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Submitted by Ukstevieb from Google Reader: Fox Digital Studios puts focus on brands Using Director Joss Whedon as inspiration, News Corp. rebrands unit to incorporate more advertising into entertainment content. The Microsoft-sponsored Family Guy special isn't the only major piece of branded entertainment you'll see from News Corp. in the coming months. Fox Atomic, (Read More)

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Lifehacker Windows XP: If your Windows XP installation is acting up, sometimes a fix is as simple as tweaking a registry key. Rather than muck about in your registry looking for it, use XP Quick Fix Plus to patch things up. XP Quick Fix Plus is a tiny portable application that presents 40 quick fixes arranged in a push-button chart. P (Read More)

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Lifehacker If you missed out on the free periodical fun with the now-defunct Mygazines, you can get your fill of free magazine reading online with Maggwire. Unlike Mygazines, which ran into trouble by being the host of hundreds of magazines, Maggwire decides to take the road that involves fewer legal beatings by serving as a nice inde (Read More)

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TechCrunch Now that they got what they wanted – a renewed stake and board representation in the Skype that will be spun off eBay soon – the Scandinavian duo Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis can divert more of their attention again to the latest Internet venture they’re putting their weight behind: Rdio. The yet-to-launch digital music (Read More)

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Lifehacker Buying a replacement at Target isn't always the necessary solution when your stuff goes on the fritz. Fix common problems or altogether broken gear with these clever repair methods. Photo by jeremyfoo. 10. Stripped screw holes I've moved a wall-mounted magnetic knife block between four different homes in the last three year (Read More)

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John Chow dot Com The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is bringing in new rules that will have a drastic effect on Internet marketers and bloggers. According to the new rules, if you blog for money or received any free stuff that is associated with a blog post, you have to disclosed it. Failure to do so could mean fines of up to $11,000 per vi (Read More)

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Boing Boing Christian sez, "Just now it has been announced in the press by the official Danish Anti-Piracy agency, Antipiratgruppen, that they are throwing in the towel and will seize their operations completely; to find and prosecute music copyright offenders. Here is a translation of the first published article in today's Danish pres (Read More)

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Engadget If we're being honest (and trust us, we're being honest), Pranav Mistry's Sixth Sense contraption has always baffled us. It's kind of like Sony's Rolly. It looks cool, it sounds rad, but we're fairly certain only 2.49 people actually know and fully comprehend how it works. That said, we're more than jazzed about the possibi (Read More)

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TechCrunch So much for the coming mobile nirvana of free mobile content – at least for iPhone users in Germany. Today Europe’s biggest newspaper, the German newspaper BILD-Zeitung intends to use, in effect, brute force to force users buy its new iPhone app. The paper tabloid is to block anyone using an iPhone browser from accessing it (Read More)

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Engadget Now that we've got the DROID ERIS in the mix, we're up to our ears in HTC Hero-derivative devices. We decided to sit the whole crew (GSM, Sprint and Verizon editions) down for a little modeling session, and we're finding ourselves reticent to pick a favorite. There are really plusses and minuses to each of them, but any way (Read More)

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Boing Boing Skeptics who believe that a university is actually a diploma mill often prove their point by enrolling their cats in the university's program and seeing whether the cat can get a degree. Some enterprising Wikipedians have assembled a list of several such cats.Colby Nolan is a housecat who was awarded an MBA degree in 2004 b (Read More)

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The Inquisitr Meet Elizabeth Lambert, a soccer player for New Mexico who was caught on camera in a game against BYU putting the men to shame with dirty tactics.A little context though: the odd bad play is part and parcel in soccer, but the way Elizabeth Lambert plays the game is something far more special again.Where do you start: trippi (Read More)

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readwriteweb Finally, the powers that be are planning to put a stop to #liesboystell, #goodhead, and... well, all the other asinine, vulgar, and generally pointless trending topics one finds in the right column of the Twitter web interface.Over the summer, we noticed that Twitter was submerging some adult-themed trending topics, and we (Read More)

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TechCrunch [UK] Much-hyped digital music service Spotify recently announced a deal with carrier 3 UK that would bring its mobile service to 3 customers. Well, that offer is now live, as announced on the Spotify blog minutes ago.Spotify Mobile will initially be available only on the HTC Hero, the first Android handset to launch on 3 UK (Read More)

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CrackBerry.com blogs A few days ago we covered a story that was posted on the Inside BlackBerry Blog. RIM had posted that they would be answering questions regarding BlackBerry App World and clearing up some unanswered questions about the application. After some issues with the blog not accepting questions being submitted another post went up y (Read More)

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