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Business Week:
The MySpace Generation — They live online. They buy online. They play online. Their power is growing — The Toadies broke up. It was four years ago, when Amanda Adams was 16. She drove into Dallas from suburban Plano, Tex., on a school night to hear the final two-hour set …
Ewan / The All New Ewan's Musings:
Damage and Fallout: the Revisionist History of Podcasting — It's a commonly held rule that 'history is decided by the victor,' and it seems that right now the history of podcasting is becoming a prime battleground, especially on it's Wikipedia Page (and Digg the story).
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Weblogsky, ben barren, Hell Yeah Bitch.com, Things That, PodTech Comments …, POP! PR Jots and The Unofficial Apple Weblog
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Jessie Seyfer / siliconvalley.com:
Free WiFi for all in Sunnyvale — METROFI MAY OFFER NON-PAY SERVICE IN OTHER CITIES — Mountain View-based MetroFi is expected to announce today that it plans to bring free, advertising-supported wireless Internet service to all 130,000 residents of Sunnyvale.
Om Malik on Broadband:
A Stealth Take Over of 2Wire? — Alcatel, AT&T and Telmex have done what amounts to a quasi-takeover of 2Wire, a San Jose-based DSL modem maker with plans to deliver a triple set-top box. In a news release this morning, Alcatel and 2Wire announced that the french company was taking a 25% stake in 2Wire.
Jan Libbenga / The Register:
Warez servers in Germany confiscated — German police have confiscated five warez servers with 6 terabytes of illegal copies of movies and games in the German town of Coburg on the fringes of northern Bavaria. The servers, with names as Temptation and Paradise Island …
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Jo Best / silicon.com:
Apple challenged by Linux and pirates — Not to mention music-enabled mobiles... A recent Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing has revealed that Apple now considers Linux a potential market challenger. — Apple's K-10 form - a review of its past financial year for the SEC …
John Borland / CNET News.com:
What creature will succeed the couch potato? — LOS ANGELES—On the day after Christmas, a long-standard survey of people's television watching habits will take a first step into the digital present—and future. — For decades, the Nielsen Media Research audience measurement service …
Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny:
DCAS To Replace CableCARD In 2008? — The National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) has reported to the FCC that it is feasible and preferable to move security away from CableCARD and to the Downloadable Conditional Access System (DCAS). Instead of using a CableCARD hardware key …
Chitika Blog:
Chitika feedback on audited reports — Answers to some of the most frequently asked questions addressing the following topics: audited reports, alternate url option, click rejection for international traffic, curiosity clicks, etc. — Q: Why did I see a significant difference in the number of clicks after audits?
tbray.org:
On Beyond Java — the Web — Bruce Tate's Beyond Java is really Web-centric; he argues forcefully that lightweight Web apps are one of the forces driving people towards things like Ruby on Rails and Seaside, as opposed, say, to Java EE. My observations are mostly consistent with Bruce's …
Richard Giles / ThePodcastNetwork:
Wired Magazine as a Technology Market Barometer — I recieved this months Wired yesterday. I sat down for a few moments to have a flick through, and noticed two things. Firstly, it has a nice swish glossy cover, and secondly, it's fat-just like the dot.com days. — That got me thinking.
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
IE flaw lets intruders into Google Desktop — A security researcher in Israel has found a way to steal information from unwitting users of Google's desktop search tool by exploiting an unpatched flaw in Microsoft's ubiquitous Internet Explorer. — There is a bug in the way the Web browser …
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Things That, Search Engine Journal, TechSpot, Security Fix, Aviran's Place and Search Engine Watch Blog
MSN Shopping Insider:
eBay Selection on MSN Shopping — MSN Shopping recently integrated with eBay to bring a considerably broader selection of products onto our site, ranging from refurbished auction items to brand new, fixed-price items. This addition enables our users to enjoy a significantly expanded selection …
mindjet.com:
MindManagerPlugInForCDS.msi (version 1.0.1) (download) — Installation — Install this plug-in. During installation you may get a message to add .mmap as a Text Document file type. Follow the steps below to do that. — Adding .mmap as a File Indexing Type — Open Copernic Desktop Search.
