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emigroup.com:
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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Thomas Crampton / New York Times:
Speculation Is in the Air Over EMI and Apple — Relations between Apple Inc. and the EMI Group, once at odds over the trademark rights to the Apple name, the record label of the Beatles, seem to be getting better all the time. — On Sunday, Steven P. Jobs, the Apple chief executive …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Steve Jobs and EMI present "an exciting new digital offering" — live! — So what will it be: DRM-free music downloads, the Beatles on iTunes, both or something else entirely? We'll see shortly as things are about to kickoff in London for EMI's and Apple's announcement of "an exciting new digital offering."
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Michael Gartenberg:
DRM Free Music from Apple and EMI Isn't Likely to Help Other Players — The big new from EMI and Apple wasn't the Beatles (as I pointed out yesterday) but rather the fact that Apple and EMI have announced that they will be selling music without digital rights management.
Robert Andrews / paidContent.org:
EMI Drops DRM For New High-Quality Line-Up, Apple First — It's official - EMI Music just became the first major record label to drop digital rights management on its digital downloads - but many consumers must pay more. EMI is launching a new line of "premium" downloads at twice …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Will DRM Die Today? — Update: This is now confirmed. EMI is offering its entire digital music catalog via iTunes DRM-free. Songs will be $1.29 each. — Will DRM die today? In five hours we'll find out. At 1 PM London time today EMI CEO Eric Nicoli and Apple CEO Steve Jobs will hold a forty minute press conference.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:EMI, Apple To Sell DRM-Free Music for $1.29/song
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Ryan Block / Engadget:Why Jobs is going to London: EMI is ditching DRM
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:EMI music on iTunes — now DRM free and higher quality
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Skrentablog:
What do you do when your success ... sucks? — We took a hard look at ourselves at Topix last year. We had built up a strong local audience on the site, but a lot of it was SEO, and while users were clearly getting some value out of our product, we hadn't made something that people really cared about.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
BallHype Launches - Sports Fanatics Will Love This — BallHype, a new sports news and social networking site, came out of closed beta tonight and launched. — The site has a lot of Digg-like features. Users can add sports stories and other users vote those stories up or down, and add comments.
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MG Siegler / Pronet Advertising:
Ballhype - Social Media Sports Done Right — In an effort to expand beyond their technology-centric core, last summer Digg launched a Sports category. While it received some attention, it has largely been neglected by the community due to an understandable lack of interest.
MarketWatch:
Google joins race to buy DoubleClick: report — SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Google Inc. has emerged with Microsoft Corp. as a contender to buy online advertising company DoubleClick Inc., according to a media report Monday. — The competition between Google (GOOG : , , ) and Microsoft …
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Leopard leaping in June — EXCLUSIVE Apple is currently planning to release Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard in June, mostly likely at or around its Worldwide Developers Conference, reliable sources report. — The release will come at the tail end of spring, which ends June 21, enabling Apple to meet its original shipping estimate.
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Warner's Digital Watchdog Widens War on Pirates — Hollywood studios spend millions every year trying to get people to watch their movies. At Warner Brothers Entertainment, Darcy Antonellis is trying to get them to stop watching — illegally, that is. — Ms. Antonellis oversees …
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Macworld UK:
MACWORLD MARKETPLACE — At Ciao you can read consumer reviews on computers and components for laptops, towers, PDAs and Compare prices of many more computer products. — Get 25 Free Music Downloads eMusic is the No. 1 Site for Independent Music. Choose from 2 million songs. Music for any MP3 player.
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The Microsoft Security Response Center Blog:
Latest on security update for Microsoft Security Advisory 935423 — Hello everyone, this is Christopher Budd. — We have some new information tonight on the status of the security update that we're working on that addresses the vulnerability in Windows Animated Cursor Handling.
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
BitTorrent Tests Ad-Supported Downloads — BitTorrent has begun testing ad-supported premium content downloads for the first time through its online store. Now, watching a 10-minute episode will cost you a pre-roll and post-roll ad instead of $1.99. — Currently only enabled …
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