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3:40 PM ET, May 23, 2006

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Inside AdWords crew / Inside AdWords:
Click-to-play video ads for AdWords  —  We're very excited to announce the release of click-to-play video ads on the content network.  Here's Bismarck, from the Video Ads team, with the details on this new feature: … We hope you'll keep your eyes out for this new feature and let us know what you think.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google PPC Video Ads - I'm Betting Against It  —  Google will launch a new pay-per-click video ad product and syndicate it out through its Adsense Network today.  Like Google's normal text ads, Advertisers will bid for placement and will be charged when a user clicks on the video.
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Google Moves to Sell Space for Video Spots on Network of Web Sites  —  GOOGLE is taking its first steps to go after the huge market for television advertising this week with a new service that will place video commercials on the many Web sites where it sells advertising.
Greg Sterling / Screenwerk:
Google 'Click to Play' Video Ads
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Google Click-To-Play Video Ads for AdWords
Discussion: The Kelsey Group Blog
Jenstar / JenSense:   AdSense video ads graduate from rich media beta test
Financial Times:
MySpace seeks link with Google or Microsoft  —  By Richard Waters in San Francisco and Aline van Duyn in New York  —  MySpace, the fast-growing "social networking" site, is in talks to forge a internet search link with either Google or Microsoft, in a move that would confirm the emergence …
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Nick / Rough Type:   MySpace peddles its eyeballs
Michael V. Copeland / Business 2.0:
Unlocking the iPod  —  If you want to buy content for Apple's iPod, you have to go through iTunes.  Navio Systems is hoping to change that.  —  In an ideal digital world, we'd be able to buy copyrighted music and videos wherever we wanted, not just on a designated store.
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May Wong / Associated Press:
Company offers online delivery system
Discussion: Techdirt
ZDNet:
Microsoft considers taking admin rights from employees  —  As Microsoft moves its internal desktop systems to Windows Vista, the company is contemplating whether to change a long running tradition and take away admin rights from its employees in order to improve security.
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Company Asks U.S. to Provide Radio Space for Free Internet  —  In an ambitious proposal, a Silicon Valley company has asked the government to give it a band of radio spectrum for a free high-speed wireless Internet network that would cover most of the country and be supported by advertising.
samsung.com:
SAMSUNG Electronics Launches the World's First PCs with NAND Flash-based Solid State Disk  —  SEOUL, Korea - May 23, 2006 : Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the leader in digital media technology, will release the world's first PCs embedded with a 32-Gigabyte (GB) NAND flash-based solid state disk (SSD).
Discussion: MobileWhack.com, Gizmodo and Engadget
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Samsung's Q1-SSD UMPC now with NAND: only $2,430
Discussion: Gizmodo and The Browser
Candace Lombardi / CNET News.com:
TV advertising's DVR challenge  —  This September, AOL and Mark Burnett Productions will launch "Gold Rush," an interactive game that asks players to monitor CBS television programs and commercials for clues to find $2 million in gold.  —  The game will last for approximately the first two months …
Discussion: PVR Wire, Adrants and Boing Boing
Li Yuan / Wall Street Journal:
New Domain Name — .Mobi — Could Spur Wireless Web  —  Surfing the Web on a cellphone can be as difficult as surfing the ocean on a tiny board.  Now, a company founded by Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Vodafone Group PLC, Nokia Corp., and several other companies, aims to make it easier …
Discussion: The Universal Desktop and 21talks
Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Vectrotel X8 Secure Mobile Phone  —  The feds aren't going to like it when you hook up your Vectrotel X8, a normal-looking GSM cellphone that has some serious 128-bit encryption inside.  It has the usual features of a run-of-the-mill handset, such as a Bluetooth and USB connectivity …
Discussion: OhGizmo! and MobileWhack.com
Nathan Weinberg / InsideMicrosoft:
LIVEBLOGGING BILL GATES WINHEC KEYNOTE  —  QUICK UPDATE: The Office 2007 beta is now online for download.  You'll need to click the link and follow the instruction to install it.  I will be reviewing the process later today.  —  Hat-tip: Devin  —  Starts off with a very ominous video …
Dan Zehr / Austin American-Statesman:
Dell tests the retail waters again  —  Dallas and New York-area mall stores will open later this year.  —  Dell Inc. will break its long boycott against retail sales with two stores at shopping malls later this year, but the company said it will remain true to its direct model by having shoppers order products online for delivery.
Hardy Green / Business Week:
The Great Woz Tells All  —  With his memoir due out soon, Apple inventor Steve Wozniak explains how luck and passion led to creating the breakthrough personal computer  —  As the inventor of the Apple I and Apple II, along with Apple's original software, Steve Wozniak is a living legend.
Discussion: Infinite Loop and Popgadget
New York Times:
An Internet Phone Pioneer, Poised to Go Public, Has Rivals at Its Heels  —  Brandon Sehlke of San Antonio recently chose Time Warner over Vonage.  He gets Internet phone service, television service and broadband for $89.95 a month; Vonage costs $24.99 a month for phone service alone.
Discussion: I4U News
Microsoft:
Hardware Developers Go Live With Microsoft Services  —  Opportunities for independent hardware vendors abound as Windows Live Services take off.  —  SEATTLE, May 23, 2006 —In November, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates and Chief Technical Officer Ray Ozzie demonstrated …
Discussion: Microsoft Monitor
Neil Kjeldsen / TechCrunch:
Download Your TV - The Current Options  —  Downloadable television, first made popular by Tivo and its competitors, is compelling stuff.  As consumers become accustomed to watching a show whenever they choose, pausing at will and fast tracking through commercials, tuning in to a station …
 
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Jonathan Bennett / CNET News.com:
Berners-Lee calls for Net neutrality
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The New Life of Books: New Packaging, New Features, New Channels
Marc Perton / Engadget:
Apple and Nike launch $29 iPod Sport Kit
Discussion: Michael Gartenberg
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
A cure to citywide Wi-Fi woes?
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Sony rootkit settlement gets final nod
Discussion: Engadget
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
HDMI, the Manchurian DRM - a Broadcast Flag dormant until 2010
Om Malik / GigaOM:
And Now For The Vonage IPO
Discussion: Mark Evans and IP Democracy
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Evan Blass / Engadget:
POSDATA shows off WiBro PDAs for Korea
Discussion: Pocket PC Thoughts
Microsoft:
A Computer You Can Afford  —  Microsoft FlexGo technology makes …
Discussion: Kevin Maney and Bink.nu
Andrew Donoghue / CNET News.com:
Counting the cost of counterfeiting
Discussion: M-Dollar
manchestereveningnews.co.uk:
Motorists 'ignoring phone ban'
Yuri Kageyama / Associated Press:
Sony to Develop Walkman Brand Cell Phone
Discussion: MocoNews.net and ringtonia.com
Dan Milmo / Guardian:
Setanta backers spend $15m in search for the next Yahoo
 

 
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Financial Times:
Sources: New York Sun owner Dovid Efune is close to striking a deal to buy The Telegraph for £550M+, more than what others like National World offered

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Kamala Harris, who has mostly avoided interviews over the past few months, readies a media blitz, including the Call Her Daddy podcast, The View, and 60 Minutes

Matthew Jordan / The Conversation:
As Congress tries to force carmakers to install AM radios as a matter of public interest, it should push licensed stations to abide by public interest standards

 
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