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Richard Drew / Associated Press:
Supreme Court rejects BlackBerry patent appeal — Since its introduction in 1999, the BlackBerry has revolutionized communications, allowing business travelers and government employees to send and receive e-mail outside their offices and away from their stationery computers.
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Peter Kaplan / Reuters:
High court declines to review RIM patent ruling — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday pushed the maker of the BlackBerry e-mail device a step closer to a possible shutdown of U.S. service, refusing to review a major patent infringement ruling against the company.
Steve Rosenbush / Business Week:
Say Hello to Tello — The startup promises to revolutionize business communications. The involvement of four tech veterans lends that grandiose claim some credence — The months after the stock market crash of 2000 were tough ones indeed for tech startups. And for communications startups, things were even worse.
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Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Say Tello For Presence — Jeff Pulver, wireless pioneer Craig McCaw, telecom banker Michael Price and former Apple CEO John Sculley have teamed together in a new VoIP focussed start-up called Tello, based in San Mateo, California. Doug Renert, a former executive at Oracle Corp heads up the start-up.
Michael Bazeley / SiliconBeat:Sculley, Pulver, McCaw and Price team up on communications start-up
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Robin D. Rusch / brandchannel.com:
The Search Is Over: Google Wins in 2005 — Global: Google Tops Ranking (view results) — In 2005's results, Google took the lead from Apple in what is shaping up to be a back and forth contest through the years for these two innovative tech companies. Each year one out-does the other, and this time it is Google's turn to shine.
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Publishing 2.0, Fast Company Now, Share Skype, Alice Hill's Real Tech News and InsideGoogle
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Trevor Datson / Reuters:
Google pips Apple in 2005 brand poll — LONDON (Reuters) - Internet search engine Google (Nasdaq:GOOG - news) has retaken first place in the 2005 global poll of the world's most influential brands, while the eBay-owned (Nasdaq:EBAY - news) web phone service Skype makes its debut at No. 3.
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Mike / Techdirt:
Did Sam Bulte Plagiarize Her Explanation For Stricter Copyright Laws? — from the now-wouldn't-that-be-ironic dept. — Michael Geist continues to make good points concerning Sam Bulte, the Canadian politician who has been accused of being too close to major entertainment companies …
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Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:
Like This? You'll Hate That. (Not All Web Recommendations Are Welcome.) — SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22 - On Amazon.com, a customer interested in buying the novel "The Life of Pi" is also shown "The Kite Runner" because other Amazon customers - presumably with similar tastes - also purchased that book.
Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Monday morning catchup in Silicon Valley; lot's happening — Google to miss Q4 earnings? Notable analysis here by a Yahoo employee, Amr Awadallah, who we know from several meetings over the years, about why Google will miss earnings expectations. Google recently increased the font size of the right search ads.
Ben Elgin / Business Week:
Yahoo's Social Circle — In a bid to challenge search giant Google, the Web's most-used portal is betting on the wisdom of crowds … Yahoo! (YHOO) is on a quiet acquisitions tear. First, it snapped up photo-sharing site Flickr in March. In December, it acquired del.icio.us …
Eric A. Taub / New York Times:
Move Over, HD-TV. Now There's HD Radio, Too. — Traditional broadcast radio, the last bastion of analog entertainment technology, sees a bright future for itself. Its strategy for success is to become more like one of its main competitors, satellite radio.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Protecting Your Search Privacy: A Flowchart To Tracks You Leave Behind — Wired's "How to Foil Search Engine Snoops" is a nice guide to protecting your search privacy, but it doesn't really go far enough. In particular, anyone who assumes they've protected themselves by using an anonymizing tool …
Dominic Gates / Seattle Times:
Rival emerges to Boeing's in-flight broadband — Connexion, the in-flight broadband service on which Boeing has spent hundreds of millions of dollars, is facing a potentially serious competitive threat from a new air-to-ground technology that could provide connectivity to airplanes over North America by mid-2007.
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Sharon Waxman / New York Times:
Missed It in the Theater Today? See It on DVD Tonight — PARK CITY, Utah, Jan. 22 - Hollywood will inch further toward making movies simultaneously available in theaters, on DVD and on home television screens at the Sundance Film Festival this week, as IFC Entertainment unveils a plan …
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John Oates / The Register:
Anti-scam website forced offline — A website set up to warn UK companies about an international business directory scam has been pulled by hosting company Server Center after legal threats. — Server Centre, and its upstream supplier RapidSwitch, took the decision after a flurry of legal notices.
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