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ask.com Search Boxes to Pop up on Photobucket

Source: PC Magazine
July 11, 2008

On the heels of a matchup between Getty Images and Yahoo-owned Flickr, Ask.com on Thursday announced that it has signed a multi-year agreement with photo Web site Photobucket. The Ask.com search box will now be featured throughout Photobucket.com, allowing Photobucket users to do searches within the Web site. Display ads and sponsored listings will also be syndicated on Photobucket. Photobucket, which was acquired by News Corp. in May 2007, has approximately 44 million monthly unique users worldwide, according to the ...

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Pandora Brings Free Streaming Music to iPhone 3g

Source: PC Magazine
July 11, 2008

An app from online radio station Pandora will be among the hundreds of offerings available Friday when Apple officially unveils its long-awaited Apps Store alongside the iPhone 3G. There's a decent chance that Pandora will be overlooked, at least initially, among the deluge of third-party apps being released (500 to be exact!), but based on the sneak preview of the offering, there's an awful lot to like about the Pandora's iPhone app. The free Pandora service is now available via ...

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FCC White Spaces Tour Hits the Road

Source: PC Magazine
July 11, 2008

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is going on tour. The agency's lineup might not be as exciting as any of the summer concert tours to which you may have procured tickets, but for Internet companies like Google and Microsoft, the FCC's upcoming white spaces field tests could have a major impact on their ability to provide wireless broadband services. The FCC on Thursday released the locations for four weeks of upcoming device tests throughout the Washington metropolitan area. The commission ...

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Apple's New Online App Store

Source: Michael Ricci
July 10, 2008

Apple will open App Store, the online retailer's debut coincides with the launch of the newest version of the device. The company will offer such programs as language translators and tip calculators.

One program allows you to create music on the iPhone. Press G when you park your car, it gives you map to return to it.

When the new iPhone goes on sale Friday, Apple Inc. will also launch an online software store peddling a potpourri of programs such ...

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Getty Images Will Troll Flickr for Usable Shots

Source: PC Magazine
July 10, 2008

You know all those “artsy" photos of your cat or the MySpace-esque bathroom self-portraits littering your Flickr account? They might actually be worth something. Getty Images will be trolling the online photo site in order to find shots worthy of a commercial licensing deal. In the next few months, Getty will extend invites to Flickr members, who will then have the opportunity to participate in a collection created by the photo house. Getty will become the exclusive commercial rights manager ...

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Penn Museum to Share Cultural Treasures Online

Source: PC Magazine
July 10, 2008

PHILADELPHIA - The Richard Hodges, is to open up its dazzling collection of artifacts to scholars, researchers, and the general public around the world who have been unable to access it either because they are not in Philadelphia or because 95 percent of the objects are in storage. The creation of an internet catalogue will provide unprecedented access to objects that represent the cultural heritage of civilizations that have been the source for the museum's many archaeological expeditions to remote ...

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Is Apple Ready to Bust a Blu-Ray Move?

Source: All About Jazz
July 9, 2008

Will Apple Deliver new Mac Pro's with Blu-ray Drives Soon?

Apple has never been big on alliances, coalitions or other formal industry-wide groupings. Case in point: The company joined the Blu-ray Disc Association in 2005 promising to help promote the high-definition format and then did pretty much nothing (at least in a commercial sense) for close to three years. This despite Jobs acknowledging that “consumers are...anxiously awaiting a way to burn their own high-def DVDs." Apparently, they weren't anxious enough ...

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Big Daddy Corporations Watching You Watch YouTube

Source: Michael Ricci
July 9, 2008

File Under HEAVY Viacom's big daddy lawsuit aims to prove that YouTube is little more than a beehive of copyright infringement.

In the latest development, YouTube must turn over 12 terabytes of user history logs, a massive trove of demographic and behavioral data around the size of the entire printed works of the Library of Congress. You could make the case that this information is so potent that YouTube shouldn't even be storing it -- just as people ...

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