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At SBC, It's All About "Scale and Scope" — CEO Edward Whitacre talks about the AT&T Wireless acquisition and how he's moving to keep abreast of cable competitors — SBC Telecommunications' financial performance of late hasn't been much to write home about.
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Mike / Techdirt:
SBC: We Own The Internet, So Google Should Pay Up — from the uh-oh.—trouble-coming. dept. — It's become pretty clear that Kevin Martin's FCC has no problem considering "competition" in the broadband space to mean incumbent telcos vs. incumbent cable companies.
Amy Gardner / apple.com:
iTunes Music Store Sells One Million Videos in Less Than 20 Days — CUPERTINO, California—October 31, 2005—Apple® today announced that iTunes® Music Store customers have purchased and downloaded more than one million videos since they debuted on October 12.
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www2.sprint.com:
Sprint Launches the First Instant, Over the Air Music Download Service in the U.S. — Sprint Music Store Fact Sheet — Sprint (NYSE: S) customers will be the first wireless customers in the U.S. to download full songs over-the-air. Today Sprint announced the opening of the Sprint Music Store …
Stephen Shankland / ZDNet:
Google throws bodies at OpenOffice … Google plans to hire programmers to improve OpenOffice.org, a demonstration of its affinity for open source initiatives and one the company believes also shows sound practical sense. — OpenOffice has its roots in Sun Microsystems' StarOffice suite of programs.
Staci / PaidContent.org:
Google Ad Plans Move Far Beyond The Computer : It's absolutely no secret that Google's ad plans aren't limited to the PC. The company is already trying out the print waters in a smallish trial, ads are placed against book searching and chatter about TV has been getting louder.
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Ken Yarmosh / TECHNOSIGHT:
AN OPEN LETTER TO TECHCRUNCH'S MICHAEL ARRINGTON — Michael- — I really appreciate what you've done for Web 2.0 and the larger tech community. In many ways, you have given Web 2.0 a face it previously didn't have. TechCrunch is one of my 'must read' blogs and I'm always excited …
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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:Ken feels Blogniscient isn't getting a fair shake
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Tim / O'Reilly Radar:
Google Print Debate on Farber's IP List — Over the past couple of days, there have been quite a few interesting postings about the Google Print controversy over on Dave Farber's IP List. There's a lot of the usual back and forth, but a couple of postings that give some background on possible legal precedent.
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rednova.com:
Managing Murphy's Law on Mars — A NASA report lays out the risks of exploring Mars and considers how to mitigate them. — NASA — This is it: the moment of truth. — The spacecraft door has just clanged shut behind you, locking you and your fellow astronauts into the small cabin …
Harry McCracken / PC World's Techlog:
Windows Vista: Death to Menus? — For three months now, I've been cheerfully doing something that virtually nobody, including Microsoft, thinks is a good idea: using beta versions of Windows Vista to do actual work on my primary office PC. Which means that I've already logged hundreds of hours with the new OS.
Podtech / Comments from the PodTech Gallery:
PodTech Exclusive: Steve Forbes, CEO & Editor in Chief, Forbes Inc. - Transcript — Here is the transcript of PodTech's exclusive podcast with Steve Forbes in his first ever podcast. Steve Forbes' first ever podcast in a PodTech exclusive. I travelled to New York City to sit down with Steve …
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Shel Israel / Naked Conversations:An Open Letter to Forbes Magazine
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BBC:
Telefonica buys UK's O2 for £18bn — Mobile phone group O2 has agreed a takeover offer from Spanish telecom company Telefonica. — Telefonica is to pay £17.7bn ($31.6bn) for the firm in order to get a foothold in two of Europe's largest mobile phone markets - the UK and Germany.
journalists.org:
NYtimes.com snags three ONA awards — Look for our "Best of the Best" interactive feature later this week. — Read the full article — Close: Online media can foster community — Mainstream media has lost its heart and ability to connect the community, said veteran ethnic media advocate Sandy Close.
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Tom Hume:
Mobile games — Sounds like a http://mobhappy.typepad.com/russell_ buckleys_mobhappy/2005/10/austin_games_ co.html">good rant: "Mobile game guru Greg Costikyan, formerly with Nokia Research but now head of Manifesto Games, highlighted a number of problems facing the mobile games industry, and developers in particular.
New York Times:
To Battle the Telephone Giants, Small Internet Providers Choose Wi-Fi as a Weapon — With cable providers and the Bell telephone companies dominating the market for residential high-speed Internet service, smaller Internet access providers are desperately trying to find a new way to connect with consumers.
