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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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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Bill banning iPods and cellphones on New York City streets coming — Brace yourselves good people of New York, mother government is prepared to step in (again) and save you from yourselves. Senator Carl Kruger is reportedly set to introduce legislation that would ban the use of MP3 players …
wnbc.com:
Ban Proposed On Cell Phones, iPods In Crosswalk — Ban Would Apply To Cell Phones, MP3 players, Blackberrys — NEW YORK — A state senator from Brooklyn said on Tuesday he plans to introduce legislation that would ban people from using an MP3 player, cell phone, Blackberry …
MacNN:
Norway responds to Jobs' open DRM letter — Senior advisor Torgeir Waterhouse of the Norwegian Consumer Council has responded to Apple CEO Steve Jobs' open letter concerning digital rights management and free music, which the executive published earlier today.
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:Will Steve Jobs drop iTunes DRM in a heartbeat?
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Don Dodge on The Next …, Daring Fireball, Scobleizer, Thomas Hawk's Digital … and rc3.org
Associated Press:
TiVo, Amazon offer video downloads that can be viewed on TV sets — SEATTLE — Amazon.com Inc. and TiVo Inc. have jumped into the digital download wars — with a twist: The new partners will beam movies and TV shows directly to their customers' living rooms.
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Is Barry Diller ready for foray into Web video? — NEW YORK—An often-overlooked fact is that the world has billionaire moguls Barry Diller and Rupert Murdoch to thank for Bart Simpson, Jack Bauer and Bill O'Reilly. — Diller and Murdoch, once friendly enough to collaborate …
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Rafat Ali / PaidContent:@ Media Summit: Barry Diller's Keynote: Future of YouTube: I have No Clue
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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 …
Jason Schultz / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Big Win for Innocent RIAA Defendant — Good news today from the great state of Oklahoma. Debbie Foster, a single mom who was improperly sued by the RIAA back in 2004 for file sharing, has won back her attorneys' fees. The decision today is one of the first in the country to award attorneys fees …
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Judi Sohn / Web Worker Daily:
IMIFIED: USE INSTANT MESSAGES FOR MORE THAN JUST CHAT — Here's an interesting new web application...IMified. Use your favorite instant messenger application to add notes, reminders and even blog entries to a website or supported services. Why would you want to do this? It's easy and uncomplicated.
Deborah Yao / Business Week:
Comcast, Facebook to launch video series — Comcast Corp. and Facebook.com are joining forces to create a television series from user-generated videos that will appear online and through video on demand. — Called "Facebook Diaries," the series will consist of 10 half-hour episodes produced …
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IP Democracy, Reel Pop, The Social Web, Susan Mernit's Blog, Mashable!, PaidContent, splashcastmedia.com and NewTeeVee
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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.
Washington Post:
Google Still Searching For Recognition in D.C. — Two minutes before his introduction on stage yesterday, Google chief executive Eric Schmidt walked across the ballroom of the Willard Intercontinental Hotel unnoticed by most of the pinstriped crowd dining on crab cakes and tenderloin.
Ionut Alex. Chitu / Google Operating System:
Anyone Can Sign up for a Gmail Account — Gmail is now a public beta. Go to Gmail.com, and look for "Sign up for Gmail" or go to this page. After almost three years of invitation-only access, Gmail gradually opened in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Egypt and now everywhere.
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CyberNet Technology News, Search Engine Land, Googling Google, Search Engine Journal and digg
Mike / Techdirt:
FCC Continues To Fudge Broadband Numbers — from the nice-try-there dept — The FCC has been called out repeatedly by the GAO for fudging the numbers on broadband penetration in the US, so it's no surprise at all to hear they're doing it again with the latest report.
Peter Galli / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft's Open XML Format Hits Roadblocks in U.S., Abroad — Microsoft's goal of getting governments across the globe to embrace its Office Open XML format has hit roadblocks in both the United States and abroad. — In the United States, legislation was introduced in Texas and Minnesota …
Dameon Welch-Abernathy / Web Worker Daily:
5 SKYPE TIPS FOR WEB WORKERS — As a Web Worker, you have undoubtedly used, tried, or at least heard of Skype, that wonderful peer-to-peer IM/voice tool that end users love, but security administrators detest. — Thanks to both the efforts of Skype and a series of third party application developers …
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 …
Business Wire:
HandHeld Entertainment Acquires Putfile.com and Increases Audience to More Than 13.7 Million Unique Visitors and 83 Million Page Views — The $7.1 Million Acquisition of Putfile.com Transforms HandHeld Entertainment's Network of User-Generated Web Sites into a Significant Worldwide Online Video Network
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Real-world success with virtual goods — Perhaps the makers of virtual worlds shouldn't be so persnickety about allowing players to exchange real money for virtual goods. — In a report set to be released Wednesday, Sony Online Entertainment has concluded that so-called real-money trades …
