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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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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Apple and Creative settle, Apple forks out $100m — If you can't beat 'em, sue 'em, right? That's the American way, after all, and it's serving Singapore-based Creative very well. As some may well remember, not even four months ago Creative filed suit against Apple for violating their …
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.
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Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple, others working on battery standard — Leading notebook makers Apple, Dell, and Lenovo will hold a summit meeting in San Jose, Calif. next month to begin development of standards for the manufacture of lithium ion batteries for portable and handheld electronics.
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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 …
Mark Goldberg / Telecom Trends:
Blocking content — The news will be breaking shortly, so you might as well read about it here first. Late in the day on Tuesday afternoon, I helped in filing the first application requesting the CRTC to authorize Canadian carriers to block internet content.
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evhead:
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.
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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 …
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).
Peter Rip / EarlyStageVC:
Venture 2.0 - Preamble — This the first in a series of posts on the idea of "Venture Capital 2.0." I thought it was appropriate to first set the stage of Venture Capital 1.0 as the point of contrast. This first post is obvious stuff to those of us who have been in the business for a while, but less so for the casual observer.
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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Graeme Wearden / silicon.com:
Redmond red-faced over Gervais video leak — How did David Brent's day at Microsoft make it onto YouTube? — Microsoft is investigating how two internal training videos created by UK comedy duo Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant have surfaced on the internet.
