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Thomas Crampton / New York Times:
On a Russian Site, Cheap Songs With a Backbeat of Illegality — PARIS, June 2 — Rising consumer popularity is turning AllofMP3.com, a music downloading service based in Moscow, into a global Internet success story, but with a catch. The site may well be illegal.
Ilse Jurriën / Lets Go Digital:
Sony Alpha 100 — Sony Alpha 100 : Since Sony and Konica Minolta announced that Konica Minolta consigned their camera service operations for Konica Minolta, Konica Minolta brand cameras and related equipment to Sony, the news of a Sony digital SLR camera is a hot topic among digital SLR camera enthusiasts.
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Read/WriteWeb:
The Future of Personalized Start Pages — Personalized Start Pages is a growing, but fiercely competitive, market. So what are they? Predominantly they're homepages for Web information, gadgets and widgets. The difference from old-style web portals are: the user can personalize them much more …
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Robert Levine / New York Times:
Limited Appeal? Sell Songs Online — Record companies often issue collections of the B-sides and soundtrack contributions of popular acts; Rhino Entertainment, a division of Warner Music Group, is once again faced with a band whose regular albums never sold very well.
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Earth to Google PR — A Google developer and API evangelist, P., invites me to take a look at a new API. I reply that, instead, I'd like to discuss the GData APIs. P. thanks me for my interest in GData, and promises to try to connect me with someone. — A couple of days later I hear from S., on Google's "communication team."
timesofindia.indiatimes.com:
Apple software logs out of India — BANGALORE: The company that redefined the way we listen to music has decided to call it quits in India. Apple, known for its popular iPods, is pulling out its software development and support operations in India. — The company had commenced operations …
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Investors sue Vonage over IPO — Internet phone provider Vonage is being sued in a class action lawsuit on behalf of shareholders who bought stock in the company prior to its initial public offering. — The suit filed on Friday in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey …
Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
PS3 hardware slow and broken — In words and pictures — AFTER BREAKING THE news to me about PS3 RSX speeds earlier on the flight to Japan, my row-mate said 'if you think that's interesting, wait till you see this. Cell is hurting, badly'. — For those of you that believe in religions …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Acme Packet, Another VoIPO — With all the attention focused on the Vonage's initial public offering, it just might be the beginning of a steady and long line of VoIPOs (aka Voice over IP public offerings.) Acme Packet, a Burlington, Massachusetts has just filed its registration statement …
Loren / Incremental Blogger:
Looking for a couple Firefox users to test out an ink plug-in — The ink plug-in for Firefox is inching along. There's a test page online now (located here—Firefox REQUIRED), that I've been using to check out some of the plug-ins' features. — If you have Firefox 1.5, a Tablet PC …
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Nicole C. Wong / Mercury News:
HP cuts back on telecommuting — SOME KEY WORKERS WILL HAVE TO COME TO OFFICE OR FIND NEW JOBS — Hewlett-Packard, the Silicon Valley company known for pioneering flexible work arrangements four decades ago, is canceling telecommuting for a key division of the company.
Read/WriteWeb:
Cease and Desist defining Web 2.0 — Jeff Clavier and Paul Kedrosky note that the chmod 777 definition of 'web 2.0' is coming back into fashion. As Jeff nicely put it: … The chmod 777 meme got picked up recently by Tim Bray, who pointed to IBMer James Snell's definition a year ago.
Seth Schiesel / New York Times:
The Video Game Goes Minimalist: Nintendo Comes Full Circle — SOME new media, like the Internet and cellphones, begin life in a niche, as curiosities even, before becoming everyday elements of mainstream culture. Others evolve in the opposite direction. — Think about video games.
Thomas F. Anglero / Telecom's Tsunami:
The End of Telecom; The Emergence of Utilicom — For as long as I have been involved in VoIP (1994), I have been one of the guilty souls who have declared from the highest mountain top that Telecom was coming to an end due to the latest flavor of disruptive technologies, companies, regulations …
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