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Adobe propels cell phone video — NEW MOBILE TECHNOLOGY COULD BE REVOLUTIONARY — Software developer Adobe Systems plans to launch mobile technology today that could revolutionize how we watch video on our cell phones. — The San Jose company is making it possible to put Flash Video technology …
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Reuters:Yahoo runs mobile phone advertising in 18 nations
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Yahoo!, Search Engine Land, Screenwerk, Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog, SearchViews and Mobility Site
Steven Daly / Vanity Fair:
Pirates of the Multiplex — Under U.S. pressure, Swedish authorities are going after the popular Pirate Bay Web site for illegal distribution of video files. But if Hollywood wants to stop online pirates—who cost the industry some $7 billion in 2005—it needs to join them, not beat them.
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Microsoft launches 'PlayReady' DRM system — Microsoft has launched a new digital rights management system that will allow users to use commercial content on multiple different devices for a single fee. — Microsoft PlayReady was unveiled at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona on Monday.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
FilmLoop Betrayed By Investors? — When I added FilmLoop to the TechCrunch DeadPool last month based on rumors of mass layoffs, it was clear there was more to the story. The thirty person company had raised $11.5 million in capital and by any calculation should have still had at least $3 - $5 million left in the bank.
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Cerdafied
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Google decried as friend of piracy over AdSense earnings on piracy sites — Google rules the direct marketing world thanks to AdSense, and AdSense is popular thanks to the fact that almost anyone can sign up. As it turns out, that's a problem when sites break the law.
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Law Blog, Google Blogoscoped, PaidContent, The Tech Report, David Card, reBang weblog, Googling Google, Slashdot and digg
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Ryan Kennedy / Yahoo! Mail Updates:
Messenger and Mail...together at last! — At the Web 2.0 conference in November, we took the wraps off of one of our newest, coolest features: Yahoo! Messenger integrated with Yahoo! Mail Beta. But, that was just a preview of what was to come. Today, we will start to release this exciting new feature.
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Reuters:
Mexican drug wars find new battleground on YouTube — MEXICO CITY—A vicious Mexican drug gang war has moved onto Internet video-sharing site YouTube, where rivals taunt each other with blood-soaked slideshows and film of their murder victims. — One popular video on the site shows a man being shot in the head.
Gamasutra:
The 10 Minutes Game Sales Potential Test — Everybody in the gaming industry has a great idea for a game. The desire to see that idea become a reality is what brought many of us to this industry. Sadly, the quality of this idea - or even of the game itself - isn't enough to guarantee …
Andrew / Treonauts:
Windows Mobile 6 On Treo 750: Exclusive First Images! — Yesterday at 3GSM in Barcelona, Microsoft revealed details of its new Windows Mobile 6 operating system which features support for rich HTML e-mail, increased functionality within Microsoft Office Outlook Mobile and Office Mobile programs …
BBC:
Teraflop chip hints at the future — A chip with 80 processing cores and capable of more than a trillion calculations per second (teraflop) has been unveiled by Intel. — The Teraflop chip is not a commercial release but could point the way to more powerful processors, said the firm.
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Study: P2P effect on legal music sales "not statistically distinguishable from zero" — A new study in the Journal of Political Economy by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf has found that illegal music downloads have had no noticeable effects on the sale of music, contrary to the claims of the recording industry.
USA Today:
EMI in talks to dump copy protection — LOS ANGELES — The music industry is looking ahead to life without copy protection. — Major label EMI — home of Coldplay and Norah Jones — is in discussions with online music stores about selling its music without copy protection …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
YouTube shuts down Gawker account — YouTube has removed videos posted to the site by Gawker Media, many of which featured clips from top TV shows that appeared between advertisements for Gawker's blogs. — More than 50 clips were removed and the YouTube user account, "belowtheradar," …
Erick Schonfeld / The Next Net:
Will Widgets Kill the Webpage? (Exclusive Netvibes video). … Click To Play … Tariq Krim is widget crazy (watch the video above). The CEO of French startup Netvibes, the site where you can build a personal homepage from news and data feeds from all over the Web, is about to unleash a whole lot of widgets onto the Web.
Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Nokia releases H.264 video podcatcher — Nokia announced a new mobile feed reader focused on video today at the 3GSM conference in Barcelona. The Nokia Video Center comes pre-installed on new Nokia Series 60 devices such as the newly announced N95 and N93i but is also available as a separate download for compatible devices.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Command, Option, Control — Two asinine criticisms of Steve Jobs's "Thoughts on Music" are that (a) it's a shameless attempt to jump on the anti-DRM bandwagon — i.e. that Jobs and Apple are merely attempting to take credit for the already inevitable move toward non-DRM music; and (b) …
Tom Foremski / IMHO:
Nortel has a burn the boats strategy says CTO — The clap and rumble of thunder is followed within seconds by the sound of a torrential, tropical downpour. I'm sitting in the Tonga Room, in the bowels of the swank Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, with John Roese, CTO of Nortel, the $11bn Canadian telecoms equipment giant.
