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XM and Sirius to Announce Merger Today — ABC News Has Confirmed That Satellite Radio Providers XM and Sirius Will Announce a Merger Today — ABC News has confirmed reports that two satellite radio providers XM and Sirius will announce a long-anticipated merger today.
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Thomas Heath / Washington Post:
Satellite Radio's XM, Sirius to Merge — District-based XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. and New York-based Sirius Satellite Radio Inc., which together control the emerging satellite subscription radio market, today announced that they plan to merge in a $13 billion deal.
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Sources: XM Radio, Sirius merger imminent — XM Radio and Sirius are reportedly in final negotiations that should result in a merger. First reported by the New York Post, the Wall Street Journal is confirming that the two companies are very close to a deal that may be announced as early as today.
Obviously:
Looking for Odeo's new home — In the last few months, we here at Obvious have been increasingly focused on Twitter. As a result, our original product, Odeo, has not gotten the attention it deserves. — It does not cost us much to run—in fact, AdSense covers the hosting …
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
3X DVD introduced: HD DVD, now in lower resolution! — Doug Carson & Associates (DCA), makers of DVD mastering software, announced today that the first 3X DVD-ROM disc was officially mastered over the weekend, a move that some think will allow HD DVD to become more popular and possibly even win the ongoing "format war" with Blu-ray.
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Victoria Shannon / New York Times:
Europe's Plan to Track Phone and Net Use — European governments are preparing legislation to require companies to keep detailed data about people's Internet and phone use that goes beyond what the countries will be required to do under a European Union directive.
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Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
From Clipouts to the Web, Coupons Transition Slowly — ONLINE coupons have always been a bargain-hunter's diversion, which may be precisely why the market has grown so slowly. Who wants to take time out of the day to track down sites that give away 50-cent discounts, then search for eligible products that they might need?
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
MSN Experimenting With Most Digg Like Service Yet — Last week we saw first Yahoo! and then Dell launch sites that were largely acknowledged to be Digg inspired. Digg may not have invented the vote-on-news motif but it may have been most important in popularizing the paradigm so far.
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Anick Jesdanun / Associated Press:
Entrepreneurs profit from free Web names — NEW YORK — It's not often you can compare Internet addresses with clothing, but a growing practice comes close, contributing to a global shortage in good names. — Entrepreneurs have been taking advantage of a five-day grace period to sample millions …
Nick Farrell / Inquirer:
Ballmer blames pirates for poor Vista sales — Will crank up the WGA — THE SHY and retiring, softly-spoken CEO of Microsoft, Steve "Sounds of Silence" Ballmer is blaming software pirates for Vista's poor sales. — Ballmer admitted to financial analysts that the predictions for Vista …
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Enigmax / p2pfreak:
FBI Training Elite Swedish Anti-Piracy Force — When it comes to piracy Sweden is no stranger to controversy. Gaining worldwide notoriety as the country that hosts The Pirate Bay BitTorrent tracker and recently being labelled as a piracy safe haven by an International Intellectual Property Alliance report …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
New virtual world coming from Australia — I just had lunch with Randal Leeb-du Toit, CEO of Yoick, and John Wolpert, executive producer of Outback Online, a 3D virtual world that Yoick is working on. — Who said cool stuff has to come from Silicon Valley?
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Why AOL Created 63 Million New OpenIDs — Written by Jitendra Gupta of Karmaweb and edited by Richard MacManus — Late last week AOL announced its support of the open identity system OpenID, for all 63 million of their AOL/AIM Ids (for those looking for a quick introduction to OpenID, click here).
Paul Kapustka / NewTeeVee:
Eyespot Powers NBA's Video-mixing site — Not unlike an unheralded draft pick who cracks the starting lineup, startup video-editing site Eyespot jumps into the big leagues Tuesday as the technology engine behind the NBA's new "highlights mixer" web site. — With league-sanctioned clips of dunks …
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Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine:
The US$4000+ Gresso 1GB MP3 player — In November we wrote about the newest of the elite mobile phone manufacturers, Gresso, which makes phones from 200 year-old African Blackwood and Gold. Now Gresso is to diversify and has announced a collection of ultra-exclusive Mp3 players …
