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On Blog Depression
The Nonist has a public service pamphlet on blog depression that I suspect a few visitors of ProBlogger might need to read...
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Date: 2005-07-31
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DVD Wars Looking For the 20th Century Fox
Blu-Ray launched another offensive in the DVD war in the form of the 20th Century Fox studio. Make no bones about it; it is a war as Sony, Toshiba and all the companies who've signed off on the respective high definition formats continue to look for an edge.
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Date: 2005-07-30
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IE7 Beta For Windows XP Reviewed
I just finished trying out Internet Explorer 7 (no thanks to Microsoft's PR department), and while it is an evolution over IE6 (XP SP2), it is certainly no revolution.
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Date: 2005-07-30
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eBusiness Rumors
Is Skype up for sale? Is Google the likely buyer? Or Rupert Murdoch, who almost bought it last week for $3 billion?...
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Date: 2005-07-30
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BlogHer today
There's quite an event taking place today in California - the BlogHer conference.The brainchild of...
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Date: 2005-07-30
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Are we reduced to only one voice?
One of the arguments I keep hearing for using blogs for just about everything from marketing to press releases is that they are written in a natural, authentic, human voice.
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Date: 2005-07-30
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Memo to mainstream media
If you read US journalist Bob Cauthorn's lengthy post on Corante's Rebuilding Media, you might get a strong impression that blogs and mainstream media are a mixture that should never, ever, come together.
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Date: 2005-07-30
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Press Releases For All
In part of his response to my post on the press release meme, Eric Schartzman wrote, "...it's tough, in today's 24/7 news cycle where everyone has access to the newswires online, the segregate a news releases to just the news media."
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Date: 2005-07-30
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HP iPods No More
By the end of September, Hewlett-Packard will no longer be selling Apple iPods under its own brand. The two companies seem to be done with each other after only joining forces last year.
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Date: 2005-07-30
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Sybase To Extend iAnywhere
Sybase is working on acquiring mobile software solutions provider Exended Systems through a cash merger valued at about $71.3 million, or $4.460847 per share.
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Date: 2005-07-30
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Alaska Blog
Taughnee Stone writes that she's starting a new Pro Blog - the Alaska Blog and writes an interesting post about the first four days blogging and the response that she's had so far.
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Date: 2005-07-29
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What mood is your blog?
iveJournal is mining the 100,000 daily blog posts generated across its network to track the emotion in their corner of the blogosphere.
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Date: 2005-07-29
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The Best Blog Content
ust stumbled upon an article at awesomeblogs.com which looks at Why Blogs Have Become the Search Engine Optimization Equalizer.
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Date: 2005-07-29
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Teens and Technology
There's an interesting report at Pew Internet on Teens and Technology which is the second this week that highlights the opportunities for tapping into the younger internet using market.
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Date: 2005-07-29
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From Hippies to Hackers
They've set up tents in the Netherlands for a weekend of sandal and tie-dyed counterculture misanthropic antidisestablishmentarianism over vegetarian meals and free ice cream while discussing the "politics of psychedelic research." Hippies, you say? Nope. Hackers.
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Date: 2005-07-29
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Vista Press Kit Images
Microsoft has released some pretty pictures as part of its Windows Vista virtual press kit. Check ‘em out (and click to enlarge)...
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Date: 2005-07-28
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H&K's Emergency Response Blog
If you haven't read Niall Cook's description of the blog Hill & Knowlton's London office created to address the terrorist situation, it's worth your time.
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Date: 2005-07-28
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Editorial Structure and Social Media
John Battelle on the LA Times Wikitorial fiasco: But when I read about this, I instantly recognized a core problem with the approach: it was top down community, rather than bottom up....
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Date: 2005-07-28
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Blogging a Business Closure
BL Ochman writes about her client and friend, Paul Purdue, founder of iFulfill.com, who is in the midst of every entrepreneur's nightmare - he's going out of business, and he's using his blog to chronicle what he calls "the demise."
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Date: 2005-07-28
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The Press Release Meme
The "press release is dead" meme just won't go away. Every time you turn around, somebody is proclaiming that blogs will replace press releases.
