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4:50 AM ET, March 2, 2007

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Kotaku:
Sony Blackballs Kotaku  —  Earlier today we posted a rumor story on the site about a possible announcement of a new technology coming to Sony's Playstation 3.  —  The Playstation Home, we reported, would be an intriguing blending of the Mii and achievements, allowing gamers to create …
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Kotaku:
Rumor: Sony To Unveil PlayStation Home  —  We just received a very interesting tip that, while juicy and quite believable, we're labeling as rumor for now.  As you are probably well aware, GDC executive director Jamil Moledina set Sony's Phil Harrison up for the spike yesterday …
Kotaku:
Sony and Kotaku Make-Up  —  Silent Hill Movie Sequel Confirmed?  —  Ain't It Cool News reporter Quint got a chance to speak with actress Laurie Holden—she played police officer Cybil Bennett in the original film—who revealed that producers were "going forward with a sequel" …
Discussion: Gizmodo, Game | Life and digg
Ludwig Kietzmann / Joystiq:
Sony blackballs Kotaku for rumor report [update 1]
Discussion: Gizmodo and digg
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Digg Should Sue Wired  —  Wired Magazine seems hell bent on convincing the world that Digg is falling apart.  I have a problem with that because Wired Magazine's parent company, Condé Nast, owns Digg competitor Reddit.  And because Wired isn't just reporting Digg news …
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Annalee Newitz / Wired News:
I Bought Votes on Digg  —  It was Tuesday, 1:22 a.m. on the West Coast, and influential news recommendation site Digg was hopping.  A new story about a blog dedicated to showing photographs of crowds had just gotten enough diggs to make the "popular" list on the tech/design page, and several people were commenting on it.
Stan Schroeder / franticindustries:
Wired is going too far against Digg  —  I agree with Mike at TechCrunch wholeheartedly over the fact that Wired is going way too far in their negativity towards Digg.  —  Wired is owned by Condé Nast, a company that also owns Digg's competitor Reddit.
Mike Butcher / Vecosys:
Startups squint into the daylight at first OpenCoffee  —  Katie, manager of the Starbucks inside the Esprit shop London's Regent Street, had something of a shock today as almost 100 technology entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, angel investors, journalists and geeks created a virtual 'denial …
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Saul / localglo.be:
Thanks for a great first OpenCoffee Club
Discussion: broadstuff
James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
Wizzard Media acquires Libsyn  —  An announcement was made by Wizzard Media that will impact thousands of podcasters like us MobileTechRoundupers.  The company announced it has acquired Liberated Syndication, known to podcasters as Libsyn.  The Wizzard announcement states their intent …
Discussion: Mashable!
Nicole / Inside Windows Live Messenger:
The i'm Initiative and new secret emoticon  —  The i'm Initiative is the most exciting piece of news I have had to share with Messenger users since I started working on Messenger over 3 years ago and there has been tons of exciting news over the last 3 years.
iPodNN:
Apple talks innovation, iPhone, 3G, Cingular  —  Apple COO Tim Cook was part of a analyst Q&A session in front a "standing room only" crowd at the Goldman Sachs Technology Investment Symposium earlier this week.  Cook talked about continued innovation at Apple, the iPhone …
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Connie Guglielmo / Bloomberg:
Apple Says IPhone to Sell Since Free Phones Worthless (Update3)
Discussion: Engadget and digg
Windows portal:
Vista Brute Force Keygen  —  Thanks to Computer User to report this way and to Snooza to prepare the pack!  This method is a brute force attempt at determining a usable key.  —  This has been reported to work!......look at the following user comments!!!  —  zapp2 wrote: This WORKS WORKS WORKS WORKS WORKS WORKS WORKS
Discussion: Inquirer, Hardware 2.0 and Neowin.net
Rick Merritt / EE Times:
AMD tips quad-core performance  —  SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Advanced Micro Devices upcoming Barcelona processor will sport floating-point performance 42 percent higher than Intel's current top-of-the line CPU, the Xeon X5355 also known as Clovertown.  —  The news marked the first performance numbers AMD …
Discussion: The Tech Report and TechSpot News
Somasegar / Somasegar's WebLog:
Beginner Developer Learning Center launched  —  Today, we launched the Beginner Developer Learning Center (BDLC) - a centralized learning environment specifically targeted at beginning programmers.  —  Since we released the Microsoft Visual Studio Express Editions, we have had over 10 million downloads of the same.
Andrew Adam Newman / New York Times:
Authors Find Their Voice, and Audience, in Podcasts  —  Scott Sigler writes science-fiction horror novels, the kind one fan called "steel-tipped boot on your throat, speed-metal fiction."  Mr. Sigler has written four such books, though not many people have actually read them.
Kevin Rose / Digg the Blog:
On Buries and Blocking  —  Hi All -  —  Just wanted to post real quick about some stories I've seen in the blogosphere regarding an alleged 'bury brigade' on Digg and on the Digg site blocking process.  —  For the same reason that we don't expose all of our back-end methodologies …
Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration:
YouTube Videos Reveal Google Adsense Clicks Data  —  As you probably know, Google is testing a new Adsense Ad format that streams video directly from YouTube.com.  The first such campaign is for GMail Theater Videos run by Google itself.  —  If Google is planning to roll-out such ads to a bigger audience …
Discussion: MIT Advertising Lab
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Kevin Newcomb / Search Engine Watch Blog:   Test of YouTube AdSense Unit Reveals Clickthroughs
 
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Donald Melanson / Engadget:
Zune hacked for DivX support (sorta)
The Age:
Australian state bans YouTube from schools to curb bullying
John Biggs / New York Times:
A New Video Device That Is Not Quite a TiVo for the iPod, but It's Close
Discussion: Gizmodo
John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
IdeaStorm injures scores at Dell — "sounded like a freight train"
Discussion: Blogging Stocks and Memex 1.1
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Mac sales growth up over 100 percent in January, says firm
Discussion: Macsimum News and digg
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Lenovo recalls 205,000 notebook batteries
Owen Thomas / Business 2.0 Beta:
Dell Ain't Talking  —  Don't expect to hear a defense …
Discussion: Dell and Between the Lines
 Earlier Items: 
Garrett French / Search Engine Journal:
The Why, How and Who of Marketing in StumbleUpon
Roberto Baldwin / GamePro.com:
Feature: Xbox Resurrection: 6 Uses For Your Old Xbox
Discussion: Game | Life, Joystiq and digg
Peter / The Local Onliner:
It's Official: CitySearch Buys InsiderPages
Discussion: Digital Markets and rev2.org
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Windows Mobile 6 review roundup
Gregg Keizer / Macworld:
CompUSA to shutter more than half its stores
Matt Asay / Open Sources:
More on what constitutes an open source company
USA Today:
AT&T slows 'Lightspeed' release goals
 

 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

 
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