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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
An interview with VC Paul Graham of YCombinator — Paul Graham believes we're not in a bubble, that startups shouldn't worry about their business models and the best companies are the ones with potential to kill old monopolies. Graham is a partner at YCombinator, a Mountain View venture capital firm …
AppleInsider:
Apple settles iTunes software interface lawsuit — Apple Computer has settled a lawsuit filed by a Vermont-based business owner who claimed the iPod maker stole his software interface design and used it to create iTunes. — The terms of the deal, which were reached following a 15-hour negotiating session …
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Mike / Techdirt:
Apple Settles Yet Another iTunes Interface Patent Suit — Hot on the heels of Apple's decision to settle with Creative over a patent on the basic interface for finding music on your iPod, Apple has also settled another patent claim concerning a patent for a computer-based system and user interface for media playing devices.
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Google to Give Data To Brazilian Court — Google Inc., which refused in the past year to hand over user search data to U.S. authorities fighting children's access to pornography, said yesterday that it was complying with a Brazilian court's orders to turn over data that could help identify users accused …
Al W / Tech Digest:
IFA 2006: USRobotics Skype DECT Phone — Yet another company is joining the race to get every home using Skype. This is USRobotics' Skype compatible USR9630 cordless phone. It has one obvious flaw already - other companies, such as Philips, are cutting out the middle man and making DECT Skype phones that work independent of a PC.
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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Clocke / all noise all the time:
you snooze, you win — z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z... But seriously, folks, you owe it to yourself to check out this hot new — and hysterical — Web 2.0 parody site, The New New Internet. I was Rolling on the Floor Laughing My F**k*** Ass Off. Favorite line: "Gain a Deep, Non-Technical Understanding of Web 2.0." …
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Google Archive Search — The first thing I thought of when I saw domains like google-archivesearch.com (registered Friday) was the WayBackMachine. If my gut instinct is correct, it won't be long before Google launches a similar service that lets us peer into the history of the web.
VoIP Blog:
Alcatel Acquires 3G Assets from Nortel — Today Nortel announced it has shed its 3G UMTS radio access assets and sold them to Alcatel. On a conference call with financial analysts and the media, Nortel President and CEO Mike Zafirovski was quick to point out that his company remains committed …
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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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.
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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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.
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.
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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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 …
MSN Search's WebLog:
Windows Live QnA beta goes public! — In addition to the testing we're doing you may have seen the news we launched Windows Live QnA beta this week! A link to it is also showing up in the search bar on our recent testing. — For all of you still new to our question-and-answer service …
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 …
