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DivX HD Film Festival
HDFest and DivX announced they are partnering for a DivX HD Film Festival. The HDFest events in New York and London will use DivX HD technology for all playback at the festival. This festival only screens films made only for the high definition format.
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Date: 2005-08-31
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OKGo And The Power Of The Web
I'm cruising along home yesterday in the Kentucky rain, listening to NPR and they do this feature story on a new Internet sensation. It's a band called OKGo. They've got this song called "A Million Ways" and a video to go with it. They look a little a uh… fashionably unique, like so many bands but boy can they dance.
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Date: 2005-08-31
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Microsoft Stops Saying “Mozilla Who?”
Mozilla's Firefox browser now officially exists in the eyes of Microsoft. In a filing with the SEC, Mozilla was acknowledged for the first time by the software giant as a competitor. Even as we wait, and wait, and wait, for Microsoft's next desktop contribution, the MS crew remains confident about its ability to keep up.
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Date: 2005-08-31
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BMC Software CFO Steps Down
George Harrington has resigned as the chief financial officer of BMC Software, but will stay with the company for an interim period to assist the transition.
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Date: 2005-08-30
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Violent Internet Porn May Face Ban In UK
The British government announced today plans to ban downloading and possessing violent sexual material. Still subject to comments, final bill drafting, and a vote by Parliament, Britain would be the first Western country to institute such a ban.
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Date: 2005-08-30
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Online Holidays 2005: Are You Ready?
Online traffic gets extra big for the holidays not just for retailers but many other websites as well. People look for all types of information so visibility is potentially quite high, which means advertising dollars can be maximized if you plan early.
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Date: 2005-08-30
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Irish Bank Introduces Disposable Credit Cards
An Irish bank has announced a service that aims to thwart phishers from pilfering credit card numbers on the Internet while giving those without credit cards a way to make online and telephone purchases. They're idea: disposable credit vouchers.
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Date: 2005-08-30
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Mobile Porn: Where There’s A Cell Phone…
We've come a long way from the seedy movie theatres showing the Ivory Snow girl doing things teenage boys dream of watching. Move up about 30 years and add the wide spread use of the cell phone to the teenage boy's viewing habits and you get the picture.
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Date: 2005-08-30
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Big Blue Swami Looks Into Future of …
International Business Machines (IBM) launched the second podcast on Tuesday in their "IBM and the Future Of…" series. This latest episode, entitled "IBM and the Future of the Home," touches on the future of consumer electronics in the household.
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Date: 2005-08-30
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Leo’s Back In Town
In the realm of all things tech, G4TV, a cable and satellite network aimed for computer geeks of all shapes and sizes made a brilliant announcement. They've brought Leo LaPorte back into the fold for their "Call For Help Program."
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Date: 2005-08-30
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Is the Sun going Down?
Reports from Gartner and IDC contradict each other in whether or not Sun is still ranked the highest in the worldwide Unix server market.
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Date: 2005-08-30
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Microsoft Snaps Up Teleo
The instant messaging market just shifted up a few gears with the news today that Microsoft has acquired Teleo, the Skype-like internet phone/chat service.
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Date: 2005-08-30
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Blog Spam Is Relentless
Since I implemented comment and trackback moderation on this blog a couple of weeks ago, the amount of spam I've been getting has steadily increased.
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Date: 2005-08-29
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Are Blog Trackbacks Conversations?
Steve Rubel's post in which he explains his reason for rejecting a trackback from Jeremy Pepper has produced a blizzard of comments-26, along with three trackbacks, at last count.
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Date: 2005-08-29
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Peter Daou Opens News Unfiltered Service
Peter Daou, a noted political consultant and blogger launched a news wire service designed for use for bloggers. The "News Unfiltered" site opened on Monday and promises to bring news straight from new sources for use by bloggers.
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Date: 2005-08-29
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Is Your Business Ready for Disaster?
Disasters are what they are, and they can be very hard to recover from. Many businesses aren't as prepared for disasters as they should be, and some don't realize it until it's too late.
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Date: 2005-08-29
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It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time…
Got a great idea? You might want to make sure it doesn't violate any federal laws before ubiquitously marketing it. LoverSpy's creator Carlos Enrique Perez-Melara, 25, learned that one the hard way, now facing up to 175 years in jail.
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Date: 2005-08-29
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World of Warcraft Cracks 4 Million Customers WorldWide
Think online gaming is huge? You have no idea. Blizzard Entertainment announced their "World of Warcraft" game passed the one million subscriber mark in North America and broke the four million subscriber mark world wide. That's a lot of gamers. That's also a lot of monthly income.
