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Maija Palmer / Financial Times:
ISPs warn BBC over new iPlayer service — Leading UK internet service providers are warning they may have to restrict customers' access to the BBC's new iPlayer service unless the corporation contributes to the cost of streaming videos over the internet. — Internet companies such as Tiscali …
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Jackson West / NewTeeVee:
The Joost Problem: American 'Broadband' — Joost, despite an early lead when it comes to the P2P television is beginning to get some criticism about its video quality. A skeptical report on JoostTeam points out that the bit rate is about half that of video from DivX Stage6 or the iTunes Store.
Chris Williams / The Register:BT rubbishes BBC bandwidth throttling reports
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GigaOM, Soaring on Ridgelift, dslreports.com, The Independent, WebProNews and Podcasting News
Microsoft:
Microsoft Completes Acquisition of aQuantive, Creates Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Group — New business group reflects increased focus on online advertising market opportunities. — Microsoft Corp. has completed its acquisition of aQuantive Inc. The acquisition will help Microsoft deliver …
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Mike Sachoff / WebProNews:
Users Spend Half Their Time Visiting Content — Internet users are spending almost half their time online visiting content, a 37 percent increase in share of time from four years ago, according to the Online Publishers Association (OPA). — The OPA has released a four-year study …
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Your mail is here, come and get it!:
August: Hotmail will soon bring you more of your requests, better performance — We went out of beta in May, and we're already releasing something new. Today, these new features will begin to roll our gradually to all our customers over the next few weeks, so if you don't immediately see them, be patient, they're coming!
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Skype on iPhone. No, seriously. — OK, this has to be the coolest news this morning. SHAPE Services, a Stuttgart, Germany-based company, well-known for making mobile IM clients, has just announced Skype for iPhone, an iPhone-optimized Web site that allows you to access Skype via the browser on the iPhone.
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Download Squad, VentureBeat, iPhone World, Macworld, MobileCrunch, BetaNews, The iPhone Blog, Mobility Site, Macsimum News, Kelsey Group Blogs and digg
Robert Lemos / SecurityFocus:
German sites close, as anti-hacking law arrives — Security researchers in Germany continued to pull down exploit code from their sites last week, scrambling to comply with a German law that makes illegal the distribution of software that could be used to break into computers.
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Ryan Naraine's Zero Day, The Register, Liquidmatrix Security Digest and Sunnet Beskerming …
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:Germany's new antihacking law: Bad for security?
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Inside Higher Ed:
New Media Meets Campus Media — Questions about the skills college journalists need to master to prepare for successful careers in a new media landscape aren't new — but the answers keep changing. — For instance, in 1995, an article in Quill, a publication of the Society of Professional Journalists …
CNET News.com:
How search engines rate on privacy — Price wars are public blessings. Ask anyone who has comparison shopped between Advanced Micro Devices and Intel microprocessors or bought a cheap Harry Potter novel thanks to fierce bookseller price battles. — In the last few months …
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Xbox 360 Out of Order? For Loyalists, No Worries — Imagine your blender breaking down twice. The vacuum cleaner giving up the ghost three times. The espresso maker repeatedly going kaput. Then imagine replacing the item with the same model over and over while keeping your brand loyalty and sanity.
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BloggingStocks, GamePro.com, Joystiq, Things That, eXophase, Kotaku, 24/7 Wall St. and Digital Download
Tom Sanders / vnunet:
Firefox ponders marketing overhaul — Aiming for 30 per cent market share by June 2008 — The Mozilla Corporation is preparing a number of changes to the marketing of the open source Firefox browser in a bid to further grow market share. — "To date, Mozilla has done a reasonably …
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Nick Wilson / Metaversed:
7 Reasons Why Virtual Worlds Are Like the Web Circa 1997 — Many people, particularly those that are interested in, but not intimately involved in, virtual worlds, tend to think of Second Life, Kaneva, Entropia and other 3D environments as being at the advancing edge of web2.0.
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Valleywag, Raph's Website, Marketing & Strategy …, NevilleHobson.com and Digital Download
Dan Primack / PE HUB:
KicksApps Scores $20 Million — peHUB has learned that KickApps, a developer of social networking tools for existing websites, has raised $20 million in second-round funding. SoftBank Capital came aboard as a new investor, but the terms were effectively set by return backers Prism VentureWorks and Spark Capital.
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paidContent.org, VentureBeat, CenterNetworks, alarm:clock, Mashable! and Silicon Alley Insider
Sydney Morning Herald:
Google denies APEC reason for fuzzy maps — MUCH of Sydney's city centre as it appears in the satellite images on Google Maps Australia has been fuzzed out, just weeks before the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit. — Google says the imagery was downgraded as a result of a …
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Investors bailing on SCO stock, SCOX plummets — SCO's ride is clearly coming to an end, thanks to a monumental ruling last week that clarified the ownership of the UNIX copyrights. To briefly recap, federal district judge Dale A. Kimball declared that Novell owns the UNIX copyrights …
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The Register, Good Morning Silicon Valley, TechSpot News, Digital Daily, Slashdot and digg
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Apologies to Calacanis — I gave it some thought, and I decided to apologize to Jason for interrupting his speech at Gnomedex. I wish I hadn't done it. It'll never happen again. That's a promise. — That said, I have a lot of trouble believing that a street fighter from Brooklyn …
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bub.blicio.us, Epicenter, Don Park's Daily Habit, The Jason Calacanis Weblog and Silicon Alley Insider
Glen / Mac Daddy World:
Two-way Video Conferencing for iPhone — in which we make the world's first useful video phone — Update: Our demo won first place for Iron Coder Live this afternoon! Thanks for your votes everyone! — This weekend's C-4 developer conference features "Iron Coder Live", a contest in the same vein as MacHack.
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Gizmodo, iLounge, The iPhone Ranch, O'Grady's PowerPage, Mobility Site, Engadget, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, iPhone World, The iPhone Blog, Tech Blog and digg
Search Engine Watch:
Google's Local Search Land Grab — Attention, college students! You no longer need to donate plasma to get beer money. Quit your part-time job, buy a digital camera and a notebook, and walk down the street. Take pictures of every business you see. Then write down the address …
