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Steve Dowling / Apple:
Apple & Creative Announce Broad Settlement Ending Legal Disputes Between the Companies — Apple® and Creative Technology, Ltd. today announced a broad settlement ending all legal disputes between the two companies. Apple will pay Creative $100 million for a paid-up license …
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Can German engineering fix Wikipedia? — An experimental feature planned for the German version of Wikipedia could eventually improve the quality of editing for the online encyclopedia and open its front page to public edits for the first time in years. — In an interview with CNET News.com …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Can the Germans fix Wikipedia? — How bad things have things gotten at Wikipedia? It's common knowledge that the site suffers from hoaxsters, inaccurate information, and a vandalism problem that might be funny if it weren't so pervasive. Even the vandalism page has now been vandalized.
Louisa Hearn / Sydney Morning Herald:
Safety first for carry-on Dells — Qantas is issuing an advisory to all passengers on its flights on the safe use of Dell notebooks following the recall of 4.1 million batteries announced by the PC manufacturer last week. — The airline said that although passengers would be allowed …
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
The Web 2.0 Economic Conundrum — Regulars here know that I am a huge proponent for the little guy. Hence, the name of my blog. I want to see everyone who's publishing a blog to try to make money achieve their wildest dreams (and ours). However, there's a dirty little secret we should discuss …
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podcasting site roundup — Let's face it folks: There are a lot of podcast directories and services. Is anyone using these sites? Are they growing or shrinking? Who's growing and shrinking? What does it all mean? — I have lots of thoughts on the subject, but won't offer much analysis here.
Katie Hafner / New York Times:
Researchers Yearn to Use AOL Logs, but They Hesitate — When AOL researchers released three months' worth of users' query logs to a publicly accessible Web site late last month, Jon Kleinberg, a professor of computer science at Cornell, downloaded the data right away.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Wablet's going to rock web IM — I got a preview of the forthcoming web IM system Wablet yesterday. I posted about the first rumors about Wablet three weeks ago. It's a Flash service that can access all your accounts on the major IM services or users can get a Wablet username.
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Darren Rowse / ProBlogger Blog Tips:
Job Boards - 11 hours In — Thank you to everyone who has sent in feedback, questions and ideas for the ProBlogger Job Boards as well as the many bloggers who have linked up to it. — I've always wanted to be a match maker - and now I sort of feel like I am with lots of reports of bloggers …
Dan Warne / apc:
Unlock work internet or risk losing staff: Microsoft — Jobseekers will think twice about employers who lock down work internet access, a senior Microsoft executive said today. — "These kids are saying: forget it! I don't want to work with you. I don't want to work at a place …
Matthew Miller / The Mobile Gadgeteer:
TyTN: Smartphone of your dreams? — Two years ago I started using Pocket PC Phone Edition devices with the T-Mobile MDA II device and since that time I have owned or tried the MDA III, i-mate JasJar, TORQ P100, TORQ P120, and HTC Wizard (the QTEK 9000, i-mate K-JAM, and T-Mobile MDA versions).
Tom Yager / InfoWorld:
Is Windows inherently more vulnerable to malware attacks than OS X? — [the only trolling here is being perpetrated by those sending people here to be outraged] — It took an attack on a Windows production server, not devotion to Apple, to put that provocative title on this entry.
Katie Fehrenbacher / GigaOM:
DivX Launches Its Own YouTube, Stage6 — DivX, the video company well known for its coding and compression technology, quietly launched a YouTube-style online video sharing community, Stage6, a few weeks ago. While there seems to be no end to the video-sharing sites out there …
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Evan Roberts / MarketingShift:
The Downfall of Digg is Forthcoming and Here is Why — It's only a matter of time. Another site will rise up from nowhere and Digg will slowly fade into oblivion. It is hard to imagine right now with the size and coverage of Digg.com but it is coming. — Everyone has heard the stories …
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