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Date: 2005-08-29
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India Gives Search Warrants To Movie Producers
In a story that will make you pick up a copy of the Constitution and kiss the Fourth Amendment, the Hollywood Reporter relays the news that the Motion Picture Association (MPA) received a search and seize warrant that covers the entire city of New Delhi to fight piracy.
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Date: 2005-08-29
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Men Like Media…A Lot
Forrester Research just released a study about media habits of men versus women. The numbers are pretty solid that men tend to suck up just about all media more than women. Together, men and women average about 46 hours a week immersed in media but men have the lead.
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Date: 2005-08-29
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Blogs Becoming Free Speech Medium
Around the world, those who had quietly smoldered for fear of offending the powers that be have found a voice in blogs. For many, the blogosphere has become an anonymous cry to the masses. For the brave, not so anonymous, but equally as scathing, sounding boards are giving them words they hadn't dared utter in public.
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Date: 2005-08-29
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IBM And Stonesoft Head For Canada
In an announcement today, IBM and Helsinki based Stonesoft said not only are they renewing their partnership but they are expanding their services into Canada. Stonesoft is an integrated network security firm.
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Date: 2005-08-29
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10 Tips for Using Affiliate Programs on your Blog
We've now looked at a number of popular affiliate programs for bloggers and today I'd like to finish off this series by giving a few tips that should help bloggers get the best results out of any affiliate program that they choose to run with.
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Date: 2005-08-26
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Blog Buzz Can Be Misleading
When I step out of the office at the end of the day and rejoin the pedestrian masses, I am quick to notice that nobody's talking about blogs. Just using the word "blog" in conversation is greeted with blank stares, or at best, a squinty "I heard something about that on the news." End of blog conversation, on to P. Diddy's name change and how much we hate [insert fashionable annoyance here].
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Date: 2005-08-26
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Amazon Naughty Bits May Be Bad
The world's largest online retail giant might just hit a hump with one of their most recent offerings aimed at "Sex and Sensuality." Literally thousands of products are available through their health and personal section but some industry watchers say Amazon's attempt at an online fun party could come back to haunt them.
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Date: 2005-08-26
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FCC Floats VoIP 911 Deadline
Frantic pleas from AT&T and other VoIP providers have convinced the FCC to move its August 29 deadline for 911 service acknowledgements to September 28.
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Date: 2005-08-26
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Internet Gaming Addictions
China just announced they are placing limits for playtime for their myriad online gamers. They've limited users to five hour periods after which they must take a five hour break. Internet gaming addiction is becoming a real problem in some places and people have died from this addiction.
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Date: 2005-08-26
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Apple Opens Trenchcoat On iPod Mini
Apple's pickin' a lot of bushels for Samsung's NAND Flash memory chips, buying 40% of Samsung's output to put them in Apple's newest iPod sapling, the iPod Mini. The tiny little chips will be seeded into the Mini fruit in time for the holiday season.
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Date: 2005-08-26
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Blogads.com Taps Blogosphere For New Logo
If you've got the design panache, Blogads.com is looking to bloggers to design a new logo for them. Corporate suits need not apply, however, they're looking for a more human, user-generated blogospheric feel. If they pick your design, they'll pony up $1000.
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Date: 2005-08-26
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Copyright Tools Only In IE
Back in April, Congress passed the Family Entertainment Copyright Act and as a result, by October 24th, a copyright preregistration system must be in place and is slated to launch on schedule. Because of the time table for launch however, it will only be available in Internet Explorer (IE).
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Date: 2005-08-26
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Zotob Crooks Nabbed By Microsoft
If you're going to be a high profile cyber criminal, might as well have the names to match. The FBI has tracked down the creators of the infamous Zotob worm that caused grief for Windows users worldwide. Their names? Atilla and Diabl0. Apropos, I think.
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Date: 2005-08-26
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Adobe And Macromedia Ready Get Together
Adobe Systems and Macromedia look like their on a steady course to complete the acquisition process as stockholders from both companies announced they had voted in favor of the merger. 99% of Adobe's outstanding shares and 99.8% of Macromedia's outstanding shares voted yea on the matter.
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Date: 2005-08-25
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Municipal WiFi—Unfair Competition?
Philadelphia joins the list of the latest municipalities looking to install a city-wide wireless network. As HP and Earthlink place their bids for the project, regional ISPs are crying foul for understandable fears that tax-supported wireless networks will drive them out of business.
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Date: 2005-08-25
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5 Hours on the MMORPG And China Boots You Off Tonight
Marathon gamer gurus take note. China's putting their gamers on a leash. MMORPGs are all the rage right for online gaming, whether its World of Warcraft or Lineage II or something else but in China, anything over five hours a day and you could be in trouble.
