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Could a Little Indecency Save Network TV? (07 August 12:41) |
| Network TV's viewer base is dwindling, thanks to fierce competition both from the internet and cable TV. And while the major broadcast networks must comply with the FCC's rigid decency stand... |
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Revised Yahoo Vote Reveals More Disdain for Board (06 August 06:14) |
| A revised count of last Friday's Yahoo shareholder vote reveal significantly greater disdain for CEO Jerry Yang and chairman Roy Bostock. The changes show that 200 million votes opposing Yan... |
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Time Warner 2Q net drops 26%; AOL Drags, Film and TV Boosts (06 August 04:41) |
| Time Warner's Q2 falls 26% on declining subscriber fees from AOL lower ad revenue in its publishing division. Revenue rose at its film, cable and networks segments. The company also took le... |
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Mr. Know-It-All: Cyberextortion, Your Kid's Cell Phone, Online Degrees (06 August 09:30) |
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The small company I own was recently contacted by a hacker in the former Soviet Union. He claims to have found a security flaw in our e-commerce site and wants a "consulting fee" of $1,50... |
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Sony Buys Out Bertelsmann's Sony BMG Stake for $1.2 Billion (05 August 06:36) |
| The second largest record label in the world now belongs only to Sony. The Japanese company bought out German partner Bertelsmann Media Group's 50 percent stake in Sony BMG for $1.2 billion,... |
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Sony to Buy Bertelsmann's Sony BMG Stake for $1.2 Billion (05 August 06:26) |
| Bertelsmann sells its 50% stake in Sony BMG to Sony in a $1.2 billion deal giving the Japanese company full ownership of the joint venture whose roster of artists include Alicia Keys and Leo... |
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15th Anniversary: Absinthe Goes From Banned Drug to Legal Liquor (05 August 09:30) |
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In the 20,000 years or so that humans have been getting piss-drunk, no spirit has earned a worse rap than absinthe. Said to turn mild-mannered imbibers into raving maniacs, it was banned... |
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Clive Thompson on Real-World Social Networks vs. Facebook 'Friends' (05 August 09:30) |
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Benjamin Waber has a grim piece of news for managers and CEOs: You're out of the loop.
Waber, a PhD student in MIT's Human Dynamics Group, studies the way groups interact socially &mdash... |
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Twitter's Business Model? Well, Ummmm... (04 August 11:05) |
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Police Call Publisher Gene Hughes Dead at 80 (04 August 10:45) |
| A Southern California man played a crucial role in incubating and growing the hobby of radio monitoring, and became a household word to scanner geeks around the country.
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15th Anniversary: Behind Wired's Story Behind the Microsoft Antitrust Case (04 August 09:30) |
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When John Heilemann began working on a book about Silicon Valley in 1998, he discovered that he was hitting up many of the same sources
as a group of lawyers from the Department of Just... |
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Web Sites Using SiteMeter Are Crashing With Internet Explorer (03 August 12:30) |
| A number of websites that use SiteMeter tracking code to monitor the number of visitors to their site are reporting that the code is causing Internet Explorer browsers to crash when users vi... |
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Stockholders Vote to Keep Yahoo Execs on Board (03 August 12:00) |
| Despite some stockholders' sour comments at Yahoo's 2008 annual stockholder meeting, the majority of stockholders vote to re-elect each member of the executive board.
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Apple, AT&T Extend Monogamous Relationship (03 August 12:00) |
| Non-AT&T subscribers who want iPhones: Stop waiting for Apple to open the phone to your network, because it's not happening anytime soon. AT&T and Apple are extending their monogamous relati... |
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Julia Allison on her Job In/Security and Going for the Oprah Model (31 July 09:30) |
| Julia Allison chats with Wired Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson about her recent cover story, Reputation Economics 101 and getting what she wants.
