NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- As Hollywood continues to buzz over the Google deal that makes top TV writer Seth Macfarlane an internet producer, Ad Age digital editor Abbey Klaassen caught up with "Sex and the City" creator Darren Star for his take on the debate. He doesn't see first-run TV programs migrating to the web in a similar fashion and doubts there is enough advertising money online to support the launch of high-quality, hour-long TV dramas there. He also discusses his surprising attitudes about product placement.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AdAge.com) -- The definition of family is changing in America. This is especially apparent on network TV, which in turn often changes what real -- or at least Nielsen -- families watch. Much of this was reflected Tuesday night, as three programs that are ostensibly about family dynamics had mixed ratings results.
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WASHINGTON (AdAge.com) -- It's official. Sen. Barack Obama's campaign will be among the TV sponsors of NBC Universal's Olympics coverage. In the first significant network-TV buy of any presidential candidate in at least 16 years, the Obama campaign has taken a $5 million package of Olympics spots that includes network TV as well as cable ads.
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CHICAGO (AdAge.com) -- Admitting to problems with franchisees over a platform that's behind much of its turnaround, McDonald's is determined to tweak its dollar menu until it's profitable. In a second-quarter earnings call with analysts Wednesday, Ralph Alvarez, the chain's president-chief operating officer, cited increased commodity costs, declining margins and franchisee profitability for the change.
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NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- After creating a ruckus by levying a slew of scandalous charges against his former employer, Dentsu America, and two former bosses, Steve Biegel has lately remained mum with the press. But now that the tales of Czech brothels and Japanese bathhouses have drawn to a close, Mr. Biegel, the agency's onetime senior VP-creative director, agreed to chat with Ad Age about whether at the end of the day it was worth it to bring his lawsuit, his new agency gig at a shop with yet another strange moniker, and more.
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The system is busted. That much is clear. Now many people are experimenting with alternatives. Roberto Mangabeira Unger has long been one of those on the cutting edge of fundamental reform. Finally he has the chance to change the course of history. From Adbusters #77
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Net neutrality has become a rallying cry for a new generation of media activists. A new media democracy movement is spawning from these Big Telecom acts of aggression, and the movement is having a surprising level of success. From Adbusters #78
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A growing number of economists are bravely asking: What factors make people happy? From Adbusters #77
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Minds bend and break under the strain of a cultural disconnection from the natural world. From Adbusters #78
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Israel’s Architecture of Occupation From Adbusters #78
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If a fugitive Bosnian Serb leader wanted for war crimes can elude arrest by turning himself into a bearded, pony-tailed practitioner of alternative medicine, then the world is certainly ready for less-drastic New Agey phenomena?like the sight of a car achieving ?peace of drive? by relaxing with cucumber slices over its headlights. The same State Farm campaign (via BooneOakley of Charlotte, N.C.) included an installation of a full-sized car in an oversized bubble bath on a Hollywood sidewalk. And to think that insurance companies used to content themselves with handing out calendars. ?Posted by Mark Dolliver
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TBWA Singpore has launched a campaign for stock-image provider Photolibrary that invites creatives to be ?part of the world?s biggest ad.? The idea is that you visit theworldsbiggestad.com and, using Photolibrary?s database of royalty-free stock images and the site?s editing tools, create a unique square piece of art (like the sample, shown here, of a midget wrestler about to filet a fish) and send it in?it will become part of a mosaic that Photolibrary will run as an ad. The gallery is filling up with submissions, mostly from TBWA shops. Maybe the coolest part of the campaign: participation gives creatives a demo of the product. As for the ?world?s biggest? claim?that may be hyperbole. There are no evident plans to unfurl the resulting collage over the desert in Dubai or anything, though that would be fun. Thanks to Campfire?s Sean Gannan for the tip. ?Posted by Brian Morrissey
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This may be our favorite story of the year so far. On June 18, somewhere in Utah, one motorist (and apparent fan of classic TV ads) got another to roll down his window, then asked him, ?Excuse me, sir, do you have any Grey Poupon?? According to local press reports, ?after hearing the request for Dijon mustard, the 22-year-old driver pulled a black handgun from his glove compartment, cocked the weapon and pointed it at the three people in the other car. ?Here?s your Grey Poupon, roll your [expletive] windows up,? he responded.? The first driver, who admittedly was asking for it, got the license plate of the other guy, who was charged this week with aggravated assault, a third-degree felony. Seems that old tagline hasn?t aged well after all. ?Posted by Tim Nudd
