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Jane Martinson / Guardian:
Google faces copyright fight over YouTube — Dick Parsons, the chairman and chief executive of Time Warner, fired a shot across the bows of Google, saying his group would pursue its copyright complaints against the video sharing site YouTube.com. — Google paid $1.6bn for YouTube …
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
SOUR GRAPES: TIME TO SUETUBE? — Surprise: Time Warner is rattling copyright sabers (BoingBoing) over Google's acquisition of YouTube. Let's pull back and take a look at this, shall we? Time Warner not only owns a s**tload of content that is now playing on YouTube, it also owns AOL …
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:Value is in the eyes of the beholder
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Mike / Techdirt:When Negotiating A Deal With YouTube, First Threaten To Sue Them...
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Tom Neumayr / Apple:
Apple Announces iPod nano (PRODUCT) RED Special Edition — Portion of Proceeds Contributed to The Global Fund to Fight AIDS — Apple® today announced the iPod® nano (PRODUCT) RED Special Edition. (RED) was created by U2 lead singer, Bono and Bobby Shriver to engage business …
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Motorola:
Sprint Joins Motorola, (PRODUCT) RED™ and the Global Fund to Help Fight AIDS in Africa with Upcoming U.S. Availability of RED MOTORAZR™ — RED MOTORAZR on high-speed Power Vision network benefits (RED); offers exclusive Sprint content and live television channels
Microsoft:
Microsoft Says on Track to Release Windows Vista on Schedule — New operating system will be released in Europe and Korea on schedule, following "constructive dialogue" with competition authorities. — Microsoft Corp. today confirmed that it is on track to deliver Windows Vista&trade …
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
No, there's no ban on virtual Vista — There's a lot of confusion going around about the new Windows Vista licenses. I wrote about the two-machine limit earlier this week. Now I see Gregg Keizer at TechWeb and Robert McLaws of Windows Now arguing that the new license bans the use …
Murlocker / Urlocker On Disruption:
Sony's 3Ds: Downgraded, Delayed and Disrupted —What Went Wrong? — Sony Corp. was the great innovator in consumer electronics for 30 years, but you'd never know it reading the latest headlines or watching the stock: — Sony bonds Downgraded by Fitch in anticipation of further financial weakness
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Christian Zappone / CNNMoney.com:
Help! YouTube is killing my business! — An Ohio company's sales get 'killed' as YouTube surfers cripple utube.com, a pipe equipment seller's web site. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — One place where YouTube's success isn't being celebrated is in the offices of Universal Tube and Rollerform Equipment Corp. near Toledo, Ohio.
Inside AdSense:
Introducing multiple custom channels — As of today, it is now possible to assign multiple custom channels to a single ad unit. This feature enables you to track your ad performance with greater flexibility and view more granular information. When generating your ad code …
Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun:
Fujitsu Stylistic ST5112 gets Core Duo-ized — Looks like we're on a Fujitsu kick today, but really, it's just coincidence. An anonymous tipster just pinged me with an interesting Fujitsu Stylistic development over in Germany. Looks like the uber-slate is getting the Core Duo treatment with an Intel U2500 ULV running at 1.2 GHz.
J Mark Lytle / Digital World Tokyo:
Fujitsu laptops also ditching hard drives for flash — Fujitsu will soon join two other major PC makers in putting on sale a portable computer that uses flash memory in place of the traditional hard-disk drive. — The company will offer a 16GB or 32GB flash memory disk as an option …
Michael Kanellos / ZDNet:
Transmeta hits Intel with patent suit … Having failed to beat Intel in the marketplace, Transmeta is turning to the courtroom — Transmeta, the chip designer that once tried to take on Intel in the notebook market, is suing Intel for patent infringement.
Kevin Dean / Microsoft Higher Education:
Internet Explorer 7 is coming ... Are you ready? — The final release of Internet Explorer 7 is fast approaching ... and I mean really fast ......and will be delivered to customers via Automatic Updates a few weeks after it's available for download. Are your Web sites, extensions, and applications ready?
Todd Weiss / Computerworld:
Could a 30-in. monitor help you do your job faster? — A French IT consultant says yes, but productivity experts disagree — October 10, 2006 (Computerworld) — Providing employees with 30-in. computer monitors can boost worker productivity at companies where 17- or 19-in. monitors are typically used …
Mike Pegg / Google Maps Mania:
Useamap.com is TinyURL.com for Google Maps — UseAMap.com: — Vincent Glennon from the West of Ireland has created neat little Google Maps tool called Useamap. Simply put, it allows you to save a Google Maps location with a simple URL without the need to register.
Gizmodo:
Palm Announces Low-End Treo 680 — As expected, Palm has just announced the low-end Treo 680 for GSM markets sold unlocked in four colors: crimson, copper, arctic and graphite. In non-marketing speak, that's red, orange, white and silver. Each of these phones come with a 320x320 color screen …
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Kablenet / The Register:
EC boosts open source — Sets up consortium for software pooling — The European Commission has taken steps to promote the use of open source systems and software in the public sector. — It has selected a consortium led by Unisys Belgium to create and manage the Open Source Observatory and Repository …
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Beautiful steampunk laptop — This crazy sculpture of a steampunk Japanese laptop includes a Morse key over the trackball and a manual typewriter keyboard straight out of Naked Lunch. If this was a working laptop, I'd carry it everywhere. Link (via JWZ) — Update: Adam sez, "It's not a 'sculpture' — it's a working computer.
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