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ChannelWeb - 3 days, 14 hours, 44 minutes ago
RIAA Collects Another Victory, This Time Over Usenet - Usenet found to have violated copyrights by hosting content.

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Angela Gunn / BetaNews - 3 days, 15 hours, 58 minutes ago
What's Now: Recording industry wins big against Usenet file sharing service - By Angela Gunn, Betanews Yesterday's WN|WN was singing the refrains of "Why Can't We Be Friends?" from the classic group "War." Apparently, we've got more readers in Australia these days (g'day mates!).


MarketWatch - 3 days, 2 hours, 48 minutes ago
Japan official: U.S. economy has yet to hit bottom - Japan's newly appointed economy minister says the U.S. economy is still worsening.

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Connie Madon / BloggingStocks - 3 days, 14 hours, 55 minutes ago
Millionaires have lost their optimism about the economy - Filed under: Market matters, Personal finance, RecessionIs there an index that measures millionaires' sentiment and whether they are optimistic or pessimistic? The answer is yes. It is called the Spectrem Millionaire Investor Index.


Adam Frucci / Gizmodo - 4 days, 13 hours, 18 minutes ago
Some Pricing Details on Last.fm on the Xbox 360 Emerge - Last.fm is coming to the Xbox 360, which is great. But you're gonna need a Gold Live membership to enjoy it, and even then you'll be stuck watching video ads. Silver members will get a 3-month, ad-supported trial.
CrunchGear

Allen Stern / CenterNetworks - 4 days, 14 hours, 6 minutes ago
Remember That Zoho Secret Launch? It’s Zoho Projects 2.0 -
Lifehacker

Mark Goldenson / VentureBeat - 2 days, 12 hours, 33 minutes ago
What’s next: A StumbleUpon for porn? - (Note: this article discusses pornography but has no X-rated links and should be safe in PG environments. School teachers and clergy are duly warned.)If the web has let a thousand flowers bloom, pornography has been its most prolific...

InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs - 3 days, 7 hours, 58 minutes ago
WiMax Ready To Surge Again - Growth of the wide-area technology slowed in the economic meltdown, but analysts predict the deployment of WiMax equipment will take off again by year end.

eWeek - 3 days, 11 hours, 19 minutes ago
How to Improve IT Cyber Security with Visual Analytics - Few disciplines require the comprehension of as much information in so little time as computer security. With billions of data records piling up daily for large organizations, no technique holds as much promise as using computer-generated...

Seattle Times - 3 days, 11 hours, 26 minutes ago
Sonic Youth takes a swipe at Starbucks' old record label -

Sardar Mohkim Khan / Startup Meme - 6 days, 8 hours, 40 minutes ago
Steve Jobs back at work.. Apple making sure everyone knows this - When Steve Jobs took a medical leave earlier this year he had stated about his return to work by June 30. Reports broke forth earlier this month stating that Jobs had a liver transplant and that he was working at Apple, though he did most...
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Yahoo! News (Wire Services) - 12 days, 8 hours, 31 minutes ago
Intel, Nokia Partner for Smartphones of the Future - NewsFactor - Intel and Nokia on Tuesday announced a shared vision and a partnership to develop a new class of smartphones and other computing devices that will run on Intel's chipsets.
BetaNews, ChannelWeb, ZDNet Blogs, InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs, Guardian

Business Week - 10 days, 3 hours, 37 minutes ago
Big Software Plans for Amazon's Kindle? -
WSJ.com: Business Technology, ChannelWeb

MediaPost - 12 days, 5 hours, 15 minutes ago
Online Media Daily: Video In Rich Media Ads More Likely To Lead Customers To Purchase - Video in rich media ads can make or break a campaign. The DoubleClick benchmark study scheduled for release by Google Wednesday suggests that rich media ad formats that contain video "overwhelmingly" outperform other types of creative...
iMedia Connection

Brian Carter / Search Engine Journal - 19 days, 14 hours, 40 minutes ago
Kenshoo Makes PPC Complexities Easier to Manage - Bless you! Oh I thought you sneezed. If you HAD sneezed, we could have seen whether that sneeze came from your first click, last click, or somewhere in between.Kenshoo is impressive. Kenshoo describes itself as “the end to end SEM...
MediaPost

Paul Boutin / VentureBeat - 13 days, 7 hours, 4 minutes ago
Twitter has vague plans to wring revenue from big brands like Starbucks, Dell, Whole Foods - Finally, Twitter is talking about how it bring in revenue. Sort of. In an interview today, the company still comes across as grasping at straws rather than having a rock-solid plan.Co-founder Biz Stone told Bloomberg today that the...

