a hitch which is preventing AMD from delivering on its promises.
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Ingrid Lunden / paidContent.org:
Hearst's UK Jellyfish Goes Belly Up — Well, you can't blame them for trying...Hearst's UK division Natmags has axed its digital-only magazine Jellyfish after a five-month trial, citing distribution challenges. The celebrity/fashion title had been sent out via email, but spam filters …
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Across the pond, Bebo leaps ahead of MySpace? — Some interesting ComScore numbers have just been documented by CNET's sister site ZDNet: social-networking site Bebo, always more of a presence in the U.K. than stateside, has soared ahead of global leader MySpace on its home turf.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick:
Introducing good bloggers and companies to hire them — Update: Response to this post has been extensive - it's going to take me some time to deal with all the replies! That's great. — I've been getting so many inquiries lately from companies looking to hire bloggers …
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Entrepreneur.com launches "Entrepreneur Assist" - it's a My — Entrepreneur.com is announcing this morning the launch of "Entrepreneur Assist" which is a free suite of tools aimed at entrepreneurs and small business owners. It's a better version of a "My" page as it includes some applications …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Sprint's mobile WiMAX service called XOHM? — We have information from an anonymous tipster claiming that Sprint is set to take the wraps of their new WiMAX brand dubbed XOHM. It's anybody's guess at this point how you'd pronounce that ("x-ohm" or "zohm" perhaps) but we're told to expect a formal announcement as early as Thursday.
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Yahoo Local Gets A Sophisticated Makeover — Yahoo is arguably the leader in local search, but others including Google, Microsoft and Yelp have been rapidly gaining. The search engine's venerable Local site was in need of a refresh, which it has now received.
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Adding a Google Map to your blog — Google will be releasing a new feature next week that will enable people to easily embed a Google Map into their Web site or blog, just like you can do with a YouTube video. No coding or programming required; just copying and pasting a snippet of HTML, a Google spokeswoman says.
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Alex Iskold / Read/WriteWeb:
How JavaScript is Slowing Down the Web (And What To Do About It) — A single line of JavaScript is what powers a lot of blogging technologies these days. Widgets, sharing tools, visitors tracking, advertisers. In many cases a single line of JavaScript is all that a blogger needs to add a new technology to their blog.
