IPod Easter Egg - FCC Auction - Time-Warner - 2.7.08

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On Super Tuesday Apple's iPod released an Easter Egg for hard core geeks to descramble- Lincoln's second inaugural address in base64 encoding. Funny.

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The FCC's is auctioning off the 700mhz broadcast spectrum to prospective buyers. This week, the bidding hit an all time high -- at $20 billion. Currently in the running for the largest block of the spectrum are Verizon, AT&T and ... Google.

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Time-Warner is considering a de-merger, that's kind of like a reverse merger, but different, with the aged 800-pound gorilla of the Internet, AOL. Or they might just sell it off to another company. AOL chief executive, Jonathan Miller, said if they were separated, they'd be bought "as fast as they drew could draw up the papers."

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The WordPress podcast is back online after a hiatus, with a brand new episode, just in time for the release of the 2.3.3 version of WordPress. I guess if you raise $30 million dollars for blog software, you can get your own blog going again.

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And speaking of blogs, just when you thought there was a chance that traditional businesses were starting to get internet marketing, Business Week says, not so fast -- we still don't have a clue. In an article this week, one business week writer lists 10 Tech solutions your Small Biz Can't Use. Among them? Spam filters, blogs, search engine optimization, AdWords, and online video. What? To save you time, I already checked the date of the article -- it's January 4th, not April first, so this February foolishness is not an april fool's joke. Not funny. Sad.

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Until next time, for the Free Line, I'm Brad Fallon.

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