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dailywireless.org:
Cable Makes It's Move — Cable's annual convention, The National Show, is rolling out the big guns in Atlanta this week. The battle for the $490-billion-a-year U.S. market for phone, Internet and TV services is heating up. The war between cable, satellite and phone companies is going nuclear …
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Reuters:
Time Warner Cable mulls TV ad auction system — Time Warner Cable is in early discussions to create an auction place for advertising spots on video-on-demand channels, modeled after Google's AdSense system on the Internet, the company's top executive said. — The cable services division …
Claire Atkinson / AdAge:
ABC Readies Non-Skippable Online Video Commercials — Blue-Chip Advertisers Buy Into Network's New Web Programming — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — ABC fleshed out details of its new online service of free programming today, outlining exactly how advertising will be embedded in broadcast video versions of its TV programming.
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:@ NCTA: Interview: Anne Sweeney, Co-Chair, Disney Media Networks …
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Nominees Picked for New Emmy for PC and Hand-Held Shows — LOS ANGELES, April 10 — Two years ago, few entertainment executives would have guessed that the performances of a sexy female detective, a 40-something single guy ordering a steak sandwich and Madonna as a college professor would be worthy of an Emmy.
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Michele Greppi / tvweek.com:
First Nontraditional-Platform Emmy Nominees Announced — A cellphone-only spinoff of "24," an animated blog inspired by Jerry Zucker and an AOL webcast of "Live 8" are among the nominees for the first Emmy Award that will be given to entertainment programming created for nontraditional viewing platforms, including computers and iPods.
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Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Creating a feed syndication platform at Microsoft — Starting next week I will join Microsoft's Windows Live division to create a new product team around syndication technologies such as RSS and Atom. I will help build a feed syndication platform leveraged by Microsoft products and developers all around the world.
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Nick Bradbury, FuzzyBlog, Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life, InsideMicrosoft, Kevin Burton's Feed Blog and LiveSide
Frank Gruber / TechCrunch:
Subscription Music Services Compared: Part 2 — We've analyzed the services that sell digital music and are presenting the results in a two part post. This Part 2 compares the subcription music services that let you access an entire music library of up to 2 million songs for a single monthly fee.
Feeding On Itself:
Microserfs, Revisted — Nearly a dozen years ago, Douglas Coupland published his third novel, Microserfs, at a moment where everyone knew the future was about to happen, but no one knew quite what it would look like. — After moving to Seattle a month ago to work on the campus depicted in the novel …
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Business Wire:
Skype Acquires Sonorit and Camino Networks — LUXEMBOURG & SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—April 11, 2006—Skype(TM), the global Internet communications company, today announced that it has acquired Sonorit Holding AS and its US subsidiary Camino Networks, Inc., a provider of voice technology for the Internet.
Roger Taylor / cpwplc.com:
Launch of Free Broadband, Forever, from TalkTalk — Carphone Warehouse today announces its pricing strategy for broadband and residential telephony in the first 1,000 exchanges it has committed to unbundle, and the financial impact of this strategy. — Customer offer
Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Rebuttal: CNET's DRM Battery Test Refuted? — According to CNET's recent article, WMA DRM caused a 25% reduction in battery life in your portable music player. This seemed fishy to the guys at DAPreview, so they set out on their own test to see whether this shorter play time actually held true …
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
A Home Where Bloggers Can Plumb Those Obscure Passions — IT'S not easy making a living as a beef jerky authority these days. — The jerky publishing industry churns out precious few books on the topic, magazines and newspapers never give dried meat its due and reality television hasn't quite caught up to it.
Nat / O'Reilly Radar:
On AjaxWrite — We at Radar have been pondering and playing with AjaxWrite and AjaxSketch. Our conclusion is that they're remarkable for what they are, but disappointing for what they are not. — The AjaxWrite web page describes its features as: — Global access, all you need is an internet connection
Alex Veiga / Associated Press:
MySpace.com Posts Ads Promoting Safety — LOS ANGELES - Along with ads for bottled water and iTunes, a new campaign has begun appearing on the online social networking hub MySpace.com. — "1 in 5 kids online is sexually solicited. Online predators know what they're doing.
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Heading off to Boot Camp — Introduction — Last week when Apple announced Boot Camp—a free public beta utility straight from above allowing users of Intel-based Macs to easily install WindowsXP alongside OS X—people came out in droves to try it out. There were so many different reasons …
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Ted Leung on the air:
What does it mean for Ruby on Rails to become mainstream? — We've been going through the Ruby on Rails book in our Bainbridge Island reading group, so I was interested to see Cedric Beust's post Why Ruby on Rails won't become mainstream. It took me a few moments to get over the sting …
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Mystery of the Yahoo Sock Monkey on YPN Blog — Mystery of the Yahoo Sock Monkey on YPN Blog — The Yahoo Publisher Network launched their YPN Blog today which will serve as a question & answer, feedback, information, and innovation forum for site publishers using the YPN Contextual Advertising program (still in invite only BETA).
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Munir Kotadia / CNET News.com:
McAfee unafraid of Microsoft security push — In June, Microsoft is expected to launch Windows OneCare Live, which is the company's long-anticipated entry into the consumer antivirus space. The company plans to charge $49.95 a year to shield up to three PCs against viruses, spyware and other cyberthreats.
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Rob Bushway / GottaBeMobile.com:
The New LS800 Extended Battery — I just received the new extended battery prototype for the Motion Computing LS800. It isn't quite what I talked about in the video review, but it is still very nice. In fact, I think I like this solution much better. — I'll post charging times …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Guba, Veoh Clean Up Their Act — Guba and Veoh, two companies that have come under heavy criticism are cleaning up their act, hoping to capture a more mainstream users. — Veoh was facing the ire of the video bloggers for taking their content and transcoding their videos into a proprietary format.
Joel Snyder / networkworld.com:
When a product is better than the company — As a product tester, I always tell people: The product speaks for itself. White papers, customer wins, marketing spin: None of that counts. I don't have to be convinced by a public relations person that the product is good, because good products prove themselves in our lab.