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Date: 2005-08-25
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VoIP 911 No Joke
Tens of thousands of VoIP customers may face losing their service Monday for failure to comply with the guidelines of the Federal Communications Commission regarding 911 emergency.
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Date: 2005-08-25
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Internet Evolving Into a Vertebrate
Fujitsu Siemens Computers and Artera Group Team announced they are joining forces to create a network of strategically placed data centers to boost Internet access speed 3 to 5 times its current capacity while reducing bandwidth requirements by more than 70 percent.
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Date: 2005-08-25
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Sony and Disney Getting Into MMORPG
What's the hottest new MMORPG? Could be Lineage II? Guild Wars? The World of Warcraft? Yes? No? ToonTown you say? From Sony and Disney. Wow. This could be something keen. It's family friendly AND it's only $20. I may need to check this out.
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Date: 2005-08-25
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Japanese Music Providers Have Long Road To Hoe
When one company becomes the first to tap a geyser of a market, every other company that follows suit just looks like a bunch of copycat opportunists, even if they had it planned in advance of their rival's success. When Apple iTunes sold one million digital music tracks in four days to the Japanese, Yahoo! and Sony seemed surprised that the folks who invented karaoke might be music lovers.
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Date: 2005-08-24
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Jupitermedia Uploads JupiterImages
Jupitermedia, the folks who recently sold off their search engine marketing side, announced the launch of their JupiterImages subscription service. The services offers over 330,000 images, many at multiple resolutions.
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Date: 2005-08-24
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Intel Outside
2005, meet 1920. Via remote video from India, Intel demonstrated a new PC designed to withstand a descent to about the 5th ring of Hell. Soon, a person in the most remote village in the world will be able to IM the guy standing next him.
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Date: 2005-08-24
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Dell’s Listening To Bloggers…Finally
Jeff Jarvis and his blog Buzz Machine have created some public relations issues for Dell Inc. From a PR standpoint, Dell did just about everything wrong up until this point. They refused to deal constructively and immediately with the problem and waited until it spiraled dramatically.
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Date: 2005-08-24
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Skype Toolin’ In Outlook
VoIP phenom Skype offers toolbars for Outlook and Internet Explorer (IE). The IE version has been out a couple of weeks now but the Outlook version just hit this past Friday and it's got some decent features too it.
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Date: 2005-08-24
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Worming Your Way Into MSN IM
Everyone's aflutter with the launch of Google's IM service but lest we forget, there are other players in this peculiar little game. Microsoft has had its own instant messaging service for quite some time. Something new crawled into the Microsoft instant messenger too, something vile and unclean and it uses your own language against you.
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Date: 2005-08-24
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AMD VS. Intel: Place Your Bets
AMD has challenged Intel to a public duel between the two companies' dual-core server processors. AMD issued the challenge in the form of an ad in several big-name newspapers.
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Date: 2005-08-23
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Amazon Ships In Plain Brown Wrapper
Amazon, the world's largest online retailer recently added a new line of products to their health and personal care section. Amazon realized many people have a variety of needs in the health and personal areas and they merely strive to meet those needs by offering a number of products aimed for sex and sensuality.
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Date: 2005-08-23
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WiMAX in the UK
The first 802.16-2004 compliant WiMAX trial in the UK is being conducted by PIPEX Communications and Airspan Networks.
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Date: 2005-08-23
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Web Surfers Sick and Tired of Being Annoyed
Is your website annoying? If so, there's a good chance you're driving away a huge chunk of your customer base. And you may not even know why because only a quarter of the ones you've ticked off will tell you the reason.
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Date: 2005-08-23
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Intel Not Up To AMD's Challenge
Today AMD challenged Intel to a public duel between the two companies' dual-core server processors. The challenge was issued through an advertisement in several major newspapers.
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Date: 2005-08-23
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Intel’s Developer Forum Kicks Off
Intel opened their developer conference and lots of news has been floating around as a result. Paul Otellini addressed the conference and talked about the Intel vision and where things will go from here.
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Date: 2005-08-23
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Bluecasting--The Next Spam King
What if, in real life, only 15% of the people you approached for a conversation responded to you? You'd probably feel like a shmuck, a social pariah. Fifteen percent is enough to make a direct marketer's thick head spin, and Bluecasting, sending ads via Bluetooth technology to unsuspecting phone-toting passers-by, offers that promise.
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Date: 2005-08-23
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Sploggers Quick On The Draw
So I was checking out Blogger and Next Blogging my way around, taking full advantage of the new "Flag As Objectionable" feature like some kind of cyber-sniper, whizzing shots by the ears of every spam blog (splog) I could find, when I came across a stubborn one. The day after Google released the Flag feature, one of these splogs had already out smarted it thanks to Internet Explorer's relative inability to block pop-ups.
