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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Implements OpenID; Massive Win For The Project — The rumor last week was that Google (as well as Verisign and IBM) were mulling over the idea of joining the OpenID 2.0 single sign-on framework. But the real news comes today, as Yahoo and its roughly 250 million user IDs officially jump on the bandwagon.
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AppScout, Jeremy Zawodny's blog, Zero Day, InfoWorld, Search Engine Journal, Google Watch, Mark Evans, paidContent.org, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Compiler, BetaNews, TECH.BLORGE.com, Search Engine Land, CyberNet, unstruc chitchatting …, Identity Woman, 901am, Basement.org, Signal vs. Noise, WebProBlog, WeBreakStuff, The Progress Bar and Mashable!
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Yahoo!:
Yahoo! Announces Support for OpenID; Users Able to Access Multiple Internet Sites with Their Yahoo! ID — Yahoo! Support Triples Number of OpenID Accounts to 368 million — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today announced its support for the OpenID 2. digital identity framework …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:Yahoo! to Provide OpenID - Will It Take the Next Step?
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
All-You-Can-Eat Broadband Is Dead: Time Warner to Charge by the Byte — Reason number 149 I won't move to Texas: Time Warner confirmed it'll be testing a new pricing plan in Beaumont that's based on how much bandwidth you eat up. That's right, hard caps. Totally made-up example …
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Associated Press:
Time Warner links web prices with usage — Time Warner links web prices with usage — NEW YORK - Time Warner Cable will experiment with a new pricing structure for high-speed Internet access later this year, charging customers based on how much data they download, a company spokesman said Wednesday.
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paidContent.org, Profy.Com, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, TECH.BLORGE.com, Mashable! and DSLreports
Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Confirmed: Change Your System Time, Watch Your iTunes Rentals Forever — Update: That was fast. It's busted—or fixed, depending on your POV. See the jump. Movie rentals from iTunes 7.6? Awesome. That pesky 24-hour viewing window once you've started the film? Not so much.
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Salon, CNET News.com, Infinite Loop, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, MacUser and O'Grady's PowerPage
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Christina Warren / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:Will iTunes rentals play on a 5G iPod? Nope.
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Google:
Google.org Announces Core Initiatives to Combat Climate Change, Poverty and Emerging Threats — Reveals its plans for philanthropy; announces new grants and investments — In its continuing effort to use the power of information and technology to help people better their lives …
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Harriet Rubin / New York Times:
Google Offers a Map for Its Philanthropy — Google announced Thursday that it had come up with a plan that begins to fulfill the pledge it made to investors when it went public nearly four years ago to reserve 1 percent of its profit and equity to “make the world a better place.”
Tim Wu / Slate:
Has AT&T Lost Its Mind? — A BAFFLING PROPOSAL TO FILTER THE INTERNET. — Chances are that as you read this article, it is passing over part of AT&T's network. That matters, because last week AT&T announced that it is seriously considering plans to examine all the traffic it carries …
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mathewingram.com/work, IP Democracy, CNET News.com, DSLreports, Valleywag, VoIP Blog, p2pnet, Mark Evans, Memex 1.1, Boing Boing Gadgets, Silicon Alley Insider, Slashdot and Digg
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Exonerated RIAA defendant scores double victory in court — A US District Court judge in Oregon has reaffirmed a magistrate's award of attorneys' fees and the dismissal of exonerated RIAA defendant Tanya Andersen's counterclaims against the RIAA without prejudice so that her class-action lawsuit …
Anna Pickard / Guardian:
Are you suffering from password pressure? — Few things make you feel more helpless than sitting blank-faced at a screen, looking at a flashing cursor and a message saying “PASSWORD INCORRECT” in a disapproving tone. But that was the one for your bank, wasn't it? Or was it?
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Survey finds Apple users have sense of superiority — no wait, hear us out — Wait up, hang on here — you're telling us a personality profiling conducted on 7,500 people at Apple's biggest tub-thumping event of the year, Macworld, yielded results that would suggest Apple users “are more liberal …
BBC:
‘Wii warm-up’ good for surgeons — Playing computer games such as the Nintendo Wii can improve a surgeon's performance in the operating theatre, a US study shows. — Only certain games are effective - those requiring delicate movements. — The fine hand control required to play …
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violet blue:
so, everyone's asking what happened between me and steve jobs today... Update 01.16: this is now on Digg, “Steve Jobs tells off fan, calls her 'rude': Blogger and podcaster Violet Blue approached the Apple CEO on the Macworld floor to ask for a photo — and got completely blown off.".
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Update: Joost Fires CTO — Joost CTO Dirk-Willem van Gulik was fired by the Internet TV software company. He has taken another job as chief technical architect of the BBC Future Media and Technology Group, which is responsible for a similar project, the peer-to-peer video software iPlayer.
