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Wall Street Journal:
YouTube Removes 30,000 Files Amid Japanese Copyright Concerns — A WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE NEWS ROUNDUP — TOKYO — The popular U.S.-based video-sharing Web site YouTube has deleted nearly 30,000 files over copyright concerns after being asked by a group representing Japan's entertainment industry.
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MSN-Mainichi Daily News:YouTube deletes 29,549 videos at request of Japanese broadcasters, copyright groups
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John Paczkowski / Good Morning Silicon Valley:Why so glum, Chad? Evolution of Dance guy ask you to pull his clip?
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Michael White / Bloomberg:
Sony May Not Meet PlayStation 3 Shipment Targets (Update2) — Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) — Sony Corp., which slashed its profit forecast yesterday, said it may not reach this year's shipment target for the PlayStation 3 game console because of a parts shortage in the Blu-ray high-definition disc drive.
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The Older Gamers Paradise:
Hands On The Zune — Today, I had an opportunity to listen to a few songs and a radio station on the Zune here at the Microsoft Campus in Seattle. — All Zune colors were present, brown, white (or off-white) and black. The brown design was by far my favorite color of the three.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Internet video business challenges — I'm going to be going to see John Battelle this afternoon (he runs the blogging advertising network, Federated Media) and I'm going to ask him about the challenges of making an Internet content business work. — Here's the trouble.
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Paul Colligan's …, thoughtsignals, duncanriley.com, Smalltalk Tidbits … and What Will You See Next?
Steve Hargreaves / CNN:
Security analysts: Mac attacks rare but may rise — NEW YORK (CNN) — Apple computers have long been prized for being relatively virus-free. But as more people use Apple products, experts say the company is increasingly becoming a target for cyber pranksters and criminals writing viruses and other forms of malware.
Mike / Techdirt:
News.com Editor Explains Why Google Is Immoral — from the please-stop-reading-Charles- Cooper dept — Everyone, please stop reading the articles of CNET's Charles Cooper. I'm taking on the big risk of incurring his wrath for daring to point to his latest column, where he rips into Google …
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Ross / Zimbra - Blog:
IE 7 vs IE 6 — Back in April I wrote an entry complaining about IE's performance as a Web 2.0 platform: … I am happy to say that I was wrong. — Microsoft's IE team has clearly been hard at work on improving their browser's memory management and JavaScript performance.
Tom Siebert / MediaPost Publications:
Edelman Reveals Two More Wal-Mart 'Flogs' — PUBLIC RELATIONS FIRM EDELMAN, WHICH last week pledged to be more transparent in its involvement with client-related blogs, Thursday revealed it is behind two more 'flogs,' or fake blogs, created on behalf of Wal-Mart.
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BL Ochman / B.L. Ochman's weblog:Throw Edelman Out of WOMMA!
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Sam Kennedy / 1up.com:
Phil Harrison Talks Downloadable PS1 Games on PS3 — New details on how backwards compatible games will work. — Following today's PS3 press conference in which Sony demonstrated its online PlayStation Store, 1UP was able to speak with Sony's Phil Harrison regarding the PS1 and PS2 titles …
Lokeuei / MSDN Blogs:
No Photoshop? No worry. — There's Paint.NET :) Yes that's right, almost 100% written in MANAGED CODE. I remember using this application when it was released as version 1 on my Windows XP. Although a novel idea at that time, the performance was very sluggish. Perhaps written without optimizing the .NET code.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Acquires SpaceShipOne? — Categorize this as another unsubstantiated Google rumor, but the word on the street is that Google has acquired SpaceShipOne and is putting it inside building 43 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. No word on the purchase price …
Jason D. O'Grady / The Apple Core:
Apple patent hints at satellite potential of iPod — I'm a big fan of satellite radio and was a subscriber to XM radio for three years before switching to Sirius about a year ago. — Back in December 2004, I wrote that Apple was in talks with Sirius to discuss an iPod with a built-in satellite radio receiver.
Scott Gu / ScottGu's Blog:
ASP.NET AJAX Beta 1 Released — Last month I posted about the official new name for "Atlas," and discussed the roadmap plan for shipping a free, fully-supported, v1.0 release that works on top of ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. — Today I am very pleased to announce the first official Beta release of Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX v1.0.
Eric Goldman / Technology & Marketing Law Blog:
Courts Can't Figure Out if Buying Keywords Constitutes Trademark Use—Buying for the Home v. Humble Abode — Buying for the Home, LLC v. Humble Abode, LLC, 03-CV-2783 (JAP) (D.N.J. Oct. 20, 2006) — 2006 has been a bit of a jurisprudential disaster on the question of whether buying/selling …
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David Kirkpatrick / Fortune:
The real reason that Google bought YouTube? — The $1.65 billion purchase of the video-sharing site could actually be a boon for traditional TV ads. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — When Google spent $1.65 billion for 19-month-old online video phenomenon YouTube, it was portrayed as a sign of the triumph of online video.
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Boy Scouts shill for MPAA with copyright merit badge — The Los Angeles Council of the Boy Scouts of America will offer rewards to Scouts who absorb a brainwashing regime written by the MPAA. The merit badge patch in "respecting copyright" will almost certainly not include any training on fair use …
Jason Clarke / Download Squad:
Scrybe - the online productivity suite I'm dying to try — In this era of worshipping at the temple of "The David" (Getting Things Done), there is no shortage of offline and online productivity suites. With that in mind, I rarely get all that excited about the new Web 2.0 offerings that get a bit of buzz here and there.
