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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Apple, others draw legal threat over media players — update A California company that makes technology designed to prevent ripping of digital audio streams has accused Apple, Microsoft, RealNetworks and Adobe Systems of violating federal copyright law by "actively avoiding" use of its products.
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Ed Felten / Freedom to Tinker:
HBO Exec Wants to Rename DRM — People have had lots of objections to Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology — centering mainly on its clumsiness and the futility of its anti-infringement rationale — but until recently nobody had complained that the term "Digital Rights Management" was insufficiently Orwellian.
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Out of Chaos, Order. Or So Google Says. — Over the years, Google has carefully cultivated the image of a zany company in which innovation and new products — lots of new products — emerge from a bit of chaos. — Now Google is trying to put some order into that chaos — or at least appear to do so.
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Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:Google Press Meeting Part 1 - Acquisitions
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Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
MySpace fights copyright woes with 'Take Down' tech — MySpace announced Friday that it's implementing new technology to combat members' unauthorized use of copyrighted content. — Aptly titled "Take Down Stay Down," the new feature is a content protection measure based on Audible Magic technology.
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Business Wire:
MySpace Launches Take Down Stay Down Copyright Protection — Leading Lifestyle Portal Launches Ground-breaking Tool to Prevent Users from Reposting Unauthorized Copyrighted Content — LOS ANGELES—(BUSINESS WIRE)—MySpace, the world's leading lifestyle portal, today announced the launch …
BBC:
Google searches web's dark side — One in 10 web pages scrutinised by search giant Google contained malicious code that could infect a user's PC. — Researchers from the firm surveyed billions of sites, subjecting 4.5 million pages to "in-depth analysis".
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Facebook Classified Ad Offering Deals Another Blow To Newspapers — It's sure rough trying to charge for a service that other businesses are offering for free. Just ask any newspaper exec. With 20/20 hindsight, it seems inevitable that the web would be the perfect platform for free classified ads …
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Chloe Albanesius / PC Magazine:
Congress Stares Down YouTube, HDNet — Members of Congress on Thursday tangled with leading video providers over how to preserve the open architecture of the Internet while improving its quality and protecting intellectual property rights. — Representatives from YouTube, Sling Media …
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Billboard:
Exclusive: McCartney Goes Digital, Beatles 'Virtually Settled' — Brian Garrity, N.Y. and Paul Sexton, London — Paul McCartney's new album, "Memory Almost Full," will be his first solo release available for download and streaming on PCs and mobile phones.
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Gizmodo, MacUser, Apple 2.0, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Ars Technica, CrunchGear, Byte of the Apple and Infinite Loop
LeeAnn Prescott / Hitwise US:
Gmail Traffic Up 17% Since Opening Up, Still Early Adopter Appeal — On February 14, 2007 Google's Gmail opened up access to anyone worldwide. Previously Gmail, which is still in beta, was only available by invitation from another Gmail user. The market share of US visits to Gmail increased …
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Fred / A VC:
The New Journalism? — I got this comment last night on my 15 million post from Kevin Farnham: … There's more to the comment, so click thru on the link to the post above to read the whole thing. Kevin makes an interesting distinction. Blogs are journalism. Twitter and MySpace are not.
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Deep Jive Interests
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch20 Conference: Caterina Fake, MC Hammer & Rajeev Motwani Join Expert Panel — I'm excited to announce the next three experts for the TechCrunch20 Conference in San Francisco this September. Caterina Fake, MC Hammer and Rajeev Motwani join the previously announced experts.
Valleywag:
Exclusive: The unmasking of Fake Steve Jobs — Soon after Valleywag began digging into the identity of Silicon Valley's most mysterious author — the anonymous satirist behind Fake Steve Jobs, a spoof diary of the narcissistic Apple founder — a plaintive email arrived.
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Apple 2.0
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Slide largest widget maker on the Web? — Slide, the maker of a Web slide show feature, has emerged as a major player, boasting 150 million daily slide show views and more than 200,000 new slide show "widgets" created daily. — These numbers are astonishing, and are enough to make it the largest …
Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
Vonage Says It May Have Way Around Disputed Patents (Update5) — Vonage Holdings Corp. said it may have technology that could rescue its Internet-phone service, after a jury found the company infringed patents that allow customers to call standard telephones.
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New York Times, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, Engadget, Neowin.net, Digital Daily, The Technology Liberation …, CrunchGear and Slashdot
Bkp / The Pirate Bay:
User data stolen but not unsecured — Hi, we have some sad news, but don't be alarmed... Some people (and yes, we know who) found a security hole on our web site (in fact, actually in this blog). — They have got a copy of the user database. That is, your username and passwords.
MarketingWeek:
T-MOBILE LOOKS SET TO WIN EURO DISTRIBUTION RIGHTS FOR THE IPHONE — T-Mobile has emerged as the frontrunner in the race to secure the exclusive European distribution rights for Apple's much-anticipated iPhone. The hotly contested contract will be worth millions of pounds to the winning operator.
