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Associated Press:
Apple to recall 1.8 million notebook batteries — Recall is second-biggest in U.S. history involving electronics or computers … SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Computer Inc. on Thursday recalled 1.8 million Sony-built laptop batteries that could overheat and catch fire.
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Rachel Konrad / Associated Press:
Apple recalls 1.8 million Sony batteries — SAN FRANCISCO - Apple Computer Inc. on Thursday recalled 1.8 million Sony-built notebook batteries that could overheat and catch fire, just 10 days after Dell Inc.'s record-setting recall involving the same problem and the same supplier.
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.
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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Sean Patrick Sullivan / Yahoo! News:
Ottawa lawyer asks CRTC to block access to US-based hate websites — TORONTO (CP) - One of two U.S.-based hate websites was taken offline Wednesday as an Ottawa lawyer and a Jewish lobby group asked Canada's telecommunications regulator to take the unprecedented step of blocking access to the sites from north of the border.
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CNET News.com:
YouTube could be a steal at $1 billion — news analysis By agreeing to pay $65 million for Grouper—a profitless video-sharing company with negligible market share—Sony has helped establish a benchmark for other companies in the space and sent industry insiders speculating wildly about what market leader YouTube may be worth.
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Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
Online Video: Tasty Takeover Targets? — Sony's deal for Grouper signals that big outfits are looking to buy in. Which video-sharing sites might be next? — Online video sites are a bit like fish in the sea. Though they are plentiful, the tastiest ones are difficult to catch.
Dan Warne / apc:
Microsoft cuts ANOTHER feature: full HD playback in 32bit Vista goes — Microsoft revealed today that no 32-bit versions of Windows Vista will be able to play back "next generation high definition protected content" (translation - studio-released BluRay and HD-DVD movies).
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Matt Goyer's Media Center Blog, MSTechToday, HD Beat, Slashdot, Boing Boing, blackrimglasses.com and digg
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:Vista will not support Blu-ray or HD DVD playback out-of-the-box or on most PCs
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Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: Amazon Readies Utility Computing Service — Amazon Web Services are readying their latest service called EC2 which will allow users to setup and run servers and computing capacity in the cloud. Users of the service can setup a server instance which is hosted with Amazon …
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IEBlog:
Internet Explorer 7 Release Candidate Now Available — This morning we released our first public release candidate, IE7 RC1, for Windows XP. You can download it at http://www.microsoft.com/ie. — The RC1 build includes improvements in performance, stability, security, and application compatibility.
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Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows:Internet Explorer 7.0 Release Candidate 1 Review
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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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Business Wire:
AOL Video Launches Digital Movie Downloads — New Partnerships with 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures Home — Entertainment, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment — Group Bring Full-Length Movies to All-In-One Online Video Destination — New On-Demand Channels Featuring Television Content Will
USA Today:
Verizon, Cablevision skirmish as war nears — NEW YORK — Nobody would mistake the lush, trimmed lawns of suburban New York City for the OK Corral. But you can almost hear the jingling spurs and blasting revolvers of a corporate gunfight erupting that could affect virtually all consumers.
Nintendo:
NINTENDO LAUNCHES NEW DS LITE COLORS AMID RECORD-BREAKING GAME SALES — Onyx and Coral Pink Follow Sale of 1 Millionth New Super Mario Bros. — The only thing more fun than new Nintendo® DS Lite hardware colors is trying to keep up with the breakneck sales of the software to play on the popular little portable!
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.