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Date: 2005-08-22
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RE/MAX Heads Online For Real Estate
Business continues to grow on the Internet. One industry that's bucked the trend was the real estate industry until now. Real estate giant RE/MAX is in the process of creating an online listing of homes all around the country.
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Date: 2005-08-22
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Flagging the (M)asses
Here's the thing: though I appreciate the opportunity to flag spam blogs (splogs) on Blogger and thus alerting the powers that be to where their pure blog waters are muddied, one has to question how "The Wisdom of Crowds" differs from the famed "mob mentality" that did in Julius Caesar.
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Date: 2005-08-22
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Amazon Adds Shutterfly Photo Services
The folks out at Amazon added Shutterfly photo services to the world's largest online retailer's list of services. The new service will allow Amazon users to order a wide variety of custom image based products to their basket.
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Date: 2005-08-22
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Garfield & Ball State Launch Site
Garfield cartoonist Jim Davis and his alma mater, Ball State University, teamed up to launch a new website loaded with education games, activities, instruction, drill and demonstrations.
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Date: 2005-08-22
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Dr. Who On The Mobile? Cellular Red Dwarf?
For science fiction geeks everywhere, this may be the boon you've been waiting for. The BBC announced they will offer episodes of "Dr. Who" and Red Dwarf" for cell phones, thinking the geeks are early adopters.
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Date: 2005-08-22
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Is Japanese Internet Tycoon’s Political Debut an Omen?
The Land of the Rising Sun has become the Land of Political Assassins as Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has tapped 32-year-old dotcom blockbuster Takafumi Horie to run against an especially difficult political opponent in September's elections. If successful, Koizumi's internal coup could switch on light bulbs in the heads of political strategists (strategerists) everywhere.
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Date: 2005-08-19
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Chinese E-Gestapo Censors Blog-ebrity
The Chinese government has yet to learn that by outlawing something, it just becomes that much more popular. Enter the latest online threat to Chinese authority: the semi-trampy Sister Furong.
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Date: 2005-08-19
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Bloggers: The New Gate Keepers?
The Blog Business Summit in San Francisco attracted a bit of attention. Various power bloggers were there, giving their advice and making a case for themselves and their profession to the business world. Some took it well and others not so well.
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Date: 2005-08-19
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Getting Mugged In a Computer Game?
That's right. A man has been arrested in Japan for computer game crime. He was using bots to beat up player characters, take their stuff and then sell on the computer game black market in the computer game called Lineage II.
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Date: 2005-08-19
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Net-News Ad Dollars On The Rise
As we build our hyper-fast, digitized world, advertisers are beginning to take notice. In 2004, the online newspaper sector reached a milestone by collecting $1 billion in revenues, mostly from advertising. The news comes our way this morning from eMarketer, who says from the look of the first half, 2005 will exceed it's predecessor.
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Date: 2005-08-19
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Amazon's New Shorts
Amazon.com is now offering a new service called "Amazon Shorts" from which customers can sample the work of new authors for 49 cents each.
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Date: 2005-08-19
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Amazon Applies Shortening To Renowned Authors
Amazon, the largest retailer on the Internet, launched a new service today in hopes of reviving short-form literature. Enlisting the aide of dozens of established authors, Amazon will offer their customers a brand new service and perhaps even find some new ones. For just 49 cents, one can download and enjoy essays and short stories by their favorite writers or find someone new.
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Date: 2005-08-19
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Fraud Blogs (Fraugs) Giving Me An Aneurism
Recently it was reported that the blogosphere was out pacing the famed Moore's Law, doubling in size every 5.5 months at the rate of 80,000 new blogs set up every day. We've also learned since that nearly half of the blogosphere is dead-that is, inactive. And now we find that an unknown number of them are fake to begin with, labeled "Splogs" (spam blogs) by IceRocket's Mark Cuban, and the trend may yet get worse, reducing the total blogosphere to maybe 35 real blogs (okay, Feedster says at least 500).
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Date: 2005-08-19
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Fighting The System: Mom VS. RIAA
The RIAA and its affiliates have accused more than 13,000 people, through lawsuits, of illegally swapping copyrighted music. With about a quarter of these suits settled at close to $5000 a pop, the record companies have a sweet deal going on. But one woman is standing up to these companies and choosing to fight: Mom.
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Date: 2005-08-19
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Prudential: IBM To Climb
Hints from Prudential that IBM's stock may climb later this year, caused it to do just that today. IBM shares gained 2.6% today on Prudential's comments.
