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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Universal Near Deal With Video Site on Royalties — Universal Music Group is poised to win a small battle in its war to claim royalties from sites that allow users to upload videos that contain its music. — Universal, the country's largest music label, is in the final stages of negotiating …
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Bolt.com Selling to GoFish for $30M — Bolt, one of the larger independent online video sites, is selling itself to GoFish to escape its copyright battle with Universal Music Group. We had been tracking this story as it developed, but the New York Times now reports the deal has gone through.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Bolt Sells to GoFish to Pay Universal Music Settlement — Video sharing site Bolt.com is being acquired by GoFish - a smaller but richer rival, in order to pay the settlement the company has agreed to with Universal Music Group for copyright infringement. The New York Times broke the story tonight.
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Intel shows off 80-core processor — Intel has built its 80-core processor as part of a research project, but don't expect it to boost your Doom score just yet. — Chief Technical Officer Justin Rattner demonstrated the processor in San Francisco last week for a group of reporters …
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Conrad Quilty-Harper / Engadget:
Intel demonstrates 80-core processor — Now that the Megahertz race has faded into the distance (we hear it was a myth), Intel is well and truly kicking off the start of a multi-core war with the demonstration of an 80-core research processor in San Francisco last week.
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Business Wire:
Adobe Flash Lite To Support Video for Mobile Handsets — Upcoming Release of Flash Lite to Integrate Video Playback Capabilities — BARCELONA, Spain—(BUSINESS WIRE)—At the 3GSM World Congress, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced that support for video will be integrated …
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Adobe's Flash Video to Play on Mobile Phones, New Transcoding System to be Unveiled This Week at 3GSM in Barcelona — The Flash video ecosystem has has become the most widely deployed platform for streaming video on the Web. Video sharing sites, news organizations, governments, institutions and many others use the platform.
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Reveals New Windows Mobile 6 Smartphone Software, Improves World's Fastest-Growing Mobile Operating System — Latest software to feature new messaging tools, tighter security and improved productivity features; devices to begin shipping worldwide by second quarter of 2007.
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Firefox 3 To Support Offline Apps — An interesting tidbit came out of the recent Foo Camp New Zealand (which unfortunately I wasn't able to attend). Robert O'Callahan from Mozilla, who is based in NZ but drives the rendering engine of Mozilla/FireFox, spoke about how Firefox 3 will deliver support for offline applications.
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
YOUTUBE HOLY WAR? — Apparently this fellow made a video showing violent quotes from the Koran, putting the holy book in a bad light. It was a slide show, that's it, no commentary. YouTube banned his account and pulled all his videos. He's an atheist, but not a nut. This is a bad precedent.
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Stuart Dredge / Tech Digest:
3GSM 2007: Will MusicStation be a mobile iTunes beater? — http://www.omnifone.comThat's certainly how Omnifone, the company behind the new mobile music service, has been spinning it in a series of pre-briefings to journalists this week. — MusicStation is a music subscription service for mobile phones …
Kenneth Li / Reuters:
MySpace offers tools to block unauthorized videos — NEW YORK, Feb. 12 (Reuters) - News Corp.'s (NWSa.N: Quote, Profile , Research) online social network MySpace said on Monday it is offering free software tools to let media companies block the uploading of unauthorized video clips …
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Ted / Signal to Noise:
Why the "i" in iTunes should stand for "indy" — iTunes debuted several years ago, and I continue to be impressed with the simplicity and superiority of Apple's value chain for music-from the iPod to the Mac/PC all the way up to the store itself. Not so much for video delivery, but that's a subject for another Sunday.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Zlango Update: BenchMark and Accel Invest $12 Million — Israel-based Zlango will announce a $12 million round of financing tomorrow, led by BenchMark Capital and Accel Partners. The company launched the Zlango icon-based SMS service in the middle of 2006, and has expanded to three countries …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Very Ugly Bug at BarackObama.com — The "find a group" section of the new Barack Obama social network contains a hard coded racial and sexual orientation slur. When searching groups, a couple of search options appear along with the hard coded text "Example: Gay Nigger Association of America -#@ for Obama, 16892."
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Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Social Network Fatigue and the Missing Web 2.0 Address Book — Jon Udell just wrote a thought-provoking piece about the difficulty of new social networks reaching critical mass, and the obvious fact that there already is an uber-social network at critical mass, if only we can make things interoperate:
Alexander Sliwinski / Joystiq:
Nintendo VP on corp. differences: Nobody got shot for Wii — In an interview conducted with Gamespy at the DICE conference, Nintendo VP of Marketing and Corp. Affairs, Perrin Kaplan, discussed the different approaches used by Sony and Nintendo during their coincidentally timed launches.
Chris Williams / The Register:
Mobile forensics turns up heat on suspects — The latest version of the top computer forensics package will be the first to include a mobile phone component. The move signals how vital mobile data has become to many prosecutions. — Police forces in the UK and worldwide already use …
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