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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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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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Ben Fenton / Financial Times:
U2 manager urges ISPs to help fight web piracy — The music industry should shift the focus of its battle with internet piracy towards the technological industries which have “built multibillion dollar industries on the back of our content without paying for it”, according to Paul McGuinness, manager of rock group U2.
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 …
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CrunchGear, Business Wire, techPresident, Lessig Blog, 901am, The Open Road and Threat Level
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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.
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CrunchGear, Tech Trader Daily, IntoMobile, Gizmodo, InformationWeek Weblog, zedgeHeadz, All About Nortel, Engadget, PHONE Magazine and mocoNews.net
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Electronista:
Motorola pondering exiting the cell business? — Motorola may be looking to fold its cellphone business after years of struggling to restore the business to profit, says an investor note from Nomura analyst Richard Windsor. After a damaging quarter that saw Motorola's cellphone sales suffer …
barracudanetworks.com:
Legal Defense of Free and Open Source Software — The purpose of this Web page is to inform the community of Barracuda Networks' plans to defend itself and the free and open source software (FOSS) community from a patent threat by Trend Micro. In addition, we wanted to share …
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:Barracuda defends open-source antivirus from patent attack
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Electronista:
EU: Telcos can withhold downloaders' identities — As a pan-European policy, telecom companies have no obligation to hand over the personal information of those accused of illegal downloading, the European Court of Justice has ruled. The decision is a response to a Spanish court …
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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.
John Graham-Cumming:
How many users does Digg have? — According to my calculations: around 2.7m registered users. — I obtained this number by finding random Digg users and extracting their user id. The user id is in a hidden HTML form input field on each Digg user's page. The Digg user page also gives their date of registration.
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The Next Web
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:Digg Nearly Triples Registered Users In a Year, Says Sleuth Programmer
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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.
Sam / a gthing science project:
The True Cost of SMS Messages — I just found out that AT&T (A-fee&fee?) is raising their text message pricing. When I first signed up for AT&T 6 or so years ago it cost 10 cents to send an SMS message, and it was free to receive them. — When AT&T switched to Cingular the price of sending …
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DSLreports, Christopher Null, CrunchGear, dailywireless.org, Slashdot and Jeremy Zawodny's blog
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
Windows 7 = Vista Release 2 — All the kerfuffle over Windows 7 - leaked memos, shaky handheld video clips of leaked builds, equally shaky tentative release schedules - is amusing. I don't have any inside information to offer, only a perspective drawn from 17 years of watching the Windows development process in action.
Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
11 Power Tips for Gmail — Wow, I can't believe how many people commented on my late-Friday night post about desired features for Gmail. If you want to suggest something for Gmail, that thread is the better place to do it. But looking through the comments, I saw a few requests that can already be done today.
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.
BBC:
Quarter of US iPhones ‘unlocked’ — More than a quarter of iPhones sold in the US have been “unlocked” to work on network providers other than Apple's exclusive partner AT&T, a study says. — One million iPhones, or 27% of those sold last year, have been adapted to work on other networks …
