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HEARST ANNOUNCES PLAN TO LAUNCH "NEWS READER" PRODUCT AT THE SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER AND IDENTIFY POTENTIAL USES ACROSS HEARST BRANDS — Software Offers Consumers a Superior Onscreen Reading Experience — In a continuing effort to expand the reach of its content, Hearst Corporation today announced …
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Why do a reader only for one publication? (Adobe vs. Microsoft for developers)
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The Universal Desktop


News Readers for New York Times, Forbes, and Seattle P-I
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MP3 Patents in Upheaval After Verdict — Microsoft was ordered by a federal jury yesterday to pay $1.52 billion in a patent dispute over the MP3 format, the technology at the heart of the digital music boom. If upheld on appeal, it would be the largest patent judgment on record.
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GigaOM, IP Democracy, Washington Post, Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect, Valleywag, CNET News.com, Techdirt, Furdlog and Microsoft News Tracker
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Google to start filtering YouTube videos — Google is set to start filtering videos and other content on YouTube for copyrighted materials, taking a key step in helping the online video-sharing site comply with one of the biggest complaints it faces — rampant piracy.
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
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Forget party schools: The RIAA lists the top piracy schools in the US — Ohio University, Purdue University, and the University of Nebraska have made it to the top of a list, but it may not be something the universities want to brag about. The RIAA recently named the top 25 music-pirating schools …
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Steve Jobs' iTunes dance — Now the Apple CEO says he would gladly sell songs without digital restrictions, if the record companies let him. That's hardly a brave defiance, and besides, I don't believe him. — In early February, Apple CEO Steve Jobs published an extraordinary memo …


Internet Explorer loses ground to Firefox, Safari in US; holds its ground worldwide — Safari is either making huge gains or holding steady in the browser wars; it all depends on whose stats you use. The same can be said of Firefox, while Internet Explorer is losing ground in the US but holding steady worldwide.

Judge rules against Canon in nanotube TV case — A federal judge has ruled that Canon breached a licensing agreement with a small nanotechnology company, a decision that puts another roadblock into Canon's effort to come out with a whole new style of flat screen TVs.

RIAA declares war on open WiFi — The RIAA is asking a judge to rule that anyone who provides bandwidth should be responsible for all the activities of his users. This would doom open WiFi — and all other public networking efforts. But who needs anonymous speech, anyway?
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RIAA Fights Back, Threatens Open Wi-Fi
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Techdirt, Susan Crawford blog, OpsanBlog, Ars Technica, Smalltalk Tidbits …, digg and Slashdot


Emotion robots learn from people — Making robots that interact with people emotionally is the goal of a European project led by British scientists. — Feelix Growing is a research project involving six countries, and 25 roboticists, developmental psychologists and neuroscientists.
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Gizmodo

Just Behave: Marissa Mayer on Personalized Search — It was almost 3 weeks ago today that Google posted on their corporate blog about some changes to the personalized search sign-up process. Danny covered this development quite nicely in a very comprehensive post, looking at the specifics …
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outofmygord.com

Apple, Cisco smoke peace pipe on iPhone — Apple and Cisco have announced a settlement of the iPhone trademark lawsuit, leaving the two companies free to use the iPhone name on their products around the world. In a joint statement, Apple and Cisco said that each company has full rights …
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Traffic measuring continued: Why Compete doesn't work, and why Quantcast does — It sucks when your Web site's traffic isn't being measured correctly. — It also sucks when you're trying to measure the significance of someone else's site, and are getting conflicting signals.


Europe's PS3 to have limited PS2 backwards compatibility? — We'll admit, we're feeling starting to feel for you folks in Europe, as not only do you now have to actually pay attention to where you're driving, but the PlayStation 3 you were planning on snagging exactly one month from today might be hamstringed right out of the box.
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Game | Life

Will you trust Google with your data? — IN FOCUS » See more posts on: Google Office — Phil Wainewright raises an interesting beef in his post on SaaS data worries. In a nutshell, Phil says it's strange that people are trotting out the "your data may not be safe" argument when talking about Google Office.
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Microsoft tests "pay-as-you-go" software — Microsoft has been quietly testing a new "pay-as-you-go" software rental service in South Africa, Mexico, and Romania. The service allows users to pay a monthly fee of around $15 for the use of Office 2003. — The program is a pilot project …
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Neowin.net


OpenCoffee Club — What is it? — An attempt to establish recognized, open and regular meeting places where entrepreneurs can meet with investors (and anyone else who fancies coming along) in a totally informal setting. — We want to create some density — a few places where people know they can meet or bump into others.
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EirePreneur