Deborah Levine / FOXBusiness.com - 5 days, 16 hours, 31 minutes ago
Treasurys Slide Before Fed Buyback, Data - Treasurys Slide Before Fed Buyback, Data

Yahoo! News (Wire Services) - 24 days, 10 hours, 38 minutes ago
AOL acquires two local web startups - Reuters - AOL has struck deals to acquire two small start-up companies focused on local online media, Patch Media Corp and Going Inc, ahead of its separation from Time Warner Inc.
eWeek

Wall Street Journal - 25 days, 7 hours, 4 minutes ago
Dell Set to Join Tech Merger Race - Dell Inc. is cranking up its mergers and acquisitions engine, just as competition for technology deals begins heating up again.
New York Times: DealBook

AllBusiness.com - 5 days, 4 hours, 58 minutes ago
Long Term Link Building for SEO - There must be a mix of efforts by internal resources and outside expertise.
iMedia Connection, SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog, Marketing Pilgrim, Mashable!, Search Engine Journal, ProBlogger

Michael Masnick / Techdirt - 9 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes ago
Can Someone Please Tell Us How You Determine What's A 'Legal' Search Engine From An 'Illegal' One? - I've had a lot of trouble with courts around the globe pinning blame on search engines for what they find, using a questionable interpretation of the law for "contributory" infringement or "inducing" infringement.
Search Engine Watch Blog

Andy Beal / Marketing Pilgrim - 10 days, 9 hours, 42 minutes ago
First Round of SEM Scholarship Contest Entries Posted - We’ve just posted the first round of entries to our 4th Annual Search Engine Marketing Scholarship Contest. They are:The Small Business PPC Art of WarHolistic Online MarketingOh, That’s Right, We Don’t Need SEO StandardsSEM &...
Search Engine Land

Jordan Kasteler / Search Engine Journal - 5 days, 16 hours, 8 minutes ago
Social Media Profiles for Online Reputation Management - Your reputation, online or offline is vital extremely important. Recently, a friend of mine owned a travel business. After hiring an employee with a light criminal background and having thousands of dollars embezzled from him, he started...
iMedia Connection, All Things Digital, WebProNews, Web Strategy, Marketing Pilgrim, MediaPost, AdWeek, ZDNet Blogs, Between the Lines, O'Reilly Radar

Elisabeth Lewin / Podcasting News - 8 days, 15 hours, 4 minutes ago
J&J Case Study Details Rules For Social Media Success - Social media strategist Ron Ploof has published a new case study that is worth a read. “Johnson & Johnson Does New Media” is a concise e-book detailing how the health products giant has established its new media...
paidContent.org

Jeff Hobbs / Mashable! - 4 days, 13 hours, 49 minutes ago
HOW TO: Use Wikis for Business Projects - Jeff Hobbs is Director of Engineering at ActiveState and works on Workspace and dynamic languages. He blogs occasionally at blogs.activestate.com. One of the best web tools available to businesses for enabling teamwork and collaboration is...

EETimes - 9 days, 8 hours, 10 minutes ago
IBM loses injunction against Dell executive - A U.S. judge turned down a request from IBM tobar its former head of mergers and acquisitions from working at Dell over allegations that he would disclose trade secrets.
CNET News.com

MarketWatch - 9 days, 5 hours, 3 minutes ago
Oracle, Sun merger gets closer antitrust scrutiny - Federal antitrust regulators are taking a closer look at the proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems.

Michael Masnick / Techdirt - 9 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes ago
Can Someone Please Tell Us How You Determine What's A 'Legal' Search Engine From An 'Illegal' One? - I've had a lot of trouble with courts around the globe pinning blame on search engines for what they find, using a questionable interpretation of the law for "contributory" infringement or "inducing" infringement.