Yahoo search services arrive on AT&T mobile phones (Reuters)Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:42:21 GMT
Reuters - AT&T Inc is set to begin featuring Yahoo Inc search services on the Internet menu of mobile handsets used by its base of up to 70 million U.S. customers, the companies said on Monday.
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HBO offshoot launches Web video series (Reuters)Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:07:21 GMT
Reuters - HBOlab, an experimental offshoot of the cable powerhouse focused on online programming, is launching a Web video series featuring a cast of the Internet's most popular entertainers.
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Real-estate site expands ad deal with newspapers (AP)Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:04:19 GMT
AP - Real-estate Web site Zillow.com is expanding its partnership with 282 newspapers to give national advertisers new ways to reach local markets, changes that the news companies hope will allow them to raise their fees for online ads.
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Esquire magazine unveils cover with electronic ink (AP)Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:03:11 GMT
AP - Although readers keep shifting to the Internet, Esquire magazine's editor is sure print isn't dying, and he aims to prove it Monday by unveiling a 75th-anniversary issue with a cover that features electronic ink.
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Zillow, newspapers start real estate ad network (Reuters)Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:58:29 GMT
Reuters - U.S. home price comparison website Zillow.com and 11 U.S. newspaper publishers are starting an online advertising network to help each capture real estate advertising dollars.
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Going, going gone: JetBlue auctions flights on Web (AP)Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:34:40 GMT
AP - JetBlue Airways Corp. is auctioning off more than 300 roundtrip flights and six vacation packages this week on eBay, with opening bids set between 5 and 10 cents.
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Advertiser group objects to Google-Yahoo tie up (Reuters)Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:04:11 GMT
Reuters - The Association of National Advertisers sent a letter objecting to the proposed Internet search advertising partnership between Yahoo Inc and Google Inc to government regulators reviewing the deal, the group said on Sunday.
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Advertising group opposes Yahoo-Google pact (AP)Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:54:09 GMT
AP - A group representing big-spending national advertisers said Sunday it sent a letter to the Justice Department asserting an online ad partnership between Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. will stifle competition and likely raise prices.
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Ad trade group opposes Yahoo-Google search deal (CNET)Sun, 07 Sep 2008 20:43:00 GMT
CNET - Update at 3:03 p.m. PDT, with comments from the attorney general from the state of Connecticut, which is one of the lead states in the multistate antitrust review of the Yahoo-Google deal.
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Old Web idea of micropayments finally finds a home (AP)Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:14:07 GMT
AP - Seventeen-year-old Alexis Corocan spends about $5 a month on clothes, accessories and eyes of various shapes and shades for her online persona on IMVU, a popular Internet hangout.
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Google: You've Come a Long Way, Baby! (PC Magazine)Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:00:07 GMT
PC Magazine - Google! www.google.edu.stanford.edu.com "Here's your chance to search the Web and participate in high-level academic research at the same time.
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Chris Shipley 1, Internet lynch mob 0 (CNET)Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:51:00 GMT
CNET - On the eve of the dueling demo-fests, Demo impresario Chris Shipley confesses that she has had it with the shoddy reporting, invective and arrogance that has attended most of the commentary on the phony faceoff between her conference and TechCrunch.
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Security firm spots Chrome 'SaveAs' flaw (CNET)Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:33:41 GMT
CNET - It's been only a few days since Google released its Chrome browser, and security researchers are still digging into the software in search of the first few flaws.
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Google reigns as world's most powerful 10-year-old (AP)Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:23:14 GMT
AP - When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world.
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Napster faces challenges within and without (Reuters)Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:13:26 GMT
Reuters - When Napster reported its fiscal first-quarter results in August, it tried to paint a positive picture to investors who were growing increasingly nervous about the company's future.
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Start-up launches spectrum marketplace (CNET)Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:24:00 GMT
CNET - A Web site for matching buyers and sellers of wireless spectrum went live on Friday.
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Online TV Viewing Approaches the Mainstream (NewsFactor)Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:53:38 GMT
NewsFactor - Nearly 20 percent of American households are tuning into TV over the Internet. That's twice the number from 2006, according to new research from The Conference Board Consumer Research Center and market-research firm TNS. The most popular destinations for online broadcasts? The official TV channel home page and YouTube.com.
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Report: Samsung working to acquire SanDisk (AP)Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:39:59 GMT
AP - Samsung Electronics Co. is pursuing an acquisition of U.S. computer memory card maker SanDisk Corp., a South Korean online business newspaper reported Friday.
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App Stores: Microsoft, Google Follow Apple (NewsFactor)Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:06:43 GMT
NewsFactor - When Apple opened its iTunes App Store in July, the idea of a mass-market Web site that sells downloadable games, tools, and other applications for cell phones was a rarity. Handset owners could buy apps from their carriers or the occasional niche site. But these days, the app store concept is becoming commonplace. The question is, does the world need a warren of wireless app stores?
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Comcast Challenges FCC's Authority To Order Neutrality (NewsFactor)Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:59:18 GMT
NewsFactor - Comcast fired back at the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday in its long-running duel with the agency. The cable-TV and Internet service provider filed suit in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C.
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