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Friendster Wins Patent — After emerging from debt, Friendster wins a patent on social networking. — Friendster said Thursday that it has received a patent that covers online social networks, one the company had applied for long before its decline and recent recapitalization.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Friendster awarded patent on social networking — Sagging social network Friendster was awarded a patent on some pretty fundamental qualities of online social networking late last month. The patent covers the determining and display of relationships between individuals who have entered personal information …
huffingtonpost.com:
BREAKING: New Rocketboom Girl Chosen, Looks Strangely Like Old One — HuffPo's "Eat The Press" has learned that Rocketboom executive producer Andrew Baron has tapped former MTV Europe VJ Joanna Colan to take the anchor chair vacated by Amanda Congdon earlier this week.
PingMag:
Web 2.0 in Japan — Japan is a country renowned for it's technological prowess - being on the cutting edge of robotics, hybrid car research, video game entertainment and countless other areas. Strange then, that whilst the rest of the world has seen a huge boom in "Web 2.0″-style services …
Thomas Hawk / Official Zooomr Blog:
DO WE LOVE BLOGGERS? YES WE DO! — One of things that we hope Zooomr will become in the months ahead is the photo sharing site of choice for bloggers to host their images on. Since we're new though and need to get the word out we thought the best way to get bloggers to use our site …
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
FBI plans new Net-tapping push — The FBI has drafted sweeping legislation that would require Internet service providers to create wiretapping hubs for police surveillance and force makers of networking gear to build in backdoors for eavesdropping, CNET News.com has learned.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Coghead, A New Web App Machine — The Enterprise is widely viewed as the next playground for collective technologies known as Web 2.0. While there has been a lot of talk, only a handful of companies have come up with Web 2.0 inspired offerings targeting the enterprise.
BBC:
'IPod rival' speculation dampened — Microsoft has said reports that the company is planning an MP3 player to rival the iPod are based on "speculation and rumours". — The software giant and games console firm said it did not "have anything to announce at this time".
Greg Sterling / Screenwerk:
Most Progressive 'Incumbent' YP Up for Sale — Though public (or quasi public) knowledge for several months, Verizon has formally filed to sell its yellow pages print and online directory product units, Verizon Information Services/SuperPages.com. Here's more detail from MarketWatch.
heise-security.co.uk:
Copy protection hole in Blu-ray and HD DVD movies — The Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD are new data carriers for high-resolution motion pictures. For fear of piracy, Hollywood had the developers install a cornucopia of copy prevention mechanisms on them. For instance, the film data on the disks …
Sascha Segan / PC Magazine:
Sprint PCS Vision Phone Katana By Sanyo — Sprint's new Sanyo Katana may look exactly like a plastic RAZR, but it's no disposable. It's a reasonable midrange phone designed to help Sprint customers scratch their itch for the nation's most popular form factor.
USA Today:
Five-second ads try to counter TiVo — It may take longer to read this sentence than to watch one of Honda's recent mini-commercials. — In just five seconds, the TV ad shows features of its new Fit hatchback, followed by a computer-type voice saying: "The Fit is Go."
Scott M. Fulton, III / TG Daily:
Microsoft denies demoing 'Ipod killer' to music industry execs — Redmond (WA) - In a carefully worded response this morning, a Microsoft spokesperson denied his company's participation in a demonstration of a portable music device capable of wireless networking to music industry executives …
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Gregg Keizer / InformationWeek:
'Googling' Lands In Dictionary — Merriam-Webster on Thursday stamped its approval on a raft of words that will appear in its next dictionary update, including the verb "google" and other tech terms such as "spyware" and "mouse potato." — TechWeb.com — google): (transitive verb) …
Mike / Techdirt:
Bono Needs To Play More Socially Conscious Video Games — from the leave-the-man-alone dept — It seems that U2 lead singer Bono just can't get out of the tech related news world lately. Last week there was talk about "drafting" him into the fight against the recording industry's stupidity …
Pankaj Mishra / New York Times:
The Myth of the New India — INDIA is a roaring capitalist success story. " So says the latest issue of Foreign Affairs; and last week many leading business executives and politicians in India celebrated as Lakshmi Mittal, the fifth richest man in the world, finally succeeded in his hostile takeover …
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