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New York Sun to close 
Duncan Riley via The Inquisitr » Tech on Tue, 30 Sep. 2008
The New York Sun is to close with the last edition to be published Tuesday.
The conservative leaning broadsheet launched with the backing on the now disgraced Conrad Black among others in 2002 and has struggled to find profit despite increasing revenu
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AP tries to put itself between newspaper content swap deals
Duncan Riley via The Inquisitr on Tue, 30 Sep. 2008
The Associated Press (AP) has announced AP Marketplace, a new platform that offers AP content and more to AP members.
Marshall Kirkpatrick
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How the economic crisis will accelerate the death of newspapers
Duncan Riley via The Inquisitr on Tue, 30 Sep. 2008
We’ve known now for some years that newspapers are in decline. We reported September 4 that the decline in newspaper advertising is accelerating, and that the end
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New Blackberry Storm Pics: this is THE hotness
Duncan Riley via The Inquisitr on Mon, 29 Sep. 2008
Although we may not usually cover new mobile phones, iPhone aside, we broke the rule last week when we ran the first leaked pictures of the Blackberry Storm. More pictures have emerged via Crackberry.com, and they’re
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For the photographer who has everything, a Canon 5200mm F14 lens
Duncan Riley via The Inquisitr on Sun, 28 Sep. 2008
There’s telephoto lenses, then there’s the Canon 5200mm F14 lens pictured above that has appeared on eBay with a starting price of $55,000.
The lens is one of only three made and was shipped to China where
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Pandora wins round one, but for the rest of us, nothing changes
Duncan Riley via The Inquisitr on Sun, 28 Sep. 2008
After an intense last minute lobbying effort led by Pandora, the bill that was claimed to be “too close to call” H.R. 7084 passed the US House of Representatives tonight….without any dissent.
H.R. 7084, or the Webcaster Settlement Act gives webcasters an extension of t
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What the Apple TV needs
Duncan Riley via The Inquisitr on Sun, 28 Sep. 2008
TUAW reports on a rumor that Apple has advised resellers to pull all Apple TV displays and literature from stores by September 30, and that there will be a webcast “kickoff” the same day. What exactly is
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Walmart Epic DRM Fail
Duncan Riley via The Inquisitr on Sun, 28 Sep. 2008
Most people would agree that DRM crippled music is bad, and thankfully most retailers have come to their senses (notably Apple aside) and have switched to offering DRM free music sale. But what happens when retailers decide to shut of their DRM servers, disabling music legally purchased with DRM?
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Weblogs Inc veterans launch new blog network
Duncan Riley via The Inquisitr on Sat, 27 Sep. 2008
Former Weblogs Inc staff, including co-founder Brian Alvey have launched a new blog network Crowd Fusion, built around a new content management system of the same name.
The first blog to launch
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Entrecard on the market for nearly $1 million
Duncan Riley via The Inquisitr » Tech on Sat, 27 Sep. 2008
Some what popular banner exchange site Entrecard is on the market.
The site is currently listed on Sitepoint with a starting bid of $100,000 with the owners saying there is a reserve close to $1 million dollars. Traffic numbers for the netwo
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Google comes out against Proposition 8
Duncan Riley via The Inquisitr » Tech on Fri, 26 Sep. 2008
Google, well known for its fence sitting on most political issues, has come out against California Proposition 8, an Act if passed that would see same sex marriage made illegal in California.
In a post
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Australia’s biggest telco joins Twitter: Hi Telstra Bot
Duncan Riley via The Inquisitr on Fri, 26 Sep. 2008
Australia’s biggest telecommunications firm Telstra (think AT&T, but more evil) has joined Twitter.
The BigPond Twitter account sees Telstra’s internet service become available for the first time t
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Pirates of the Caribbean to return for 4th movie
Duncan Riley via The Inquisitr on Fri, 26 Sep. 2008
Pirates of the Caribbean is set to return to the big screen with news that Johnny Depp has been signed for the fourth installment of the Disney franchise.
Timing on the ne
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Sarah Palin crop circles? no, just a local farmer with too much time on his hands
Duncan Riley via The Inquisitr on Fri, 26 Sep. 2008
Crop circles are a global phenomena bringing out the best in alien conspiracy theroies, but image flying over rural Ohio and seeing Sarah Palin staring back at you.
No, it’s not aliens, but it is a local farmer with far too much time on his hands who has
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John McClane 2008
Duncan Riley via The Inquisitr on Fri, 26 Sep. 2008
For the election that has everything….
“John McClane killed a helicopter with a car, and then he walked bare-foot on broken glass, and then he fired a few people, and then he suspended whatever that was going on and proceeded to Capitol Hill to beat the
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Twitter enters the election coverage race with Twitter Election 2008
Duncan Riley via The Inquisitr » Tech on Fri, 26 Sep. 2008
Twitter has launched a site dedicated to the 2008 US Presidential election, Twitter Election 2008.
The new site includes an automatically updating feed of every Tweet related to the election, and also offers a break down via
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Lil Wayne now a sports blogger for ESPN
Duncan Riley via The Inquisitr on Fri, 26 Sep. 2008
Rapper Lil Wayne joins Bono in entering the blogosphere this week, with a new blog at ESPN on sport.
The multi-platinum award winning artist loves his sport so much, it’s apparently all he watches, according
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Disqus releases a full public API
Duncan Riley via The Inquisitr on Fri, 26 Sep. 2008
Commenting 2.0 startup Disqus has launched a full public API for the first time, allow developers to build new tools that utilize Disqus.
The API itself has been is use for sometime, with an official WordPress plug
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Why social browsing as a startup idea needs to die
Duncan Riley via The Inquisitr » Tech on Fri, 26 Sep. 2008
Another day, another new social browsing service. Mashable reports on the launch of Socialbrowse, a Y Combinator funded service that offers social browsing. Despite Dorian
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Sarah Palin Disney Trailer
Duncan Riley via The Inquisitr on Fri, 26 Sep. 2008
The boys at CollegeHumor has done it again, this time placing Sarah Palin into a Disney movie “Head of Skate.”
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