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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Marshall Kirkpatrick Joins Read/WriteWeb — I'm very pleased to announce that Marshall Kirkpatrick is joining Read/WriteWeb as a Lead Writer, starting this Monday. Marshall teams up with Josh Catone in this role, meaning that Read/WriteWeb now has three daily writers (including myself).
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Bloomberg:
Verizon Wireless Suing Over Auction Rules — WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 (Bloomberg News) — Verizon Wireless has sued the Federal Communications Commission, seeking to overturn auction rules requiring the buyers of some airwaves to make their networks compatible with any device.
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Reuters:Verizon Wireless files suit over FCC auction rules
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Lucy Sherriff / The Register:
Japan, Google head for the moon — Everyone is going to the moon. Japan has launched its first lunar probe, Selene, and the X-Prize foundation has persuaded Google to put up a $30m fund to reward any private enterprise that manages to land a probe in lunar-land.
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Spencer Reiss / Wired News:
Google Offers $20 Million X Prize to Put Robot on Moon — Editor's Note: Google will award $20 million to the first private team to put a robot on the moon, the company and the X Prize Foundation announced at Wired NextFest in Los Angeles Thursday. Members of the public will also get the chance to send digital mementos to the moon.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Salesforce.com: It's all about the UI — Salesforce.com on Friday announced a new offering dubbed Force.com, an on-demand platform that gives companies the backend infrastructure as well as the tools to design their applications. — The Force.com platform, which is headlined by Visualforce …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google To Present At TechCrunch40 — We just got permission to post this - On top of everything else we've got planned, Google will present something at TechCrunch40 next week. Like the AOL and Yahoo product launches, it will not be eligible for the $50,000 top prize awarded to the best new startup product.
Inquirer:
Google readies PowerPoint killer — Slideshow program will be with you, Presently — SURE AS EGGS ARE EGGS, it's been known for a long while that Google will at some point take on PowerPoint with a web-based presentations package. The breaking news is that the coming-out party for the software is any day now.
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Silicon Alley Insider, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, TechCrunch, Mark Evans and 24/7 Wall St.
David Pogue / New York Times:
A Baffling New Phenomenon: Customized Ringtones — At last week's presentation for journalists in California, Apple unveiled a refreshed iPod lineup and several secondary developments. One of them, which I didn't have room to cover in my iPod review today, involves the availability of custom ringtones for the iPhone.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Day 59: Yahoo Buys BuzzTracker — Now, we're cooking with some gas over at Yahoo, closing in on the two-thirds point of Jerry Yang's declared 100-day March to Happiness. — Today, the Internet giant will announce the purchase of a clever Web site called BuzzTracker, which uses a combination …
Mike Collett-White / Reuters:
Prince to sue YouTube, eBay over music use — LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. pop star Prince plans to sue YouTube and other major Web sites for unauthorized use of his music in a bid to "reclaim his art on the Internet." — The man behind hit songs "Purple Rain," "1999" and "When Doves Cry" …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Viacom And Social Project Launch Broad Decentralized Social Network Called Flux — It turns out the rumors of a Viacom investment and partnership with social network Tagworld were accurate. Viacom invested a reported $40 million in the company for a minority stake (Tagworld was previously funded …
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Peggy O'Crowley / NJ.com:
What do we think of Wii? — We received responses to our Question of the Week about the new gun-like remote wand that Wii is planning to unveil for its first-person shooter games. — Most people think it's a bone-headed idea. — "Great, this is what we need. Children with guns learning how to aim and shoot.
BBC:
BT set to study internet novices — BT is setting up an initiative to find out why some people resist using the internet. — The project will employ psychologists to closely study a small group of people to reveal what stops them joining the net-using majority.
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Humphrey Cheung / TG Daily:
TG Video: Electric motorcycle inventor crashes at Wired NextFest — Recommend article: — Los Angeles (CA) - The inventor of the "KillaCycle" electric motorcycle almost killed himself during a demonstration at the Wired NextFest conference. Bill Dube, a government scientist during …
Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
Counting Clicks — Given that most of Google's $13 billion in revenue comes from clicks on ads, you would think the words "click fraud" would inspire fear in Shuman Ghosemajumder, the company's senior product manager and resident click-fraud czar. But the problem—publishers …
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Christopher Null:
Surprise: Social Sites Skew the News — These days, I rarely visit a CNN, New York Times, or MSNBC site as a first port of call. I get there haphazardly, from a blog that links to a page on one, courtesy of a social site like Reddit or Delicious. I'm hardly alone, and I've long known …
