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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
NBC Launching VOD Service — What about Hulu? — NBC will offer its top television shows as ad-supported downloads for up to a week after broadcast on a new service called "NBC Direct" that will launch this fall, the network is announcing today. It seems we're not the only ones scratching …
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Alex Weprin / Broadcasting & Cable:
NBC Letting Consumers Download Shows Free-of-Charge — NBC is launching NBC Direct, an ad-supported service that will allow users to download full-length episodes of NBC shows straight to their desktops. — The service, set to begin beta-testing in October, will allow viewers to keep …
Daniel Shen / DigiTimes:
Google Gphone still on the way, say sources — Google will definitely launch its own-brand handset but has yet to finalize the handset's specifications, OS, production contractor and operating partners, according to sources at Taiwan handset makers. — Although market rumors previously stated …
Kevin Rose / Digg the Blog:
DIGG: New Digg Profiles Launch — The Digg team is excited to launch new Digg user profiles later tonight, the first of many cool new features rolling out this year. — We've completely revamped our profiles from the ground up - making it easy for you to share your favorite stories …
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Catherine Holahan / Business Week:Digg Goes Deeper with Social Networking
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Sarah Ellison / Wall Street Journal:
Murdoch's Choice: Paid or Free for WSJ.com? — News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch hasn't completed his purchase of Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal, but already Mr. Murdoch and Dow Jones executives are debating a key strategic question: Should the Journal fall in line …
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John Spooner / ChipLand:
Intel wants you to put the Internet in your pocket — San Francisco—The next big thing for Intel is little. The company has used its Developer Forum, here, to extol the virtues of its forthcoming handheld device platforms for allowing consumers to connect to the Internet.
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Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi, PodTech.net, Intel, InfoWorld, CrunchGear and Ryan Stewart
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Michael Krigsman / IT Project Failures:
SAP Business ByDesign: first analysis — SAP's new A1S offering, formally called Business ByDesign, is intended for companies between 100-500 employees, which do not have deep vertical market software requirements. SAP believes this $15 billion market will help SAP dramatically expand its business over the coming years.
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Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
Apple: iPhone GPS Hack Works! — Whoa, the iPhone just got GPS. Well, assisted GPS, but still. It actually works. This morning, the Navizon GPS app showed up in Installer.app. After creating a username and login (get this: email NOT required), the free app started up …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Yahoo Image Search Loves Flickr — Search Yahoo Images for [google], and 70% (14 of 20) of the results are from Yahoo-owned Flickr*. Search for [google reader], and 100% of results are from Flickr. [horse], 25%. [matt cutts], 70%. [blogoscoped], 35%.
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:Promoting Your Own Services in Search Results
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Who's Afraid of Online Advertising? — A new McKinsey & Co. report called " How Companies Are Marketing Online" draws the astonishing conclusion that many advertisers are reluctant to shift dollars online — despite the massive shift of consumer attention online — because of the …
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Web host breach may have exposed passwords for 6,000 clients — Names, addresses and phone numbers also at risk — Layered Technologies has been targeted by malicious hackers who may have stolen passwords and other personal details on as many as 6,000 of its clients, the Texas-based web host provider warned.
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Techcrunch40: Conference Review, How did Mint win? and many Thank You's! — Now that the first TechCrunch40 conference is complete, this post will serve as my final conference review and recap. Some of the startups asked me about full, in-depth reviews. I am going to do my best to review each …
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Google Uses Outdoor Billboards To Promote Goog411 — Photo by Mike Blumenthal. Used with permission. — Mike Blumenthal took a picture of a billboard ad in upstate New York for Google's free directory assistance alternative, Goog411. This is interesting and amusing for a number of reasons.
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Mark Glaser / MediaShift:
Digging Deeper:: Business 2.0 Closed Due to Corporate Neglect, Ad Woes — Business 2.0 Closed Due to Corporate Neglect, Ad Woes — When the dot-com boom fizzled, the business magazines that covered that huge story similarly flamed out. The Industry Standard closed, Red Herring went south, and Business 2.0 was on death's door.
James Niccolai / PC World:
Google Tests Interactive Ads — Flashy new multimedia 'Gadget' ads are designed to draw watchers who'll share what they see. — Recommend this story? — Google Inc. is testing a new advertising format that it hopes will make people spend more time looking at ads online, and even embed them in their own Web sites.
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DailyTech, Download Squad, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Computerworld and New York Times
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Why a Recession Will Help Google Rule The World — As start-ups and investors pee in their britches over the thought that the U.S. economy is headed for a recession, Google and other cash rich companies are sitting pretty. Why? Because a recession would make their cash flow, cash piles …
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Apple's fight against iPhone unlocks may result in expensive bricks — Apple will actively work against any SIM unlocks of the iPhone, says Apple CEO Steve Jobs. The Jobs made the comments during a Q&A session that took place after yesterday's press event in London announcing availability details of the iPhone in the UK.
Peter / The Local Onliner:
Yahoo's Kay Skeptical about Local Verticals — Verticals are important to Yahoo! and others on a national basis, but they really aren't the way to go at the local level because of the limited resources for local sales, says Warren Kay, managing director, strategic alliances, Yahoo Search Marketing.
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