Top Items:
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft's Zune aims to be social butterfly — update Microsoft's forthcoming Zune player is shooting to be the life of the party, allowing users to create mobile social networks and stream music to nearby friends or strangers, according to a government regulatory filing.
RELATED ITEMS:
Paul Miller / Engadget:
Zune revealed by FCC as "Toshiba 1089" — Well, here's a bit of a surprise: a wireless PMP just showed up on the FCC, featuring a 30GB HDD, FM tuner and a strangely familiar 3-inch screen. And it ain't being manufactured by Microsoft. Instead it looks like Microsoft got their good pal Toshiba …
Discussion:
Gizmodo, InsideMicrosoft, CrunchGear, The Tech Report, jkOnTheRun and Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog
Sandeep / MobileWhack.com:FCC Approves Toshiba 1089 Portable Media Player
Discussion:
Gadgetell, TechBlog, TechEffect, SlashGear, PVR Wire, Gear Live, The Digital Music Weblog, CrunchGear and Ubergizmo
BBC:
Spammers manipulate stock markets — Spam messages that tout stocks and shares can have real effects on the markets, a study suggests. — E-mails typically promote penny shares in the hope of convincing people to buy into a company to raise its price. — People who respond to the …
John Leyden / The Register:
Fugitive CEO tracked down to Sri Lanka after Skype call — A hi-tech chief executive turned fugitive has been tracked down in Sri Lanka by a private investigator after 10 days on the lam. — Jacob "Kobi" Alexander, 54, faces fraud charges over a stock options scandal involving the voicemail software firm he founded, Comverse.
RELATED ITEMS:
Haaretz:
Report: Fugitive top hi-tech exec tracked down in Sri Lanka — The founder of Israeli hi-tech giant Comverse, who fled the United States ten days ago, was tracked down in Sri Lanka by an Israeli private investigator, the Ma'ariv daily newspaper reported on Thursday.
Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Former Tribe leader Pincus back at helm; pledges "new direction" — Mark Pincus has just taken back the helm at San Francisco social networking company, Tribe. We heard about this months ago, but Mark would never say anything publicly, so we just kept waiting.
RELATED ITEMS:
Ryan Block / Engadget:
FairUse4WM strips Windows Media DRM! — So far as the yet very quiet forums are claiming, a new app called FairUse4WM can be used to strip Windows Media DRM 10 and 11 (i.e. PlaysForSure, but not WM DRM 9). Yes, yes, we know, we've heard this song and dance before.
Discussion:
Techdirt, Download Squad, A Copyfighter's Musings, Bink.nu, eHomeUpgrade and The Digital Music Weblog
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The startup sound in Vista ... I'm on the phone with Steve Ball, group program manager for the Windows Audio Video Excellence team (basically, the team that builds the stuff that plays audio and video in Windows). — First, a disclaimer, before I left Microsoft, I got an intimate view …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Get a gig on GigaOM Jobs — Paidcontent, the digital media and content publication was one of the first to realize that niche job boards were the future, and introduced its Digital Media Jobs board, when we were rank amateurs in comparison. Since then vibrant communities like 37Signals …
Skeptic / Dead2.0:
Should VCs fund bloggers' wet dreams? — The term "blogging" alone is enough to cause a ruckus in some circles. Some people think it's a personal thing, others think it's the opposite. Some are motivated by ego. Wait, no, all are motivated by ego. And as I've previously reported …
Discussion:
Om Daily
Craig Silverman / New York Times:
Public Domain Books, Ready for Your iPod — Kara Shallenberg and her 10-year-old son, Henry, exhausted the audiobook collection at their library in Oceanside, Calif., five years ago. With Henry's appetite for listening still strong, Ms. Shallenberg began to record herself reading his favorite books.
Jane Martinson / Guardian:
Google's geeky queen of the search-o-sphere — The internet executive is on a constant search for the 'next big thing' - just now she has TV stations worried — Marissa Mayer should be spending today programming some LED light strings for an art installation in her home.
Mike / Techdirt:
Rethinking The Music Industry Business Model... Finally Going Mainstream — from the can't-stop-the-trend dept — For all the complaints we have about the way the RIAA conducts its business, we have always been optimistic that things would get sorted out eventually.
Discussion:
Newsome.Org
RELATED ITEMS:
Jeff Howe / Wired News:No Suit Required — Terry McBride has an idea. Another idea.
Discussion:
IP Democracy
Evan Brown / InternetCases.com:
Evidence-destroying defendant severely sanctioned in P2P file-sharing case — In the case of Arista Records v. Tschirhart, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas has shown little mercy on a defendant accused by record companies of illegal file-sharing.
