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Doug Mohney / Inquirer:
Anti-Skype software kills IM, P2P too — Bandwidth bandsaw released — LAST WEEK, Verso Technologies (www.verso.com) announced the rollout of a "carrier-grade applications filter" that can block so-called bandwidth drains such as Skype, P2P messaging, streaming media, and instant messaging.
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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Updated: Some Thoughts on the Start.com's RSS Extensions — I mentioned last week that currently with traditional portal sites like MyMSN or MyYahoo, I can customize my data sources by subscribing to RSS feeds but not how they look. Instead all my RSS feeds always look like a list of headlines.
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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Questioning RDF — I've been a long time skeptic when it comes to RDF and the Semantic Web. Every once in a while I wonder if perhaps what I have a problem with is the W3C's vision of the Semantic Web as opposed to RDF itself. However in previous attempts to explore RDF I've been surprised …
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Michael Kanellos / CNET.com:
Crave privacy? New tech knocks out digital cameras — Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have come up with an inexpensive way to prevent digital cameras and digital video cameras from capturing that secret shot. — The technology they've devised detects the presence …
informit.com:
Terms and Criteria — First I need to cover a few of the terms people use when referring to certain aspects of Linux, as well as the criteria that each distribution should meet. So what's a distribution anyway? The term distribution, or "distro," refers to the Linux operating system packaged …
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Will Franklin / WILLisms.com:
THE CARNIVAL OF THE CAPITALISTS. — Welcome to THE Carnival of the Capitalists. — When hosting traveling blog carnivals, it is customary for the host to rank, rate, profile, hide, categorize, and otherwise filter the entries. Sometimes the better posts are near the top or are given special treatment of some sort.
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Sarah McBride / Wall Street Journal:
Grokster Seeks Deal With File-Sharing Upstart — In a bid for legitimacy on the heels of an adverse U.S. Supreme Court ruling, file-sharing service Grokster Ltd. is in talks to be acquired by Mashboxx LLC, an upstart that is attempting to establish a legal peer-to-peer music company, according to people familiar with the matter.
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O'Reilly Network:
Call for Participation — Proposals Due: September 19, 2005 Jump to the form. — We're five years into the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, covering peer-to-peer networks to person-to-person mobile messaging, web services to weblogs, big-screen digital media to small-screen mobile gaming …
Noah Dylan Goldblatt:
Apple's New Tablet - the iNote. — James R. Stoup from Apple Matters is responsible for a recent article titled: "Flash Based Laptops, Sooner Than You Think." He posits in his writing that Apple might extend a form of the iPod technology to a theme for desktops of consumer models …
Tricia Duryee / Seattle Times:
RealNetworks streams tunes for Sprint — After the splashy launch of the Apple iTunes mobile phone earlier this month, Sprint is firing back with two music announcements, one of them being rolled out today by Seattle-based RealNetworks. — The two announcements up the ante in mobile music …
Jason Miller / Washington Post:
New Software to Revamp Census Logistics — GSA Expects Siebel Systems Application to Help It Set Up 550 Offices for 2010 — For the next census, in 2010, the General Services Administration must set up 550 offices, each with 6,000 square feet. The offices must be equipped with furniture …
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QuadsZilla / SEO Black Hat:
Jensense Cases Study: A Lesson in Search Engine Spamming — Situation: You're a search engine spammer / SEO Black Hat who owns some legitimate web properties. — Problem: How can you link to some of your spam sites without annoying you reader? — Solution: Call it a case study!
Matt Cutts:
Filing a reinclusion request — Hmm. Everybody wants to hear about SEO-ish stuff instead of gadgets. I'll still subject you to pure geekery now and then, but let's tackle how to do a reinclusion request. — First off, what's a reinclusion request and why would you want to do one?
Global PR Blog Week 2.0:
Blogging for our brand: Building a business blogging community for Hill & Knowlton — Hill & Knowlton has been advising clients about consumer generated content since the early 1990s when the possibility of global publishing became available to anyone with the right technical skills.
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