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Date: 2005-07-28
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I Want My MTV Mobile Messaging Platform
I want my… I want my… I want my MTV mobile messaging platform. Somehow it just doesn't have the same ring as the slogan of my youth but then again, it's not my youth anymore is it. As recent studies show, this generation of youth likes the instant messaging phenom and MTV plans on utilizing it.
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Date: 2005-07-28
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Mission Impossible Statements
Most large companies have a mission statement, an expression that sets out the purpose of the organization or what the organization intends to achieve over time.
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Date: 2005-07-27
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Microsoft Cuts Off Pirates
Microsoft announced that it is now requiring Windows Genuine Advantage for use of the Windows Update, Microsoft Update and Office Update sites.
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Date: 2005-07-27
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Windows Vista Beta Bound: Next Week
The Windows formerly known as Longhorn landed in the laps of developers today in a beta format. August 3rd was the date they announced last week when the named this beast Vista but Microsoft got so excited they couldn't contain themselves and sent it out today.
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Date: 2005-07-27
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Amazon's Net Income Down, But Sales Up
Amazon.com reported its financial results for the second quarter today. These included a decrease in net income, which fell to $52 million compared to $76 million in last year's second quarter.
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Date: 2005-07-27
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Cisco Snatches Sheer Networks for $97 Million
Networking mammoth Cisco Systems announced the purchase of Sheer Networks based in San Jose, California. The $97 million deal will add Sheer's intelligent network and service management products to Cisco's already vast services.
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Date: 2005-07-26
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Microsoft Rewards Honesty With Anti-Piracy Program
In an effort to discourage piracy of Windows XP, Microsoft announced that customers wishing to update their versions of the program will have to prove their copy is genuine. The Redmond, Wash.-based software company is also offering a bit of amnesty to those who've unwittingly installed or received pirated copies.
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Date: 2005-07-26
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MindComet Opens Up SpacePost
So you thought you'd heard it all when MindComet said they were going to beam blogs into space. Well, they did it and now they're going to beam something else into space. They are opening their deep space message transmission service to all Internet users who don't want to maintain a blog.
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Date: 2005-07-26
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Video Game Gadfly Goes After Sims2
So you thought the dirty video game scandals were over? Not by a long shot! Miami attorney Jack Thompson got a fresh horse and began his next charge in his never ending attempt to expurgate video games and expunge media in general of material he finds offensive.
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Date: 2005-07-25
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Guess What EA’s Got In Its Pocketses?
Electronic Arts (EA) won the rights to "its precious", "The Lord of the Rings" (LOTR) electronic game franchise in the form of two new games for the electronic gaming giant. The games should fit nicely into the LOTR catalog EA already has.
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Date: 2005-07-25
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Microsoft Looks Into The Vista
Microsoft's named their new version of Windows something other than the code name of Longhorn. Vista's the name of the new Windows, due out sometime in late 2006. I think liked Longhorn better.
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Date: 2005-07-25
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Microsoft: Windows Vista Coming Online
Microsoft announced on Friday the name of its newest version of Windows best known as Longhorn. The new name, Vista, is the official name of Microsoft's newest operating system, due out in late 2006, probably around the holidays and a server version will be out in 2007.
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Date: 2005-07-23
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Italian Internet Television
Telecom Italia announced their leap into the Internet television business starting massive trials in Rome, Milan, Bologna and Palermo. They look to roll out services in 21 cities by the fall and say over 4 million households will have access to a wide variety of programming.
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Date: 2005-07-23
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AMD Sponsors Solar Race
AMD is sponsoring the 2005 North American Solar Challenge (NASC). This is a competition, in which people design, build, and race solor-powered cars across the U.S. and Canada.
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Date: 2005-07-23
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Microsoft: Growth to Improve
Microsoft beat Wall Street's expectations yesterday as it reported a net profit of $3.7 billion for the quarter ended June 30. This is up 38% from the same quarter last year.
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Date: 2005-07-22
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China’s Online Market Continues to Grow
Internet usage in China, the second largest Web market in the world, grew by over 18 percent during the past year to a total 103 million web surfers, according to China Daily. That represents an increase of 9 million people overall.
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Date: 2005-07-22
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Microsoft Getting FrontBridge Hookup: Secure Messaging
Microsoft announced yesterday they will acquire FrontBridge Technologies Inc., a company that provides managed services for corporate email security, compliance and availability requirements. This adds another set of features to Microsoft's ongoing war against security problems through archiving, minimizing spam and viruses, and ensuring email availability in case of a disaster.
