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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Silverlight 2: Google Chrome support, yes; iPhone, no  —  Microsoft announced, as expected, on Monday that the second version of its Silverlight browser plug-in is done and will be available imminently for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac OS X, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari.
Amy Schatz / Wall Street Journal:
FCC Clears Free Wireless Web  —  A proposal to create a free, national wireless Internet service got a boost as Federal Communications Commission engineers concluded that concerns are overblown about such service interfering with other carriers.  —  The report clears the way for the FCC …
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Bill Ray / The Register:
No pr0n, no interference - puritan broadband is go
Discussion: DSLreports and Electronista
Alex Weprin / Broadcasting & Cable:
NBC, Lorne Michaels Plotting ‘SNL’ Video Site  —  On-demand video Website may feature mix of classic Saturday Night Live sketches and never-before-seen rehearsal footage  —  NBC and Saturday Night Live executive producer Lorne Michaels are in talks to develop a new on-demand video Website …
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Tanya Irwin / MediaPost:
Tina Fey As Sarah Palin Gets Huge Post-Show Viewing
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Turns out, Sequoia raised more money than any other VC firm  —  A shakeout in the venture capital industry appeared to take hold in the third quarter of the year, even before the latest decline in the stock market began.  And we've also learned one more reason why Sequoia Capital may have reacted …
Karin Matussek / Bloomberg:
Google Loses German Copyright Cases Over Image-Search Previews  —  Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc., owner of the world's most popular Internet-search engine, lost two copyright lawsuits in Germany over displaying photos and artworks as thumbnails in a preview of search results.
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:   Google Loses Copyright Cases Over Thumbnail Images In Germany
Robin Wauters / The Next Web:
The 15 dumbest names for Web 2.0 startups  —  Robin Wauters, Next web enthusiast & Plugg organizer  —  I'm someone who frantically scours the web for interesting new online trends, concepts, startups and projects at any given time of any day.  It's something I simply can't turn off …
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Wix Picks Up $3.5 Million Series B Funding  —  NY-based Wix has announced that they have raised a Series B round of funding in the amount of $3.5 million.  This is in addition to the previously raised $3.5 million Series A round and $1.2 million angel round.
Discussion: Webware.com and GigaOM Daily
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Andrea Orr / Tech Confidential:
CEO of Wix, sporting $3.5M second round, feels ‘lucky’
Discussion: The Next Web and VC Cafe
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
MyThings Raises $5 Million to Help you Organize Your Stuff  —  If you ever wished for a central place to keep track of your online purchases and to store all those email receipts, MyThings might just be what you are looking for.  The London-based company just announced a $5 million Series B round.
Discussion: VentureBeat and Pulse 2.0
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Gartner's worst case for 2009 IT budgets isn't so bad  —  Gartner has revised its 2009 IT budget prognostications, a move that isn't surprising, but the firm's projections could be a lot worse.  —  Peter Sondergaard, senior vice president of research at Gartner, outlined the research group's …
Discussion: greg hughes, Profy and Know It All
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
The Importance of Sitemaps  —  So I've been busy with this Stack Overflow thing over the last two weeks.  By way of apology, I'll share a little statistic you might find interesting: the percentage of traffic from search engines at stackoverflow.com.  —  Sept 16th  —  one day after public launch
Discussion: webmonkey
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
SourceForge Announces Hosted Applications  —  SourceForge.net, a longtime provider of open source code and applications, has announced a new service for developers that provides virtualized access to open source apps.  With the new Hosted Apps service, you're able to install an app within your own web space …
LG:
Introducing the second Prada phone by LG - another quantum leap in mobile phone innovation and design by Prada and LG Electronics.  —  LG Electronics (LG), a worldwide technology and design leader in mobile communications, and PRADA Group (Prada) today announced that the partnership that created …
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
GoDaddy Unveils Mainstream Social Web Aggregator  —  GoDaddy has just unveiled an amazing new service called SmartSpace which lets anyone register a domain name and then instantly turn it into a social web site which aggregates any of the following components onto one page: a blog …
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
Windows Mobile hits the iPhone 3G  —  Remember that rumor about Steve Jobs having a heart attack that went around not too long ago?  Well, it might just be true as soon as Stevo catches wind of this one.  The video above shows a brief interview from MyPhone 2008 with a young Norweigan developer named Erik Kristiansen.
Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
OpenOffice.org overwhelmed by demand for version 3.0  —  Wibbles, wobbles, falls down  —  Eager beavers keen to get their hands on the long-awaited arrival of version 3.0 of OpenOffice.org are currently unable to download the free, open source-flavoured suite of office apps because demand has broken the website.
Click / CrackBerry.com blogs:
Beta: Xbox Live + BlackBerry = XBerry Live!  —  I don't know about you but I am a HUGE Xbox360 FanBoy!  I don't know how many times I wished there was an app that I could put on my BlackBerry to show me who on my friends list was online and playing what.  Enter Xberry Live! …
Discussion: IntoMobile and CrunchGear
Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
Even Search Not Immune to Financial Malaise  —  Google Preps for Worst as Ad Budgets Get Cut but Might Actually Benefit  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — How bad is the economy getting?  Bad enough that even Google is learning to cinch its purse strings.  —  The online-advertising giant …
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Alana Semuels / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
AT&T's TV service comes to Wal-Mart; battle for new subscribers continues  —  Just when you were ready to give up cable altogether and watch TV on your computer, telecommunication companies start aggressively rolling out fast new ways to get TV, Internet and voice services.  And they really, really want your business.
Discussion: AT&T and Telecompetitor
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Apple HDTV rumors resurface  —  Years-old rumors that Apple will roll out a line of Internet-connected displays have resurfaced in reports that suggest the company will bundle its Apple TV product within a new line of HDTVs.  —  In a report referencing a rumor floated by Mahalo chief Jason Calacanis …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
What the MacBook means to Apple  —  Steve Jobs likes to talk about Apple's business model as a stool that rests on three legs: the Mac, the iPod and the iPhone.  But the iPhone leg is still pretty short, thanks in part to deferred revenues.  And while the iPod's sales are still growing …
Discussion: CNET News and The Mac Observer
Dave Altavilla / HotHardware.com News:
Russian Firm Uses NVIDIA GPUs To Crack WPA, WPA2  —  We're not sure what's more frightening about this, the fact that the Russians figured out how to do it or that WiFi networks are effectively now completely insecure.  ElcomSoft claims they can “recover” WPA and WPA2 encypted passwords using …
Robert MacMillan / MediaFile:
FT CEO spots green in the red  —  When the markets go south and most people are losing, it's safe to say that there are some others who are winning, or at least spotting opportunities.  You could say that about the Financial Times and its chief executive, John Ridding, who is finding …
Discussion: paidContent.org and Epicenter
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The WWGD? world  —  In the financial crash, we are seeing two forces at work: first, a corrupt system of unregulated leverage gone mad — virtual value (which is to say, bulls**t) created in derivatives — but second, a world whose fundamental structure is changing in ways we can't yet fully fathom.
 
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BBC:
Music fans back legal downloads
Discussion: Techdirt, Slyck and BBC NEWS
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Yahoo Improves Content Match Targeting
NBC Universal:
NBC LOCAL MEDIA TARGETS “LOCALS ONLY” WITH NEW WEBSITE LAUNCH
Discussion: Webware.com and paidContent.org
Dion Almaer / techno.blog:
Joining Mozilla to create new developer tools for the Web …
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb and Mozilla Labs
Karl Vick / Washington Post:
Palin Must Save Her Yahoo E-Mails, Judge Rules
Discussion: CNET News and Pulse 2.0
John Oates / The Register:
Deloitte loses hundreds of thousands of pension details
Discussion: IT Project Failures
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John Leyden / The Register:
Internet security suites fail to block exploits
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Android's Login Is Cool, But Is It Secure?
Discussion: Portfolio and Big in Japan
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Ncomputing scores big Indian deal for thin-client computers
Will Smith / Maximum PC all:
Microsoft (Quietly) Launches PC Advisor Repair Utility.  Going After Apple Next?
Discussion: Slashdot
Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Newspapers' Web Revenue Is Stalling
 

 
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