PayPal, the popular online payment system, is preparing to block older Internet browsers from their site in an attempt to stem customers’ falling prey to phishing scams.Jeremy Kirk of InfoWorld reported that a portion of their users are still using Microsoft’s Internet Explorer versions 3 and 4, both of which lack phishing filters. And […]

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What do the positive Q1 results for Intel and Google mean for the tech economy? ( surveys)We’ve been covering how larger US economic issues are affecting tech companies. Some of the biggest private web companies, like widget-maker Slide, have already raised tens of millions of dollars hoping to weather the […]

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Small inventors, beware. You’ve got to be crazy to be an entrepreneur. You’ve got to be even crazier to be an inventor. Patent reform could change things, but opportunities abound in the nascent intellectual property marketplace.That was one of the consistent messages of the speakers at this week’s Intellectual Property Symposium at the Fairmont Hotel […]

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Microsoft is jumping on the software-as-a-service bandwagon by launching its SaaS version of Microsoft Office, code-named “Albany”, in private testing mode today. Albany will give users a new way to get the latest versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other products — they can pay a subscription fee, rather than purchase a new product […]

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Long-Term Evolution (LTE) is one step closer to industry-wide stability. 3GPP LTE technology (LTE is the name given to a project within the Third Generation Partnership Project) offers wireless broadband speeds with downloads around 100 Mbps and uploads of 50 Mbps. Seven telecommunication companies have reached an agreement on a framework for licensing intellectual-property rights […]

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Stephen Holthaus writes in to point us to a press release from The Pirate Bay about the fact that the chief police inspector who built the case against the Pirate Bay in Sweden has now been hired by Warner Brothers. Unfortunately, it seems like the folks at the Pirate Bay may be overplaying this news, implying that he was employed by Warner Brothers while conducting the investigation. Instead, the details show that he merely switched jobs last month. That’s not as scandalous as the Pirate Bay folks make it out to be. While they do have a point in suggesting that some of his investigative work may have been part of the “job interview,” it’s not unreasonable that Warner Brothers would decide to hire someone who had the experience this investigator had. After all, the RIAA and all of the major record labels have a history of hiring former law enforcement officials (no matter how pointless their “anti-piracy” efforts are). So, while it may call into question the guy’s objectivity during the trial, the guys at the Pirate Bay probably should tone down the moral outrage on this one.

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Economists are hinting if not insisting that the U.S. is in a recession. Most often marketers are hit hard by a recession, as they and their budgets are the first to get cut. Forrester’s Josh Bernoff gives tips on how marketers should be thinking about social media now and what to do given this environment. […]

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In our new regular weekly round-up of news in Europe, here’s some of the broader stories that may be of interest.• The European Union is never very far away from reaching for the regulation trigger, so it was refreshing this week to see that it was warning member states that people should not be criminalised […]

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Find me at jowyang on TwitterMany conversations are shifting to Twitter, this post proves it (network with others, by adding those in the comments). Twitter is extensible, and many third-party developers are creating tools around the simple data being exported for a variety of unique applications.If you’re using Twitter for personal, corporate use, or […]

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HR Block Gets Social Media: I recently had the pleasure is speaking with Amy Worley who is the director of digital marketing at HR Block while attending the Forrester conference in LA.HR Block has done a great job of having their brand participate in social media sites like facebook, myspace, second life and twitter. […]

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Mashable folk have resurrected ReadBurner (RWW coverage). I look forward to seeing how it develops!…

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From the new Edison/Arbitron study on media platforms comes this headline: Weekly Online Radio Audience Increases from 11 percent to 13 percent of Americans In Last Year. What that headline doesn’t say is that this number was evidently 12% in…

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I am the first John on Google. WTF? Google, please don’t change this. I feel - so giddy! (hmmm, really, WTF?!) I mean, I am ahead of Lennon. The Gospel. Er…McCain. WTF? What I really love about this is that I found out from my kids drama teacher via…

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Lots of folks may remember DIVX, the massively overhyped self-destructing DVDs from Circuit City that failed back in 1999. But what fewer people realize is that this terrible and wasteful idea shows up every couple of years. And each time, it fails miserably. In 2001 some no name company claimed that it was doing disposable DVDs correctly, claiming they had learned from the failures of DIVX. Turns out, they hadn’t. Then in 2003, Disney acted as if the idea was entirely brand new and got everyone excited about disposable DVDs that would self-destruct. Guess what? That failed too when no one bought them (amusingly, Disney duped a Reuters reporter into claiming there was “exploding interest” in disposable DVDs at the same time that stores were literally throwing the discs away). In 2005, Disney sold off the technology to some other company who insisted that they were going to do it “right” and there would be a huge market for these discs. Heard anything about them since? Me neither.

So here we are in 2008, and reader Nick Burns alerts us to the news of a German company excitedly entering this market with a product that sounds almost identical to the Disney version (using a chemical that renders the content unreadable in 48-hours). Somehow, even with a German accent, I don’t see this latest attempt having much of a chance. It’s not too difficult to understand why: nothing about a disposable self-destructing DVD adds value for the end-user.

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