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2:45 AM ET, May 27, 2006

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Kevin Poulsen / 27B Stroke 6:
Apple Loses Bid to Unmask Bloggers' Sources  —  A California appeals court has smacked down Apple's legal assault on bloggers and their sources, finding that the company's efforts to subpoena e-mail received by the publishers of Apple Insider and PowerPage.org runs contrary to federal law …
Discussion: Engadget, Techdirt, Boing Boing and TeleRead
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EFF: Breaking News:
Huge Win for Online Journalists' Source Protection  —  EFF Arguments Secure Reporters' Privilege for Internet News Gatherers  —  San Jose - A California state appeals court ruled in favor of the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF's) petition on behalf of three online journalists Friday …
Denise / Bag and Baggage:
Apple v. Does Decision Issued
Dan Tynan / PC World:
The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time  —  These products are so bad, they belong in the high-tech hall of shame.  —  At PC World, we spend most of our time talking about products that make your life easier or your work more productive.  But it's the lousy ones that linger in our memory long …
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
WEB 2 TRADEMARK ISSUE  —  There's a tempest out there in blog land about my partners' use of the "bigfoot letter" tactic in defending their Web 2.0 trademark as it relates to conferences.  Many of my readers are asking about it.  I'm going to wait to comment on this in detail till I talk to Tim …
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Can anyone own "Web 2.0?"  —  O'Reilly Media have taken a ton of criticism for attempting to enforce a service mark against a nonprofit group in Ireland that wanted to have "Web 2.0" conference.  O'Reilly exec Dale Dougherty coined the term Web 2., and O'Reilly used it for a line …
IEBlog:
Announcing IE7+  —  With the release of Windows Vista Beta 2, I want to announce that we will be naming the version of IE7 in Windows Vista "Internet Explorer 7+".  While all versions of IE7 are built from the same code base, there are some important differences in IE7+ …
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Reuters:   Ballmer: Vista on track for January shipment
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
AT&T leaks sensitive info in NSA suit  —  Lawyers for AT&T accidentally released sensitive information while defending a lawsuit that accuses the company of facilitating a government wiretapping program, CNET News.com has learned.  —  AT&T's attorneys this week filed a 25-page legal brief striped …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Use Farecast To Find Flight Deals (or just fly Southwest)  —  Seattle-based Farecast, now in private beta, is an airfare pricing comparision tool that also uses a predictive algorithm to recommend when you buy your ticket.  So the idea is to show the user not just who has the cheapest ticket …
Discussion: Digital Backcountry
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Dennis / Techdirt:   What If You Could See Airline Pricing Algorithms?
Tim Arango / New York Post:
TALKS COOL BETWEEN MICROSOFT AND EBAY  —  May 26, 2006 — For several weeks Microsoft has been in discussions about a possible acquisition of online auctioneer eBay, The Post has learned.  —  According to multiple sources close to the matter, Microsoft has considered buying eBay and merging …
Brian Williams / MSNBC:
Steve Jobs: Iconoclast and salesman  —  Apple founder's newest store wows fans in Manhattan … NEW YORK -  —  Brian Williams  —  If Steve Jobs is synonymous with Apple, then the new glass cube rising up out of the Midtown Manhattan streets is a monument to Steve Jobs.  —  Brian Williams: Is this your Model T?
Discussion: Engadget, Gizmodo and paidContent.org
Inquirer:
Blackberry-killer plans leaked  —  Data-only clamshell nears launch  —  A HIGHLY-PLACED mole in a North American company has attempted to leak details of a data only clamshell to the INQ.  The device is intended as a mass market version of the original RIM Blackberry.
Discussion: blackrimglasses.com
Chris Pirillo:
Time Management!?  —  I have too many things I need to do, and I've got no time to do 'em all.  I've had so many late nights in the past week, it's not even funny.  Didn't even have a chance to check my email until 11am today!  I stayed up last night working on helping the Outlook team …
Discussion: Larry Borsato and Lockergnome
Ryan Naraine / eWEEK.com:
Symantec AntiVirus Worm Hole Puts Millions at Risk  —  Be the first to comment on this article  —  A gaping security flaw in the latest versions of Symantec's anti-virus software suite could put millions of users at risk of a debilitating worm attack, Internet security experts warned May 25.
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Associated Press:
Company: Hackers can crack top antivirus program
Discussion: MobileRead Networks
Mike / Techdirt:
Recording Industry Still Trying To Shut Down Allofmp3.com  —  from the damn-them-for-selling-a-product- customers-want dept  —  Last week there was all sorts of concern from online music buyers, because the Russian download music store Allofmp3.com was offline for a few days.
maxconsole.net:
BREAKING NEWS: Undiluted Platinum: World's first PSP Modchip!  —  Forget battling against Sony to get your beloved homebrew on the PSP console, we have received news that a new PSP mod is set to hit the scene called Undiluted Platinum (UP).  This mod will act as a flash replacement system …
Discussion: Engadget and Joystiq
 
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John Tokash / John Tokash's Blog:
TabletKiosk eo Battery Fix
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Marc Perton / Engadget:
Pioneer VSX-516 6.1ch receiver with USB, MP3, AAC and WMA playback
Microsoft:
Windows Live OneCare Achieves ICSA Labs and West Coast Labs Certification
John Paczkowski / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
How soon can we get these Google apps added to the Dell De-crapifier?
John Ward Anderson / Washington Post:
Loading the iPod With Egalitarianism
Discussion: IP Democracy and Coolfer
Rafat / paidContent.org:
New York Times Invests In Online Leads Exchange Startup Root Markets
Discussion: Somewhat Frank
Ryan Block / Engadget:
The Clicker: YouTube as viewed by "network math"
Tim Folger / CNN:
Coming soon: The Web toll
 Earlier Items: 
Tanya Palta / MobileWhack.com:
Alcatel OT E260 Cell Phone
Discussion: Gizmodo and Engadget Mobile
GROKLAW:
USPTO: Broadest Claims Forgent Asserts Against JPEG Standard Invalid
Discussion: Techdirt
Ian Griffiths' Weblog:
Office 12 and the Forthcoming UI Cargo Cults
Ingrid Marson / CNET News.com:
Microsoft: OpenDocument is too slow
Discussion: TechSpot
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google AdsBot Now Coming To Assess Your Landing Pages, Will Impact Your AdRank
Associated Press:
Las Vegas Sands to unveil mobile gambling
Discussion: Things That and Gizmodo
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Microsoft to refine Vista's PC-rating tool
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft adds Ultimate edition of Office
 

 
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Lucia Moses / Business Insider:
Sources: ~100 NYT Tech Guild members cross the picket line to work on Election Day; NYT engineer and union steward Benjamin Harnett says the figure is under 50

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
iHeart says it is laying off employees; a source says the layoffs affect less than 5% of a workforce of more than 10,000 employees

Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe, a music distributor in 50+ countries, and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, accusing Believe of copyright infringement

 
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