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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Skype founders name new video start-up Joost — Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom, the duo that brought the world Skype and Kazaa, have chosen a name for their new online-video start-up. — The two Danes want people hungry for Internet entertainment to roost at Joost.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Venice Project Launch Name: Joost — The Venice Project, the new online television startup led by Skype founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, has always been a working name for the company. Until today, no one outside the company knew name the company would eventually launch as.
AppleInsider:
Apple to impose 802.11n unlocking fee on Intel Mac owners — Core 2 Duo-based Mac owners who want to unlock next-generation 802.11n wireless technologies hidden inside their computers will first have to fork a few bucks over to Apple, AppleInsider has confirmed.
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Engadget, The Apple Core, Gizmodo, CrunchGear, broadbandreports.com, Monkey Bites and digg
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Mypunchbowl joins growing list of Evite rivals — Evite has long been the 800-pound gorilla in the online invitation area. — MyPunchbowl is the latest company trying to make a better version of Evite, by introducing better pre-party planning. It adds modern Web features for collaboration …
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Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:MyPunchbowl Joins the eVite Gunners
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useit.com:
10 Best Intranets of 2007 … The 10 best-designed intranets for 2007 are: — American Electric Power (AEP), United States — Comcast, United States — DaimlerChrysler AG, Germany — The Dow Chemical Company, United States — Infosys Technologies Limited, India
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Read/WriteWeb, Enterprise Web 2.0, unstruc chitchatting …, Sadagopan's weblog … and Steve Clayton
Zoli Erdos / Zoli's Blog:
Read/Write Intranet 2007 — Rod Boothby is running a Read/Write Intranet Idol - it's a poll I invite you to participate in, so I am attaching it at the bottom. But first, it gives me a chance to share some of my (wiki)-thoughts. — The list is a mix of industry behemoths (Microsoft …
screendigest.com:
User generated online video: consumer usage exploded in 2006 but revenues will prove slow to develop. The honeymoon period for user generated content is over — London 15th January 2007: The user generated online video market (UGOV) exploded in 2006 and by the end of the year …
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Privately, Hollywood admits DRM isn't about piracy — For almost ten years now I have argued that digital rights management has little to do with piracy, but that is instead a carefully plotted ruse to undercut fair use and then create new revenue streams where there were previously none.
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Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs: Keynote text analysis — Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates both gave big keynote addresses last week. So how did their messages compare? At the suggestion of a reader, we ran the text of both speeches through the tag-cloud generator …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Game search engine Wazap raises $7.9M, to launch in U.S. — Wazap is a search engine start-up focused exclusive on games, and is growing quickly — as you may expect, given the popularity of games. — It's another of those ideas that seems so obvious in hindsight, you're left wondering why it hasn't been done before.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
The Pirate Bay hopes to buy its own country: Sealand — Where do you go when you think it's crucial to provide access to ad-free episodes of Heroes but the rest of the world labels you a dirty pirate? If you're Swedish "intellectual property reform group" The Pirate Bay, you look for your own country.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The highs and lows of CES — I'm still not 100% after CES. It's amazing what a week of three-hour-a-night sleep does to your body. — Plus, we met up with John Welch and his fiance on Saturday. Yes, that John Welch. The one who is always giving me heck in my comments. — Turns out he's a real sweetheart.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft to offer Vista 'Family Pack' discount for Ultimate users — Even though the retail launch of Windows Vista just a couple of weeks away, Microsoft is still continuing to fine-tune its licensing and pricing details. — Sources said that Microsoft will announce some time over the next few days …
Elise Ackerman / siliconvalley.com:
Hooked on Google — Microsoft may have been willing to spend years developing Vista, the long-delayed upgrade of its Windows operating system, but when Bill Gates was presented with a plan for finally beating Google in Internet search technology, he gave the engineers just 100 days.
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
DMCA complaint with YouTube dropped — The husband of Second Life land baroness Anshe Chung said filing a Digital Millennium Copyright Act complaint with YouTube to delete a video of her avatar being attacked by a barrage of digital flying penises was a mistake. And as a result, he said he has revoked the DMCA claim.
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Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Taking the plunge into open source — More software companies are finding that the best way to make money with software is to give it away, cherry-picking open-source software practices for commercial gain. — On Monday, a small software company called Aras will release the code of its design application …
