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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Viacom, Joost strike content licensing deal — update Entertainment conglomerate Viacom has announced a deal to license its programming content to Joost, the online-video start-up created by the founders of Skype and Kazaa. — The deal, announced Tuesday, is designed to bring television …
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Kenneth Li / Reuters:
Viacom lands video deal with Joost — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Viacom Inc.., engaged in a public copyright battle with Google Inc.'s YouTube, has agreed to offer videos to Joost, the Internet video service created by the founders of Skype and Kazaa. — Viacom said on Tuesday hundreds of hours …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Viacom to Sign Deal with Joost — Two weeks after Viacom ordered Google to take down more than 100,000 allegedly copyrighted videos from YouTube, the media giant is about to sign a content deal with Joost, the Wall Street Journal is reporting tonight. Joost, the P2P online television service soon …
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Shunning YouTube, Viacom hooks up with Joost — Viacom has announced a deal with Joost that will see the new P2P-based video start-up "broadcasting" Viacom's music videos, TV shows and other materials on the service. Viacom will provide Joost with content not only from MTV, but also from BET …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:The Joost-Viacom love in (and what they meant to say)
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New York Times:
Merger Would End Satellite Radio's Rivalry — The nation's two satellite radio services, Sirius and XM, announced plans yesterday to merge, a move that would end their costly competition for radio personalities and subscribers but that is also sure to raise antitrust issues.
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Rob Beschizza / Gadget Lab:10 Things You Might Not Know About the Sirius-XM Merger
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BBC:
US copyright lobby out-of-touch — Internet law professor Michael Geist takes a look at intellectual property protection in the US and finds it somewhat out of step with the rest of the world. — The International Intellectual Property Alliance, an association that brings together US lobby …
PrimeNewswire:
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs to Make Historic Joint Appearance At the Fifth Annual 'D: All Things Digital' Conference — PRIME NEWSWIRE) (PRIMEZONE) — Apple, Inc. CEO Steve Jobs and Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates, the seminal figures in the development of the personal computer …
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
What Dell customers want - Linux, no craplets, more RAM, no offshored tech support — Last week Dell launched a new site called Dell Ideastorm. The idea behind Ideastorm is to leverage the "Web 2.0" wave to get feedback from web users on what they want to see from Dell.
Reuters:
Google co-founder: Science needs entrepreneurs … SAN FRANCISCO, California (Reuters) — Scientists need more entrepreneurial drive and could benefit by doing more to promote solutions to big human problems, Google Inc. co-founder Larry Page told a meeting of academic researchers.
Gamasutra:
Interview: Capcom Vice President of Marketing Charles Bellfield — Charles Bellfield is the Vice President of Marketing at Capcom, USA. In this Gamasutra interview, freelance journalist Kyle Orland sits down with Bellfield to discuss Capcom's stance on the Academy of Interactive Arts …
Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
The Battle for Mobile Search — When it comes to Internet search over mobile phones, upstarts have a decent chance against the likes of Google and Yahoo — When it comes to Web search engines, Google is the winner by a wide margin, handling nearly twice the requests of its closest competitor …
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Jonathan Mendez / Jonathan Mendez's Blog:
7 Ways to Optimize Your YouTube Tags — I can't get YouTube off my mind. With apologies to Gil Scott Heron, the revolution is being videoized. Contrary to popular opinion it just may be an ad revolution. H&R Block's recent promo for their TaxCut online filing includes the most linked to comedy video in the history of YouTube.
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Laurie Burkitt / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Google class debuts at the UW — Students learn firm's approach to programming — At 26 and at the top of his game as one of Google's vaunted software engineers, Chistophe Bisciglia found himself bored and restless. Writing computer code at the world's most successful Internet company had become a mind-numbing chore.
symantec.com:
An Example of Why UAC Prompts in Vista Can't Always Be Trusted — People who have been following the not unexpected initial wave of security research with regards to Windows Vista will have seen three informative blog posts recently. The first, by Joanna Rustkowska is titled "Vista Security Model - A Big Joke?"
NewScientistTech:
Invention: Hot lap prevention — Anyone who uses a laptop computer will know just how hot they can get. This overheating can sometimes cause injury, and may even reduce male fertility, if a user fails to notice how hot their machine is getting. — Intel is patenting a solution …
Trulia Blog:
Trulia API now open to the world! — As you know, Trulia started as one of the early real estate mash-ups on the Web 2.0 scene. We thought it was only right (and about time) that we gave a little back to the developer community by providing access to otherwise private data from Trulia.com through the Trulia API.
Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
Seven steps to remarkable customer service — As a bootstrapped software company, Fog Creek couldn't afford to hire customer service people for the first couple of years, so Michael and I did it ourselves. The time we spent helping customers took away from improving our software …
