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Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
MySpace to sell music from nearly 3 million bands — NEW YORK (Reuters) - MySpace, the wildly popular online teen hangout, said on Friday it will make its first move into the digital music business by selling songs from nearly 3 million unsigned bands. — MySpace is the latest company …
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Steve Rosenbush / Deal Flow:
Alcatel buys Nortel 3G unit — Alcatel is continuing its rollup of North American telecom equipment assets. The French telecom equipment giant, which is in the process of buying U.S. telecom gear leader Lucent Technologies, said Thursday it will acquire the high-speed wireless equipment making assets …
Ismael Ghalimi / IT|Redux:
About a Chap — Once upon a time, there was a chap who liked computers, databases, and cool little widgets that can be displayed in a web browser. He started writing about it, gave it yet-another-two-dot-zero-name that people could make fun of, and got a couple more chaps reading what he had to write about it.
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dailywireless.org:
Samsung's 4G — Fourth-generation wireless technology (4G) was in the news this week as Samsung demonstrated 100 Mbps while moving in a bus. NTT DoCoMo, the giant Japanese-based telecommunications company and Korean-based Samsung are both testing 100 Mbit/s mobile technology.
Mike / Techdirt:
RIAA Still Feels Entitled To Scour Everyone's Hard Drives — from the a-neutral-expert-might-not-find-what- we-want dept — Ever since the RIAA started taking on file sharing, it's always acted as if it were entitled to all sorts of things it isn't: access to the names associated …
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
An Open Challenge to David Maynor and Jon Ellch — When I play poker, I will occasionally place or call bets that I expect to lose. Sometimes it's a simple matter of pot odds — a bet that's a mathematically sound long shot. Occasionally, though, I'll throw away money on a bad bet simply because I want to see an opponent's cards.
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog
David Chartier / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Jobs might deliver a keynote, updated MacBook Pros on September 12th? — Egads, the rumor engine has caught on fire and September 12th is to blame: HardMac cites anonymous sources (i.e. - take it with a grain of salt) that Steve Jobs still won't be present in Paris for the upcoming Apple Expo …
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Hands-on with the Sony Mylo — Holy hot damn, we got us a Mylo up in this piece. Yes, unfortunately it's only a late prototype (we haven't actually heard of anyone getting a final production unit yet) but here she is, Sony's ever-hopeful ace in the hole to get a foothold in the pockets …
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PSP Fanboy
Erin Biba / Wired News:
Netflix Presents … "Tell us we're brilliant," Mark Duplass says. He and his brother Jay are standing in front of an audience that's just seen The Puffy Chair, a movie the brothers wrote, directed, produced, and starred in. Their euphoria is understandable: The indie film they made has finally …
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
CrunchGear's Back to School Cheat Sheet — September is here and maybe you or someone in your household-you know, the kid upstairs with the headphones who listens to that demon hippity-hop music?-might be in the market for some back to school technology. Here's a quick rundown of our favorite picks from the past few months.
Cyrus Farivar / Engadget:
Meet Zazoox, a new Internet café gaming kiosk — You know, if you could use proper names in Scrabble, Zazoox would be a good one to play. We hadn't heard of them until today, when we read in the trade publication Kiosk Marketplace that Zazoox is a new pay-for-use game café kiosk …
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Hackers crack Apple, Microsoft music codes — In the continuation of a long-running arms race, both Apple Computer and Microsoft have seen their music protection technologies come under fire in recent days. — In the past month, separate programs have emerged to strip away the digital rights management …
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Connecting the Dots
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
VentureBeat is back — We launched early yesterday morning, but an overwhelming spike in traffic, a subsequent server crash and no fallback combined to shut down the Web site for a whole day. — We've learned some lessons. — 1) It is hard to launch a start-up.
Lifehacker:
Make your own "official" seal — Web site Says-It's Official Seal Generator lets you design your very own seal with customized text. — I'm really not sure how "official" you can consider your completed seal (I guess it's official if you say so), but they are kind of cool.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Trailfire: Building Vannevar's Memex — There are a plethora of bookmarking sites out there and only a few of them have become very successful - del.icio.us and Stumbleupon are two that spring to mind. Trailfire is a bit different from your average bookmarking site, because they don't just allow …
Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
Wasabi — I think some people thought I was joking earlier today when I said that we have our own compiler, Wasabi, for FogBugz. — Yes, Wasabi is real. Because FogBugz is sold to customers who run it on their own servers, it has to run on hundreds of thousands of web servers "in the wild …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Partystrands aims to be Last.fm + Digg for the jukebox — Partystrands is a music service launching next month that will bring together aggregated recommendations, voting and photos synchronized on location by mobile phone. Created by the Corvallis, Oregon and Barcelona, Spain based company MyStrands …
