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Howard Mintz / Mercury News:
SEC closes in on ex-Apple lawyer — REGULATORS POISED TO ACT IN OPTIONS SCANDAL — The Securities and Exchange Commission is expected this week to bring its first legal action in the Apple backdating probe, targeting the company's former top lawyer for her alleged role in rigging options …
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Silicon Valley Watcher, Infinite Loop, Cult of Mac, Apple 2.0, BARRONS.com and Between the Lines
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Olga Kharif / Tech Beat:
Wi-Fi-Sharing Communities Rise Up — The Wi-Fi business is about to change, big time. One indication: A deal between FON and Time Warner Cable. The cable company agreed to allow its customers to share their bandwidth through FON's global Wi-Fi sharing community, whose users can use each other's Wi-Fi access points for free.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
PhotoBucket Back on MySpace (I Want To Know The Backstory) — A simple blog post on Photobucket tells us that the war is over - PhotoBucket videos are now allowed on MySpace again after a two week ban. — But the interesting part of this story is what I don't know yet - who blinked first and why.
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Millions of MySpacers Rejoice: Photobucket Videos are Back — Aww, ain't that sweet - Photobucket and MySpace have gotten together and sorted out their problems. Video embeds are working once more on MySpace pages, and I'm sure Photobucket will be much more careful in future when it comes to rolling out sponsored content.
EFF: Breaking News:
Viacom Admits Error — Takes Steps to Protect Fair Use on YouTube — MoveOn.org, Brave New Films Dismiss Lawsuit Over Colbert Parody — Viacom Endorses Excerpting Video for "Creative, Newsworthy or Transformative Use" — San Francisco - Responding to Viacom's willingness to take steps …
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NewTeeVee, Techdirt, The Next Net, The Utube Blog, splashcastmedia.com, Digital Markets and Epicenter
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Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:
10 questions for MacBook hacker Dino Dai Zovi — I caught up with security researcher Dino Dai Zovi to discuss his successful hijack of a MacBook Pro machine at last week's CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Canada. — We talk about the specific vulnerability, the motivation for the attack …
Dan Sabbagh / Times of London:
Amazon set to launch online music store — Amazon.com, the internet retailer, wants to launch an online music store next month to challenge Apple and is working on plans to sell music with reduced protection against copyright infringement. — The internet giant has approached all the music majors …
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Leelefever / Common Craft:
Video: RSS in Plain English — We made this video for our friends (and yours) that haven't yet felt the power of our friend the RSS reader. We want to convert people... if you know someone who would love RSS and hasn't yet tried it, point them here for 3.5 minutes of RSS in Plain English.
Reuters:
DoCoMo's new phones offer motion-sensing game play — TOKYO (Reuters) - NTT DoCoMo Inc. (9437.T: Quote, Profile, Research), Japan's biggest wireless operator, on Monday unveiled a new mobile phone equipped with a motion sensor that lets users play games like the popular Nintendo Wii console.
Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:
Russinovich: Malware will thrive, even with Vista's UAC — Despite all the anti-malware roadblocks built into Windows Vista, a senior Microsoft official is lowering the security expectations, warning that viruses, password-stealing Trojans and rootkits will continue to thrive as malware authors adapt to the new operating system.
Andrew Lipsman / comScore:
comScore Responds to IAB Open Letter — RESTON, VA, April 23, 2007 - comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced the following response to the recent IAB Open Letter: — comScore welcomes the objective outlined in the IAB Open Letter of achieving transparency …
Anil Dash:
Cats Can Has Grammar — If you spend any time at all observing net culture, then you'll have been unable to miss the recent explosion in popularity of lolcats. This relatively recent phenomenon is the convention of taking pictures of cute animals, most frequently cats, and overlaying absurdist captions on the images.
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Sour Duck
~stevenf:
Announcing Coda 1.0 — Finally, after a year and half of wanting to tell you, I can now actually tell you... Coda 1.0 is officially released today! — What is Coda? — The easiest way to sum it up is this: One Window Web Development. — There are a lot of great products out there already …
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MacUser, Compiler, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, 43 Folders, house of warwick, Macsimum News, Infinite Loop, Sillyness Spelled Wrong … and digg
Beth Fouhy / Associated Press:
Presidential debates set for cyberspace — NEW YORK - The 2008 presidential contenders may soon be slugging it out in cyberspace, with pioneering online-only debates being planned for early next fall, a new media partnership says. — The political blog Huffington Post …
Nancy Gohring / InfoWorld:
AT&T to aim the iPhone at enterprises — The decision baffles analysts, who cite design issues and the inability to write new applications for the OS as reasons they think it's a poor choice — AT&T plans to market the iPhone to business users in addition to consumers …
Jeff Sandquist:
Fred Vogelstein - An Exercise In Radical Transparency — Should Fred go to Mix? — If you remember a little while back my team and I were part of an experiment in radical transparency with Wired Magazine. Today begins part two of that same experiment. It turns out that Fred Vogelstein …
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Newspaper Earnings Show Slowdown In Online Ad Growth — In reporting their respective Q1 earnings, newspaper companies have been able to point to at least one general bright spot over the past few quarters: online ad revenue increases, mostly from online classifieds.