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How American Youth Will Screw Viacom (31 July 06:30) |
| Viacom posts decent enough results, but tucked in there is evidence that youth-oriented networks VH1 and MTV were not carrying their weight. The fundamental problem could be that the youth d... |
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Nintendo Q1 Profit Surges -- Wii!!! (30 July 06:34) |
| Nintendo Q1 profits surge 34% as Wii sales shoot up. Nintendo sold 5.2 million Wii machines worldwide during the quarter, 1.7 million than for the same period last year. It also sold 3.4 mil... |
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Comcast Q2 Profit Up 8%; Broadband Growth Slows (30 July 06:09) |
| Comcast's Q2 profit rises 8%, shy of Wall Street's forecast. High-speed internet added 278,000 new subscribers, down 18 percent from 2007.
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The Mozilla CEO on His Firefox Strategy, His Google Gambit, and Working With Apple (30 July 09:30) |
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When Mozilla released the Firefox browser in 2004, Microsoft's Internet Explorer dominated the market with a whopping 95 percent share. Now Firefox has 18 percent of the market and Apple'... |
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DSL: Not Dead Yet (30 July 12:28) |
| Will DSL go the way of the dial-up? Both AT&T and Verizon reported anemic DSL-subscriber growth, leading one analyst to conclude that cable is gobbling up market share, and DSL will soon bec... |
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10 Dumbest Lies of the Micro-hoo-gle-cahn Saga (29 July 08:30) |
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Bad Guys Now Exploit Web Security Flaws in Mere Hours (29 July 07:16) |
| The bad guys on the Internet are narrowing the time frame they need to unleash computer attacks that take advantage of publicly disclosed security holes, new research shows.
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Sirius, XM Complete Merger to Create Satellite Radio Monolith (29 July 05:44) |
| Well, it's official: Sirius and XM satellite finally tie the knot to create a single entity that represents all of the country's satellite radio programming.
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Sans Spiderman, Sony Slumps (29 July 04:38) |
| With no substitute for last year's tremendous Spiderman 3 income, and faltering results in its cell division, Sony reports about half the earnings it did a year ago in Q1. It also lowers it ... |
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Blogger Gorshkov Will Dish Dirt on Russian Politicians — for a Price (29 July 09:30) |
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It was a freakishly warm February morning in Moscow, eight days before Russia's 2008 presidential election. Green army trucks packed with bleary-eyed soldiers crawled through the city stre... |
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Yahoo: We'll Reimburse Users for Terminated Music (29 July 12:59) |
| Yahoo plans to bail out of the online music sales business in September and says it will compensate users for the music they purchased. But as always, the devil's in the details.
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Mo' Broadband Blues: Verizon Growth Sputters (28 July 11:25) |
| The good news: Verizon's FiOS service seems to be catching on. The bad news: Broadband-subscription growth tumbles in the second quarter. The overall economy may be dampening consumer intere... |
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Verizon Q2 Beats; FIOS Starts to Edge Out DSL (28 July 06:04) |
| Verizon's Q2 earnings rise 12%, beating expectations, while revenue slightly lags. Other highlights: Customers are dropping landlines faster than ever before; DSL subscriptions decrease for ... |
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Microsoft Exec Who Led Yahoo Buyout Team to Leave (24 July 09:30) |
| Kevin Johnson, the Microsoft executive in charge of Windows and Web operations and an key player in the company's (thus far?) failed bid to buy Yahoo, is leaving the company to become CEO at... |
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The Broadband Boom May Be Over (24 July 12:08) |
| AT&T reports a measly 46,000 broadband subscribers added during the second quarter, down from nearly half a million in the first quarter. The numbers imply that broadband growth has come to ... |
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Electronics Giants to Create Wireless HD Standard (23 July 05:01) |
| Wireless HD video gets a big boost as Sony, Samsung Motorola, Sharp and Hitachi join forces to support a technology that could send high-definition video signals from a single set-top box to... |
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Yahoo Q2 Profit Down, Below Analyst Views (23 July 02:50) |
| Yahoo's performance isn't as bad as many investors feared after its rival, search and advertising leader Google Inc., posted second-quarter earnings that disappointed Wall Street last week.