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Here's a neat idea. A guy named Cory Williams has posted a "Choose your own adventure" set of videos on YouTube, using the site?s ?video response? feature. You start here, and at the end of each video, you pick one of four videos at the bottom to continue. Unfortunately, Cory?s ?adventure? involves you searching for his cat, Sparta. Which isn?t an adventure so much as a chore. (I lost interest before I found the stupid cat.) But it?s an awesome idea, and some opportunistic brand will surely try the same thing before long?maybe a children?s brand, seeing as how kids love the whole ?Choose your own adventure? thing. That?s right, Man of Popsicle, I?m calling you out. I want to see a ?Choose your flavor adventure? by this time next month! (Just remember to disable comments!) Via Adverblog. ?Posted by Rebecca Cullers
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"The idea is to evoke certain thoughts in the mind-set of the person who is looking at the ads," says a New York Muslim cleric who is backing a project to place ads promoting Islam in 1,000 MTA subway cars. They?re sure to provoke ?certain thoughts? aplenty, especially with the NYC placements slated for September, during both the Islamic holy celebration of Ramadan and the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The ads feature phrases like ?Prophet Muhammad?? and ?Head Scarf?? on one side and the words ?You deserve to know? and the Web address WhyIslam.org on the other. Rep. Peter King strongly opposes the campaign based on ?those behind it,? including a Brooklyn imam who appeared as a character witness for convicted 1993 World Trade bombing mastermind Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman. The controversy?s intense. That?s a good thing, because in a free society, legitimate ideas merit debate, even in commercial messages. But the timing and venue here seem imprudent and provocative, with cramped and steamy late-summer subway cars providing prime breeding grounds for angry and profane ad defilers and those who would stir up hatred in worse ways. Buyer beware: you get what you pay for. ?Posted by David Gianatasio
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ADOTAS EXCLUSIVE — The Harvard Business Review, however interesting, is not always at the top of my reading list for a seven-hour flight to the U.K. I’m more of an Esquire kind of guy, but I recently relented and forked over the cash for good old HBR (I still bought an Esquire to keep me entertained). While flipping through the articles, it struck me that the issues discussed on those pages transcend industries and are widely appealing because they affect any business. The contents seemed to be custom produced by writers that perhaps had been listening in on my team meetings [...]
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ADOTAS EXCLUSIVE — I just got back from Mexico City, where I stayed in the Hotel Camino Real, which is a wonderful example of modern Latin American architecture. One evening, a friend drove me around Plaza de la Constitución — El Zócalo — where I got to see Catedral Metropolitana, a truly stunning example of Spanish Baroque style. I’ve always been a fan of architecture. Not any one particular type, though. I’m a fan of the idea of architecture — where the goal is to create space dedicated to a specific function, and to combine artistic vision with practical engineering to [...]
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ADOTAS – Rumors of Steve Jobs’ ill health have negatively affected his company’s health. Investors started getting anxious when Apple reps told reporters that the company chief’s health was a “private matter” during an earnings call on Monday. So now the rumor mill is going into overdrive: cynics would say it’s attempt to stymie the stock’s dip at the news (it’s bouncing back — it’s already up 1.56% today to $164.49). Apple is reportedly churning out a new story to the press: Steve is just fine. Associates assert that he’s “doing well” and is “cancer free.” (Four years ago, Jobs was [...]
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ADOTAS – Facebook game maker Zynga has closed a second round of financing for $29 million. The round was led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Institutional Venture Partners; current investors Union Square Ventures, Avalon Ventures and Foundry Group also joined. William “Bling” Gordon, of Kleiner Perkins, will join Zynga’s board. Zynga has raised a total of $39 million so far. Zynga makes free (ad-supported) poker, puzzles and other games. The company has 18 million monthly visitors with about 450,000 new users a day. addthis_url = 'http://www.adotas.com/2008/07/in-your-face-zynga-picks-up-29m/'; addthis_title = 'In+Your+Face:+Zynga+Picks+Up+$29M'; addthis_pub [...]
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ADOTAS – Glam Media has snagged Michael Adair as their VP of corporate development and finance. Adair was most recently at Google as head of North American sales. The fem-focused Glam ad network has raised $115 million in funding (it raised $85 million this year alone). WPP Group’s Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide is losing Shelly Lazarus, who said she’ll retire the end of the year. She’ll be replaced by Miles Young, the chairman of Ogilvy’s Asia Pacific regions. (In the past five years, the region’s revenue has just about doubled in size to $500 million). Lazarus will stay on board as [...]