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Date: 2005-07-21
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IFPI Will Make You Pay; Legal Downloads Rising
People are getting more honest when comes to downloading music off the Internet, according an international recording industry group. The number of legally downloaded music tracks almost tripled in the first half of this year. Illegal file-sharing is up only three percent.
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Date: 2005-07-21
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Discovery Back On Track: NASA’s New Day
NASA said July 26th will be the launch date for STS 114 Space Shuttle Discovery. After a number of setbacks, including the most recent fuel sensor problem, NASA says they're ready to attempt the launch and countdown will begin on Saturday with liftoff to occur at 10:39 a.m. EDT on Tuesday.
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Date: 2005-07-21
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Legal Downloads? 180 Million Of Them
The International Federation of the Phonograpic Industry (IFPI) said on Thursday that the number of legal, paid downloads had tripled during the first half of 2005. This is great news for the RIAA and MPAA as more and more people switch to the legal download side of things.
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Date: 2005-07-21
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Doc Searls Starts Podcasting
At just over six minutes long, Doc Searls made his first podcast yesterday. Just music and some informal chit-chat including with his little helper (listen and you'll hear).
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Date: 2005-07-20
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Intel Profits Up From Last Year
Intel's second-quarter revenue may have been down 2% from the first quarter, but the $9.2 billion is still 15% higher than it was for the same quarter a year ago.
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Date: 2005-07-20
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News Corp. Gets InterMixed
News Corp. announced that it is buying Intermix Media for about $580 million in cash. Intermix is also buying the part of MySpace.com that it doesn't already own.
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Date: 2005-07-18
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Apple Seeding New iPod
Apple announced their 500 millionth download and with it, 10 iPods and an iTunes gift card for 10,000 and free trip to go see Coldplay. Nice. This statistic show just how much iTunes is dominating the market over other download services. So what can Apple do for an encore? I want my iPodTV.
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Date: 2005-07-18
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MySpace Is Now FoxSpace
Okay, so NYT bought About.com - which is basically just a form of citizen journalism. Okay, so IAC bought AskJeeves, and in the process got the much beloved Bloglines.
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Date: 2005-07-18
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Discovery On The Internet
Many eyes right watch NASA and the Discovery as they work to resolve the fuel sensor problem and get the shuttle back in the sky. A best-case scenario would be Sunday but more likely it will be later in the week. Certainly less dramatic but certainly work mentioning is the fact that some eyes will be able to watch the mission in an entirely new way, over the Internet.
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Date: 2005-07-16
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Sony Bites Apple In The iPod
Apple's iPod had enjoyed quite a run as an innovative device for listening to mp3s in a small portable format and it has stayed at the top of the charts for quite some time now.
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Date: 2005-07-16
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IBM Lays OS/2 To Rest
IBM has decided to put the OS/2 operating system to sleep. The company said that it will discontinue OS/2 products around the end of the year, and end support at the end of next year.
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Date: 2005-07-16
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SpreadFirefox.com Hacked
I just got an email from admin [at] spreadfirefox.com saying the spreadfirefox web site had been hacked on June 12. Here's the email...
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Date: 2005-07-15
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Senators Out To Get Sex In Grand Theft Auto
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. Right now in the video game world, not much else needs to be said does it? This game is attracting more attention and more flack than any game certainly in recent years. How often do you get Hillary Clinton and Rick Santorum on the same side? That should tell you something.
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Date: 2005-07-15
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Grand Theft Auto Leads To Grand Hillary Politics
She's a step closer to that village-the village made up of people who know what's best for you and your children. Even better for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, she'll get both parties to join her. The glue that holds them together-outrage about a video game.
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Date: 2005-07-15
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Apple Has A Record Quarter
Apple had an unbelievable third quarter. Yesterday, the company reported its financial results for the quarter, which included its highest revenue and earnings in the company's history.
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Date: 2005-07-14
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Responding to Blogging Criticism
Thanks to Robert for linking up to ProBlogger.net while I slept last night. It's always nice to get a positive link from a larger blogger who sends an influx of new readers into your blog.
