Google Patents SMS Payment System  —  A new patent application published by Google gives a unique insight into a possible mobile version of Google Checkout.  —  The Text Message Payment patent, filed on February 28th 2006, details how text messages could be used to pay for goods …

Source:   SEOptimise | PPC & SEO Blog
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What’s Going On With PayPal?  Is eBay Communications Clueless?  —  Yesterday I logged into PayPal and attempted to “accept” a payment.  When I click accept, it goes to a page that has an html title of “page not found” and a link to “try again”.  I waited 24 hours and then contacted support.

Source:   CenterNetworks […]

Multi-Day Paypal Subscription Outage  —  PayPal users are reporting the widespread failure of the PayPal subscription service.  —  According to user reports, the subscription service stopped working August 30 and remains down.  PayPal subscription payments are used widely by service providers …

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Duncan Riley
Link:   http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/02/paypal…

A Man & His 100 Mbps Fiber Connected Life  —  Swedish grannies are connecting to the net at 40 gigabits per second life; 100 megabit per seconds are becoming common place in Japan and Korea; and even French are dreaming of an ultra-fast fiber future.  And yet, in the US we are all stuck in […]

Google News Hosting Wire Service Stories Diminishes Value Of Duplicate Content  —  When each local newspaper was a self-contained, non-overlapping, monopoly distribution channel, the news wires made all of the sense in the world — why have each newspaper spend its own resources to cover the same national and international stories?

Source:   Publishing 2.0
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Are You Getting Quechup Spammed?  —  One controversial issue among social networks is how hard they should push for user acquisition.  Most social networks these days let you to import your email address book in some way (Twitter is the latest), but most make it clear if they’re about to mail your contacts.

Source:   Mashable!
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Art of chatting face to face dying  —  Decrease Increase -  —  Submit comment:  —  THE introduction of e-mail, text messaging and iPods is causing a worldwide epidemic of shyness.  —  Psychologist, Harvard Business School researcher and etiquette columnist Robin Abrahams says societies have become filled with shrinking violets.

Source:   NEWS.com.au
Link:   http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049…

Introducing the Google Phone  —  The Internet is buzzing about it, but only a privileged few know what it looks like, what it will do, or when it will hit the streets  —  Cambridge has a chocolate factory, and a Willy Wonka.  The chocolate factory is Google’s local research lab …

Source:   Boston Globe
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nsa@home (diy shared fpga cracker)  —  [skylark] converted a pair of defective hdtv processing boards into his very own fpga sha-1 hash cracker.  after two months of evening work, he ended up with 15 virtex-ii pro fpgas and 5 spartan-ii fpgas to do his bidding.

Source:   Hack a Day
Author:   Will O’Brien
Link:   http://www.hackaday.com/2007/08/31/nsa-home-diy…

Google Shift on Handling of News  —  SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 31 (Reuters) — Google is playing host to articles from four news agencies, including The Associated Press, the company said Friday, setting the stage for it to generate advertising revenue from Google News.

Source:   Reuters
Link:   http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/01/technology/01news…