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AOL snaps up IM developer Userplane
Date: 08/14/06
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Internet giant hopes the acquisition will expand its community networking capabilities.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6105180.html
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Microsoft blogging software available in beta
Date: 08/14/06
Keywords: blogging, microsoft
Windows Live Writer designed for easy use, compatibility with other blogging services.
Images: Microsoft lends bloggers a hand
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6105115.html
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Second Lifers get first look at new hotel chain
Date: 08/14/06
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Starwood Hotels, which oversees well-known hotel brands like Sheraton, will seek feedback on new chain via a cyberlodge in the virtual world.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6104471.html
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Fox to offer TV downloads on MySpace
Date: 08/14/06
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Media giant expected to announce plans to distribute movies and TV shows from the company's network of Internet sites.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6105025.html
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British pensioner becomes YouTube star
Date: 08/13/06
Keywords: web
Septuagenarian widower's soft-spoken, humble manner has won the hearts of users of the youth-dominated Web site.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6105018.html
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Using iTunes, MySpace to launch a music career
Date: 08/12/06
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Can "big break" for New York singer Jamie Kristine Seerman, aka Jaymay, come before signing with a major label?
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6103185.html
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Korean social-networking site hopes to nab U.S. fans
Date: 08/11/06
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Hugely popular in its home country of South Korea, Cyworld is determined to bring its success to the United States.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6104794.html
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In U.K., online advertising overtakes magazines
Date: 08/11/06
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Report says Net moves to fourth-largest display advertising market as media consumption among youths shifts.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6104592.html
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BetOnSports to close its U.S. business
Date: 08/11/06
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With company cut off from its biggest market, shareholders will suffer and competitors will profit, says analyst.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6104514.html
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Studios to OK copying movie downloads to disc
Date: 08/10/06
Keywords: web
People who download movies off the Web will soon be able to copy them to specially made DVDs.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6104388.html
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Big investments, salaries to crimp Google's finances?
Date: 08/10/06
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In changes to SEC filing, search giant warns investors that 2006 spending will "substantially" outgrow revenue.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6104139.html
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Rights group calls Net firms 'censors' in China
Date: 08/10/06
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Rights group accuses Western Internet companies of complicity with censorship in China.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6104054.html
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AOL gaffe draws Capitol Hill rebuke
Date: 08/10/06
Keywords: web
Democratic politician says flap shows new laws are necessary to force Web sites to delete data. Not everyone is convinced.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6104040.html
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Google says it won't pull an AOL
Date: 08/09/06
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CEO Eric Schmidt says the Net giant's top priority for its search engine is user trust.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6103955.html
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Viacom's MTV to buy Atom Entertainment
Date: 08/09/06
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The $200 million deal takes place amid a rush by big media companies to compete with upstart online video leader YouTube.com.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6103945.html
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Lieberman defeat a win for 'Netroots' politics?
Date: 08/09/06
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In taking down the incumbent senator, Ned Lamont relied heavily on Net. A sign of campaigns to come?
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6103833.html
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MySpace heat raises News Corp. profit
Date: 08/09/06
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In touting quarterly earnings, Rupert Murdoch says "digital-media assets represent our next generation of growth."
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6103726.html
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Registrar on .eu domain hoarding: 'Nothing we can do'
Date: 08/09/06
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There's no stopping top-level domain stockpiling, says Eurid, over which EU "does not have any supervisory role."
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6103679.html
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Google and U.C. sign contract to digitize books
Date: 08/09/06
Keywords: google
Google set to digitize millions of books from the University of California's more than 100 libraries across its 10 campuses.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6103540.html
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Court rules against man in porn-at-work case
Date: 08/09/06
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Court finds that man who used work computer to view child porn has no reasonable expectation of privacy.
Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6103544.html