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Date: 2005-07-14
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Microsoft Sets Up A Marvel A Deal
Ever want to see the Incredible Hulk square off with The Thing? Microsoft just inked a deal with Marvel to make that fight and a bunch of others a virtual reality for the upcoming Xbox 360.
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Date: 2005-07-14
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Sharp’s New Toy: Double Vision LCD Screen
It would appear Sharp's getting sharper as they go with the introduction of their new species of LCD panel that would allow TV viewers to view two different programs, depending on whether you whether you sat on the left of the right.
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Date: 2005-07-14
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Dell Customers Care-Less
The world's biggest PC maker has shuttered online message support forums that were once the core of a high-quality customer service offering.
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Date: 2005-07-14
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Microsoft and Marvel Prepare to Do Battle Cosmic
In the vast netherworld known only as "the net", two great goliaths agree to stride together in battle against evils many dare not fathom. A star twinkles in the darkness as Microsoft and Marvel Comics agreed to put their fantastic computer intellects together to achieve that greatness that only comes from victory… in an MMORPG for the future.
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Date: 2005-07-14
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Firefox Holes Corrected
After security researchers and Mozilla's own Security Bug Bounty Program participants pointed out that popular Web browser Firefox had more holes than a Scott Peterson alibi, Mozilla decided to fix it.
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Date: 2005-07-13
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Broadband Price Wars Begin
As the telecom companies continue switching customers from copper wires to fiber lines, cable begins cutting rates. And this is just the start.
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Date: 2005-07-13
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FeedBurner launches BuzzBoost
Feedburner have announced a few service that enables bloggers to cross promote their blogs (if they have more than one) using their new BuzzBoost system.
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Date: 2005-07-13
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60 Milion Podcast Listeners?
Billionare blogger/Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban warns podcasters that they're likely to find themselves on the same trash heap of history that contains early streaming audio efforts like those created for pseudo.com, broadcast.com, eyada.com, and others that have faded from memory.
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Date: 2005-07-13
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Russell Gets PR Bloggers
Another one, not Beattie. On his co-blog today, Russell Buckley summarized the whole Blogger Fight between Beattie and Rubel with this ...
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Date: 2005-07-13
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DVD Controversy: Blu-Ray Survey
A survey sponsored by the Blu-Ray Disc Association (BDA) found that, SURPRISE, people like Blu-Ray technology better. Imagine everyone's shock when BDA's survey said that 4 times as many people said they liked Blu-Ray better when the survey BDA sponsored explained the differences to them.
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Date: 2005-07-13
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Intel Gets Raided
Two weeks ago, AMD filed an antitrust lawsuit against Intel, and today officials from the European Commission as well as local officials have raided Intel offices in England, Germany, Spain, and Italy.
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Date: 2005-07-12
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Evangelize That!
I couldn't resist grabbing the last line from Tom Murphy's highly-readable post yesterday to be the headline for my post today. With an added exclamation mark.
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Date: 2005-07-12
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Blogger waging war on Land Rover
Yesterday I wrote a brief post about customer relationship issues and Dell and how an influential US blogger had vented his spleen on his blog detailing his negative experiences with the PC maker.
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Date: 2005-07-12
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We're Not Afraid
I had an email overnight from Pete Quily in Canada telling me about We're Not Afraid, a blog set up last week following the London bombings that publishes photos from people around the world who aren't afraid...
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Date: 2005-07-12
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Do We Really Need a .mobi?
Corporate giants by the dozen teamed up in a Justice League sort of way to procure a new Internet domain specifically for mobile phone users. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) will provide the registry service for the new .mobi domain, even though nobody's sure if we really need it.
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Date: 2005-07-12
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How Do You Spell Spyware?
The Anti-Spyware Coalition (ASC), a team of tech firms and software vendors, is seeking to nail down a universal definition of spyware to better prepare a counterattack-and they need your help.
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Date: 2005-07-12
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Phrack Goes 404
The notorious magazine that spanned years of covering the underground hacker community turns 'rm -rf' on itself.
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Date: 2005-07-12
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Ketchum Can't Spin It Either
PR Week published a Q&A interview last Thursday with Adam Brown, director of eKetchum, as a sort of analysis of the brouhaha that blew up following Ketchum's announcement in June of their launch of a new media practice, Ketchum Personalized Media, and the derision with which the news was greeted by the online PR community.
