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Claire Osborn / Austin American-Statesman:
Teen, mom sue MySpace.com for $30 million — Suit filed in Travis County claims popular Internet site fails to protect children from adult sexual predators. — A 14-year-old Travis County girl who said she was sexually assaulted by a Buda man she met on MySpace.com sued …
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AMCP Tech Blog, Open Culture, Techdirt, Publishing 2.0, GigaLaw.com Daily News and Internet Cases
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John Paczkowski / Good Morning Silicon Valley:Perhaps a little more time with social workers, and a little less …
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Vecosys
Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:
Researchers Say New Chip Breaks Speed Record — Researchers at I.B.M. and the Georgia Institute of Technology are set to announce today that they have broken the speed record for silicon-based chips with a semiconductor that operates 250 times faster than chips commonly used today.
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datinganyone.com:
Welcome to DatingAnyone.com — It was fun while it lasted... Myspace has asked that we fold up shop. (I only emailed them 4 times asking them what I should do.) The Cease and Desist letter is below. DatingAnyone.com started back in April 2006 as a cool idea and a challenging development project.
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Mashable*
CNNMoney.com:
The coming Web video shakeout — The number of YouTube-like services now stands at a staggering 173 - and in April alone 3 outfits got $30 million in funding. Who will survive? — (Business 2.0 Magazine) - Too many dotcom startups, not enough seats at the party.
Wall Street Journal:
'DRM' Protects Downloads, But Does It Stifle Innovation? — Consumers now have the ability to buy digital versions of music and movies from a vast (and growing) online catalog. But that convenience has come at a price: Most of the digital content is packaged with technology called digital rights management …
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The Technology Liberation …, Democracy in Media, Copyfight, Wendy's Blog, Boing Boing and Joho the Blog
Patricia Sullivan / Washington Post:
As the Internet Grows Up, the News Industry Is Forever Changed — The news industry, congenitally nervous about its future, looks at the Web this spring and sees cause for panic. — Advertisers are rushing to the Internet. Readers, even of the best newspapers and magazines …
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InterMedia, Sadagopan's weblog …, Socialtwister 2.0, J. LeRoy's Evolving Web and dailywireless.org
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Jon's Radio:
A takedown request from This American Life — A couple of weeks ago, in The network is the network: public radio on the web, I noted in passing that NPR PRI's This American Life had converted from RealAudio streams to MP3s. That meant it was now possible to bypass this tedious procedure …
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Microsoft to embed Live services in Windows — BOSTON—Microsoft's Live-branded online services don't end at the Web browser. They extend deep into Windows. — The company last week quietly showed off software for embedding its Web-based Windows Live ID authentication services within Windows applications.
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Macehiter Ward-Dutton
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down the avenue:
CTC on Social Media & Collaboration — I'm at the CTC (collaboration conference) in Boston this week, where client KnowNow is exhibiting. There are tons of fabulous tracks and hallway conversations that focus around people's issues inside and outside the enterprise.
Seth Stevenson / Slate:
Mac Attack — Apple's mean-spirited new ad campaign. … (Click here to see the ads.) — When I write about ads, I often face an obstacle: I'm not in the target demographic. Am I really in a position to judge whether, say, a Lexus ad is on the mark? The chances that I …
Joris Evers / ZDNet:
Second zero-day Excel flaw emerges — Attack code for a new security hole in Excel has surfaced on the Internet, just as Microsoft is scrambling to respond to a separate bug in the spreadsheet program. — The latest vulnerability could cause Excel to crash after a malicious file is opened …
Jennifer Netherby / Variety:
Netflix thinks inside the box — Netco to introduce set-top box with Internet connection — Netflix VP of original programming Eric Besner revealed on Friday some of the online rental service's thinking on the movie download biz, saying Netflix is planning to introduce a proprietary set-top box …
Tom Foremski / IMHO:
Sun CEO will announce thousands of layoffs this Thursday — Sun Microsystems (SUNW) will announce on Thursday a large round of layoffs in a bid to cut about one-half billion dollars in annual costs as it transforms itself into a broad based computer software and services company.
New York Times:
A Coming Attraction: Movies on iTunes — Consumers have been willing to spend 99 cents to buy Shakira's "Hips Don't Lie" or $1.99 for an episode of "Desperate Housewives" from iTunes. — Now Steven P. Jobs is betting they will also pay $9.99 to download "The Godfather" to play on their iPods.
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B2Day
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Why did Bill Gates step down? — When the top executive of a major company steps down, even gradually, we are too easily distracted by the emotional arguments, and Microsoft plays this sleight of hand better than almost anyone, but come on, do you think Bill would be stepping aside if the graph were inverted?
