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Lou Young / WCBS-TV:
Bill Banning iPods In Crosswalks Slated For Albany — State Sen. Kruger: Electronic Devices Put Many In Danger — (CBS) NEW YORK First it was cell phones in cars, then trans fats. Now, a new plan is on the table to ban gadget use while crossing city streets.
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Peter Rojas / Engadget:
RIAA misreads Jobs' open letter on DRM, thinks he's offering to license FairPlay — Steve Jobs' open letter about DRM and music yesterday definitely got a lot of tongues wagging, but there's one group that might want to re-read what he wrote. Bit Player (you gotta scroll down to the bottom of the post) …
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Jon Healey / Bit Player:
Jobs to DRM: Drop Dead — Steve Jobs posted an essay of sorts today on Apple.com dubbed "Thoughts on Music." It's not really about music, though; it's about the way the major record labels have been selling their products online. In particular, Jobs urged the labels to drop their demand …
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Techdirt, Lawgarithms, ResourceShelf, Computerworld Blogs blogs, Business 2.0 Beta, Raw Thought, The Tech Report, Listening Post and TechBlog
Matt Loney / CNET News.com:
Google opens Gmail to all — Google on Wednesday said its Gmail service is now open to anyone who wants an account. Previously the service, which provides users with 2.8GB of e-mail storage space, has been by invitation only. — The service, known as Google Mail in the U.K., has proved very popular.
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
GOP revives ISP-tracking legislation — All Internet service providers would need to track their customers' online activities to aid police in future investigations under legislation introduced Tuesday as part of a Republican "law and order agenda." — Employees of any Internet provider …
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The Progress & Freedom …, GigaLaw.com Daily News, broadbandreports.com, Techdirt and Slashdot
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Senator to propose surveillance of illegal images — A forthcoming bill in the U.S. Senate lays the groundwork for a national database of illegal images that Internet service providers would use to automatically flag and report suspicious content to police.
Muhammad Saleem / Pronet Advertising:
Why Socially Driven Sites Hate SEOs — If you look at the list of domains banned by the socially driven news and content behemoth Digg.com, you will find that a majority of them are SEO-related sites. While many people think that Digg has an irrational vendetta against these sites …
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Stuntdubl SEO / Stuntdubl Business Search …:10 Reasons Diggers are like SEO's (really - don't digg my blog)
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Windows Mobile 6 announced — Microsoft's finally ready to take the wraps off Windows Mobile 6, the long-awaited successor to Windows Mobile 5 (what else?) that's been baking in the oven for a while now as "Crossbow." The platform formerly known as Pocket PC Phone Edition has become Windows Mobile 6 …
Ellen Messmer / Network World:
RSA '07: Bruce Schneier casts light on psychology of security — Security decisions often are much less rational than one would prefer, Schneier says — SAN FRANCISCO — One of the security industry's most outspoken experts, Bruce Schneier, spoke at RSA Conference on the topic …
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Pipes and Filters for the Internet — Yahoo!'s new Pipes service is a milestone in the history of the internet. It's a service that generalizes the idea of the mashup, providing a drag and drop editor that allows you to connect internet data sources, process them, and redirect the output.
Kim Cameron / Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog:
Structuring our announcement — I felt we needed an objective criterion for deciding who to approach as representative of the OpenID community. — Posted on Wednesday 7 February 2007 — Identity Woman Kaliya, who is a key community figure and has played a pivotal role in bringing everyone together …
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Paul Kapustka / GigaOM:
AT&T's 'Free Call' Bill: $2 Million — Guess who got stuck with a big bill for all those "free" international calls touted by outfits like FuturePhone? None other than AT&T, which has filed a lawsuit in Iowa claiming that "deceitful and unlawful schemes" like FuturePhone's caused a jump …
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Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Scrapblog New Release Coming — Tomorrow, Scrapblog, a hybrid media-sharing and online journal site, will be demoing the new version of their Flash-based online scrapbook application tomorrow at the We Media Conference in Miami. The public version of the new product will be out in March.
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Social Networking For Change(.org) — Nonprofit social networking site Change.org is launching this morning and hopes to change the way the average person or activist interacts with nonprofits. The site focuses on getting users to issues they care about - ending hunger, stopping global warming, etc.
David Hinkle / DS Fanboy:
Nintendo thought about going into the cell phone business? — We never would've thought Nintendo was looking to the mobile phone industry with any kind of plans for branching out, but according to the linked patent, which was filed in November 2001 and issued in June 2006, they were (and could still be).
Tropicaljantie / Watching, Testing, Digesting:
Somebody noticed that Skype Reads Your BIOS and Motherboard Serial Number. But is it really that big an issue ? — Important enough to mention it here. Read this entry by myria. — If this is all true (we will know once it is better documented, I guess) this then means that too many "confidential data" are located on one spot.
Gizmodo:
Dealzmodo (??): Apple iPod Hi-Fi, $87 B&M — Vocabulary lesson: B&M stands for brick and mortar, or in-store only. — According to the frugalites over at Slickdeals, Target has the iPod Hi-Fi stereo/iPod dock for $87 in-store only, which is 75-percent off the retail price of $350.
SEM Punch:
Yahoo Bugs Deactivate Advertiser Accounts - Google Laughs — Just as I thought my Yahoo experience couldn't get worse, an even more ridiculous thing happened to me yesterday - my entire Yahoo account was put offline and traffic stopped. I simply got the follwoing message in my account:
Peter Clarke / InformationWeek:
What's Inside Apple's iPhone? Three ARM Processors — The president of England's ARM Holdings confirmed that "at least three" processor cores developed at his company are inside Apple's iPhone, though Apple isn't confirming anything. — EE Times Europe
Davidweiss / Mac Mojo:
Birthday Gift for MacBU — Yesterday, as I walked from the dark parking garage to begin my day of work, I remembered that we were celebrating MacBU's 10th anniversary! The clouds were thinning and I looked around to see if perchance, the cloudy weather would abate, even a little bit for our big party.
Jon Arnold / Jon Arnold's Blog:
Iotum at DemoCamp - Photo and Video Highlights — DemoCamp 12 was held on Monday here in Toronto. This is a very vibrant community, but one that I don't normally spend time with. It's a great forum for aspiring tech entrepreneurs to demonstrate their technology, and probably more importantly, get candid feedback from their peers.
Yahoo! Search blog:
A Search Box that Fits — Since launching Yahoo! Search Builder back in August we've received a lot of great feedback and have been working to address the issues nearest and dearest to our users. We've noticed a lot of talk around the width of the search box being too wide and not easily fitting …