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Date: 2005-08-19
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Flackbusting: PR Gits Stalking Journalists
An interesting thing happened on the way to the blog. It seems there was a TV producer got an delightful story pitch through their email from a publicist. The producer promptly reviewed the dispatch and deleted it. Some ten minutes later, the publicist called the producer and interrogated the producer as to why he deleted the email after only two seconds.
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Date: 2005-08-19
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Dell And Microsoft Dis-Oriented?
Computer industry giants Dell and Microsoft are tag teaming with National Lampoon Network (NLN) to wade through college campuses looking for talent. Online entertainment community TalentMatch joined them as they search for the next big star during the "Dis-Orientation Casting Tour."
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Date: 2005-08-18
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You’ve Got Jail!
A very much ex-AOL employee will spend 15 months enjoying the hospitality of the federal penal system.
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Date: 2005-08-18
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Internet Porn Exists And .xxx Is Just Simpler
Though people have been leery for years about regulating the Internet, that reticent stance is exactly what has caused a Wild West of online porn sites that don't care who sees what they're peddling. Recently, in their ever-efficient way, the two ruling parties of the United States government have been in a tizzy over the topic, and it is becoming clear that Internet regulation is soon to be a reality-even if either party hasn't fully agreed on how to handle it. One's blind and the other is trying to kill a fly with a bazooka.
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Date: 2005-08-18
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No Deal For Nokia and iTunes
After media reports said that Nokia would be offering Apple's iTunes music service on its N91 phones, Nokia came forward and declared this to be false.
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Date: 2005-08-18
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Symantec Acquires Sygate
Symantec Corp. announced today that it is acquiring Sygate Technologies, an endpoint compliance company, for an undisclosed sum to aid its effort in creating a "holistic" solution to security, compliance, and remediation requirements of large enterprises.
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Date: 2005-08-18
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Router Sales Shooting Through the Roof
The router market is growing and growing. According to a report published by Dell'Oro Group, the router market recorded the highest quarter-over-quarter growth rate it has experienced in over 4 years.
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Date: 2005-08-18
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AMD Makes IBM Veteran VP Silicon Design
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced on Wednesday the hiring of Jeff VerHeul for the job of corporate vice president of silicon design for AMD. He will lead the development of all future AMD computing solutions, including silicon roadmaps and design efforts across all of AMD's global engineering sites.
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Date: 2005-08-17
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SBC’s $4 Billion Experiment
Some might say that a $4 billion investment into a complicated and risky technical endeavor that is potentially way too ahead of its time for the general population is a risk not worth taking. But SBC Communications' Randall Stephenson says otherwise.
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Date: 2005-08-17
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Spam Dealer Gets Year In the Can
Former America Online employee Jason Smathers learned the hard way that crimes in cyberspace are real crimes as a US District Court judge sentenced him to a year and three months in prison. Smathers, a software engineer, admitted to stealing 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses and then selling them to spammers.
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Date: 2005-08-17
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Big Blue Adding Fuel To Firefox
IBM announced on Monday they would be adding source code to make the browser, Firefox by Mozilla, more accessible for users with disabilities, lay foundation for government agency adoption and give Internet content providers more ways of serving customers.
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Date: 2005-08-17
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RSS: What’s In A Name?
A bit of a kerfuffle has erupted over Microsoft's proposed name change to news feeds as handled by the upcoming IE7 web browser.
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Date: 2005-08-16
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Novell Gets Wise With Linux
Novell has shipped its GroupWise 7 around the world. The company claims that GroupWise is the most secure and reliable collaboration platform in the industry.
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Date: 2005-08-16
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Broadband Riding The Power Lines In Texas
Electricity takes the world into the future. The statement sounds a little dated but with the recent FCC ruling that utility companies could run high-speed Internet access through existing electrical outlets. Broadband over Power Lines or BPL may just be the wave of the future.
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Date: 2005-08-16
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Farking Your Way To The Top
Give it up for the little guy. Kentucky-based Fark.com ranked 2nd on the list of Nielsen/NetRanking's fastest growing blog sites, just behind MSN Spaces. That's farking unbelievable.
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Date: 2005-08-16
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XXX Domain Proposal Has Limp Reception
The "virtual red light district," as the proposed .xxx domain for adult content has been dubbed, hit a snag just one month before final approval. A sudden influx of opposing voices has caused the US government to reexamine the ups and downs of the issue.
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Date: 2005-08-16
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Smack Down At the iBook Sale; 17 Injured
Rednecks, flying chairs, petty fisticuffs. No, this isn't about the infamous Geraldo episode. It's not Jerry Springer or the WWE, either. It's about the ensuing chaos that erupted as a Virginia school system put 1,000 Apple iBooks on sale for $50. One person even lost a flip-flop.