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Subject Line: How Sex with Brad Garrett Can Save Puppies!
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Check out this ad for Shadi, a conservative Indian "matrimonial" site.
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Here's a really long trailer for Sons of Anarchy, a gritty FX man-drama about motorcycle clubs and the families that send their burly soldiers yonder.
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During Advertising Week, Adrants and the Business Development Institute will be hosting its second annual ADEx: The Advertising Industry Experienced Hire Diversity Recruiting Program.
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On Sunday I moderated an ad agency panel for Shoot! the Day, a day-long photographer conference put together by PhotoShelter.
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LOS ANGELES Joseph McCarthy (shown) is joining Publicis USA in New York as chief executive, replacing Gill Duff. McCarthy, with more than 25 years of agency and client -side experience, most recently served at Johnson & Johnson.
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NEW YORK Aegis Group's outdoor ad buyer Posterscope is expanding its U.S. operations with a new office in Denver, the shop confirmed today.
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NEW YORK The old-fashioned tradition of shopping from your TV set got a booster shot Tuesday when Amazon said it had teamed with TiVo to make the practice easier than ever.
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NEW YORK With the Olympic Games just a month off, some brands are looking to extend their sponsorships with social media programs. Lenovo has created 100 athletes' blogs in an attempt to align itself with some less mainstream sports.
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NEW YORK The New York Times Co. will keep turning the screws to tighten costs as the company -- along with every other newspaper player -- tries to weather the economic slump affecting newspaper ad revenue.
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NEW YORK Moving radio one step closer to a visual medium, CBS Radio said it would launch a new video platform for its stations' Web sites.
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Raldon Lumpkins, 20, hits the streets of San Francisco today. His mission is to produce articles, blogs and videos of concern to young voters interested in the upcoming presidential election. The work is for the nonprofit Rock the Vote, which uses music, pop culture and new technologies to engage young people in the political process. And the tool he'll wield to produce it is an AT&T Samsung BlackJack II personal digital assistant, equipped with, among other things, a 2-megapixel camera, GPS, 3-D graphics and, of course, text messaging.
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NEW YORK The Warner Bros. Television Group has announced a string of distribution deals for the company's recently launched Web video reincarnations of The WB brand.
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At its EconCeleb conference in Hollywood today, ContentNext released its list of the most influential and innovative of online celebrities today. It is an interesting and varied list, that includes every one from powerhouse Oprah (pictured here, of course!) to the bisexual sprite, Tila Tequila.
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According to popular legend, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg once kept two versions of his business card in his wallet--one with the title CEO, the other with “I’M CEO . . . BITCH.” Seems that before Facebook became the de facto platform of the “attention economy,” it was a platform for the attention-starved.
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QOTD I wish I knew.” –Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on when we’ll see a Facebook payments platform
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Cadence Design Systems (CDNS) shares have fallen steeply in after hours trading after the company announced a change in the way it does business that resulted in much lower than expected guidance for both Q3 and all of 2008.
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On my recent trip to Seattle, I visited the offices of iLike, in the Capitol Hill section of that lovely Pacific Northwest city, to take a video gander at one of the more interesting start ups to emerge from the social networking arena. The music discovery site, unlike a lot of others in its sector, has been plugging away for several years with much less funding (about $16 million from the founding Partovi twin brothers, former AOL wunderkind Bob Pittman and a big slug from Ticket Master), but a lot more impact.
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Intel has been talking up the embedded space for months, and the company is finally ready to move in that direction. Tolapai debuts today, as the launchpad for what Intel envisions as an entirely new class of Internet-capable devices. Read More...
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The American Library Association calls the right to read the "foundation of individual liberty," and it isn't keen on government attempts to erode library privacy. The ALA has launched a million-dollar campaign to educate the public about these issues. Read More...
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A small town in Minnesota wants to build its own fiber to the home network. The local telco didn't want to do it, but it doesn't want the city competing with it, either. That means one thing: lawsuit.Read More...
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Microsoft made a series of announcements this week that the company hopes will reinvigorate the PC gaming market, including the announcement of DirectX 11 and the advent of free Windows Live gaming. Ars spoke with Microsoft's Kevin Unangst about the company's present and future plans, including DX11, Games for Windows Live, and the PCGA.Read More...
