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Bob Tourtellotte / Reuters:
Warner Bros. to sell movies via BitTorrent — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Warner Bros.'s video unit on Tuesday unveiled plans to sell movies and television shows to BitTorrent Inc. for legal downloads from the Web site that was once blamed for aiding the swapping of illegally copied films and programs.
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New York Times:
Warner Bros. to Sell Movies and TV Shows on Internet — Warner Brothers plans to announce today that it will make hundreds of movies and television shows available for purchase over the Internet using BitTorrent software, which is widely used to download movies and other copyrighted material illegally.
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Gary Gentile / Associated Press:
Warner Bros. to distribute films on Web — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Warner Bros. will become the first major studio to distribute its films and TV shows over the Internet using peer-to-peer technology developed by BitTorrent Inc., the home of a popular tool for trading pirated copies of movies.
Staci / paidContent.org:
AOL Buddy List's Social Network Expands With AIM Pages, Phoneline [by Staci] — The way AOL execs pitch it, the AOL Connections strategy is all about giving users ways to communicate whether it's IM, file sharing, video or the upcoming launches of social networking service AIM Pages and free phone service Phoneline.
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Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Samsung SGH-X820: World's Slimmest Phone, Again — How thin can a cellphone get? Samsung has created a handset that needs to run around in the shower just to get wet with this SGH-X820, which is a nearly-invisible 6.9mm thick. Even though it's so doggone slim, it still has a fat feature set …
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Steve Gillmor / Steve Gillmor's InfoRouter:
Back in the USSR — Nick Carr is truly the gift that keeps on giving. His latest can-opener concerns the alleged Google strategy of converting all reading interfaces to search and keyword (i.e. tagging) interfaces. Nick's genius (I think he is the leader in the post-dvorak world of meme-baiting) …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
AT&T Plans Satellite Broadband, WiMAX — AT&T is dead serious about broadband, and is expanding its range of broadband offerings. AT&T Chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre outlined company's future broadband plans at the Detroit Economic Club. — AT&T will start selling a satellite-based broadband service later …
Adam Sherwin / Times of London:
Now a TV series only on your mobile — THE demise of traditional broadcasting will move a step closer when the man behind Big Brother introduces the first British interactive reality series made exclusively for mobile phones. — Get Close To . . . , which begins on Friday …
David Hambling / NewScientistTech:
Robotic tentacles get to grips with tricky objects — Robotic "tentacles" that can grasp and grapple with a wide variety of objects have been developed by US researchers. — Most robots rely on mechanical gripping jaws that have difficulty grabbing large or irregularly shaped objects.
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Lev Grossman / Time:
A Game For All Ages — Nintendo gave TIME the first look at its new gadget, which it hopes will turn girls and even granddads into video gamers — It is cherry-blossom time in Kyoto, Japan, and I am dancing the hula for Shigeru Miyamoto. It's not easy to get into the hula spirit …
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Stowe Boyd / Message:
My New 30" Apple Monitor — I love my new 30 inch Apple monitor. It is going to take some time to get used to so much real estate, but I love it. Here's what it looks like: shriking 2560 x 1600 pixels down to 500 x 312 doesn't do it justice, however. — This is the first outcome …
Yahoo! Publisher Network:
A Rising Tide — Yahoo! Search Marketing enhancements to benefit publishers, as well as advertisers — Today Yahoo! Search Marketing officially announced a significant initiative to improve search monetization capabilities. — The new, enhanced search ad platform that we will introduce …
Modculture / Tech Digest:
St George's iPod nano case and England earphones — Ok, so you've got your St George's mobile phone, but now it's making your iPod look a little unpatriotic with the World Cup rapidly approaching. Help is at hand from Ixos, which is joining the World Cup merchandising frenzy with a St George's iPod nano skin and England earphones.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Live Messenger Opens to Public — The Windows Live Messenger, previously available by invitation only (sort of), is open to the public starting at 9 pm PST tonight (Monday). It is available for Windows PCs only, must be downloaded with IE (no Firefox), and is available at ideas.live.com.
Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Apple Begins Producing MacBooks, Due Tomorrow? — The Apple rumor sites are humming with news that Apple may have started production of its MacBook, the Intel-based consumer laptop replacing the now long-in-the-tooth iBook, some going so far as to speculate that Apple will officially announce its launch tomorrow in a news conference.
Fred / A VC:
Where Do They Go? — AOL is shifting from a subscriber based business to an advertising based business and it seems like the transition is working to a degree. In its first quarter report, Time Warner reported that although AOL lost about 1 million subs (at approx $20/sub, thats $20 million per month) …
PR Newswire:
TiVo Launches Television's New Advertising Search Product — TiVo(R) Product Watch(TM) Allows Advertisers to Connect With 'In Market' Consumers — More Than 100 Leading Brands to Participate in Initial Launch — ALVISO, Calif., May 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — TiVo Inc. (Nasdaq: TIVO …
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Financial Times:
Hunt for new media darling hints at bubble — With venture capitalists, hedge fund managers and private equity groups putting billions of dollars at risk in an attempt to discover the internet's next media darling, investors who remember the dotcom bubble could be forgiven for feeling a distinct sense of déjà vu.
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Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:
SGI Files for Chapter 11 — Silicon Graphics, one of the original makers of high-performance graphical workstations, has filed for bankruptcy protection. Sad news for this one-time market leader. — While I've been following the decline of SGI for some time, so this was not a surprise …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Windows CE 6 previewed — You may have thought Windows CE was dead and buried when Windows Mobile 2005 hit the streets. Ok, she's certainly not as high-profile as she once was, but the old girl's still got life in those legs. See, Microsoft just dolled her up in a new beta dress dubbed Windows CE 6 …
Phil Sim / Squash:
OPML won't catch on — Squash has felt a little redundant of late. For a while there it seemed as if every blogger and his pet rock was going the snark route but I sense the flockosphere has started to get bored with snark, which means it's time for Squash to take out the big steel-capped boots again.
govtech.net:
Consumer Reports Finds Personal Privacy Concerns in Planned Uses of Radio Frequency Identification Tags (RFIDs) — Data from Consumer Reports. — Not many consumers know about Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), a wireless technology that allows objects and people to be tagged and tracked.
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