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EFF: Veoh Decision Could Save Muxtape and Friends (Eliot Van Buskirk/Listening Post)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:59:59 -0700

Eliot Van Buskirk / Listening Post:
EFF: Veoh Decision Could Save Muxtape and Friends — When a Northern California judge Howard R. Lloyd handed down a decision on Wednesday in favor of the video sharing site Veoh, after it had been accused by IO Group of hosting ten of that company's pornographic movies without permission …

8+ Hour iPhone Sync Timelapse Video (AKA Be Thankful For Your "Short" Two Hour Sync) (Brian Lam/Gizmodo)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:59:22 -0700

Brian Lam / Gizmodo:
8+ Hour iPhone Sync Timelapse Video (AKA Be Thankful For Your “Short” Two Hour Sync) — When I complained on Twitter about a 2 hour iPhone sync, Giz reader Brandon Lusk told me I was lucky. He had a much longer sync, sometimes over 6 hours. I called bulls**t.

Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economy (Dancho Danchev/Zero Day)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:00:16 -0700

Dancho Danchev / Zero Day:
Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economy — No CAPTCHA can survive a human that's receiving financial incentives for solving it, and with an army of low-waged human CAPTCHA solvers officially in the business of “data processing” while earning a mere $2 for solving a thousand CAPTCHA's …

Google to buy GeoEye satellite imagery (Stephen Shankland/CNET News.com)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:00:52 -0700

Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Google to buy GeoEye satellite imagery — Google has signed a deal under which GeoEye will supply the search giant with imagery from a satellite due to launch in coming days, the companies said. — Under the deal, Google is the exclusive online mapping site that may use the imagery …

Memo To Comcast: Show Us the Meter for Metered Broadband (Om Malik/GigaOM)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:00:55 -0700

Om Malik / GigaOM:
Memo To Comcast: Show Us the Meter for Metered Broadband — Comcast is out defending its bandwidth caps and how they are not bad. And how 250 GB transfer is plenty and enough to do whatever we want to do. Of course, in today's terms that is more than enough, but what happens in the future?

With 'followers,' Blogger gets--surprise!--more social (Caroline McCarthy/The Social)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:01:02 -0700

Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
With ‘followers,’ Blogger gets—surprise!—more social — With blog platforms Movable Type and WordPress adding social-networking features to their software, it was only a matter of time before Google's Blogger did the same. A post on the official Blogger blog earlier this week announced …

Microsoft breaks IE8 interoperability promise (Hakon Lie/The Register)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:01:02 -0700

Hakon Lie / The Register:
Microsoft breaks IE8 interoperability promise — Microsoft said the right things, then blew it — Comment In March, Microsoft announced that their upcoming Internet Explorer 8 would: “use its most standards compliant mode, IE8 Standards, as the default.” — Note the last word: default.

Napster: 'We're Open To A Sale'; Vote No On The Ice Cream Franchisee (Joseph Weisenthal/paidContent.org)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:00:02 -0700

Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
Napster: 'We're Open To A Sale'; Vote No On The Ice Cream Franchisee — Troubled online music retailer Napster (NSDQ: NAPS) has hired UBS (again) to explore strategic alternatives, including a possible sale. The news was made in a letter to shareholders, urging them not to vote for three outside activists …

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Zoho Party — To celebrate our Million User milestone …

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Yahoo! Mash is shutting down (Amar/Mash Blog)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:00:02 -0700

Amar / Mash Blog:
Yahoo! Mash is shutting down — You may have received an email recently regarding the shut-down of Mash on September 29, 2008. To provide more information about what will happen to your Mash profile, and how you can save your profile information, please see the list of FAQs below.

Yahoo Sheds Some Skin, Drops Mash (Chris Snyder/Epicenter)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:00:52 -0700

Chris Snyder / Epicenter:
Yahoo Sheds Some Skin, Drops Mash — Yahoo's bad luck in the social network arena continues: the latest casualty is “Mash,” which never left invite-only beta status since it was launched about a year ago. — Yahoo emailed Mash users yesterday to say it was shutting it down next month, TechCrunch reports.

