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EMI Music launches DRM-free superior sound quality downloads across its entire digital repertoire — EMI Group CEO Eric Nicoli today hosted a press conference at EMI's headquarters in London where he announced that EMI Music is launching DRM-free superior quality downloads across …
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
EMI, Apple partner on DRM-free premium music — update EMI Group will soon sell digital music with better sound quality and no digital rights management restrictions through Apple's iTunes Store. — EMI's entire music catalog will be available in premium DRM-free form via iTunes in May …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
EMI, Apple To Sell DRM-Free Music for $1.29/song — Update: MP3 file of the press call is here. — April 2, 2007: The day DRM died. — The surprise press conference in London today with today EMI CEO Eric Nicoli and Apple CEO Steve Jobs just started a few minutes ago (1 pm London time).
AppleInsider:Jobs talks new iTunes functions, DRM and video, iPod storage [transcript]
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:Steve Jobs and EMI present "an exciting new digital offering" — live!
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Thomas Crampton / New York Times:EMI Dropping Copy Limits on Online Music
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
With Sonopia, you too can be a telecom mogul — Sonopia, two-year-old Menlo Park, Ca. company launches service tomorrow that lets anyone — even you — create their own mobile carrier. — You can create your own calling plan, within limits of course, and sending your customers alerts …
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Kevin Murphy / Computer Business Review:
Web 2.0 is vulnerable to attack — Security researchers have found what they say is an entirely new kind of web-based attack, and it only targets the Ajax applications so beloved of the 'Web 2.0' movement. — Fortify Software, which said it discovered the new class of vulnerability and has named it …
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Ellen Messmer / Network World:Fortify identifies JavaScript vulnerability in AJAX apps
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Business Week:
Cold Cash From A Hot Site — Can MySpace pull in revenue fast enough for Rupert? — As numbers go, this one's a whopper. Last year MySpace users called up an average of 31.5 billion unique page views per month. That's as though everyone on the planet visited the site once a week.
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Steven Levy / Newsweek:
Twitter: Is Brevity The Next Big Thing? — Jack Dorsey has long been obsessed with status. [I'M WRITING THE LEAD TO MY COLUMN] Not in the snob-appeal sense, but status as in "where are you and what are you doing." He became fascinated with the idea while programming software for cab and courier companies.
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Kathy Sierra / Creating Passionate Users:
Update/Joint Statement with Chris Locke — Chris Locke and I agreed to publish a statement, together (both in our own words) in advance of the story which will appear tomorrow (Monday, April 2) on CNN, at 7:20 AM (EST) on "CNN American Morning", and throughout the day on other CNN shows.
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Raising money from VCs? Check out Venture Hacks — Venture Hacks is a new site launched by two entrepreneurs to help founders of start-ups navigate the hairy world of venture capital. — It aims to provide tips, such as how to negotiate a good deal when raising money …
Software News:
Oracle Linux adopters labelled 'idiots' — One of the first converts to Oracle's support for Linux has revealed the public backlash it has endured since their decision to drop Red Hat. — Melbourne company Opes Prime Stockbroking told ZDNet Australia that in the weeks following its announcement …
Crashtron / iPhone-Scene:
H.264 hardware encoder for Mac - encode movies for iPod, Apple TV and iPhone — Clearly faster than a mac an USB stick converts movies into the H.264 format. — Elgato announced a new hardware for mac that helps you to encode your movies for your iPod, Apple TV or the upcoming iPhone.
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Satellite circuit for Google TV ads — After months of speculation, Google has officially jumped into the television business. — The Web giant announced on Monday that it is partnering with EchoStar to sell commercials over the DISH satellite broadcaster's 125 national programming networks …
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Aaron Ricadela / Business Week:
VCs Aim to Out-Angel the Angels — Responding to the emergence of a new breed of wealthy investor, venture capitalists are boosting their early-stage investments in startups — In October, as startup Jaxtr hit up venture capital firms for its first round of funding, it landed an unusual arrangement.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Topix reinvents itself as citizen journalist site — Topix is reinventing itself from a software-based news aggregator site to a citizen journalist hub where anyone can submit news and photos and sign up to be a volunteer editor selecting featured stories. — The site also has redesigned …
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Karen / Official Google Blog:
About the New Orleans imagery in Google Maps and Earth — Posted by John Hanke, Director, Google Maps/Local/Earth — This weekend, there has been a lot of discussion about our imagery of New Orleans in Google Maps and Google Earth. I thought I'd give you some background that may clear things up …
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Kristen Nicole / Mashable!:
LonelyPlanet.tv - Lonely Planet Goes the YouTube Route — Lonely Planet, the company that produces travel guides and programming for channels such as the Discovery network, has launched lonelyplanet.tv (LP.tv). Taking a cue from other traditional media companies, Lonely Planet is enlarging …
