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• If You Can't Even Describe The Past, How Can You Predict The Future?

  Published: August 2, 2007, 3:16 am

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  When Apple reported its opening weekend iPhone sales, Wall Street was disappointed that the 270,000 figure it gave out failed to hit much loftier estimates. Of course, this raises the old question: did Apple miss estimates or did analysts mis-estimate? In a sense, the answer is always both... Permalink: If You Can't Even Describe The

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• One Year After Google's AP Deal... And Nothing To Show For It (Other Than A Lack Of Lawsuits)

  Published: August 7, 2007, 4:34 am

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  We were just talking about how confused news organizations are with the fact that Google News gives them free traffic, but it's time to revisit one of the earlier disputes on this topic. In 2005 the Associated Press contacted Google to express their concern over Google News linking to AP content. This, of course, is ridiculous...

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• MySpace Turns A Profit, Barely

  Published: August 10, 2007, 1:22 am

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  Yesterday, News Corp. announced that in this past fiscal year, the company's interactive division (which is mainly MySpace) turned a profit of $10 million on revenue of $550 million. These are incredibly paltry margins. This division is still growing rapidly, so it's understandable that it would be putting a lot of money towards new investments...

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• Judge Rules That Novell, Not SCO, Owns Unix Copyrights

  Published: August 13, 2007, 7:16 am

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  For years, ever since SCO first sued IBM for infringement found in Linux, SCO has had trouble proving any of its claims. SCO was still quite cocky about the idea that once the case (and the various associated cases) got to court, it would show that SCO had a smoking gun all along. However, even judges involved in the case are skeptical...

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• Dell's Fraud Report Raises Questions About SarbOx, Earnings

  Published: August 17, 2007, 4:58 am

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  This evening, Dell announced the preliminary results of a multi-month investigation into past accounting irregularities. As many had expected, the company revealed that management had deliberately massaged results to hit Wall Street targets. That being said, the total size of the fraud was not particularly significant... Permalink:

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• Tonya Andersen Trying To Turn Her Lawsuit Against The RIAA Into A Class Action

  Published: August 20, 2007, 2:44 am

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  Tanya Andersen has been fighting back against a bogus RIAA lawsuit for a while, and got some attention earlier this summer when she accused the RIAA of breaking the law with its investigation technique. It's also one of a few cases that have questioned whether or not the RIAA's settlement offer process can be considered illegal racketeering.

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• New Study Questions The Link Between Driving While Yakking And Car Crashes

  Published: August 21, 2007, 4:26 am

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  Well, this ought to be a bit on the controversial side. Despite previous studies that have claimed that driving while talking on the phone increases the likelihood of an accident a new study has come out saying that there's no evidence of a link between driving while on the phone and accidents... Permalink: New Study Questions The

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• NY Politicians Can't Resist: Still Want To Pass Law Banning Sale Of Violent Video Games

  Published: August 22, 2007, 5:01 am

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  Despite the fact that yet another state's attempt at passing a law banning the sale of certain video games to children was just tossed out as unconstitutional (as have seven other similar laws), politicians in NY insist on moving forward with their own attempt at passing the same kind of law... Permalink: NY Politicians Can't Resist:

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• Will Google Face Patent Battle Over YouTube's New Ad Format?

  Published: August 24, 2007, 4:06 am

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  Google and YouTube got a ton of press coverage for releasing their new video ad overlay program on Tuesday evening. However, despite some amount of fawning from some tech publications, many people noted that the ads were remarkably similar to the format the startup VideoEgg launched nearly a year ago... Permalink: Will Google Face

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• Mary Meeker Fixes More Than Her Math In YouTube Report

  Published: August 28, 2007, 4:20 am

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  Last week, Morgan Stanley internet analyst Mary Meeker was embarrassed when it was revealed that a math mistake on her part caused her to vastly overstate (by a factor of 1000x) the revenue potential from YouTube's new ad overlay system. After having her mistake pointed out to her by none other than Henry Blodget, Meeker went back and fixed the

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• US Says WTO Won't Let In Russia If Allofmp3 Comes Back To Life

  Published: August 30, 2007, 4:13 am

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  With Allofmp3.com announcing that it plans to reopen the site now that (once again) the site has been found to be legal under Russian laws, it didn't take long for the RIAA... er... U.S. government to make its unhappiness clear. A spokesman for the U.S. Trade Representative has announced that if Allofmp3.com reopens, then Russia has kissed away

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• American Blinds Realizes That It Was About To Lose Google Keyword Ad Suit

  Published: September 5, 2007, 4:04 am

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  Just a week or so after American Airlines was the latest in a long list of companies to incorrectly sue Google claiming that Google violated its trademarks in allowing others to buy keyword ads on the trademark "american airlines," one of the more well known cases in this realm has come to a close. American Blinds was one of the more prominent

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• MPAA Moves On To Making Up Stats About Camcording In The UK Market

  Published: September 7, 2007, 4:12 am

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  After successfully bullying Canada into passing stricter anti-camcording laws, using bogus stats, it appears that the MPAA has moved on to a new country: the UK. TorrentFreak lets us know that MPAA chief Dan Glickman has crossed the pond to warn UK politicians about the horrible "threat" of camcorded movies... Permalink: MPAA Moves On

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• Why A Mainstream Digg Wouldn't Dumb Down The News

  Published: September 17, 2007, 4:03 am

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  A recent study from the Project for Excellence in Journalism finds that there is very little overlap between the front-page stories selected by traditional editors, social news sites and Yahoo News user recommendations. There is an interesting interpretation of this study from Nicholas Carr... Permalink: Why A Mainstream Digg

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• Why The Rest Of Tech Industry May Not Be Happy About The EU/Microsoft Decision

  Published: September 19, 2007, 2:51 am

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  While some in the tech industry are cheering the EU's decision to stick to its antitrust fines and penalties against Microsoft, it may not be such a good thing for the industry as a whole. We were already wondering how the decision benefited customers in any way, and Fortune Magazine is noting that this could spell trouble for other successful

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