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Apple vs. Cisco over iPhone — I was just on the phone with Garvin Thomas, a reporter from NBC11 News who wanted my take on the iPhone lawsuit between Apple and Cisco and to discuss what he learned. First, when you search the US Patent and Trademark Office database for iPhone …
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Mike / Techdirt:
Does The iPhone Need Patents? — from the questions,-questions dept — A bunch of folks have noted that Steve Jobs seemed mighty excited about the 200 or so patents Apple has filed around some of the technology involved in the iPhone (or whatever it's going to be called).
Knox / Celebs & Tech Gossips!:
No Porn On Sony HD-DVD Blu-ray? — Has Sony gone mad? Prominent adult movie producer Digital Playground (site) says it is forced to use HD DVD instead of Blu-ray, because Sony does not allow XXX-rated movies to be released on Blu-ray. — It does not matter how you stand to porn.
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Aaron McKenna / TG Daily:
CES 2007: HD DVD versus Blu-ray - The porn industry says HD DVD — Las Vegas (NV) - Knowing their audience quite well, the adult entertainment industry holds their annual get together in Las Vegas to coincide with the CES. There is also a very pertinent crossover between the adult and tech industries …
John Markoff / New York Times:
Phone Shows Apple's Impact on Consumer Products — Apple's new iPhone appears to be the clearest statement yet of what Steve Jobs's impact has been on consumer electronics. — It is not that he invents new technologies. He refines existing ones. — Mr. Jobs himself acknowledged …
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Om Malik / NewTeeVee:
Exclusive: Inside The Venice Project, Built On Mozilla — The Venice Project is not just another online video start-up. The Luxembourg-based company is the latest co-production of the two-person hit factory of Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. The founders of Kazaa and Skype are hoping …
Joe Mandese / MediaPost Publications:
CBS/Google: Analysts Say Radio Ad Deal Is Imminent, Has Sticking Points — CITING EXPECTATIONS THAT A MAJOR ad sales agreement with Google is imminent, securities firm Merrill Lynch reaffirmed its "buy" rating for CBS stock. In a report issued by lead broadcast analyst Jessica Reif Cohen …
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Rafat Ali / PaidContent:Google's Deal With CBS Radio Still Likely; TV Deal Unlikely
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blizzard.com:
WORLD OF WARCRAFT SURPASSES 8 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS WORLDWIDE — Player population in North America now exceeds 2 million, while Europe and China pass the 1.5 million player and 3.5 million player marks, respectively — Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. announced today that World of Warcraft® …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Firefox 3 Plans and IE8 Speculation - Browsers Heading Apart Again — Mozilla has published a wiki page detailing its plans for the next version of Firefox, codenamed "Gran Paradiso". The target release date is sometime in the third quarter this year and it hopes to release a major version of Firefox every year.
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Business 2.0 Beta, CyberNet Technology News, O'Reilly Radar, Neowin.net, All about Microsoft, The Tech Report and digg
Scott Knaster / Official Google Mac Blog:
Taming Mac OS X File Systems — Google is a fantastic company to work for. I could cite numerous reasons why. Take the concept of "20 percent time." Google engineers are encouraged to spend 20 percent of their time pursuing projects they're passionate about.
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Report: Vista's business sales stronger than expected — update Sales of Windows Vista to businesses were stronger than expected during the operating system's debut month, according to a report from NPD Group. — The sales outpaced the first month's tally for Windows 2000 and only slightly trailed …
BBC:
Radio goes the open source route — A new generation of broadcasters are to join the world's airwaves after the launch of open-source software which allows people to run a radio station from a single computer for free. — Campcaster takes a regular PC and turns it into a tool for managing every aspect of a radio station broadcast.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Complicated Laws = Free Calls — I'm still trying to figure out how this works, and by the time I do the service may be gone. Regardless, Iowa based AllFreeCalls is letting people make phone calls to many foreign countries for free. Or rather, for the cost of a call to Iowa.
Paul Kapustka / GigaOM:
Wi-Fi VoIP and iPhone: New Competitors? — The unrelated announcements this week of Apple's iPhone and Vonage's plan to bundle Wi-Fi with VoIP got me thinking: Do we need some new competitive analysis to figure out what's really happening in the world of good ol' talk talk talk?
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SeekingAlpha Software Stocks:
SAP Warns, Sending Shockwaves Through Enterprise Software — Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: Bad news for the enterprise software sector this afternoon, as SAP (SAP) just warned that fourth quarter software revenue growth came in short of previous guidance. This is a bit confusing, so bear with me.
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Ben Drawbaugh / Engadget:
Microsoft's CableCARD DRM — Our most anticipated feature of Windows Vista is CableCARD support. As much as we like MCE, it's inability to record HD cable channels is really lame. We knew there would be a catch in the form of DRM; like the OEM requiredment and some of our favorite Media Center features won't be available.
