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Adam Curry Caught in Sticky Wiki — Former MTV veejay and podcasting entrepreneur Adam Curry appears to have been caught anonymously editing the podcasting entry on Wikipedia to remove credit from other people and inflate his role in its creation. — When someone edits Wikipedia without logging …
Jonathan Berr / TheStreet.com:
Big eBay Users Shun Skype — eBay (EBAY:Nasdaq - news - research - Cramer's Take) chief Meg Whitman, whose Web site lets people buy everything from DVDs to boats, has plenty of selling to do. — Whitman is due to address investors Thursday morning at a Credit Suisse First Boston conference in Phoenix.
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IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband
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Mike / Techdirt:
There Goes The Other Reason eBay Bought Skype — from the two-strikes-and-you're-out dept. — Back when eBay bought Skype for $2.6 (potentially $4.1 billion), the company tried to justify the decision with a variety of vague statements. However, two specific rationales stood out: (1) …
Susan Mernit / Susan Mernit's Blog:
Inside Craig: SFWeekly writer profiles The Listman — Ryan Blitstein's done a lovely job profiling Craig Newmark in SF Weekly, digging into both Craig's smart simplicity and the profound disruption his efforts have caused. — Favorite snippets: — Describing Craig monitoring CL …
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ALLIED by Jeneane Sessum
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Ryan Blitstein / sfweekly.com:Craig$list.com — The much-loved Web site is taking millions …
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Venture Chronicles
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.
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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Om Malik on Broadband, Things That, The Stalwart, Joseph Laszlo, PaidContent.org, IP Democracy, Techdirt and broadband
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WebGuerrilla / webguerrilla.com:
The Truth About Click Fraud — Over the past year, there have been literally hundreds of articles and blog posts written about the topic of click fraud. I'm at the point that I actually get the urge to vomit every time I see a new one. I don't think I've ever read so much about a topic and yet learned so little.
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Oliver Thylmann
Wall Street Journal:
AOL Loses Executive Who Led Instant-Message Unit's Revival — The 29-Year-Old Will Join — A Venture-Capital Firm — Seeking Out Young Talent — The America Online executive who led a turnaround at the online company's Instant Messenger division has quit a week after AOL introduced its latest version of the product.
Lisa Vaas / eWEEK.com:
Podcast Hijacked, Held for Ransom — In an assault reminiscent of the early days of the Internet, Podcaster Erik Marcus recently found that his RSS feed had been inexplicably redirected. — According to Marcus, rather than fully cooperate to address the situation, the cyber-squatter …
sunbelt-software.com:
Sunbelt Software to acquire Kerio Personal Firewall — Best of breed firewall will become part of company's desktop security product line — Clearwater, Florida, USA — December 1, 2005 — Sunbelt Software and Kerio Technologies, Inc. today announced that the parties have signed an agreement …
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.
Bruce Meyerson / Associated Press:
RIM makes progress in BlackBerry battle — NEW YORK - Research In Motion Ltd. appears to have drawn a small boost in the BlackBerry patent battle after several setbacks as the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued another preliminary rejection against one of the patents RIM was found to have violated.
Prince McLean / appleinsider.com:
Motorola shows ROKR E2 iTunes handset — In a presentation to investors last month, Motorola revealed brief details and a photo of the ROKR E2 handset, one of the company's upcoming music phones with iTunes integration. — The capsule shape phone was shown in black, featuring …
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Gadget Blog
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.
David Colker / Los Angeles Times:
Skype 2.0 Clarifies Video Chat Picture — Skype Technologies, the Luxemburg company famous for its free Internet telephone calls, today launches an update that brings us closer to an elusive technological dream — the videophone. — The new Skype 2. software provides the ability …
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