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eBay Holiday Contest Overrun By Automated Scripts, Honest Users Disgruntled
Posted from TechCrunch 6 hours ago
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E-commerce juggernaut eBay is under fire because of a holiday giveaway contest gone awry. On Tuesday 25 November, eBay announced its $1 Holiday Doorbusters deals promotion, giving away 100 gifts ranging from jewelry, clothing, digital cameras, GPS devices to a brand-new Chevrolet Corvette for a $1 f... (original story)
YouTube Uglifies Embedded Videos With A Search Bar
Posted from TechCrunch 6 hours ago
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That is one fugly search bar that YouTube added (without warning) to embedded videos. Update: if you want to turn it off, simply add the parameter "&showsearch=0". More information here. Also, the site itself received a facelift, one that I'm not loving. (original story)
In The Face Of Weakening Demand, Adobe Sheds 600 Workers
Posted from TechCrunch 6 hours ago
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Today, Adobe announced it would lay off 600 workers, or 8 percent of its total headcount. The recession is forcing it to reduce its sales forecasts for the next two quarters. No wonder it canceled its booth at Macworld. When the big guys are hurting, everybody hurts. That brings our Layoff Tracker up to 76,000 tech jobs lost since late August. Adobe joins Leapfrog, which announced on Monday it will cut 70 people (10 percent) and Trutap, which will let 25 people go (80 percent) and is looking to sell the remains of the company. (original story)
Hey, Apple’s Lawyers. Here Is Some Free Advice On How To Fight That iPhone Browser Lawsuit
Posted from TechCrunch 6 hours ago
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When a company called EMG Technology filed a patent lawsuit against Apple last week over "the way the iPhone navigates the Internet," it had the stench of a patent troll. The suit was filed, a month after the patent was issued, in the Eastern District of Texas, known as troll country among patent attorneys because the courts there tend to rule favorably for patent owners. EMG Technology is based in Los Angeles, and appears to have been formed solely for the purpose of filing this lawsuit. One of the inventors named on the patent and EMG "managing member" Elliot Gottfurcht is a Los Angel... (original story)
Google’s Apps SLA Allows It To Minimize Downtime Of Gmail, Calendar And More
Posted from TechCrunch 6 hours ago
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Any Google App could be unavailable for more than 21 hours on a given day, and the company could still claim they had 100% uptime. That's the gist of an analysis penned by Pingdom, who took a closer look at the Service Level Agreement for Google Apps. The most interesting tidbit in the SLA, which... (original story)
.Tel Is Just A Featureless Social Network That Costs $10/year
Posted from TechCrunch 6 hours ago
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.TEL, one of a stream of new top level domain dames approved by the quasi-governmental Los Angeles-based ICANN, will go on sale shortly. Like other domain name types, you'll be able to buy your .TEL at your favorite domain name registrar (eNom, Godaddy, Network Solutions, Register.com, etc.). You c... (original story)
Google Was Three Hours Away From Being Charged As A Monopolist
Posted from TechCrunch 6 hours ago
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When Google pulled out of its proposed search advertising deal with Yahoo last month, it was chief legal counsel David Drummond who made the announcement. He cited concerns of a "protracted legal battle," but only now do we learn that the Justice Department was only three hours away from filing a... (original story)
The New York Times Clutters Up Its Homepage With Links From Elsewhere (In Beta)
Posted from TechCrunch 6 hours ago
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It used to be that when a newspaper put out an "Extra" edition, it was filled with stories written by its reporters who had toiled away the night to cover some breaking news or collection of stories. Today, the New York Times is redefining "Extra" as stories written by others. It is turning on a... (original story)
Amazon Launches Public Data Sets To Ease Research
Posted from TechCrunch 6 hours ago
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Amazon released its previously announced Public Data Sets web service this evening. The project encourages developers, researchers, universities and businesses to upload large (non-confidential) data sets to Amazon - things like census data, genomes, etc. - and then let others integrated that data i... (original story)
Social Network Netlog To Kick Off Integrated Multiplayer Games
Posted from TechCrunch 6 hours ago
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European social network Netlog has announced a deal with game developers Jadestone (Sweden) and Bigpoint (Germany) to start integrating multiplayer games into the community website. Users will be able to play games directly on Netlog without having to create extra accounts, which is a direct results... (original story)
New Android Phone Debuts, Looks Like a Blackberry
Posted from ReadWriteWeb 6 hours ago
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Starting today handset manufacturer Kogan began accepting pre-orders for the second Android phone, the Kogan Agora Pro, which makes its debut in Australia for $399 AU ($256 US). Unlike T-Mobile's G1, this phone comes unlocked for use on any carrier. However, what's really interesting about this seco... (original story)
TechMeme Gives Up On Fully Automated News
Posted from TechCrunch 6 hours ago
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3+ year old TechMeme, an automated news site that shows breaking news clustered by topic, has always generated "headlines" by analyzing how news sites link to each other. If a lot of sites start linking to something unique, TechMeme guesses it's news. That isn't working, says founder Gabe Rivera today in a blog post: "Only an algorithm would feature news about Anna Nicole Smith's hospitalization after she's already been declared dead, as our automated celeb news site WeSmirch did last year." He's hired someone to start vetting stories that the algorithm says are headlines, to either push th... (original story)
I’ll Be On My Touch - Truphone Turns iPod Into Cellphone
Posted from TechCrunch 6 hours ago
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UK-based Truphone, a VoIP service provider for Wifi/data enabled handsets, today unveils a special version for owners of the iPhone Touch. The move is significant. The software effectively turns the Touch into a mobile phone, if limited to calls over WiFi. But there will be plenty of young people an... (original story)
How To Use The Web To Change The World
Posted from TechCrunch 6 hours ago
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If you are interested in how to use the Web to create a grassroots political movement, tune in today and tomorrow to the Alliance of Youth Movements Summit, which is being sponsored and livestreamed by Howcast. Right now, James K. Glassman, Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, is talking about How To Build a Movement Against Terrorism and will soon be introducing Oscar Morales, an engineer deom Columbia who set up a Facebook group called One Million Voices Against the FARC that organized in mass demonstrations on the street in that country. Tomorrow morning there is a p... (original story)
Mint Joins The World Economic Forum, Knows That You’ve Cut Back On Starbucks
Posted from TechCrunch 6 hours ago
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Mint, the personal financial site that won TechCrunch40, continues to thrive even as our economy sinks deeper into an economic decline. The company has just been selected as a TechPioneer by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland - an honor only given to 34 companies worldwide (other winners in the tech space this year include Brightcove, Etsy, Mojix, and Slide, with past winners including Google, 23andMe, Infosys, and Mozilla). The World Economic Forum is an international organization aiming to help improve the world, and each TechPioneer is chosen for its contributions towards me... (original story)
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