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Date: 2005-08-16
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Blogging In MS Word
For all the bloggers out there using Blogger, you now have an alternative for playing with your entries. You can hammer them out in Word, which isn't a bad idea because it allows you to proof read your entries, and then load it from there straight into Blogger.
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Date: 2005-08-16
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Blu-Ray Goes Universal
Universal Music Group announced they had signed on to the Blu-Ray DVD format developed by Sony in the latest round of DVD Wars. This marks a major victory in the cosmic conflict between Japanese electronics goliaths Sony and Toshiba.
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Date: 2005-08-16
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Users Ditch Firefox For IE
In the most recent browser usage study, open source advocates cringe in horror as Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) slaps down Firefox. Adding insult to injury, Safari also gained ground by nibbling on Firefox's market share.
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Date: 2005-08-15
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TiVo Hookin’ Up To The Net
TiVo plans to let customers download TV shows via the Internet before the shows hit TV. I wonder how this will play with the MPAA and other groups warring against those who circulate the material before the TV release.
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Date: 2005-08-15
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Microsoft Shaking iPods Out Of Apple’s Tree
Microsoft seems particularly adept and pushing Apple into a grinder. Even though the "Gates House Gang" owns a chunk of Apple stock, it seems they enjoy demonstrating their "superiority" and if this current patent case works for Microsoft, they will add another notch to their belt.
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Date: 2005-08-15
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Opera Gets Answers
Answers.com, that is, and the arrangement will be a partnership that places access to its database on the Opera browser toolbar.
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Date: 2005-08-12
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Business Blogs: Spread The Word
Business blogs are powerful tools for any business to adopt. Whether the company is a traditional bricks and mortar business, an online business venture, or both, a business blog can pay huge dividends for any business bottom line.
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Date: 2005-08-12
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Mars Probe And Blogosphere: Talking To Aliens
NASA launched their Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Friday morning after a few delays earlier in the week. Coinciding with that launch was MindComet's first launch of thousands of SpacePost messages aimed at promoting intergalactic peace and communication.
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Date: 2005-08-12
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Dell Missed 2nd Quarter Marks
Round Rock, Texas computer giant Dell missed projections during the 2nd quarter and suggested the 3rd quarter will also fall short. Sales for the Texas Tornado of computer manufacturers appears to have slowed down.
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Date: 2005-08-12
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Where’s Das “Any” Key?
Self-proclaimed "uber geek" Daniel Guermeur, chief executive of Austin-based Metadot Corp. just made a stunning contribution to the future of yard sale "seemed like a good idea at the time" merchandise. Das Keyboard, the fruit of Guermeur's geekdom, is based upon the "legendary" IBM Model M, with one key difference-the keys are black, and, um, blank.
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Date: 2005-08-12
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When Chips Are Down, Intel Takes Chips Up
Intel's had the problems recently with AMD, the U.S. government, the Japanese government, the E.U. government, but with any luck, they increase their good fortune with their developer conference with details of their new multicore processor chip.
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Date: 2005-08-12
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miPod? Microsoft And Apple At It Again
Microsoft and Apple look to be battling over the right to the iPod technology. Apple filed the patents for its incredibly successful iPod back in October of 2002. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office booted the patent papers last month.
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Date: 2005-08-12
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TiVo To Offer Downloadable Programming
For all you TiVo lovers out there, the company has inked a deal with the Independent Film Channel to transmit programs to set-top boxes via broadband Internet connections. Even cooler, subscribers can download shows even before they're scheduled to air.
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Date: 2005-08-12
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Microsoft King of Media Apple Polishers
This says a lot about the PR teams working for the world's top companies. US media research company Delahaye released a survey listing the corporations who enjoyed the most positive media coverage. Microsoft topped the list, followed by Wal-Mart.
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Date: 2005-08-12
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Netscape's Contribution, Ten Years Later
Tuesday marked the ten-year anniversary of the beginning of the greatest investment boom in history. On August 9, 1995, Netscape issued its initial public stock offering, which is widely regarded as the spark that set off the stock boom of the late 90's and set the stage for today's tech world.
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Date: 2005-08-11
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Blogging As a Business
Note to Evan Williams: congrats on getting the funding for Odeo. For the rest of you, he's building a podcasting tool to start with.
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Date: 2005-08-11
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Filtering Out MSN's Filter
MSN Filter sure is getting some people upset (hi Ross Mayfield). Personally I wanted to give MSN Filter a few weeks before giving my opinion, but Ross goaded me into it.
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Date: 2005-08-11
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IBM Supports Geronimo
Yesterday, IBM announced that it now offers support services for Apache Software Foundation (ASF) Geronimo open source application server software.