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The FCC has reportedly decided to approve the merger between XM Radio and Sirius. The last fence-sitting commissioner has come down and signed off on the deal.Read More...
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Fans wanting to attend next year's Glastonbury Festival will be able to reserve their tickets six months earlier than normal.
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No further action will be taken over a rape allegation made against former Blue Peter presenter John Leslie, police confirm.
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Veteran TV presenter Des O'Connor is stepping down as the host of Countdown at the end of the current series.
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A waxwork model of Amy Winehouse is unveiled by her parents at Madame Tussauds in London.
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An Edinburgh couple have lost a battle with the estate of Chronicles of Narnia author CS Lewis over a web domain name.
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Six of the UK's biggest net providers sign up to a government plan to tackle illegal file-sharing.
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UK academics sign a letter criticising the ongoing neglect of Bletchley Park - home of the wartime codebreakers.
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The first official image of a proposed joint Russian and European manned spacecraft is unveiled.
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Members of the social networking site could soon be using their login details to access lots of other sites.
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An Edinburgh couple have lost a battle with the estate of Chronicles of Narnia author CS Lewis over a web domain name.
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CNN reporter Drew Griffin reported on the TSA's 1,000,000+ name watchlist of "potential terrorists," and now his name seems to have been added to the list. The TSA denies it, but Griffin is held up every time he flies, and the airlines tell his that it's because he's on the list: "Coincidentally, this all began in May, shortly after I began a series of investigative reports critical of the TSA. Eleven flights now since May 19. On different airlines, my name pops up forcing me to go to the counter, show my identification, sometimes the agent has to make a call before I get my ticket," Griffin reported. "What does the TSA say? Nothing, at least nothing on camera. Over the phone a public affairs worker told me again I'm not on the watch list, and don't even think that someone in the TSA or anyone else is trying to get even." The TSA, which is a part of the Department of Homeland Security, said Griffin's name wasn't even on the watch list, and the agency blamed the airlines for the delays the reporter experienced. The airlines, on the other hand, said they were simply following a list provided by TSA. Link...
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Warren Ellis's fantastic net-perv novel Crooked Little Vein's just come out in paperback -- here's the review I posted of the hardcover last year: Warren Ellis's first novel, "Crooked Little Vein" is about what you'd expect from the Internet's most gonzo celebrant of the kinky, deviant, gross, hard-boiled and manic. Like Hunter S Thompson with an Internet connection, Ellis's hard-boiled detective story veers into hilarious gross-out turf from the first page, when a heroin-addicted presidential chief of staff charges the narrator of the book to retrieve a holy relic. The relic is a record of the "true" constitution of the United States, containing the mystical spell that Benjamin Franklin composed after killing an alien who had been sodomizing him in a hotel room in Paris. The book -- bound in the alien's skin -- has the power to restore America to colonial morality, banishing its Internet-era perversions. But first it must be retrieved from its current owner -- whomever has inherited title from the hooker to whom Nixon gifted it as a hush-up bribe. This storyline - a hardboiled dick and his h4wt, tattooed, polyamorous sidekick -- is the perfect vehicle for a blazing, hilarious tour across America and its myriad daytime talk-show perversions (the narrator has his balls injected with saline in the first fifty pages). Ellis is a connoisseur of the weird and squicky, and he's saved his best material for us in this volume. This is a book that would make Goatse blush in places, and laugh in others, and do some discreet mail-order shopping in others. But there's more to this book than just chuckles. Slyly hidden in this book's depths is an absolutely brilliant little message about the how and why of Internet perversity, the reason that America and the world have found themselves getting magnificently weirder in the last decade, and why that's a Good Thing. This is a celebration of following one's weird, one that is open-eyed to the pain and problems of that path, and one that embraces it anyway. Ellis is a great storyteller, and this little sucker just rips along. I just finished it in 90 minutes on an airplane and it left me hungry for more. Go on and read this one, it's NSFW-ariffic. Crooked Little Vein in paperback...
