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Bradley Horowitz / Yodel Anecdotal:
Hacks come to life — By now, hopefully you're familiar with our Hack@Yahoo! program, where developers build cool tools or functionality on top of Yahoo! products. Maybe you attended or read about our "Open Hack Day" last September (does a free Beck concert on the Yahoo! lawn ring a bell?).
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Christopher Phin / MacFormat:
Mum is no longer the word — OK, folks, what does this cryptic invite mean? Suggestions in the comments! — Just to quell any conspiracy theories, the blanked out text is just the RSVP email address and phone number; we thought it only polite to hide them.
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Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek:
Fair Use Worth More to Economy Than Copyright, CCIA Says — Fair use exceptions to U.S. copyright laws account for more than $4.5 trillion in annual revenue for the United States, according to the Computer and Communications Industry Association. — Fair use exceptions to U.S. copyright laws account …
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Matt Asay / CNET News.com:Does copyright create $2.2 trillion in value? No, but fair use does
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BBC:
Cancelled TV show goes to MySpace — The award-winning producers of TV shows Thirtysomething and My So-Called Life are taking their latest project online, citing "frustration" at US TV networks. — Quarterlife, a drama about a group of recent graduates in Chicago, started as a pilot for ABC in 2005 …
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:MySpace, 'thirtysomething' Team Pair Up For New 'Network-Quality …
Scott Dunn / Windows Secrets Newsletter:
Microsoft updates Windows without users' consent — Microsoft has begun patching files on Windows XP and Vista without users' knowledge, even when the users have turned off auto-updates. — Many companies require testing of patches before they are widely installed, and businesses …
Alden DeSoto / Google Analytics Blog:
Reverting Back to Original "Average Time on Site" Calculation Today — We recently introduced a new way of calculating "Average Time on Site" that removed visitors who "bounce" from your website (people who hit one page of your site and then leave). This updated calculation attempted to give …
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Tim Gideon / PC Magazine:
Apple iPod touch — When the iPhone came out in June, many people (myself included) loved it, but wanted it without the phone—and that pesky two-year contract with AT&T Wireless. I'm no luddite, but I don't want my personal media player to ring in the middle of a song.
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Want to 'converse' with advertisers? Me neither — reporter's notebook SAN FRANCISCO—I admit it; I'm cynical when it comes to advertising and marketing. I believe that the sole purpose of advertising is to convince me to part with my well-earned and limited supply of money and persuade …
Elizabeth Judge / Times of London:
O2 finds Apple revenue-sharing to its taste — O2, the mobile phone company, laid the groundwork yesterday for an announcement of a tie-up with Apple to sell the US firm's iPhone handset. — Peter Erskine, the O2 chief executive, defended Apple's insistence that it receives a share of revenues from calls made on iPhones.
Macworld UK:
MACWORLD MARKETPLACE — At Ciao you can read consumer reviews on computers and components for laptops, towers, PDAs and Compare prices of many more computer products. — zCover — zCover is a pioneer and trend-setter in the fashionable silicone products market. zCover iSA silicone cases …
Reuters:
Apple calls on UK press as iPhone talk swirls — LONDON (Reuters) - Apple Inc is calling a London news conference next Tuesday as speculation mounts that the consumer electronics guru will unveil long-awaited plans to bring its iconic iPhone cell phones to Europe.
Peter Ha / CrunchGear:
Virgin America Announce In-flight Broadband Details — Virgin America has partnered with AirCell to bring Wi-Fi to VA's entire fleet in early 2008. American Airlines inked a deal earlier this year with AirCell to bring Wi-Fi, but VA seems to be a bit more proactive.
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google Founders' Ultimate Perk: A NASA Runway — In the annals of perks enjoyed by America's corporate executives, the founders of Google may have set a new standard: an uncrowded, federally managed runway for their private jet that is only a few minutes' drive from their offices.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Some Details About Google Related Genome Start-up, 23andMe — Did you know that Apple's (AAPL) iPhone can store your entire genome? I learnt this earlier today when reading through Matthew Herper's piece on 23andMe over on Forbes.com. — 23andMe is a company co-founded by Anne Wojcicki, wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin.
Elise Ackerman / Mercury News:
Company vows to deliver big cuts in data center costs — XSIGO REDUCES CABLE EXPENSES, ENERGY NEEDS — A company backed by Kleiner Perkins emerged from three years of secrecy Wednesday, unveiling technology designed to dramatically reduce the costs of running large data centers.
