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Darren Ennis / Reuters:
EU lawmakers consider taxing emails, SMS messages — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union lawmakers are investigating a proposed tax on emails and mobile phone text messages as a way to fund the 25-member bloc in the future. — A European Parliament working group is reviewing the idea …
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CNET News.com:
Apple thwarted in bid to unmask leaker — update Apple Computer suffered a setback in its effort to plug an internal leak, after a state appeals court ruled that the computer maker can't immediately get its hands on records of who may have contacted an Apple enthusiast site with details on an unreleased product.
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
On the Apple decision — A very simple editorial on yesterday's decision by the Sixth District Court of Appeals that bloggers are entitled to the same protection as print journalists; that a rich corporation can't control the bloggers that cover it. — 1. The day a U.S. court comes …
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stopdesign.com:
Going to Google — The cat's out of the bag. I made the announcement here in New Zealand at Webstock, so I'll confirm that, yes, the rumors are not just rumors. After a bit of negotiation and a lot of internal debate, I recently accepted an offer to join Google as Visual Design Lead, a position that did not previously exist there.
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Gmail to get prices — In my latest source code inspection, I found more snippets code that foreshadow upcoming features in Gmail. As far as I know, these features aren't available in the current version — I couldn't reproduce them and there is no documentation in the Help area.
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple developing new Mac for education — Exclusive: Apple Computer is working feverishly on the design of a new Macintosh computer that the company hopes will strengthen its position in the education sector when it goes on sale later this year, AppleInsider has learned.
techeblog.com:
Top 10 Strangest Gadgets of the Future — This week, our editors have compiled a list of the "Top 10 Strangest Gadgets of the Future", from solar powered LEDs to memory LCD screens, it's all here. Which ones are your favorites? — 10. Citizen's Memory LCD
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Gonzales pressures ISPs on data retention — U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller on Friday urged telecommunications officials to record their customers' Internet activities, CNET News.com has learned. — In a private meeting with industry representatives …
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Timothy J. Mullaney / Business Week:
Netflix — The mail-order movie house that clobbered Blockbuster — Truly ambitious web startups think of making money merely as a starting point. Real respect goes to companies that change the rules of the game. And few upstarts this side of Google (GOOG). have grander ambitions than Netflix Inc.
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Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny:Netflix To Launch Web Downloads This Year
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Steve Gillmor / Steve Gillmor's InfoRouter:
A Cure for the Summertime Blues — First Dave Winer highlights the one sentence in this blog that actually seemed to sound positive. You know, the angry old man, etc. Then a spate of crap from the trolls highlighted by one Paul Montgomery, a Down Under journalist (his word) …
BBC:
Serendipity casts a very wide net — It is no accident that technology commentator Bill Thompson believes that the web does a lot to promote chance discovery — One of those rumbling arguments that betrays a deeper discontent is going on within the loose collection of blogs …
USA Today:
Financial firms attack child porn — The nation's leading banks and credit card companies will soon team with law enforcement in a groundbreaking coalition to catch people who sell child pornography online. — The financial institutions will report child porn sites they discover on the Web …
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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Strict Net neutrality passes House Committee, but fate is rather uncertain — The House Committee on the Judiciary today approved the Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act (HR 5417) in a vote of 20-12. This particular 'Net neutrality bill would make it an antitrust violation to …
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Good Morning Silicon Valley
Luke O'Brien / Slate:
Why There Are No Indie Video Games — And why that's bad for gamers. — Don't believe all those recent articles about how video game manufacturers are headed to the poor house. The global market share for video games should surpass $40 billion by 2010. Thanks to powerful new consoles, their graphics are approaching CGI quality.
