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Om Malik on Broadband:
Skype 2.0 eats its young  —  Another day, another beta.  —  Skype, a division of eBay launched Skype 2.0 beta for Windows.  Just in time for some customers who got their passwords compromised.  The elaborate press release and WSJ review while impressive don't help mask the fact that, Skype is short on new ground breaking ideas.
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David Colker / Los Angeles Times:   Skype 2.0 Clarifies Video Chat Picture
skype.com:
Skype Launches Next Generation Free Internet and Video Calling for Everyone
Stuart Henshall / Skype Journal:
Skype Passwords Compromised?
USA Today:
AT&T backs a-la-carte cable  —  AT&T (T) is throwing its weight behind Uncle Sam's push to give consumers a choice of cable channels, telling the Federal Communications Commission that it wants to offer a la carte programming to its video customers.  —  "We support giving customers flexibility …
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Sandy Brown / TheStreet.com:
Cablevision Breaks Ranks on Pricing  —  As the debate on so-called a la carte pricing reverberates through the cable industry, one hard-charging player is taking a contrarian approach.  —  Breaking with the rest of the industry, Cablevision (CVC:NYSE - commentary - research - Cramer's Take) …
Discussion: Fast Company Now and Techdirt
Jenstar / JenSense:
Chitika publishers see drastically reduced earnings in audited reports  —  When publishers first joined Chitika's eMiniMalls and saw the fact that Chitika would be auditing revenue, many publishers were not alarmed.  AdSense has this as well, and I only know of a handful of publishers …
Annalee Newitz / Wired News:
Don't Call It Spyware … Back in 2002, Gator was one of the most reviled companies on the Net.  Maker of a free app called eWallet, the firm was under fire for distributing what critics called spyware, code that covertly monitors a user's Web-surfing habits and uploads the data to a remote server.
Discussion: Techdirt and Clickety Clack
Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
An Apology Letter From Ed Lopez, Owner of PriceRitePhoto  —  I received a call this morning from Ed Lopez, the owner of PriceRitePhoto.  We spoke at length and he told me that the activity that has resulted from my post on my experience with his business has most certainly impacted his business.
makezine.com:
MAKE's Mostly Under $100 Gift Guide 2005!  —  MAKE proudly presents a gift guide for the holiday season with listings you certainly won't find anywhere else.  We asked a few MAKE staffers and pals to send in their favorite maker-friendly gift ideas for mostly under $100 …
Discussion: TipMonkies
Ryan Blitstein / sfweekly.com:
Craig$list.com  —  The much-loved Web site is taking millions from Bay Area newspapers and causing layoffs that adversely affect coverage.  And its founder's well-intentioned support of citizen journalism has a slim chance of fixing the problem.  —  Craig Newmark's stubby fingers tap …
Peter Galli / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft Touts Vista's Restart Manager Feature  —  Microsoft Corp. is working on a significant new feature for Windows Vista, known as Restart Manager, which is designed to update parts of the operating system or applications without having to reboot the entire machine.
Fred / A VC:
When Is A Market Really A Market?  —  We have heard that the "online advertising market" will be a $12.3bn business this year.  —  But is "online advertising" really a "market" in the truest sense of the word?  —  When I think of a market, I think of wall street and the trading of stocks and bonds.
Discussion: Clickety Clack
Peter Valdes-Dapena / CNN:
Turn left in 500 feet... fool!  —  Companies are offering some surprising voices for you car's navigation system.  Make room for Mr. T.  —  NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Believe it or not, getting yelled at and berated by Mr. T actually becomes boring pretty quickly.
Kenji Hall / Business Week:
Attack of the PlayStation Hackers  —  Sony's portable game consoles are being dismembered and reprogrammed — a movement that jeopardizes the profit potential of authorized software  —  The moment Sony's (SNE) handheld game console, PlayStation Portable, went on sale in the U.S. on March 24, Auri Rahimzadeh got one.
USA Today:
TiVo adds movie tickets, photos to offerings  —  NEW YORK — TiVo hopes to raise the stakes today in its battle with cable and satellite digital video recorders (DVRs) by introducing a suite of broadband-related services that enable many subscribers to use their TVs to buy movie tickets …
Discussion: PaidContent.org, Engadget and PVRblog
Tony Smith / The Register:
MP3.com founder opens net music archive, play service  —  MP3.com and Lindows/Linspire founder Michael Robertson has re-launched the service that got him into so much hot water with the music industry back in the late 1990s.  —  His new operation, MP3tunes.com, yesterday launched its Oboe service …

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