Goodbye, BitTorrent. Hello, Streaming. (Steve Gillmor/TechCrunch)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:01:21 -0700

Steve Gillmor / TechCrunch:
Goodbye, BitTorrent. Hello, Streaming. — Comcast's decision to cap monthy broadband usage at 250GB is being decried as the end of the Internet as we know it. Maybe so, but it can also be seen as the dawn of the Streaming Era. As the Olympics drew to a close with big numbers …

Rumor: Apple and AT&T Developing iPhone Tethering Plan (Mark Wilson/Gizmodo)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:01:03 -0700

Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:
Rumor: Apple and AT&T Developing iPhone Tethering Plan — According to a pretty legitimate-looking email thread from one of our readers, Steve Jobs may have responded to complaints that, since the pulling of NetShare from the App Store, iPhone-to-laptop tethering is impossible without jailbreaking one's phone.

BlackBerry Bold set to be released on AT&T on October 2nd? (The Boy Genius/Boy Genius Report)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:01:03 -0700

The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry Bold set to be released on AT&T on October 2nd? — Consider this a pretty solid bit of info, though it has not been double or triple confirmed like we normally like to do, and well, we saw what happened with Rogers. We've heard from pretty high up source at AT&T that they're aiming …

Does Silicon Valley Face an Innovation Crisis? (Claire Cain Miller/Bits)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:00:49 -0700

Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
Does Silicon Valley Face an Innovation Crisis? — Judy Estrin, who has built several Silicon Valley companies and was the chief technology officer of Cisco Systems, says Silicon Valley is in trouble. In a new book, “Closing the Innovation Gap,” which will be in bookstores Tuesday …

Microsoft Beats Quadrangle To Buy Research Firm Greenfield ... (Rafat Ali/paidContent.org)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:00:49 -0700

Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Microsoft Beats Quadrangle To Buy Research Firm Greenfield For $486 Million; Selling Off Most Of It — In a complex and slightly confusing transaction, Greenfield Online, the online market research and surveys company, which earlier this week rejected a bid by media PE firm Quadrangle …

Presenting the Winners of the Android Developer Challenge I (Android Developers Blog)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:00:30 -0700

Android Developers Blog:
Presenting the Winners of the Android Developer Challenge I — Since we started the first Android Developer Challenge late last year, we all have been eager to see who the winners of $275,000 and $100,000 would be. All 50 applications that emerged from Round 1 of ADC I showed great promise …

Microsoft to Acquire Greenfield Online Including Its European ... (PR Newswire)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:59:16 -0700

PR Newswire:
Microsoft to Acquire Greenfield Online Including Its European Subsidiary Ciao, a Leading European Price Comparison and Shopping Site — Microsoft Corp today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Greenfield Online Inc, owner of Ciao GmbH, one of Europe's leading price comparison …

How Steve Jobs' obit got published (Philip Elmer-DeWitt/Apple 2.0)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:59:34 -0700

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
How Steve Jobs' obit got published — The first rule of publishing is that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. (A corollary favored at Time Magazine, where I labored for nearly three decades, is that all copy is guilty until proved otherwise.) — None of this excuses …

Rogers extends iPhone prices, revamps data plans (CBC News)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:59:33 -0700

CBC News:
Rogers extends iPhone prices, revamps data plans — Rogers Communications Inc. is revamping its data rate plans and extending a limited-time offer on the iPhone in order to spur sales of smartphones. — The Toronto-based company, Canada's largest cellphone provider, on Thursday …

iPods, MacBooks, iMacs up next on Apple's 2008 roadmap (Kasper Jade/AppleInsider)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:11:56 -0700

Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
iPods, MacBooks, iMacs up next on Apple's 2008 roadmap — With a multinational iPhone 3G launch now successfully under its belt, electronics maker Apple Inc. is preparing to close out the year with a final phase of product introductions that will stretch over the course of the next two months.