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Karen / Official Google Blog:
About the Copiepresse decision — Posted by Rachel Whetstone, European Director of Communications and Public Affairs — Today we heard that the Belgian court, which last year ruled against us in the Copiepresse case has reaffirmed its original decision. This judgment is clearly disappointing …
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Leaked letter shows RIAA pressuring ISPs, planning discounts for early settlements — The RIAA is asking for additional cooperation from ISPs in getting customers targeted by the RIAA's file-sharing sting to cooperate, according to a letter recently leaked to P2P attorney Ray Beckerman.
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Neil McIntosh / Complete Tosh,:
Telegraph gets touchy about Comment is free — The Daily Telegraph's Shane Richmond is unhappy that the Guardian calls Comment is free (Cif) a blog. It's not, he says, calling for a debate about what exactly a blog is, and adding it's unfair to compare the Telegraph's blogs with CiF.
Alex Clover / The Bivings Report:
Pipe your RSS feeds the way you want them - Yahoo Pipes is a sign of things to come — The buzz about Yahoo! Pipes is through the roof - as of writing number 6 on Technorati's top searches list. This confirms what a lot of us here have been saying all along: people want to look at web content …
Betsya / Live Search's WebLog:
Live Search for Mobile Launches at 3GSM — Searching for Love? Or Just Love to Search? — On the bus home from work, Jim realizes it's Valentine's Day and he hasn't prepared any dinner plans with his wife Katie! Instead of panicking, he pulls out his Windows Mobile device and opens Live Search for mobile.
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
House OKs specialized patent judges — The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill that would allow certain federal judges to defer patent cases to colleagues considered better-versed in the complex area. — The proposal, first introduced last year by Reps. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) …
Microsoft:
Microsoft Statement in Response to Speculation on Next Version of Windows — No official guidance yet; company will provide more details when ready. — REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 13, 2007 - Microsoft released the following statement today from Kevin Kutz, Director, Windows Client …
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Robert McLaws / Windows-Now.com:Microsoft Tells Pundits to Shut Up About Windows 7, Talk About Vista
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Ed Bott's Microsoft Report
Ryan Freebern / The Uber-Review:
Horntones: Customize Your Honk — These days, if you can't download a custom sound onto a device, nobody wants it. That's why the Horntones FX-55 device is going to be so successful: instead of a lame single-note honk when you get mad at that guy who cut you off, why not play a few bars …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Online Video Industry Index — Written by Emre Sokullu and edited by Richard MacManus — There are now so many companies vying to be the next YouTube, it's easy to lose track of them all. So let's take a look at the entire online video industry and categorize the major players.
Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:
Hacker, Microsoft duke it out over Vista design flaw — Joanna Rutkowska has always been a big supporter of the Windows Vista security model. Until she stumbled upon a "very severe hole" in the design of UAC (User Account Control) and found out — from Microsoft officials …
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Yahoo Music exec agreeing with Jobs' DRM-free sentiment? — It's not everyday that you see two rivals agreeing on a subject where they become the vast minority in a horde of DRM-enforcing media protectors, but it seems like this parallel universe isn't so far out after all.
GameDaily:
Marc Ecko Expands Game Business — If you thought that fashion designer Marc Ecko's last game, Getting Up, was a one shot deal, think again. Ecko (right) is back in a big way with a new video games division, Marc Ecko Entertainment (MEE). More within...
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Microsoft Releases Patches to Fix 20 Security Holes — Microsoft Corp. today issued a dozen software updates to plug at least 20 security holes in its Windows operating system and other software, including fixes for a number of vulnerabilities in Office that hackers are currently exploiting to hijack vulnerable PCs.
Marianna / Official Google Checkout Blog:
Shopping cart badge updates — Posted by Jonathan Berger, Google Checkout Buyer Product Manager — An important part of Google Checkout since we launched last summer has been helping users find convenient, secure places to shop through tight integration with AdWords, the advertisements on our search results pages.
Brian Smith / ComparisonEngines.com:
Shopping Path's CrispyShop — I've known about ShoppingPath for a couple months, but Guilherme Leal inventor and co-founder of the company was putting on some finishing touches. The site is in Beta, but I thought it was now worth a mention. ShoppingPath has launched a site called CrispyShop.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
How do we keep up? — I got up early to read feeds and do email. I started at 5:45 a.m. and it's now 7:26 a.m. and I still didn't get through all my feeds. But, worse, is what I did find: dozens of new products, new companies, new phones (Gizmodo and Engadget are going crazy posting phone news …
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Are You Paying Attention?
Vanessa Fox / Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:
Our Valentine's day gift: out of beta and adding comments — Here at webmaster central, we love the webmaster community — and today, Valentine's Day, we want to show you that our commitment to you is stronger than ever. We're taking webmaster tools out of beta and enabling comments on this blog.
Mark Frauenfelder / Boing Boing:
Get Illuminated podcast 005 - Scott Rosenberg — In 2001, Mitch Kapor, the designer of the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, and the co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, started the Open Source Applications Foundation, or OSAF for short. — Kapor hired some of the most talented programmers …
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Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Pheedo Launches Social Media Ad Widgets — RSS ad network Pheedo will announce a new service tonight - advertising widgets powered by RSS and incorporating several social media tools. Readers familiar with Techmeme's advertising program will recognize the ideas here …
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Blogspotting
John Austin / Dallas Star-Telegram:
The next class fits in your pocket — Distance learning has been around for decades, but thanks to the iPod and other digital music players, higher education is becoming as portable as a pop song. — "I do testing for offshore rigs," said Melvin Robinson, a Sugar Land engineer …
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
YouTube Hands Over User's Info to Fox — Three weeks after receiving a subpoena from the U.S. District Court in Northern California, YouTube has reportedly identified a user accused by 20th Century Fox Television of uploading episodes of the show 24 a week prior to their running on television.
Zephoria / apophenia:
Facebook's little digital gift — Last week, Facebook unveiled a gifting feature. For $1, you can purchase a gift for the person you most adore. If you choose to make the gift public, you are credited with that gift on the person's profile under the "gift box" region.
Mike Yamamoto / Crave: The gadget blog:
Dual-screen laptop sees double — Earlier this month we mentioned a prototype dual touch-screen laptop but didn't think we'd be seeing anything like it off the drawing boards anytime soon. Shows you how much we know. — Pennsylvania-based Estari started out as a software company …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
BBC explains decision to go with Microsoft DRM — "Backstage," a new BBC podcast, features a fascinating discussion of the problems and opportunities facing "Auntie" as the venerable broadcaster enters the digital world and tries to figure out the DRM puzzle.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Filmloop's demise, the reputation of VCs, and how you can help — The details of Silicon Valley photo-sharing company Filmloop's quick, and strange demise continue to dribble out — and the story carries lessons for the first-time entrepreneur. — Yesterday, we'd referred to an apparent move …