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Date: 2005-08-10
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The ADD Factor of Internet/TV Ads
Some say the Internet will soon overtake King TV as broadband access becomes more and more prolific. Indeed a recent Canadian study has suggested that the gap between time spent online per week and time spent watching television is closing rapidly. Some have gone to extremes saying that television is deep trouble and advertisers should make a dramatic shift in their ad budgets. But cooler heads and other reports might suggest that the two will walk hand in hand.
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Date: 2005-08-10
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More DVD War Shots Fired
The high definition DVD wars continue to rage with the Blu-Ray Disc Association's (BDA) said they now have the "most comprehensive content management system ever employed." Naturally, the folks at Toshiba and at the HD DVD camp weren't pleased.
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Date: 2005-08-10
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Do Marketers Really Need RSS?
The recent Forrester Research study, which claims that only 2% of online households in North America use RSS, took the internet marketing world by storm. Does this data really mean that marketers can still afford to ignore this channel?
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Date: 2005-08-09
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Microsoft Messenger For Mac: New & Improved
The Redmond based software monolith, Microsoft, announced they are expanding their MAC instant messaging software. The new tab viewing display will allow users to access both corporate and personal Messenger accounts and set a unique status for each user.
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Date: 2005-08-09
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E-Marketing News Alert: Blog Readers Young, Rich, and Male
The citizen journalism phenomenon known as blogging has now reached the attentive and contemplative eyes of one third of the Internet population according to statistics released by comScore Networks. That's 50 million sets of eyeballs, the majority of which, according to Gawker, seems to be connected to (gasp) upper middle class young males. And with that news, e-marketers around the country are calling emergency meetings as we speak.
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Date: 2005-08-09
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Blogs Get More Commonplace
Information Week reports on a study from Internet metrics agency ComScore that shows a third of the Americans who are online visited a blog in the first quarter of the year.
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Date: 2005-08-09
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A Blog Redesign That Rocks
A while back, I wrote about a study that suggested the design of blogs was an inhibitor to usability, particularly among those who are less-than-familiar with the various unique elements of a blog.
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Date: 2005-08-09
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Apple's 4-Day Million
It only took Apple four days to sell over one million songs through its new iTunes Japan service. It was launched on Thursday and got off to a very good start.
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Date: 2005-08-08
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The Buzz About Blogs
The "blogosphere" is continuing to grow at an amazing pace. In fact, the number of published blogs is expected to double about every five months.
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Date: 2005-08-08
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AOL Sows Wildseed In Mobile Market
As part of an initiative to expedite the use of America Online services on mobile phones, the world's largest Internet provider announced the acquisition of Wildseed Ltd., a privately held wireless technology company based in Kirkland, Washington, for an undisclosed sum.
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Date: 2005-08-08
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Macromedia Studio 8 Unleashed
Macromedia today, announced the release of Macromedia Studio 8, which includes new versions of Dreamweaver, Flash Professional, Fireworks, Contribute, and FlashPaper.
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Date: 2005-08-08
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The Sell Of Music
MusicFreedom presents another method for artists to get their music to fans without an intervening music label.
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Date: 2005-08-05
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AOL Makes Room For Xdrive
America Online said they purchased the online storage firm Xdrive for an undisclosed sum. The move was made to help meet the expanding needs of consumer who's need for information storage continues to grow with the addition of photos, music and lots of other files, a number of which take up a fair amount of space.
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Date: 2005-08-05
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NewsGator Secures RSS
RSS platform company, NewsGator Technologies announced that it will launch NewsGator Enterprise Server (NGES) in the third quarter.
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Date: 2005-08-05
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IBM Juicing Up SiGe Technology
IBM announced on Friday the launch of their fourth generation silicon-germanium (SiGe) foundry technology named 8HP. The new chip has more than twice the performance of the previous products.
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Date: 2005-08-05
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Getting Fired In Style
It's not really clear how this website plans to verify the tales submitted, but SimplyFired.com is running a contest for those with the best career-ending moments. The most jaw-dropping entries could find themselves on a luxury cruise accompanied by Donald Trump's "Apprentice" rejects.
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Date: 2005-08-05
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Advertising On a Dead Man
eBay auctions are just getting weirder and weirder. Now there's a guy auctioning off the rights to advertise on his dead body when he does in fact die.
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Date: 2005-08-05
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MSN Launches Filter Blogs
Back in June, MSN let the world know that it was looking for people to write for its new blogs. Yesterday, MSN launched filter.msn.com, which has contains these blogs.
