According to reports Dell will take another shot at a digital music player to compete with the ipod.
The music player could ship as early as September, and be priced at less than $100.
Dell has applied to register Zingspot as a trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. It describes it as “an Internet consumer […]

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Here is a complete list of all closed .ME auctions that have sold for $100 or more.
There are about 275 active auctions over $100 currently ongoing with the top  3 being:
insure.me $26,165
LasVegas.me $14,105
Hug.Me $13,041
Here is the list of the closed auctions:
secure.me                    $10,005
why.me                        $6,600
ass.me                        $4,015
bangor.me                     $3,782
lastminute.me                 $3,605
finger.me                     $3,055
social.me                     $2,215
thats.me                      $2,105
kuwait.me                     $2,100
sky.me                        $2,005
tyco.me                       $2,000
wellness.me                   $1,855
canada.me                     $1,815
gambling.me                   $1,605
carbonneutral.me              […]

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Mediaset SpA Italy’s largest private broadcaster, said Wednesday it has filed a lawsuit for at least EUR500 million against Google’s YouTube for the unlawful use of the Italian company’s audio and video files.
Mediaset’s legal action is the latest in a string of other copyright and trademark lawsuits, which analysts see as eventually weighing on Google’s […]

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Marchex, announced today that it has launched Marchex Connect 2.0, its next-generation local advertising platform.
Marchex Connect 2.0 integrates three important advertising products: online advertising, call-based advertising and Business Profile Pages, which […]

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The Justice Department announced today that it has indicted Sen. Ted Stevens (cosponsor of the Snowe Bill) on seven counts of failing to disclose thousands of dollars in services he received from a company that helped renovate his home.
Stevens, is running for re-election this year
This post was submitted by Edwin Sherman.

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Here are some ongoing ebay.com auction that look interesting.
As always you need to be careful before bidding on any of these:
Mozzilla.com starting bid is $40,000, with a buy it now of $80K
according to the listing the domain Earned $2600/mo on 33,9987 visitors for JUNE.
Mom.org has a buy it now price of $19,000
CV.org starting bid of […]

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ENGINEERING.com today announced the launch of its newest service called Engineering Mail, an email service for registered members. The service has been in pre-release testing with over 1,000 existing members for several weeks. The company is now making the service available to all engineers, engineering students and other members of the engineering community.
The new service […]

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Intel, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard are teaming up to create six open-source labs to research “cloud computing”,  software applications accessed through a Web browser.
The companies said the labs located in Singapore, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, will each have 1,000 to 4,000 processor cores capable of supporting […]

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The San Francisco Chronicle reported on Tuesday that billionaire oil investor T. Boone Pickens sold all his shares of Yahoo  appearently in frustration over its failure to reach a deal with Microsoft .
Pickens bought 10 million Yahoo shares in May, backing a bid by activist shareholder Carl Icahn to bring the Internet pioneer back to […]

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The Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights Act of 2008 was introduced in the Senate last week.
The law would increase penalties for counterfeiting, with damages as high as $2 million for “willful” trademark violations, empower federal prosecutors to bring civil suits against copyright infringers, provide for the seizure of property used to violate copyrights and trademarks.
The […]

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