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5:11 AM ET, May 4, 2006

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Michael Sippey / Six Apart:
TypePad Update  —  Since approximately 4:00 pm Pacific Daylight Time, Six Apart has been the victim of a sophisticated distributed denial of service attack.  This has affected all of Six Apart's sites, causing intermittent and limited availability for TypePad, LiveJournal, TypeKey, sixapart.com, movabletype.org and movabletype.com.
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PR Newswire:
Seventh Annual MSN Strategic Account Summit Celebrates Advertisers' Role in Microsoft Media Network Vision  —  CEO Steve Ballmer Announces the Launch of Microsoft adCenter in the U.S.  —  REDMOND, Wash., May 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — At the seventh annual MSN® Strategic Account Summit …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Yahoo & Microsoft Have Talked Partnering, Merging
Willow Duttge / AdAge:
Ad Agency Sues Blogger for Defamation  —  Action Follows Public Battle Over Maine Tourism Ad Work  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — An ad agency that specialized in travel advertising is suing a Maine-based blogger for defamation after he began to post regularly about the work the agency was doing for its client, the state of Maine.
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Suing Bloggers is an Invitation for Bad PR
Dan Ilett / silicon.com:
Apple online store hacked  —  Korean website defaced...  Apple's Korean online store has been defaced by a hacker.  —  The attack, carried out by someone working under the name 'Dinam', who claimed in his post to be Turkish, was brought to the attention of silicon.com last Thursday.
Discussion: Mac Rumors
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Dan Ilett / CNET News.com:
Korean Apple online store hacked
Kevin Maney:
Google Health: Probably coming next week  —  Marissa Mayer, Google's VP of search products and user experience, came to USA TODAY on Tuesday.  She mentioned that there would be a couple of big announcements next Wednesday at the annual Google Press Day — which I will attend, along with my colleague Jefferson Graham.
Jason D. O'Grady / The Apple Core:
Silent recall on MacBook Pro batteries … If it wasn't bad enough that to have processor and CPU whine, poor Airport reception and solar ambient temperatures, it appears that some early MacBook Pro batteries are now failing.  —  Christopher Price from PCSIntel.com has uncovered what appears …
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Christopher Price / sprintpcsinfo.com:
Now The MacBook Pro Batteries... (Updated)
Discussion: Engadget and O'Grady's PowerPage
John Battelle / Federated Media Publishing Inc.:
FM's Advertising Platform Launch!  —  The beta of FM's advertising platform is now live!  —  As I just wrote to the authors who have made all this possible:  —  Nearly two years ago, while researching my book, I came up with an idea about online media, based on an author-driven world …
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Skype Piles It On  —  As rivals ramp up, the Internet phone service unveils software for the rapidly growing number of home and business users  —  The growing legions of Skype users are getting a little something extra from the Internet phone service.  On May 3, Skype unveiled a new version …
Discussion: jkOnTheRun and EBAY
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Jessie Seyfer / Mercury News:
Skype putting town-hall idea on the Internet
Discussion: Screenwerk and SiliconBeat
CNET News.com:
FCC approves Net-wiretapping taxes  —  update WASHINGTON—Broadband providers and Internet phone companies will have to pick up the tab for the cost of building in mandatory wiretap access for police surveillance, federal regulators ruled Wednesday.  —  The Federal Communications Commission …
Discussion: Techdirt and broadband
Kathy Matheson / Associated Press:
More Professors Ban Laptops in Class  —  PHILADELPHIA - As the professor lectured on the law, the student wore a poker face.  But that was probably because, under the guise of taking notes on his laptop, the student actually was playing poker — online, using the school's wireless Internet connection.
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Evan Blass / Engadget:   Professors banning in-class laptop use
Kate Kaye / ClickZ:
Report Shows Marketers Stick with Proven Interactive Media  —  Mobile, RSS and advergaming may get lots of media attention, but many marketers are looking the other way.  A new Forrester Research report shows that a wide spectrum of interactive marketers is continuing to bank on proven methods …
leftlanenews.com:
Gone in 20 Minutes: using laptops to steal cars  —  High-tech thieves are becoming increasingly savvy when it comes to stealing automobiles equipped with keyless entry and ignition systems.  While many computer-based security systems on automobiles require some type of key …
Discussion: Engadget and Techdirt
Katherine Meyer / Wall Street Journal:
The Best of the Worst  —  What were they thinking?  —  The Internet spawned so many weird gizmos and bad business ideas that mocking dot-com duds became something of a sport in the post-bubble era.  But some ideas still stand out for pure silliness.  These are products and services …
Kevin Poulsen / Wired News:
Microsoft Is Pushing for Privacy?  —  WASHINGTON — When it comes to protecting customers' privacy, Microsoft doesn't have the best record.  So when the software giant backs new federal privacy legislation, onlookers suspect the company is probably protecting itself.
Reuters:
'Net Neutrality' Battle Widens  —  WASHINGTON — The U.S. financial sector, a powerful force in Washington, may be gearing up to jump into a Capitol Hill fight over the future of the internet and stop an effort it says could add billions in costs just to maintain current offerings.
Robert Young / Between the Lines:
Mark Cuban is Wrong  —  A few weeks ago, Mark Cuban blogged his thoughts on the challenges that broadcast TV networks face as they move towards the on-demand programming format of the Internet.  It's a provocative piece with a dire message, particularly as he concludes... "On demand video.
 
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Business Wire:
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Is the Web the new Hollywood?
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CableCos Vs Bells & The Line Losses
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AT&T Plans to Kill Cingular Brand
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