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Barack Obama Breaks Promise, Flip Flops, and supports Telco?s

Posted Wednesday July 9, 2008, 2:34 pm, Over one day old

In giving companies that work with the government immunity from these penalties, H.R. 6304, and Barack Obama who voted for it, just took away the only reason stopping AT&T, Verizon, and others from helping the government use extra-judicial wiretaps.

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Apple Notifies Developers: iPhone App Store To Launch Thursday Morning

Posted Wednesday July 9, 2008, 2:34 pm, Over one day old

Apple finally let developers know when their iPhone apps will be live on the App Store for users to download and use: around 9 am PST Thursday morning. Presumably the App Store will go live, along with iPhone 2.0 software in general, around that time.

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One Step Backward: Playboy Asks Which Female Blogger You?d Like To See Sans Clothing

Posted Wednesday July 9, 2008, 2:34 pm, Over one day old

Sarah Lacy, host of Yahoo’s TechTicker, is described respectfully as a “curvy brunette.” Lacy says that Playboy told her about the poll before it was published but said nothing about their plans to ask the winner to pose nude for the magazine.

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Tapulous Wants To Be The RockYou Of Apple?s App Store

Posted Wednesday July 9, 2008, 2:34 pm, Over one day old

The company has accrued a stockpile of finished programs and a team of developers hoping to release new apps on a weekly basis. The company consists of a team of “all-star” app developers, some of whom have been working on iPhone apps since long before the launch of the SDK.

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Who Needs Music Labels? Last.fm Starts Paying Royalties To Unsigned Artists

Posted Wednesday July 9, 2008, 2:34 pm, Over one day old

By cutting out the middlemen (labels, SoundExchange), Last.fm claims that artists that sign up for the program will receive more than twice the royalty rate they would see if the same song played on commercial radio.

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OTOY Developing Server-Side 3D Rendering Technology

Posted Wednesday July 9, 2008, 2:34 pm, Over one day old

First of all, OTOY-powered graphics can potentially go far beyond those found on any consumer device because they aren’t actually rendered by whatever hardware is sitting on your desk, resting in your hand, or laying on your living room floor.

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Stanford Chooses Zimbra Over Gmail, Outlook

Posted Wednesday July 9, 2008, 2:34 pm, Over one day old

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myAWOL: A Music Label For The Digital Age

Posted Wednesday July 9, 2008, 2:34 pm, Over one day old

The big music labels have made it patently obvious that they don’t know how to deal with the internet. Each music artist will have their own profile page (similar to MySpace Music), from which they can stream their songs for free or sell tracks in a 70/30 rev-share agreement.

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Shopflick, No Longer In Private Beta, Raises $7 Million For Web Video Shopping

Posted Wednesday July 9, 2008, 2:34 pm, Over one day old

The YouTube generation needs its QVC. Like eBay, the company plans to make money from listing and transaction fees. Shopflick takes a 12.5 percent cut of each transaction, slightly more than eBay, but has waived listing fees for now, and plans to make them as low as $10 to $20 a month.

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Legg Mason?s Miller to Icahn: Put Up, Or Shut Up

Posted Wednesday July 9, 2008, 2:34 pm, Over one day old

The pitched battle between billionaire investor Carl Icahn and Yahoo for control of its board could hinge on whether Icahn can convince the company’s two largest institutional investors to vote for his alternate slate of directors.

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