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Date: 2005-08-04
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Kiddie Cell Phones Are All the Rage
Ok, so your 8-year-old wants a cell phone. Don't think your 8-year-old needs a cell phone? You don't have to fight with them, fight with the cell phone companies. As cell phones have become an integral part of the tech industry with a lot of features, including search and email and instant messaging, cell phone marketers feel the 8-12 year-old market is the wave of the future.
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Date: 2005-08-04
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Blogs: Do This Many People Really Have Something To Say?
Technorati just released a report detailing the growth of the blogosphere. They found that a new web log was created every second, totaling 80,000 new blogs every day. Even more interesting was the rise of moblogging (blogging from your phone). Let's just hope a moblogger isn't behind you when you're sitting at a red light.
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Date: 2005-08-04
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Microsoft Stages COO: Kevin Turner
Microsoft announced on Thursday their newest hire, Kevin Turner as the new chief operating officer. Turner will be in charge of strategic and operational leadership of sales, marketing and service professionals as well as the company's fulfillment and IT operations.
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Date: 2005-08-04
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Novell To Provide JEMS Support
Novell has announced that it will be providing technical support for JBoss Enterprise Middleware System (JEMS), including the market-leading JBoss Application Server.
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Date: 2005-08-03
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Oracle Flexes its Stake in i-Flex
Oracle announced that it plans to buy a majority stake in Indian application software company, i-flex solutions. I-flex provides software for banking, asset management, and investor services.
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Date: 2005-08-03
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Look, Another New Blog
By the time you finish reading this sentence, three new blogs will have been created, according to Technorati. Make that four.
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Date: 2005-08-03
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AOL Forced To Fess Up By FTC
America Online's Advertising.com Inc., after distributing the free security program, SpyBlast, without informing consumers of its hidden adware content, is being forced to "clearly and prominently" disclose the information by the Federal Trade Commission.
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Date: 2005-08-03
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Mozilla Goes For The Money
Mozilla, creator of the popular Firefox Internet browser and a number of other products, announced the creation of the Mozilla Corporation today. They created the commercial side to generate revenue and while their market share increases steadily, this should help them grow even further.
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Date: 2005-08-03
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PDA Sales Pounding The Pavement
PDA sales worldwide took off up the road, up 32% from the same period last year. Gartner said 3.6 million units sold from all vendors. Research In Motion's Blackberry units continue to climb above the others though taking 23% of the market share.
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Date: 2005-08-03
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MSN Goes Shopping
MSN and Shopping.com are teaming up, so that MSN Shopping customers will be able to shop from thousands more online merchants.
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Date: 2005-08-02
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IBM: Security Attacks Up 50%
Criminal-driven security attacks and emails with viruses increased by 50% in the first half of this year according to a report released by IBM today.
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Date: 2005-08-02
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MySpace Users Go Fox Hunting
The name rolls off the tongue like that of a James Bond villain, accompanied by a scowl and a painful memory. Muuuuuurdoch! For the constituents of MySpace.com, ownership of their beloved meeting ground by media mogul billionaire and alleged world domination hopeful Rupert Murdoch leaves a sour taste in the mouth.
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Date: 2005-08-02
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BitTorrent Meets With MPAA
The creator of the large-file sharing utility has moved from Seattle to San Francisco, hired a COO, and will try to beat Microsoft to the legal P2P movie sharing market.
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Date: 2005-08-01
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Hackers Saw Plank, Microsoft Ship Drops
Within hours of the release of Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA), hackers decided to flip off Microsoft with a single, simple line of javascript that promptly turned off the WGA and turned on laughter in hacker circles around the globe.
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Date: 2005-08-01
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Claria Wants Another Chance
Claria, the company that is known for their adware, which produces annoying pop-up ads that are based on the user's web surfing habits, is apparently trying to become more respectable.
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Date: 2005-08-01
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Real Estate Bubble Concern Spikes Among Searchers
If you're in the real estate market, then chances are business has been good. For many, it's been so good that they've decided to quit while they're ahead. Last month, Hitwise released a report that reflects that concern. Searches for the terms "real estate bubble" and "housing bubble" lit up all of the major search engines, jumping by 311 percent.
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Date: 2005-08-01
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IBM and TuVox Voice Their Commitment
Enterprise speech application company, TuVox announced the certification of IBM WebSphere Voice Server and IBM WebSphere Application Server for its conversational speech applications.
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Date: 2005-08-01
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Hackers Force Planet X Outing
Hackers were busy this weekend, coincidentally at the same time 3000 of them gathered in the Netherlands the "What the Hack" convention. Google and Microsoft were hacked and now this, a hacker catalyzed the announcement about the 10th planet in our solar system by threatening those who knew about it.
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Date: 2005-08-01
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