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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

The Great 700 MHz Spectrum Grab

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Viacom Wins Shot at Love With Belgian Ale Ballmer

Viacom has a new online advertising partner and–big surprise–it’s not Google. It’s Microsoft.

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Thursday, October 18, 2007

Web 2.0 Summit: Viacom President and CEO Philippe Dauman

John Heileman, contributing editor at New York magazine, begins the conversation with Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman by discussing the plan unveiled today to post Comedy Central’s “Daily Show With Jon Stewart” on the Web. As owner of Comedy Central, Viacom is seeking to spread the cable channel’s content on many platforms, thus creating a “richer” [...]

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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Well, Here Come YouTube’s Video ID Tools. Guess That Means Godot Will Be Here Any Minute Now

Google’s apparently finished “educating users about copyright law” and has moved on to the far more important business of making sure not to run afoul of it. After a year of delays and excuses, the company this morning uncrated an antipiracy system for its YouTube video-sharing site.

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Friday, July 13, 2007

Talkin’ Schmidt Ain’t Sayin’ Nothin’

Looks like Google has updated its arrogance algorithm again. After dismissing Viacom’s $1 billion copyright infringement lawsuit over video clips on YouTube as a “mistake” at our D5 conference in May, Google CEO Eric Schmidt has taken another shot at the media conglomerate and its CEO Philippe “Dough Man” Dauman. Chatting with reporters at a [...]

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About John

John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.

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Ethics Statement

Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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