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Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Record Labels Sue XM Radio — As has been widely reported, the four major record labels have filed a copyright infringement suit against XM Radio, based on the recording capabilities included in certain recently-introduced XM receivers, such as the Pioneer Inno and Samsung Helix.
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Megan Pollock / hrrc.org:
RECORD LABELS BREAK COMPACTS WITH CONSUMERS, CONGRESS AND COURTS — Suit Against XM Trashes Labels' AHRA and Grokster Assurances — Washington, May 17, 2006 - The industry that advised consumers, the Congress and the courts that it would not abuse the legal tools it sought from them has done just that …
BBC:
Satellite radio in recordings row — US satellite radio firm XM is being sued by record labels over a gadget that lets listeners record songs. — The recording industry said XM's Inno device, which stores music and divides it into tracks, infringes copyright.
sonyericsson.com:
The W850 WALKMAN® phone - a cool slider made for music — London, UK- 18 May 2006 - The evolution of Sony Ericsson's successful Walkman® phone range takes another step forward today with the announcement of the UMTS enabled W850. Sony Ericsson's first GSM/UMTS 'slider' …
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Washington Post:
Google's Goal: A Worldwide Web of Books — It's odd to hear Vinton Cerf, regarded as one of the founding fathers of the Internet, to gush over ink-on-paper books. — The electronic pioneer and computer scientist, who now works as Google's chief Internet evangelist, is also a bibliophile …
Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Yahoo! unveils video sharing site, Finance redesign at analyst day — Yahoo! presented its business strategy to analysts yesterday and gave the world a sneak peek at what's to come. A new advertising system is code complete and currently undergoing some testing and, if all goes well, will be rolled out later this year.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
ISP snooping plans take backseat — A prominent Republican in the U.S. Congress has backed away from plans to rewrite Internet privacy rules by requiring that logs of Americans' online activities be stored. — Wisconsin Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee …
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Bloomberg:
Google in Brazil May Face Criminal Probe Over Orkut (Update1) — May 17 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc., the owner of Brazil's most-used online community site, may face a criminal probe for distribution of child pornography and racist materials by its users, lawyers for the attorney general said.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Hardware firms oppose Net neutrality laws — The political debate in Washington over the concept known as Net neutrality just became a lot more complicated. — Some of the largest hardware makers in the world, including 3M, Cisco, Corning and Qualcomm, sent a letter to Congress …
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Techdirt, Susan Crawford blog, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Policy Blog, broadband, EdCone.com and GigaLaw.com Daily News
Parallax:
First Encounters of the Blogger Kind — As you all know, I've been at the SAPPHIRE conference as an officially sanctioned "from the floor" blogger. This experience has been unbelievable in more ways than I can articulate and I will be trickling out thoughts and articles about what I have learned over the next few days.
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Venture Chronicles, Between the Lines, AccMan Pro, Ross Mayfield's Weblog, deal architect and Feld Thoughts
CNET News.com:
Dell opts for AMD's Opteron — update Dell has agreed to use Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron chip in multiprocessor servers by the end of the year, ending a long-standing policy of sticking exclusively with Intel. — The PC maker made the move public in its first-quarter earnings press release on Thursday.
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Alice Hill's Real Tech News
Seo Book / Aaron Wall's SEO Book.com:
Blog Usability Interview with Kim Krause Berg — A while ago I contacted Kim Krause Berg for a usability review, but I threw a curve ball in on her. I asked her how I could make this blog more usable. I believe Kim is the first person who has ever offered blog usability review services.
Mike Nowak / ceci n'est pas:
E3 Crabtacular — Due to the "me too" nature of a lot of game publishers, pretty much every E3 has a very visible trend, like toon shading or World War 2 shooters. The trend that was noticeable this year, to me, was crabs. Yes, crabs. It became very obvious right from the start during Sony's press conference.
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Thomas J. Fitzgerald / New York Times:
Going Wireless Most Places You Go — Wi-Fi, the wireless networking technology that can create an invisible field of Internet access over a limited area, has revolutionized the world of mobile computing. But while Wi-Fi is serving up Internet access in a growing patchwork of places like coffeehouses and …
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DailyTech:
Pioneer Blu-Ray PC Recorder Now For Sale — $1000 burning a hole in your pocket? — For those who cannot wait to get on the Blu-ray train, Pioneer's BDR-101A PC Blu-ray recorder is just starting to trickle into the retail channel. Tiger Direct has just listed the BDR-101A for sale at a mere $999.99.
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Skype's Net Neutrality gamble: we'll be so big, they can't stop us — James Bilefield, head of Skype's European operations, has a plan for combating telecommunications companies eager to do away with Net Neutrality: get big. As companies such as AT&T think about cashing in on a "tiered Internet …
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Shiny Media / Tech Digest:
LG launches two new plasmas — LG has expanded its line up of HD Ready plasma TVs with the new PY2R series and more affordable 42PC1D. The PY2R series, available in 50" or 60" sizes, have already won design awards from iF Design and Red Dot although it's a little hard to tell exactly why from the pic …
Bloomberg:
Judge Rejects Call to Release AT& T Papers — Justice Dept. Cites National Security; Privacy Group Says Documents Prove NSA Link — A federal judge yesterday rejected a privacy group's request to release documents that it claims show AT&T Inc. helped the National Security Agency spy …
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