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Date: 2005-07-11
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Russell Beattie Hates Me
Well, not me specifically, but PR bloggers and PR people. For someone that laments and strikes out at the PR / marcom industry bloggers, he has done a little bit of work in the industry. Personally, I didn't know IBM had a media relations office in Boca Raton. That must have been a cool job.
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Date: 2005-07-11
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GT & A: Grand Theft Porno or Just Hot Coffee
The Grand Theft Auto (GTA) series of computer games thrives on controversy and they've got themselves a stolen car full this time. Rockstar Games, the game's manufacturer may have more on their plate than they can handle.
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Date: 2005-07-11
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Seek The Facts: The Truth Shall Set You Free
Business people often have a blind spot when examining their own companies. Because of the emotional and personal involvement with the organization problems are often ignored, deliberately downplayed, or even refused entry into the office or boardroom door.
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Date: 2005-07-11
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Technorati is for PR Professionals
What surprised me was how aggressively Mr Hirshberg was pitching Technorati's expensive blog tracking services to this audience of agency and corporate communications professionals.
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Date: 2005-07-11
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Did IBM and Apple Have a Mutual Break-up?
Steve Jobs has accomplished at least one thing recently: all eyes are on his company as industry aficionados give themselves migraines trying to figure out what's going on over there. So much so, IBM's new multicore Power PC chips becomes a conversation speed bump serving only to redirect comments toward a confounding Apple business move.
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Date: 2005-07-11
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Dell Isn't Listening
If you've been following Jeff Jarvis' interesting experiences in his dealings with Dell, the PC maker, in trying to get his laptop repaired, Christopher Carfi has a great commentary in his latest podcast that extends this story, looking at what Dell's done with their US customer support forums.
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Date: 2005-07-11
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Earning Milestones
Today was a mini milestone day for me in my blogging. I went to the PO Box this morning to grab my mail and found my monthly cheque from Google's Adsense had arrived for earnings in the month of May.
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Date: 2005-07-11
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Grand Sex Auto: Hidden Scenes Unlocked By Hacker
In news that is sure to spike last minute sales of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as the insatiable gamers rush to get a copy of the PC version before Wal-Mart yanks it off the shelves, an investigation has been launched to determine if creator Rockstar Games intentionally encoded sexually explicit material within.
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Date: 2005-07-11
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What's in a Blog Name?
Frances Flynn Thorsen is asking a good question - what's in a blog name? She's noting that BusinessWeek's new real estate blog ...
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Date: 2005-07-10
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GTA San Andreas: On the Fault?
The Grand Theft Auto (GTA) San Andreas may be a phat game but parents groups are even more enraged with a recent discovery made by some game players and that is the apparent presence of graphic, animated sex in the game.
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Date: 2005-07-09
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Inside the Mind of a Sexual Psychopath Blogger
The bone chilling missives of a convicted and paroled child molester, "sexual sadist," "sexual psychopath," and alleged kidnapper and murderer, are recorded forever on the dark pages of a web log he maintained up until the brutal slayings of four people.
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Date: 2005-07-08
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Blog Ping Services: Free And Paid
Pinging your latest blog entry is something every blogger should do immediately after posting. You say you don't know what pinging is all about, and didn't know who to ask? Well, you've arrived at the right place. Let's talk blog pinging.
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Date: 2005-07-08
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Alberta Bans Keystroke Logging
The director of the Parkland Regional Library in Lacombe, Alberta, had some doubts about the productivity of one particular employee. Being the progressive manager that she is, she decided to assess the worker's productivity by installing keystroke logging software.
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Date: 2005-07-08
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It's Awful Quiet Out There In Tech Support Land
Is something going on in tech support land? I've submitted queries to two companies through their formal channels. I might as well have folded them into paper airplanes and sent them aloft into the canyon just beyond my backyard.
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Date: 2005-07-08
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How Much Is An AdSense Website Worth?
There is an interesting thread going on over at Webmaster World titled How much is an AdSense website worth? The discussion revolves around selling websites and determining what price is fair.