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Dan "We the Media" Gillmor has a fascinating editorial up today, "Helping the Almost-Journalists Do Journalism" about the "journalistic" work that organizations like the ACLU are doing in covering stories like the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, and how they're filling a gap left by the traditional press, whose reportage has trailed ACLU's work. He proposes that these organizations can be turned into actual journalistic orgs with the addition of a little bit of journo practice. They’re falling short today in several areas, notably the one that comes hardest to advocates: fairness. This is a broad and somewhat fuzzy word. But it means, in general, that you a) listen hard to people who disagree with you; b) hunt for facts and data that are contrary to your own stand; and c) reflect disagreements and nuances in what you tell the rest of us. Advocacy journalism has a long and honorable history. But the best in this arena have always acknowledged the disagreements and nuances, and they’ve been fair in reflecting opposing or orthogonal views and ideas. By doing so, they can strengthen their own arguments in the end. At the very least they are clearer, if not absolutely clear, on the other sides’ arguments, however weak. (That’s sides, not side; there are almost never only two sides to anything.) Of course, transparency is essential in this process, and for the most part we get it from advocacy groups. The one we can’t trust are the ones who take positions that echo the views of financial patrons. The think-tank business is known for this kind of thing, and it’s an abysmal practice. Link...
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Philips has spun out a new company called Shapeways that does cheap remote 3D printing -- send them a design in 3D and they'll fabricate it out of a variety of materials and send it back to you. It's still in beta, but they've sent me 500 free signups for BB readers -- first come, first served: Beta users can sign up via http://www.shapeways.com/beta BetaCode: BoingBoing Link...
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Photographer Phillip Todelano has put up "Days With My Father," a haunting and beautiful photo-essay about his relationship with his elderly father, who has no short-term memory. Link (Thanks, Andrew!)...
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Agreement to run Google search ads alongside Yahoo!
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Updates will provide for more powerful brand takeovers
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Sarah Robb O'Hagan joins PepsiCo division from Nike
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Former Chrysler exec to 'pursue other opportunities'
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Licensing deal brings cola giant to retail chain alongside Hollywood stars, athletes
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Broad Comm, Political Conventions Communications Committee offer to let FCC test unlicensed mobile devices at sites of Democratic, Republican National Conventions.
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Stations will be able to exchange content, add video capability, enhance audio.
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Cable operator tells N.Y. state attorney general it will voluntarily block child-pornography sites and newsgroups.
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Capitol Broadcasting’s Raleigh-Durham, N.C., station teams up with CBC New Media Group, with help from MPH developers LG Electronics, Zenith Electronics, Harris.
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Free Press tells FCC Comcast waived arguments against commission’s jurisdiction; Comcast says network-management practices not discriminatory.
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It appears there will be no FCC vote on the XM/Sirius merger Wednesday, according to a source familiar with the negotiations between FCC Chairman Kevin Martin and Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate. However, as of late Wednesday, Tate was closer to voting to approve the deal, which would give the chairman the three votes he needs.
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Municipal cable company Burlington Telecom reaches agreement to continue carrying network after controversy.
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey: shield law solution in search of problem; Rep. Mike Pence: response to rising erosion of freedom of press.
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SportsNet New York announces multiyear partnership with Big East Conference.
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Journal Communications completes purchase of The CW affiliate KWBA Tucson, Ariz., from Tucson Communications, Cascade Broadcasting Group.
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Expensive oil hurts, but there's a business case to be made for a floor under the price of crude
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How insurance companies dig up applicants' prescriptions—and use them to deny coverage
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In passing a rescue bill for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the House left out the conditions that critics had sought
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As CEO Ballmer splits the Windows and online businesses, Kevin Johnson, a prime force behind the Yahoo bid, will leave to run Juniper Networks
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As Israel's high-tech industry loses its cost advantage, jobs are moving to Romania and India, and local wages are being frozen
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CEO Steve Ballmer's message to Microsoft employees on the departure of senior executive Kevin Johnson and a divisional reorganization.
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The mobile phone giant and chipmaker enter into a 15-year licensing agreement that settles all patent litigation between the two companies.
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The world's largest chip company wants to build system-on-chips based on the x86 instruction set, and the first fruits of that project are set to be released.
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Intel is slated to roll out it first quad-core mobile processor in August.
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A pair of start-ups specializing in small-scale wind turbines merge.
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The 1960 Rome Olympics are little remembered today, but the Games produced some major athletic figures, including Wilma Rudolph and Rafer Johnson. The Olympics also had some deeper meanings, notes author David Maraniss.
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You might want to go green, but how do you know what you're buying is truly ethical? Greenwash -- the ignoble art of misleading consumers about a product's true green worth -- is on the rise. But thanks to the work of increasingly vigilant regulators, some of the more curious and downright spurious claims are being weeded out.
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vituperation: abusive language.
