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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
How Low Will Online Ads Go? Lower, Says J.P. Morgan. Very, Very Low, Says Gawker's Nick Denton — A year ago, the conventional wisdom said that the online advertising market would still grow in an economic slump because online ads were cheaper and more effective. — And they are.
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David Kaplan / paidContent.org:JP Morgan's Online Ad Outlook Worsens; Display's Deterioration Accelerates
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Business Wire:
Amazon Announces Beginning of Multi-Year Frustration-Free Packaging Initiative — Amazon.com has launched “Frustration-Free Packaging,” a new initiative designed to make it easier for customers to liberate products from their packages. Amazon is focusing first on two kinds of items …
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Amazon takes on “wrap rage” with packaging initiative — Down with obnoxious packaging that takes longer to free from the ten thousand twistie ties than it took to arrive at your house in the first place! Everyone has experienced this kind of frustration with items ranging from kids' toys …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo Media's Scott Moore and Al Warms to Depart This Week — Aside from upcoming layoffs, it seemed as if Yahoo had stanched the flow of major execs from the company. — Not so, it seems, as several sources with knowledge of the situation confirm that the two top execs …
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
Yahoo Confirms That Moore Is Leaving; Picks Up MSN Vet Dossett To Head U.S. Audiences — Yahoo's confirmation that Scott Moore is leaving is about to cross the wires, included in the news that Jeff Dossett is joining the company as SVP-U.S. Audience. Dossett—who, like Moore, comes to Yahoo …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Slashes iPhone Production, Says Chip Analyst (AAPL) — Is demand slowing for Apple's (AAPL) red-hot iPhone 3G? — Apple has cut its calendar Q4 iPhone production plans significantly more than originally estimated, according to a report by Friedman Billings Ramsey analyst Craig Berger.
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
In Landslide, John McCain Is The President Of AOL.com — The Wall Street Journal may have essentially called the Presidential election for Democrat Barack Obama this morning, but wait a tick. AOL.com's homepage political poll results are in, and the site's calling a landslide for Republican John McCain.
Justin Berka / Infinite Loop:
Class action suit filed over PowerBook G4 memory slots — Most of the time, the lawsuits that are filed against Apple involve fairly current products like the iPhone, but the most recent suit is a bit of a throwback. This time around, the PowerBook G4 is in the spotlight.
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:Apple sued over defective PowerBook memory slots
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Bernard Lunn / ReadWriteWeb:
Salesforce.com Says Hello World — Salesforce.com was founded less than 10 years ago, in March 1999. This is hard to remember when you walk into the Dreamforce event at the Moscone and see all the companies, both large and small, proclaiming that they are part of their ecosystem.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Dash Charts a New Course, Cuts 50 Jobs — The credit crunch and the subsequent economic slowdown has everyone — from large corporations to individuals — reassessing their fiscal future, and many are taking drastic actions. The latest moves from the world of Silicon Valley startups comes …
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Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Broadway and Dolly Parton Join Skirmish Over Airwaves — SAN FRANCISCO — Tuesday marks the end of a battle that has lasted for more than two years, with each side predicting apocalyptic consequences should it lose. — Not the fight for the presidency. The one pitting Google against Dolly Parton.
John Herrman / Gizmodo:
New MacBooks Disable Pwnage Tool, Open Second Front in War on Jailbreaking — It's a given that each firmware update for the iPhone and iPod Touch will seal up exploits used by the Dev Team to ‘Pwn’ the devices, but nobody expected the new MacBooks to present a problem for would-be Jailbreakers.
James Sherwood / The Register:
Motorola legal tie to pull pricey Aura phone off eBay — Exclusive Once you've grown tired of your mobile phone then it's your prerogative to flog it on eBay, right? Not if you buy Motorola's upcoming Aura phone, because the firm's penned a contract to prevent secondhand sales.
Lessig Blog:
Enormously important news from the Free Software Foundation — The Free Software Foundation has released the GNU Free Document License version 1.3. Section 11 of that license now (essentially) permits certain wikis to be relicensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (v3.0) …
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The Official Google Blog:
Visualizing data in the cloud — More and more companies are storing data in the cloud, and as this data grows, so does the need for reporting tools to make sense of this information. To address these growing needs, earlier this year we introduced the Google Visualization API …
Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
Kindle Offers Glimpse of ROI on Oprah — Nod From Talk Queen Causes a Surge in Web Traffic — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Since Amazon launched the Kindle, its electronic reader, a year ago, it has created a swarm of dedicated customer advocates. But on Oct. 24 it snagged the most important evangelist …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Microsoft: Third party apps killing our security — Why would hackers target Microsoft directly when there is so much low hanging fruit hanging from the Windows operating system? — The short answer is that hackers won't attack Microsoft directly because they have plenty …
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John Musser / ProgrammableWeb:
1,000 Web APIs — Last week ProgrammableWeb crossed one of its biggest milestones thus far when we added the 1,000th web service API to our API directory. This is a long way from the 32 APIs we started with back in the summer of 2005. Back then even the phrase “web mashup” was only a few months old.
Kelly Hodgkins / Boy Genius Report:
Verizon Wireless kills Pay as You Go data plans, data plans now mandatory — This has been rumored to be coming but VZW E dropped the bomb on us all by leaking a Verizon Wireless document detailing some drastic changes to Verizon's data plans. Starting November 14th, 2008 …
Cherise Fong / CNN:
Internetting every thing, everywhere, all the time — (CNN) — It's called “The Internet of Things” — at least for now. It refers to an imminent world where physical objects and beings, as well as virtual data and environments, all live and interact with each other in the same space and time.
Simon Sage / IntoMobile:
Verizon BlackBerry Storm site updated, treasure hunt announced — The BlackBerry Storm notification page set up by Verizon back during the announcement has received a significant overhaul, showing off not only specs and 360°-worth of pictures, but also something of a treasure hunt from November 6th. to the 15th.
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Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:
Xohm WiMax Invades DC — After attending the Baltimore Xohm launch event last month, I decided to roll the dice... And although Sprint's Xohm WiMax 4G service hasn't officially launched in the DC metro area, I can confirm that not only are the antennas up, but that they're open for business.
John Oates / The Register:
Virgin sacks the Facebook 13, BA customers stink — Social networking for fun and P45s — Virgin Atlantic has sacked the thirteen staff who labelled customers “chavs” and criticised the maintenance record of the airline's fleet of Boeing 747s which fly from Gatwick.
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
IDC: Intel Atom lifts processor shipments — Intel's Atom processor lifted processor shipments in the third quarter but the future for overall processor shipments is uncertain, IDC said. — Worldwide PC microprocessor shipments in the third calendar quarter of 2008 reached record levels again, according to market researcher IDC.