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Date: 2005-07-08
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When Blogging Means More than Money
I emailed Cary Miller this morning to ask how hi Cancer NewsWatch blog is going (you might remember I mentioned it a while ago - Cary's wife Lori is battling cancer and he started the blog (I think after a conversation we had) to do something positive in the midst of a pretty terrible situation.
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Date: 2005-07-08
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Poor July Adsense Earnings
I'm interested to see today that there are a number of threads at Webmaster World's forums that seem to be reporting poor earnings by Adsense publishers over the past few days.
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Date: 2005-07-08
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The Case For Open Comments
I'm not very hep on comment moderation. I think it's a line for bloggers that cannot handle criticism - why is the blogosphere so full of thin-skinned people? - but the usual line trotted out that it's to stop comment SPAM.
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Date: 2005-07-08
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Quality vs Quantity of Posting?
I was chatting to a soon-to-be-blogger this morning about ProBlogging and he asked me how long he'd have to blog before he could earn a reasonable amount from it.
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Date: 2005-07-07
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London Attack Blogger Round-up
Because of today's horrible events in London, England, the majority of our blogging contributors devoted much of their day to posting about the various sources coverage of the explosions, which, by early estimates, has taken 33 lives.
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Date: 2005-07-07
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Pew Says Spyware Stinks
The Pew Internet and American Life project released a study today that says most U.S. Internet users learned about spyware and adware the hard way. They've had their computers screwed, blued and tattooed by annoying bits of software that take over your browser, eat up memory, cause your computer to crash and a whole host of other problems.
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Date: 2005-07-07
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Syndicating Your Blog in Offline Media
A journalist yesterday asked me if anyone had ever asked to syndicate any of my blogs in any other form of media (newspapers or magazines). I answered that I've had a few requests from online media outlets to syndicate some of what I write (which I have allowed in some cases and disallowed in others).
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Date: 2005-07-06
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EDS Keeps Blogging Guidance Simple
As more companies start blogging - and the list is gaining ground - more are also making publicly available their guidelines on blogging, primarily focused on what the ground rules they have put in place are for employees who blog publicly so everyone knows the boundaries.
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Date: 2005-07-06
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Need Traffic For Your Site? Try Comet Busting
NASA set a new record not with the slamming a coffee table into a comet but with 80 million people trying to get pictures of it. 8 p.m. EDT on Sunday evening began a 24-hour period in which the NASA site got pounded with 80 million viewers. The "rubberneckers" spent Monday morning watching the Deep Impact try to slam dance with the comet.
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Date: 2005-07-06
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Skype Introduces Outlook Toolbar
I just got through installing the Skype toolbar for Microsoft Outlook, and I'm impressed. (That's not saying much; I'm impressed by pretty much everything Skype does.)
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Date: 2005-07-06
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Becoming a Multi-Dimensional Blogger
Robert's latest Corporate Blog Tip (#10) is simple but well worth taking note of (quote forthcoming)... He goes on to suggest a few ways to add another dimension to your blogging including podcasting, video blogs, hosting dinners, attending industry events etc.
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Date: 2005-07-06
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Magnetic Marketing: Getting Clients to Come to You!
Are you tired of confusing marketing advice and promotional strategies that never live up to your expectations? Whether you are just starting out or a grizzled veteran, the balancing act of doing your work and finding the time to marketing your
services can be a daunting chore!
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Date: 2005-07-05
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Podcasts Market Books
Podcasts can help authors promote and sell books. I have already written about how podcasts can be developed into a large scale internet radio station. Bloggers can provide the content via podcast and the station can be far more wide ranging than simply the blogging audience.
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Date: 2005-07-05
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Reviews: Build Traffic and Reputation
Writing book reviews, product reviews, and reviews of other blogs is one way to increase your visitor traffic level. Reviews are also a powerful technique to enhance your reputation as a blogger.
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Date: 2005-07-05
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Posting Frequency Observations
One of the things that going away and not checking your RSS feeds for a month can do for you is help identify who is blogging how much. I generally clear my bloglines account every day. As a result I don't notice from day to day which of my 350 or so feeds are updating frequently.
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Date: 2005-07-05
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What Caught My Eye in RSS
As I slowly make my way through the 10,000+ unread RSS feeds that have accumulated in my Bloglines account over the past month a number os posts have caught my attention which I thought I'd highlight here. Some of them have been mentioned by my guest bloggers but there's no harm in doubling up...
