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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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Peter Rojas / Engadget:RIAA misreads Jobs' open letter on DRM, thinks he's offering to license FairPlay
Ed Felten / Freedom to Tinker:Apple Offers to Sell DRM-Free Music
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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.
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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 …, Techdirt, GigaLaw.com Daily News, broadbandreports.com and Slashdot
Amazon.com:
TiVo and Amazon.com Announce New Service Enabling Amazon Unbox Video Downloads to TiVo — TiVo Subscribers Will Soon Be Able to Watch Amazon Unbox Movies and TV Shows on Their TVs — ALVISO, Calif. & SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Feb. 7, 2007—TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), the creator of and a leader …
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IP Democracy, ResourceShelf, MacUser, TechBlog, TiVo Lovers, CrunchGear, Podcasting News and Tech Beat
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Ionut Alex. Chitu / Google Operating System:
More People Can Sign up for a Gmail Account — Although Google posted in Gmail's help that "anyone in the world is now welcome to create a Gmail account at mail.google.com/mail/signup", Google's definition of the world was pretty limited. — Gmail is now a public beta in Europe …
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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.
Gamasutra:
SOE's Station Exchange - The Results of a Year of Trading — John Smedley is CEO of Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) (makers of Everquest 2 and Star Wars Galaxies), and sometimes serves as a lightning rod for debate in the Massively Multiplayer genre. SOE and Mr. Smedley made the bold decision …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Financial Times:
NBC's Zucker lashes out at YouTube — Jeff Zucker, on his first day as chief executive of NBC Universal, came out swinging at YouTube, accusing the online video site of failing to deploy its technology to protect the copyrighted materials of traditional media companies.
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 …
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.
