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Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
StumbleUpon 2.0: Good-bye, software toolbar — On Tuesday night StumbleUpon is changing the way users interact with the service, ditching the need for a software-based browser toolbar in place of a small frame that loads on top of the Web site you're on. Users with the toolbar installed …
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft still paying people to search — Microsoft's latest effort to get people to use its search service is something called SearchPerks, which gives people points for using the search engine that can later be redeemed for prizes. — Users who agree to download a small program to track …
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Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
Live Search Perks - more rewards for using Live Search — It all started with Live Search Club, the somewhat maligned program to reward users for playing games using Live Search (and somewhat skewing search share counts, causing a bit of a scramble by Compete.com and others).
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Nathania Johnson / Search Engine Watch:Microsoft Launches SearchPerks; Like Credit Card Rewards, Except for Search
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Devin Leonard / Fortune:
Apple's digital music showdown — A ruling this week could force online music sellers to pay publishers more money - as an Apple threat to close iTunes looms. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — For five years, Apple's iTunes Music Store has been the Internet's most successful music store.
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Jordan Golson / Industry Standard:
Apple threatens to shut down the iTunes Store over royalty rate increase — An upcoming ruling by the Copyright Royalty Board could have a devastating effect on the digital music industry, according to a statement filed with the board by Apple Vice President Eddy Cue.
John / What They Play:
New Wii due by 2011 — What They Play has heard from multiple sources in the game development and publishing community that Nintendo is currently showing early presentations of its next home console hardware. Apparently set to hit the market “by 2011” the new device is said to be the true …
Jessica Dolcourt / CNET News:
Skype 4.0 beta 2 gives you more say — Skype 4.0 beta 2 (download when available) has done a lot of growing since the first beta for Windows rolled out this past June. While that release showed some success reorganizing Skype's services, we predicted that folks would protest the gawky layout.
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Reuters:
Nasdaq probing possibly “erroneous” Google trades — NEW YORK (Reuters) - The operator of the Nasdaq Stock Market said it was investigating “potentially erroneous transactions” involving shares of Google Inc (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz), which appeared to plunge as low …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Google Stock Falls $200 As Market Closes
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Try Google Search As It Was in 2001 — In honor of their tenth birthday*, Google brought back their search engine the way it was many years ago, in January 2001. Below an old-school Google logo (in 2001 they were actually already using a newer one) the input box invites you to search through “1,326,920,000 web pages”.
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Shirin Oskooi / The Official Google Blog:2001: A search odyssey
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Bezos, Benioff invest in appointment-booker ZocDoc — There are some big new names backing ZocDoc, a start-up that lets you book doctor's appointments online (currently just in New York). Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has contributed an undisclosed amount to the company, as has Bezos Expeditions …
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Studios Sue to Bar a DVD Copying Program — Six major movie studios sued RealNetworks, the Seattle-based digital media company, on Tuesday over its new $30 software program that allows people to make digital copies of their DVDs. — As the opening warning on every DVD indicates, Hollywood has bitterly opposed such copying.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Netflix API Launches Tomorrow - Here's What it Will and Won't Include — The much-awaited Application Programming Interface (API) for movie site Netflix will launch tomorrow, according to an email from the company. As HackingNetflix found out last week, the launch event will occur at the AJAX Experience conference.
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Patrick Foster / Times of London:
ITV plots future in which there is no escape from ads — Television viewers who like to fast-forward through advertising breaks may want to look away now. ITV is developing a new form of unavoidable advertisement that can be embedded in television programmes.
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Pandora, Webcasting see victory in Senate — The U.S. Senate on Tuesday afternoon passed the Webcaster Settlement Act, the legislation that lays the groundwork for Web radio stations to negotiate reduced royalty rates for the songs they stream over the Web.
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Todd Haselton / LAPTOP Magazine:
XOHM WiMAX In Baltimore: Speed Tests With XOHM ExpressCard — We went to Baltimore today to check out America's first fully-functional XOHM city for ourselves. Earlier today, we had a hands-on experience with XOHM using a Nokia N810 WiMAX tablet. Since then, we've gone out and purchased …
Luke Dittrich / Esquire:
The Google Diaspora — The next big idea to come out of Google may not come out of Google. Luke Dittrich looks as the computer giant's offspring. — “Regroup (The Google Diaspora)” by R. Justin Stewart; fleece, rope, paint, PVC cap, hose barb, metal hardware; 8 1/2' X 21' X 13'; commissioned for Esquire, June 2008.
Dave Rosenberg / Negative Approach:
Windows Mobile licensing fees to remain intact — Microsoft plans to continue charging handset makers licensing fees for use of its Windows Mobile operating system, not responding to the free offerings of Google and Nokia, Reuters reports. — Microsoft charges $8 to $15 per phone …
Gene Marks / Business Week:
Again! Tech That Doesn't Work Won't Let Us Work — Companies that can't do things the old-fashioned way are out of luck when their business technology falters. Need I say Palm? Skype? Word? — Yes, I am an angry guy. — I yell at other drivers. I roll my eyes when I have to stand in line for more than two minutes.
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Bernard Lunn / ReadWriteWeb:
The Great Credit Crisis Swindle - How Entrepreneurs Can Survive it — Seen the headlines recently? These are scary times. Entrepreneurs are far too busy to focus on the mayhem in the markets - and they know that they cannot do anything about it. So the standard response is just to deal with it as a background worry.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Gnip 2.0 Launches, With A Business Model — Gnip, the guys that are helping move data around from one social network to the next, launched v 2.0 of the service tonight. — The new version of the service allows data consumers (services like Plaxo that take data from other services …
