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Scott Kirsner / Variety:
Academy threatens YouTube — Site removes unauthorized Oscar clips — Web surfers will no longer be reliving the magic moments of the 2007 Oscarcast via YouTube. The vid-viewing site complied with a Tuesday request from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to remove all unauthorized clips of the kudocast.
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Reuters:
Publishers allow book browsing on the Web — NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dusty world of book publishing has taken a step into cyberspace as Random House and HarperCollins letting customers browse books online. — Random House, whose writers include Danielle Steel and Norman Mailer …
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Mike / Techdirt:
Publishing Houses Think That Expensive, Fragmented And Limited Book Search Is Better Than Letting Google And Amazon Do It? — from the please-explain dept — Book publishers have been pretty vocal in their dislike for Google's plan to scan books and make them searchable via …
Mike / Techdirt:
Silicon Valley Tech Policy Summit Has Plenty Of Tech Policy... Not Much Silicon Valley — from the where-is-everyone dept — On Monday, I attended the Silicon Valley Tech Policy Summit, and wrote about a few of the panels and talks at the event. While the list of speakers was impressive …
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Between the Lines, IP Democracy, Silicon Valley Watcher, The 463 and Tech Policy Summit blog
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
A cure for e-mail attention disorder? — Corporate managers concerned about the amount of time employees spend sifting though mountains of unwanted e-mail may soon have World of Warcraft to thank for providing a solution. — That's because a Palo Alto, Calif.-based start-up called Seriosity …
Jennifer Granick / Wired News:
Patently Bad Move Gags Critics — Guess what? Radio frequency identification tags are insecure. But don't demonstrate the technology's problems at a security conference. If you do, HID Global, a manufacturer of access-control devices, might sue you for patent infringement.
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BetaNews:
House Bill Seeks to Exempt Backups from DMCA Violation — In an announcement this afternoon prior to the publication of the bill by the Library of Congress, Reps. Rick Boucher (D - VA) and John Doolittle (R - CA) introduced a bill that apparently would grant a new exemption for private …
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Frank Ahrens / Washington Post:Digital 'Fair Use' Bill Introduced In Congress
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DigiTimes:
Intel to adjust CPU pricing — A Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) report is indicating that Intel plans to cut prices for selective single-core Pentium 4 (P4) and entry-level dual-core CPUs in the range of 5-10% before April 22. — Intel had originally planned to introduce …
Hyatt / Surfin' Safari:
Background Music — macenstein.com has an interesting article about a slowdown in other applications when a Safari window with a specific set of pages is loaded in the background. What a browser should do when it is the background application is actually extremely complex …
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MSFTextrememakeover:
Limbo, limbo, like kimbo — A limbo is, among other things, a West Indian dance in which the dancers keep bending over backward and passing under a pole that is lowered slightly each time. Substituting the stock for the pole (or bending over for that matter), that sounds remarkably like the fate of MSFT shareholders.
Karen / Official Google Blog:
Stuck in traffic? — There's nothing worse than getting stuck in traffic when you have some place to go, so I'm happy to tell you about a new feature on Google Maps that can help. For more than 30 major U.S. cities, you can now see up-to-date traffic conditions to help you plan your schedule and route.
BBC:
Fragrant future beckons for web — Within a decade the net will be able to deliver smells as fast as it does data, predicts a report. — The forecast came in a wide-ranging survey produced by the South Korean government to find out what consumers will want from future technologies.
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Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
Oscars.com vs Youtube.com and the value of hosting on Gootube — Comscore released data saying that 139k people visited Oscar.com on Oscar Sunday. Seperately, Mashable reported that the Oscars asked Youtube to remove videos from the show that had been uploaded.
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Chip Griffin
Washington Post:
Google Searches For Government Work — Google, meet Uncle Sam. — The search engine giant showed off its ambition yesterday to expand its business with the federal government, kicking off a two-day sales meeting that attracted nearly 200 federal contractors, engineers and uniformed military members eager …
Jo Best / Business Week:
Nokia Tops in 2006 Smartphone Sales — Despite its underperformance in North America, the Finnish tech giant took 48% of market share. RIM came in second — 2006 was the year of the converged device with 80 million smart phones shipped worldwide, according to analysts …
Yahoo! Search blog:
Yahoo! Search Support for 'NOYDIR' Meta Tags and Weather Update — We're adding support for the Meta tag called 'NOYDIR' that will complement the 'NOODP' Meta tag, which we already support. If you're unfamiliar, the 'NOODP' Meta tag is basically a way for webmasters to indicate that Open Directory Project …