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Date: 2005-07-05
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Balancing Blogs' Credibility
In yesterday's "For Immediate Release," I noted that Joseph Edward Duncan had maintained a blog. Duncan, in case you're not following the story, was found in a Coeur d'Alene, Idaho restaurant with a young girl who, along with her brother, had been missing for about six weeks following the disocvery of the bludgeoned bodies ofher mother, her mother's boyfriend, and an older brother.
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Date: 2005-07-05
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Candidate Podcasts, Sort Of
Tim Kaine, Virginia's lieutenant governor and candidate for the state's top job, has his first "podcast" promoted heavily on his home page. Problem is, it isn't a podcast, just a downloadable audio file.
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Date: 2005-07-05
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Business IM Use up to 85%
A study from Radicati Group reinforces the notion that IM has evolved from a means for people to engage in idle chatter to a vital business communication tool.
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Date: 2005-07-05
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A Healthy Diet Of Spam?
This one defies belief. A study conducted by the University of Alberta has concluded that unsolicited marketing email-spam-can be good for you.
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Date: 2005-07-05
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Micro Persuasion 2.0
Now that this blog is over a year old, I feel it's in need of a bit of a design refresh. So, I am playing around with the different blog templates TypePad provides.
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Date: 2005-07-05
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The RSS Orange Crush
Last week I met with Scott Gatz from Yahoo. He heads up personalization at Yahoo. Scott said something interesting: millions of My Yahoo users are subscribing to RSS feeds, but they don't even realize it.
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Date: 2005-07-05
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MP3 Phones Are Coming
Back in May, I posted an item here agreeing with Bill Gates' assessment that cell phones will eventually displace digital media players like the iPod.
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Date: 2005-07-05
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Skype dominates VOIP
Most people have heard of Vonage, but Skype-which still causes eyebrows to lift when I mention it to audiences-dominates the Voice Over IP (VOIP) market in North America.
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Date: 2005-07-05
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How Many Blogs to Focus Upon?
Paul wrote a week or so ago about his decision to scale back his blogs to those which are most profitable in a post titled "One site or one hundred sites?"...
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Date: 2005-07-05
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Sasser Worm Creator Arrested
His motive was to gain fame as a programmer. Fame is what the German teen got, as well as arrested for creating one of the most effective computer worms in history.
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Date: 2005-07-05
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German Teen Spreads Worms
Sven Jaschan admitted to wrecking computers worldwide when he confessed to creating last year's Sasser computer worm. The worm devastated hundreds of thousands of computers across the globe. In the process, he's bought himself some real jail time for his computer terrorism.
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Date: 2005-07-05
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China Fixing Need For Internet Fix
A family goes out on nice vacation up in the Poconos for a summer vacation. It's time to kick back for a few days and forget what day it is. You and your family have been planning the trip for months. No cell phones, no computers, no work or school, just the peace and quite of good ol' Mother Nature, except someone is apparently going through Internet withdrawals.
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Date: 2005-07-04
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Microsoft Pays IBM $775 Million And a Hearty Handshake
The Redmond, Washington based software empire extended a hand in friendship and a fat antitrust paycheck to the venerable International Business Machines (IBM). In addition to the $775 million, Microsoft also coughed $75 million in credit for software deployment to IBM. Now things are square.
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Date: 2005-07-02
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AMD Out For Blood: Going After Intel In Japan
Advance Micro Devices filed suit in Tokyo High Court against processor powerhouse Intel for some $50 million. The suit accuses Intel of paying massive amounts of moolah to Japanese computer companies to keep them from using AMD chips.
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Date: 2005-07-02
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Microsoft and IBM Settle Differences
Microsoft and IBM have come to an agreement to resolve their antitrust problems. Microsoft will be paying IBM $775 million and extend $75 million in credit towards deployment of Microsoft software at IBM.
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Date: 2005-07-01
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What Do You Know About ID Theft?
Javelin Strategy & Research released the results of a recent study done in conjunction with the Better Business Bureau on ID Theft. The report, titled "Phishing: Consumer Awareness and Behavior." The report concentrates on the action financial institutions must take to protect their customers from phishing scams.
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Date: 2005-07-01
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