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Archive for December 26th, 2007

Apple Stock Toys With $200 Per Share Mark (Peter Cohen/PC World)

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

Apple Stock Toys With $200 Per Share Mark  —  Banner year helps propel Apple’s stock, which briefly stock traded north of $200 on Wednesday.  —  Recommend this story?  —  Apple’s stock traded north of US$200 briefly on Wednesday, although it settled at $198.95 when the Nasdaq market closed at 4:00 PM.

Source:   PC World
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Apple in online film-rental deal with Fox studio (Financial Times)

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

Apple in online film-rental deal with Fox studio  —  By Matthew Garrahan in Los Angeles and Kevin Allison in San Francisco  —  Apple has signed News Corp’s 20th Century Fox studio to a new online video-on-demand service in a deal that could change the way people pay for online film content.

Source:   Financial Times
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Broadband Mechanics announcement(s) (Marc Canter/Marc’s Voice)

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

Broadband Mechanics announcement(s)  —  I hate doing press releases - they seem so old school Web 1.0-ish.  Scheduling appointments to go kiss Om Mailk’s or Arrington’s ring just seems so arcane to me, but it’s clearly what has to be done to get coverage.  And then they assign the post …

Source:   Marc’s Voice
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Masterful Web Entrepreneurs Hit a Snag in Miami’s Condo Market (Christine Haughney/New York Times)

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

Masterful Web Entrepreneurs Hit a Snag in Miami’s Condo Market  —  Jim Clark and Tom Jermoluk cut a swath through Silicon Valley in the 1990s with companies like Silicon Graphics, Netscape and WebMD.  But they are finding that it is a lot harder to maneuver through the real estate market than to master the Internet.

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Google ruining Christmas? Get a grip (Mathew/mathewingram.com/work)

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

Google ruining Christmas?  Get a grip  —  Since I’m full of the milk of human kindness after a wonderful Christmas, I’ve been trying to remain calm in the face of all the Google Reader hysteria about shared items and so on — but wiping out on some ice yesterday and landing on my ass …

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Radiohead: Free New Year’s Web Concert, Amazon Beats iTunes To ‘In Rainbows’ (Dan Frommer/Silicon Alley Insider)

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

Radiohead: Free New Year’s Web Concert, Amazon Beats iTunes To ‘In Rainbows’  —  Alterna-rockers Radiohead will stream a free, hour-long concert of their latest album, In Rainbows, on Monday, New Year’s Eve, via their Web site, Current TV, and Current.com.  “This is a wee celebration …

Source:   Silicon Alley Insider
Author:   Dan Frommer
Link:   http://www.alleyinsider.com/2007/12/radiohead-free…

Nokia says door open for cooperation with Apple on web portal Ovi - Vanjoki (CNN)

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

Nokia says door open for cooperation with Apple on web portal Ovi - Vanjoki  —  Thomson Financial delivered by Newstex) — Nokia’s (NYSE:NOK) doors are open for Apple Inc to sell its music via the company’s planned Ovi web portal, management board member Anssi Vanjoki told Berliner Zeitung.

Source:   CNN
Link:   http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex…

Is Google Reader Sharing Too Much? (Erick Schonfeld/TechCrunch)

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

Is Google Reader Sharing Too Much?  —  A small privacy debate is igniting over a new sharing feature in Google Reader.  A couple weeks ago, Google turned on a new feature in its feed reader that lets you share posts with anyone in your Gmail or Gtalk contact list (assuming you use either of those […]

Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007 (Tamar Weinberg/techipedia)

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

Best Internet Marketing Blog Posts of 2007  —  Last year, I ended 2006 with a great (and still pertinent) list of blog posts and articles that I felt were really the best in their class in the area of Internet Marketing.  This year, I present you my favorite timeless posts of 2007 …

Source:   techipedia […]

IFPI wants ISPs to block The Pirate Bay, filter P2P traffic (P2P Blog)

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

IFPI wants ISPs to block The Pirate Bay, filter P2P traffic  —  The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) wants European ISPs to build the copyright equivalent to the Chinese firewall, and its counting on the help of European lawmakers to achieve this goal.

Source:   P2P Blog
Link:   http://www.p2p-blog.com/item-439.html