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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Vonage: How Low Can You Go? — Vonage (VG), the Holmdel, NJ-based VoIP service provider has been on the ropes for so long that you think it can't get any worse. But it does! Earlier this year the company lost a patent infringement case to Verizon, and was asked by the courts to pay Verizon …
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:Vonage ordered to pay Sprint $69.5 million in patent case
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
More on the Amazon MP3 Store — So why Amazon is even bothering with a music download store, given that "everyone knows" the iTunes Store is a loss-leader that Apple offers just to sell more iPods? — Because that's bulls**t. Apple is making good money from the iTunes Store.
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David Gainer / Microsoft Excel:
Calculation Issue Update — Yesterday we were alerted to an issue in Excel 2007 (and Excel Services 2007) involving calculation of numbers around 65,535. The Excel team would like to provide a description of the issue and explain what we're doing about it. — Background
Official Google Blog:
A new caffeine-free way to stay alert — Since new videos are constantly appearing all over the web, it's difficult to keep tabs on all of them. But now Google Alerts will make it easy for you to add video to your other Alerts: News, Web, Blog and Groups.
Louise Story / New York Times:
Microsoft Takes Aim at Google's Ad Supremacy — MICROSOFT has used its might, clout and smarts to take on any number of products and services — the browser, the operating system, the portable music player, to name just three — with varying degrees of success.
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Robert A. Guth / Wall Street Journal:
Inside Microsoft's Plan To Bring In Outside Talent — Before Brian McAndrews agreed to take charge of a crucial piece of Microsoft Corp.'s online advertising business, he insisted on a key condition: that he be granted certain power over the engineering part of the operation.
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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Midnight Madness: Benjamins for iPhones in Manhattan — In New York this week for the NewTeeVee Pier Screenings, I was stranded without a crucial piece of Apple (AAPL) equipment and had to make an emergency run to the store tonight. I decided that with the time difference in my favor …
Pdp / GNUCITIZEN:
Google GMail E-mail Hijack Technique — I feel a bit dirty now. First of all, I would like to say that I am a huge Google fan, so don't take this post personally. Here I am going to show you how someone can install a persistent backdoor within your GMail account and snoop onto all your conversations.
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Ryan Naraine / Ryan Naraine's Zero Day:Bullseye on Google: Hackers expose holes in GMail, Blogspot, Search Appliance
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
T-Mobile announces Sidekick LX and Sidekick Slide — Capping off months of rumor and speculation, T-Mobile and Danger have announced two new Sidekicks today targeting decidedly different segments of the market. The Sidekick LX takes over as the new king of the Hiptop hill …
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
RealNetworks To Buy Online Casual Games Site GameTrust; Price Less Than $50 Million — RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) is making a smallish online gaming acquisition, paidContent.org has learned: NYC-based online casual gaming site Gametrust. While we don't know the exact price, we do know it is less than $50 million.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Global Grind: Ajax, Finally, For The Hip Hop Demographic — The global hip-hop community: twenty four million people between the ages of 19-34, from a range of nationalities, ethnic groups and religions. Their collective spending power is $500 billion annually in the U.S. alone.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Kara Swisher Deconstructs Facebook — Kara Swisher of AllThingsD takes a contrarian point of view on Facebook and does a pretty good job of deconstructing the social-networking company, its potential and all the hype around it. What set her off: Facebook has apparently indicated …
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Yahoo Ranking Changes : Domain Name Importance & 301 Redirects — When Aaron Wall talks, the SEO community listens. Mr. Wall has recently noticed some major changes in the Yahoo ranking algorithm which could have a major effect on sites which enjoy Yahoo rankings, or can't seem to break the Yahoo Top 20.
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
HuffingtonPost Raises Another $5 Million; Same Investors Including Pittman — HuffingtonPost, the uber-blog, has quietly raised another $5 million in a second institutional round of funding. The round included all previous investors: Softbank (TYO: 9984) Capital, Greycroft Partners …
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Dan Goodin / The Register:
eBay forum mysteriously leaks account details on 1,200 users — 'Trust and safety' board in emergency shutdown — Exclusive Hackers brazenly posted sensitive information including home addresses and phone numbers for 1,200 eBay users to an official online forum dedicated to fraud prevention on the auction site.
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