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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Judge sides with Google in dispute over keywords — A federal court on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against Google over its practice of allowing companies to buy search-related ads that are displayed when people type in the name of a competitor. — In early 2005, computer repair company …
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Mike / Techdirt:
Another Judge Says There's No Trademark Violation In Selling Ads On Trademarked Keywords — from the understanding-trademark-law dept — It seems that companies never stop suing over this particular issue. Despite numerous cases before it, including from Geico and American Blinds …
Eric Goldman / Technology & Marketing Law Blog:
Google Wins Keyword Lawsuit—Rescuecom v. Google — Rescuecom Corp. v. Google, Inc., No. 5:04-CV-1055 (N.D.N.Y. Sept. 28, 2006). You can find the ruling here (WARNING: 1.7MB file) — Introduction and the 1-800 Contacts Precedent — Last year, the Second Circuit issued a major ruling …
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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
YouTube's Video Poker — Chad Hurley effects a calm, almost detached demeanor, even as the Web site he runs, YouTube.com, has provoked a frenzy of consternation among executives of record labels, TV networks and movie studios. For millions of Internet users, the site that opened …
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Valleywag:
What do we lose when YouTube sells out? — (Psst. Digg this.) — It's the place you go for Family Guy clips and last night's Jon Stewart interview. For now, media companies keep their hands off YouTube and cut deals with the site instead. But some day, if it doesn't die first …
Wall Street Journal:
Mobile ESPN Will End Venture, Seek New Strategy — ESPN, a unit of Walt Disney Co., plans to pull the plug on its sports-themed mobile-telephone venture later this year but hopes to expand its wireless presence by licensing its Mobile ESPN application to other providers.
John Paczkowski / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
Keep it moving, folks — gels and liquids in the bin, Sony batteries in the big asbestos box … Looks like the game of Russian roulette Sony's playing with its lithium-ion battery packs is a nasty variant in which the gun arrives fully loaded — six-bullet Russian roulette, as "Family Guy's" …
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CRN Breaking News:
Lenovo Recalls Sony-Made Battery Packs For ThinkPads — 1:34 PM EDT Thu. — Lenovo is recalling 168,500 ThinkPad notebook battery packs in the United States and another 357,000 worldwide, saying the lithium-ion batteries can "cause overheating, posing a fire hazard to consumers."
Phil Wolff / Skype Journal:
Yahoo! Hack Day vs. eBay DevCon — Just got home from the opening day of Yahoo!'s first open Hack Day. I thought it might be useful to contrast it with eBay's DevCon. — eBay DevCon — Yahoo! Hack Day — Where — Las Vegas, Mandalay Bay Convention Center
techon.nikkeibp.co.jp:
JVC Develops World's Largest 110-inch Rear Projection System — Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. (JVC) has developed a 110-inch rear projection system that is to be the world's largest. The screen measures 243.5 x 137 cm. The display device employed in this system is JVC's proprietary …
Ellen Sheng / Wall Street Journal:
As Internet TV Gains Popularity, Cable Firms Bulk Up Offerings — With Internet video gaining popularity, pay-TV companies are pondering a future in which they will have to share the spotlight with online video providers. — Video in all forms including first-run movies and television shows …
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
New in 10.4.8: Zoom Using Scroll Wheel — Here's a new feature in the Mac OS X 10.4.8 mouse preferences panel:1 "Zoom using scroll wheel": — [UPDATE: The same feature is also available for trackpad users who have the "Use two fingers to scroll" option turned on.]
John Chow / John Chow dot Com:
Why Alexa Is Worthless — Alexa is a tool that many webmasters and advertisers used to gauge the size of a website. The Alexa ranking is based on a three month running average. The number shown is where a site ranks on the internet. For example, The TechZone has a ranking of 23,005.
Noahmax / Defense Tech:
'INVISIBILE' BOOMERANG 'BOT — It's nice to have a set of robotic eyes in the sky. But surveillance drones tend to be loud, and rather obvious, as they keep watch above a Middle Eastern city. Many guerilla types know by now to avoid the things. — That's why a small company out of Minneapolis …
Rick / Supr.c.ilio.us:
I'll Drink To That — SCI FI Tech comes up with a very funny web2.0 drinking game, sure to be a hit at the next launch party. Including: … So now we add to this noble list with the Michael Arrington TechCrunch OpenHype Bar game. … Take a drink when Michael calls something 'killer'.
Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
Yahoo's Browser Based Authentication (BBAuth) Launched — Last night I mentioned that we'd have a few more announcements on the Yahoo! Developer Network today. — I just posted the latest: Browser Based Authentication or BBAuth as we like to call it.
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Apple using shoddy up-sampling for some iTunes vids? — When Apple announced the new VGA res for all iTunes videos the other week — including new versions of their current QVGA catalog — we were definitely stoked to be getting 4x the pixels for our video dollar, even if we were a bit miffed …
Daniel Raffel / O'Reilly Emerging Telephony:
Microsoft Messenger for Mac 6.0 — A few days ago Microsoft recently released a long overdue version of Microsoft Messenger for Mac 6.0. After a few days poking around with it I gotta say it feels like a checkbox in a product matrix and not a quality release. — The pro's:
