Top Items:
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 …
Discussion:
Gadget Lab, Engadget, hypebot, 901am, Gizmodo, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, jkOnTheRun, Read/WriteWeb, MacMegasite, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, parislemon, eirikso.com, Macsimum News, NevilleHobson.com, Anything But iPod, Startup Meme, zedgeHeadz, Fractals of Change, The Social Web, Swarming Media, Social Media Club, Ars Technica, Good Morning Silicon Valley, MSTechToday, IP Democracy, Michael Gartenberg, PSP Fanboy, Information Overlord, The Tech Report, Buzzworthy, franticindustries, Paul Kedrosky's …, GottaBeMobile.com, Technological Winter, TechSpot News, Don Dodge on The Next …, Microsoft News Tracker, Neowin.net, GigaOM, So sue me, Hardware 2.0, mathewingram.com/work, Between the Lines, The 463, Change Is Good, Jeremy's Blog, Geek News Central, Mickeleh's Take, Compiler, Mashable!, Paul Colligan's …, michael parekh on IT, The Social Customer Manifesto, Podcasting News, Peer Pressure, TeleRead, New York Times, WebProNews, Google Blogoscoped, TechCrunch, confused of calcutta, Things That, UNEASYsilence, Google Operating System and Coolfer
RELATED:
AppleInsider:
Jobs talks new iTunes functions, DRM and video, iPod storage [transcript] — During a press conference on Monday, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs announced that iTunes will soon begin selling DRM-free music tracks from record label EMI and later fielded questions on the prospect of DRM-free videos …
Discussion:
Apple 2.0
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 …
Thomas Crampton / New York Times:EMI Dropping Copy Limits on Online Music
Discussion:
Soaring on Ridgelift
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.
RELATED:
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 …
RELATED:
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 …
RELATED:
Ellen Messmer / Network World:Fortify identifies JavaScript vulnerability in AJAX apps
Discussion:
Burningbird
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.
Discussion:
Engadget, Web 2.0 Explorer, CrunchGear, MacUser, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and Ubergizmo
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.
Discussion:
Cost Per News
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 …
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.
Discussion:
Information Arbitrage
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 …
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 …
MSNBC:
Would you watch this guy? — Justin Kan broadcasts every moment of his life on his site, justin.tv — The Internet is replete with sites that allow Web surfers to peek into the lives of average people doing all manner of things. But who among us could withstand that kind of scrutiny all of the time?
Dgohara / MacResearch:
MacResearch: Science Related Requests for Apple — Update: The Tri-Cameral meeting starts this Wednesday and to date we've only received ~30 responses. This is a perfect opportunity for scientists to get their requests heard by Apple. Apple takes these meetings very seriously. How seriously?