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Top thick slices of country bread with fresh goat cheese. Sprinkle with herbs and bake until crusty; serve to everyone but Jeff.
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According to popular legend, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg once kept two versions of his business card in his wallet--one with the title CEO, the other with “I’M CEO . . . BITCH.” Seems that before Facebook became the de facto platform of the “attention economy,” it was a platform for the attention-starved.
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QOTD I wish I knew.” –Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on when we’ll see a Facebook payments platform
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During the TechCrunch 40 conference last year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the FB Fund, a $10 million fund he established with folks like Jim Breyer of Accel Partners and LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman to issue grants to Facebook developers. Today the company announced the first developers to win grants.
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Looks like Facebook has finally gotten around to addressing the issue of the intrusive third-party applications so prevalent in its ecosystem. “We haven’t done enough to reward Facebook’s good citizens,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during his f8 keynote address Wednesday.
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Rape and money.
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Crisis spreads to Des Moines.
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Tim Russert, longtime host of NBC's "Meet the Press" has died from a heart attack. He was 58. Russert collapsed and died while working on that program at the Washington studio. Legendary Washington Post columnist David Broder told E&P, "He understood exactly what it mean to be a good journalist."
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The Intel EP80579 microprocessor is the first of a new generation of embedded processors designed to power a range of devices from television set-top boxes to mobile Internet devices to telecommunications infrastructure. - Intel is gearing up to offer a new line of embedded microprocessors for a future generation of gadgets that include mobile Internet devices, high-definition televisions and even large systems that power telecommunications infrastructure. On July 24, Intel will debut the first of eight new SOC (sys...
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According to Overstock.com's Carter Lee, the right call center software and service, plus the right people, can make a huge difference in the success of your Web-based business. In some cases, such as Overstock's, the solution is a managed service provider and an outsourced staff. Lee explains how his company accomplished new levels of Web-based success. - For Internet retailers, having friendly, knowledgeable customer service agents available to customers 24/7 can lead to a sustainable competitive advantage. The strategy has worked well for us at Overstock.com, and it can work for you too - whether youre in retail, financial services or any other ser...
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Google's OpenSocial guru David Glazer speaks optimistically about the social Web at F8, where it looks like he and his colleagues could be hugging it out with Facebook over Google's Friend Connect service. Will Facebook allow Friend Connect to grace its site one day? - SAN FRANCISCO Is Facebook close to allowing Google's Friend Connect to work on its social network? That's the big question that came to mind after I spied David Glazer, Google's lead engineer for OpenSocial and fellow Google OpenSocial engineers Peter Chane and Graham Spencer at the Facebook F8 Co...
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Now that summer is here, your heat worries turn to your data center. Is everything really being kept cool enough to be safe? Julius Neudorfer, Director of Network Services for North American Access Technologies, provides 11 tips on how to keep things cool. - As the dog days of summer are upon us, many small and midsize firms see their data centers cooling systems reaching their limits and beyond. This is especially true for rooms that are not using large, dedicated, chilled water systems with extra capacity. Many IT departments are sweating out the summ...
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Rear projection, front projection, short throw, ultrashort throw, touch-screen whiteboards and LCD screens. Business projectors are more than just the home theater of the office and conference room. A little know-how and a few tricks enable more than presentations and make the projector a business tool. Knowing your options can prove valuable the next time someone asks you to review or recommend a projector or large-screen display. - Think of a business projector and you probably picture a typical front-projection setup in a conference room, with the projector mounted on the ceiling, or perhaps sitting on a table or desk, projecting the image from a spot somewhere in front of the screen. There are other options, however. It's we...
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FastCompany.com has culled the most useful and entertaining sites from the far reaches of the Web so that when these sites go mainstream, you'll be one step ahead of the crowd.
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The Fast Interview: Marketing maven Seth Godin on why it's hard to sell meatballs and why those Bud TV Super Bowl ads fail. Plus two words of advice: Parrot Chow!
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Last year, Newsweek predicted that 2007 would be "the year of the widget." This July, developers gathered in New York for Widgetcon, a conference devoted exclusively to widgets. Whether or not Widgetcon fulfilled Newsweek's prediction, it signaled that widgets were more than a passing fad on the Web.
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FastCompany.com offers you a guide to layoff survival and the job search. From the practical to the philosophical, get expert tips on how to survive the fall, and get back in the game.
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Creative, challenging, and highly rewarding, these careers, while not always top of mind, aren't merely desirable -- one of them could be your dream job.
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