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EMusic Extends Into Social Networks (23 July 01:42) |
| The DRM-free music retailer eMusic has linked up with several Web 2.0
hotspots to give subscribers more bang for their buck and allow them
to post album excerpts to social networks.
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TiVo to Cash In on Couch Potato Commerce (22 July 11:50) |
| TiVo is looking for new ways to generate revenue from its existing subscriber base. Its most recent plan: Let subscribers shop through Amazon while watching TV.
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Microsoft to Sell Home-Brewed Xbox Games, Share Revenue (22 July 11:30) |
| Microsoft announces its going to let home-brew gamemakers sell their games to other Xbox 360 owners online, and take a share of the revenue.
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Macs, iPods Carry Apple to Record-Setting Revenues (22 July 02:07) |
| Record-setting Mac computer sales, plus robust iPod sales, helped propel Apple to high revenues and earnings in its fiscal third quarter. Nevertheless, jittery investors pummel the stock in ... |
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Turns Out Porn Isn't Recession-Proof (21 July 11:42) |
| Adult filmmakers have reason to be glum. The DVD market has peaked; there's an onslaught of free, amateur content; and piracy is eating away at revenue. An industry that has historically bee... |
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Crude Reporting: Ask the Tough Questions About Oil (21 July 08:50) |
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Court Tosses FCC 'Wardrobe Malfunction' Fine (21 July 08:25) |
| A federal appeals court throws out the $550,000 fine levied by the FCC against CBS for that 2004 "Wardrobe Malfunction" by Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake. The court says in effect that ... |
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Yahoo Gives Carl Icahn +2 Invite: Your Table Is Ready (21 July 06:19) |
| Carl Icahn and two hand-picked candidates are invited to join the Yahoo board, and the corporate raider withdraws his slate of candidates to take it over at the Aug. 1 shareholders meeting. ... |
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Yahoo Appoints Icahn to Board; Control Crisis Averted (21 July 05:09) |
| Last week Yahoo was complaining that Carl Icahn had no clue about their business, today he is the latest member of their board -- such is life in the fast lane of high-stakes proxy wars. In ... |
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Big Shareholder Supports Yahoo Board Over Icahn (19 July 11:30) |
| One of Yahoo's largest shareholders is supporting the re-election of the Internet company's incumbent board, delivering a significant blow to an attempted coup being led by activist investor... |
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There Are No Winners (or Losers) in the Amazon-Netflix War (19 July 12:08) |
| By the looks of it, Amazon declared war with Netflix with the launch of a competitive, on-demand streaming-movie service. The thing is, there isn't much of a market to fight over yet.
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Economy Finally Catches Up to Google, Microsoft (18 July 03:43) |
| There's little doubt that Google and Microsoft had challenging quarters. Both companies' earnings came in below Wall Street expectations, which prompted a bloody sell off in after-hours trad... |
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Google Misses, Stock Slides After Hours (18 July 02:06) |
| Google's Q2 profit rose 35 percent, but its $1.25 billion in earnings fell below estimates. After hours trading sent Google shares down about 10 percent.
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Yahoo: We Want You, We Want You Not (17 July 07:18) |
| The Microsoft-Yahoo-Icahn soap opera continues with a Yahoo SEC filing that seems to say it's open to anything at previously dismissed terms while smearing the only two parties seemingly int... |
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Presented By: Become a “Go-To” Site via Organic Search (17 July 07:18) |
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Search engine optimization (SEO) is a way to develop your website so that it ranks as highly as possible in the natural (or “organic”) search results of the top engines. The... |
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Post's Weymouth: The Last Media Tycoon (16 July 09:00) |
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Criminal Probe Ended, Apple's Jobs Still Faces Options Hurdles (16 July 04:31) |
| A criminal probe of Steve Jobs over his stock options tampering is now over, but the ordeal isn't quite over yet. Jobs will likely be called to testify in at least two other cases and there ... |
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