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Alex Veiga / Associated Press:
Universal Music chief blasts YouTube, MySpace over copyrights — LOS ANGELES - Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris said the wildly popular Web sites YouTube and MySpace are violating copyright laws by allowing users to post music videos and other content involving Universal artists.
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Tim Arango / New York Post:
TARGET: YOUTUBE — UNIVERSAL MUSIC WARNS WEB VIDEO SWAPPER — Universal Music chief Doug Morris launched a loud salvo at YouTube, warning the upstart Internet firm that it could come into the legal crosshairs of the world's largest music company. — YouTube, the prolific swapper of videos online …
Charles Duhigg / Los Angeles Times:
Music chief faults social Web sites — YouTube, MySpace seen as hindrances on copyright issues — To some in the music industry, social networking sites such as MySpace.com and YouTube.com are a godsend, helping listeners enjoy their acts and discover new bands. — But not to the head of the world's largest music company.
Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Universal Music pressuring YouTube, MySpace — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Universal Music Group, the world's biggest record company, is stepping up pressure against popular online sites YouTube and MySpace, accusing them of infringing the copyrights of its artists' music videos.
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Evan Williams: How Odeo Screwed Up — Public hindsight about startups' missteps generally comes after a good amount of "traveling in Europe with my fiancée" or whatever it is that failed CEOs do. However, Evan Williams just gave a refreshing talk about the dangers of combining money …
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
TechCrunch's Arrington shares his winners and losers — TechCruncher Mike Arrington opened the second day of The Future of Web Apps Summit with his picks of Web 2.0 winners and losers and gives advice to wouldbe startups. He also announced the next blog in the TechCrunch family, which will cover enterprise products.
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Web Strategy, Dead2.0, ShoutBlog, Monkey Bites, Ryan Stewart, John Cook's Venture Blog and Lifehacker
Michael Gartenberg:
Today's Zune News - First Take — Well, we heard from Apple earlier this week (but don't think that's the last word. Last year Apple followed up the Nano announcement with the 5G iPods just a few weeks later) and now it's Microsoft's turn. I spent some time recently with the Zune …
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:Microsoft Zune: Interview, Bryan Lee, Corporate VP/CFO, Entertainment …
Ryan Block / Engadget:The Engadget Interview: J Allard, Microsoft Corporate Vice President
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Gizmodo, B2Day, Daring Fireball, Zune Insider Blog, InsideMicrosoft, The Digital Music Weblog, TechCrunch, Netscape.com and digg
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Behind Google's German courtroom battle — Google's free Web e-mail offering may be available for correspondence in 40 languages, but efforts at worldwide expansion using the moniker "Gmail" continue to face complications. — Last October, the search giant grabbed headlines …
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Jill Goldsmith / Variety:
Rupe looks to release bird — Murdoch considering DirecTV sale to Liberty — In a splattering blow to the satellite biz, Rupert Murdoch supposedly dubbed DirecTV a "turd bird" and is considering selling News Corp.'s controlling stake to Liberty Media. — FCC chairman Kevin Martin …
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Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
The Sexy Sonos-Rhapsody Lovechild — Sonos today announced that the latest version of their home music devices now support streaming music from Rhapsody. We have previously written about Sonos and a couple of weeks ago we spent some time with the two founders of the company talking …
Nick / Rough Type:
Office generations — This is the first in a series of occasional commentaries on the future of corporate IT. — In the wake of the popular embrace of the buzzword Web 2.0, the suffix "2.0" has become an all-purpose signifier of putatively revolutionary newness.
Tom Abate / The Technology Chronicles:
PC Forum's demise marks the end of an era — Call it a sign of the times, but what is arguably the longest running elite high-tech conference became a thing of the past. Technolgy guru Esther Dyson has quietly put out the word that the 2006 PC Forum, held in March in Carlsbad, California, would be the last.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Microsoft sued over Xbox Live — Wrap your head around this bit of legal maneuvering: Paltalk, a company based in New York (but incorporated in Delaware), sues Washington-based Microsoft in an East Texas court. Why would the Eastern District of Texas have jurisdiction over such dispute?
Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:
GOOGLE PERSONALIZED HOMEPAGE GETS TABS, JUST LIKE LIVE.COM — Google pulls a trick out of Microsoft's bag (a logical one, to be fair), and adds tabs to the personalized homepage. Here are the tabs as I see them right now on my IG in Opera: — With no extra tabs: — With tabs:
Chris Kohler / Game|Life:
Region-Free Wii — The Wii will be region-free, or at least it should be. — That's the word from Wired News' Joel Johnson, who found Nintendo's VP of marketing Perrin Kaplan at the recent New York City press event and got her to reveal that, like the Nintendo DS, Nintendo's Wii games will work on any console regardless of region.
