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Roundup: The Associated Press tries to take down blog excerpts, Google - Industry Standard

Monday, June 16th, 2008

The Associated Press to blogs: Don t quote us The Associated Press has demanded that The Drudge Retort take down several blog posts containing excerpts of AP stories. The objections sound pretty silly the longest excerpt was 79 words long ...

Groups raise concerns about Google-Yahoo pact - Computerworld

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Google, Yahoo and the elephant in the room Mozilla sets Firefox 3.0 ship date Elgan: Here comes the cell phone ad disaster AFL-CIO says student visa extension hurts tech wages Opinion: Apple's Snow Leopard -- an OS without any new features? Google >>> Read more A day ...

Read all ‘Torrent Relay’ posts in The Daily Download - Download.com

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

BitTorrent, one of the more useful file-sharing mediums out there is not without its complications. Software applications have come a long way, but there are still times when you want one less application running on your machine or simply want to >>> Read more We're all for ...

New Legislation May Open The Door For FCC Regulatory Power Over - Tech Dirt

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

We're all for making content better accessible for the disabled -- but we ought to be careful when it comes to mandating it and potentially opening up internet content to the regulatory control of the FCC. A new bit of legislation being introduced by >>> Read more ...

Corn farmers take anti-Google fight to Washington - CNET News

Friday, June 13th, 2008

If you think there's something a little odd about a bunch of corn farmers lobbying Congress to hold hearings on the details of a Google-Yahoo advertising deal, you may be right. A letter that the American Corn Growers Association and other farmers >>> Read more Outing a ...

Cable: deregulation good for consumers; Ars: like heck it is - Ars Technica

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Kyle McSlarrow heads the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA), the trade group that represents cable. Any job that involves getting up on a regular basis and defending cable's insane rate hikes as consumer-focused measures that spur >>> Read more Celebrities Who Suffer From Acne ...

Cisco Systems spent $310K lobbying government 1Q - Boston Globe

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

WASHINGTON Computer networking equipment maker Cisco Systems Inc. spent $310,000 in the first quarter to lobby the federal government on cyber-crime legislation, broadband proposals and other issues. The San Jose, Calif.-based company also lobbied >>> Read more New York's Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo, has ...

Topic: AT&T Inc. - PC Magazine

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

Summer may bring the new BlackBerry Bold to AT&T, but here are our reviews of the best BlackBerrys you can get right now for each major carrier. When the dust settles in November, the next president will have his hands full with the usual issues. But >>> ...

Black and White Liberals: Confronting the Progressive Divide - OpEdNews.com

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Within the drive for social change and the repudiation of a Bush Program that we have come to despise that is entrenched in a corporatization of media and society lays a people who are more divided than united. The people recognize the need to come >>> Read ...

Policing The Bandwidth Pigs - Multichannel Online

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

It s a tale of two trials. Time Warner Cable and Comcast last week each kicked off tests aimed at dealing with the small percentage of broadband subscribers who chew up the vast majority of capacity on their networks. Time Warner Cable is >>> Read ...