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Reuters - An Internet video brainchild of three twentysomething former University of California grad students has won big backers, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Red McCombs, co-founder of Clear Channel Communications.
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NewsFactor - Like team members before a big game, the players in the race for high-speed mobile networks are lining up. On Thursday, Sprint Nextel announced that it had chosen Google to provide search, interactive communications, and social networking for the portal on its upcoming mobile WiMax network. And last week, Sprint announced that it […]

Reuters - Billed as the biggest change in the way viewers watch television in 40 years, the BBC launched an online service on Friday that allows people to download many programs from the last week.

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InfoWorld - Wikia's project to develop an open source search engine got another boost with its acquisition of the Grub distributed Web crawler, the company announced Friday.
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Reuters - Pay cable television network HBO plans to shut its free comedy Web site "This Just In" following a management shake-up and is considering launching another site tied more closely to the HBO brand, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday.

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NewsFactor - In what has now become a series of advertising deals this week, Microsoft scooped up an online ad exchange on Thursday. Financial terms of the buyout were not disclosed.
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Reuters - This should be music to any Deadhead's ears. A California man is auctioning items from the former home of Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia, including his stereo speakers.

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TechWeb - For Google, the deal provides access to Sprint WiMax subscribers who will presumably be eager to use the Web-based tools on the go, at no or little cost.
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AP - Anything pretty much goes in online virtual worlds. Identities are nebulous. Online characters known as avatars chat it up, gamble or even have sex at first sight.

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AP - The federal agency charged with protecting consumers from Internet scams now finds itself wrapped up in one.
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