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Ben Fritz / Variety:
Friend or foe? — Film exex want to tap into Jobs' savvy but worry about his growing clout — Five years ago, when Steve Jobs was in negotiations to sell songs on iTunes, he gave music execs a choice: Either work with me or get left in the dust. — They worked with him.
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Ben Fritz / Variety:
Apple plants seeds for pic downloads — iTunes going to the movies — After conquering the digital music biz and taking the lead with TV shows online, Apple is looking to feature films. — The computer company is in active negotiations with most major studios to add movies to its iTunes Music Store …
Microsoft:
Launch of Windows Live Messenger Marks Significant Progress for Microsoft's Windows Live Era — Microsoft delivers interactive online game as part of launch; users rewarded with exclusive film clip of Disney's upcoming "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" movie.
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Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
USB Air Conditioned Shirt — When it comes to USB powered gadgets, this doesn't just take the cake, it takes the entire bakery and then burns it down for the insurance money. The USB shirt has two fans on the left and right sides of the back, taking in air to cleanse all the sweat off your spare tire.
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Dhiramshah / New Launches:
USB Powered Air conditioned clothes — We have USB powered Beverage coolers, gloves, slippers and what not here is a something really unique, USB powered powered air conditioned clothes. Everyone actually does have a natural air conditioner which is sweating and the air conditioned clothes …
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Andy Kessler / Weekly Standard:
Give Me Bandwidth . . . No one to root for in the net neutrality debate. — FINDING IT HARD TO UNDERSTAND the "net neutrality" debate? On one side are the hip, cool, billionaire web service companies like Google, eBay, Yahoo, and even Microsoft. Net neutrality is their rallying cry.
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Mike / Techdirt:Forget Net Neutrality: Just Take The Networks Away From The Telcos
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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:Senate bill compromise paves the way for "Net Neutrality Lite"
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Anil Dash / Your results may vary.:
Office 2007 is the Bravest Upgrade Ever — Short and sweet, the Ribbon and new UI in Microsoft Office 2007 is the ballsiest new feature in the history of computer software. I've been using Office 12 for about six months, and not only has it made me more productive, I'm struck by the sheer ambition of the changes in this version.
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New York Times:
Verizon Sues Vonage in Patents Dispute — Vonage, the Internet telephone startup, said today that it was being sued by Verizon Communications in a dispute over the underlying technology that allows voice calls to be delivered over the Internet. — The lawsuit adds a new challenge for Vonage …
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Nolan Strong / allhiphop.com:
50 Cent Negotiating With Apple For Branded Line Of Home Computers — Rap star 50 Cent is entering the world of technology and is currently in negotiations with Apple's CEO Steve Jobs to produce a line of affordable home computers to inner-city residents. — According to a recent article in Forbes …
digitimes.com:
Foxconn sternly denies iPod sweatshop claims — Kung Tien Huang, Taipei; Rodney Chan, DigiTimes.com [Monday 19 June 2006] — Foxconn Electronics (the registered trade name of Hon Hai Precision Industry) has sternly denied a report insinuating that the company was making iPods for Apple Computer in sweatshops.
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Why Apple Won't Open Source Its Apps — Tim Bray's "Time to Switch?" is a nice tangent to my "And Oranges" piece from Thursday; he's considering the same Mac OS X-to-Ubuntu route as Mark Pilgrim, and he lists both reasons why he wants to switch, as well as some of the issues that would make it unpleasant.
Jay Rosen / Washington Post:
Web Users Open the Gates — A decade after major news providers such as The Washington Post began publishing on the Internet, they are finally beginning to ask the right questions about what the Web can do for them and their readers — and to realize how disruptive web technology is to traditional journalism.
Fiona Morgan / Wired News:
Battling the Copyright Monster — How does a filmmaker document the world around her when the sights and sounds that make up that world are copyright protected? — Law professors Keith Aoki, James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins co-wrote and produced the comic book Bound By Law? Tales From the Public Domain.
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Paz / Coolest Gadgets:
Seeing with sound headset — When I first started writing on this blog one of the things I wrote about is why people have such a passion for gadgets. I argued that people bought gadgets because they wanted either to show off, collect them as fashion accessories, or because they hadn't lost their childhood love of toys.
Brian Ashcraft / Kotaku:
Live, Nude Black DS Lite! — Here it is, four days before it goes on sale, the black DS Lite. A retailer at a UK games store snuck this bad boy home, stripped it and took a buncha photos. Our own Florian will be line-standing for one of these black beauties to give one lucky contest winner.
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft looks beyond Gates for new ideas — Microsoft is looking to replace Bill Gates with a computer. — Okay, that's not entirely true. Many of Gates' duties are being handed off to Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie as part of the tech icon's effort to step away from day-to-day technical leadership at Microsoft.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Opens IM to Developers — Yahoo Messenger, with 60 million worldwide users, just got a lot more interesting. Today at 6pm PST Yahoo is launching Yahoo Messenger 8.0 for Windows PCs and releasing a software development kit to allow third parties to create content plugins that users can add to their Yahoo IM.
Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
Designer Bluetooth: Jabra JX10 — The Jabra JX10 is a great-looking Bluetooth headset, and after all, if you're going to be wearing something all the time you want it to be great-looking. What? You don't wear your Bluetooth headset all the time? Good. Don't.
BBC:
Net students 'think copying OK' — Students of the "Google generation" often do not understand what plagiarism is, says an expert on the issue. — Many of the new generation of students raised on the internet see nothing wrong with copying other people's work, says Professor Sally Brown.
