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6:35 PM ET, January 29, 2008

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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google's Newspaper Ads: Big Hopes For Small Barcodes (GOOG)  —  Google's efforts to get into the newspaper ad business have yet to yield much.  One tool it hopes will eventually change that: Small, square barcodes, like the one at the right, at the bottom of print ads.
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Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
CueCat is back!  —  Google: “2D barcodes are an especially exciting part of this because they allow readers to “click” on interesting print ads with their cellphones and seamlessly connect to relevant online content."  —  Years ago, I went out on a limb and dismissed a similar scheme thus …
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Barcodes: Really clever or really dumb?
Discussion: rexblog.com
Brad Stone / Bits:
Slashdot Founder Questions Crowd's Wisdom  —  One of the oldest rivals to the community news site Digg is pointing to recent unrest at the site as evidence that the social news model is flawed.  —  Last week, frequent users of Digg protested changes in its algorithms that were designed …
Wall Street Journal:
Sprint Revives Clearwire Talks  —  Sprint Nextel has revived serious discussions with startup Clearwire to form a joint venture that would bring in funding from the likes of Intel, Google and Best Buy to build a high-speed wireless network using WiMax technology.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Sprint-Clearwire: Will 3rd Pipe Dreams Come True?
Steve Williams / Digg the Blog:
Digg Joins the DataPortability Project  —  Digg has joined the DataPortability Project, a group of websites cooperating to help you securely use your data however you want.  Why?  Because you own your data.  It's that simple.  From the start, Digg has supported the idea that you own your own data.
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John Graham-Cumming:
How many users does Digg have?
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:   Digg joins DataPortability: Opening up to other sites, looking to sell
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
U2 Manager Says Google And Its Hippie Friends Should Pay The Recording Industry  —  from the still-haven't-found-what-i'm-looking- for... dept  —  While the IFPI and the RIAA have been actively pushing for ISP liability for file sharing, it appears some in the industry are taking it even further.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Yahoo lowers its outlook for 2008; Sees ‘headwinds’; Restructuring in Feb.  —  Yahoo's fourth quarter results Tuesday were better than expected, but the company's outlook for 2008 disappointed.  Meanwhile, Yahoo didn't deliver layoffs as many prognosticators were expecting …
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Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com:
Yahoo!'s On Deck: Stock Market Casino
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Yahoo to lay off 1,000, profit drops
Discussion: eWeek
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Our Tech President Endorsements: Barack Obama and John McCain  —  It's sadly clear that our current leaders have little understanding of technology and why it's important to our economy and culture.  That has to change.  —  We've been interviewing 2008 presidential candidates for the last few months …
Kenneth C. Green / Inside Higher Ed:
The Movie Industry's 300% Error  —  A week ago today, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) issued what had to be a hugely embarrassing news release acknowledging that an aggressively promoted and widely cited research report commissioned by the MPAA in 2005 significantly overstated …
Discussion: p2pnet
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
VMware Down 30% As Growth Disappoints; Now What?  —  VMware (VMW) shares have plunged more than 30% today following the company's announcement late yesterday of both a $5 million revenue shortfall compared with Street expectations in the fourth quarter and a 2008 growth projection that left the Street wanting more.
oag.state.ny.us:
ATTORNEY GENERAL CUOMO, SENATE MAJORITY LEADER JOSEPH BRUNO AND ASSEMBLY SPEAKER SHELDON SILVER ANNOUNCE BILL TO PROTECT NEW YORKERS FROM SEX PREDATORS ON THE INTERNET  —  Dangerous Sex Offenders to be Banned from Social Networking Sites and From Communicating with Minors
Discussion: InfoWorld
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
N.Y. lawmakers announce social-networking safety legislation
Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
Wall Street Journal signs up with Microsoft for Contextual and Paid Search advertising  —  Microsoft will become the exclusive third-party ad provider for the Wall Street Journal network of sites, including The Wall Street Journal Online, Barrons.com, MarketWatch.com, AllThingsD.com and others.
Wendy Tanaka / Forbes:
Google Expected To Report Stellar Earnings  —  The Google gravy train is pulling into the station Thursday.  —  Buoyed by strong growth in search-advertising revenues in the U.S. and abroad, the Internet giant is expected to report a 40% increase in net income and a 54% jump in revenues for the fourth quarter.
Discussion: WebProNews
Paul Miller / Engadget:
MacBook Air shipments beginning for the earliest adopters  —  If you were prepared to snap up whatever ultraportable Steve Jobs threw at you during his Macworld keynote, and started frantically refreshing the Apple Store to buy the MacBook Air as soon as it was announced …
Aude Lagorce / MarketWatch:
Motorola may exit its handset business: analyst  —  LONDON (MarketWatch) — There is a possibility that Motorola, Inc. (MOT:, , ) may exit the handset business and concentrate on becoming an enterprise and government company, Richard Windsor, an analyst with Nomura International, told clients a in note published on Tuesday.
Peter Ha / CrunchGear:
Continental announces in-flight Wi-Fi  —  Today Continental announced that they will be offering Wi-Fi, but it will be the same crippled mess that you'll find on JetBlue.  It's not all bad, though.  The agreement with LiveTV will also bring 36 channels of live TV directly to your seat via DirecTV.
 
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Business Wire:
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Bruce Kyle / US ISV Developer Evangelism Team:
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BBC:
Aboriginal archive offers new DRM
Discussion: Slashdot
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Brad Linder / Download Squad:
SpeakLike offers real-time IM translation
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google TV Will Let Advertisers Select Programs, Produce Own Ads
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
How much would you pay to be the first Optimus Maximus owner?
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Schneier on Security:
Security vs. Privacy
Discussion: Techdirt
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CNN:
Apple gains in premarket; Piper Jaffray reiterates buy, $250 price target
Discussion: iLounge and Macsimum News
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Firefox share up over 20% in Europe, mostly at expense of IE
BBC:
Quarter of US iPhones ‘unlocked’
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