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Amazon.com:
Amazon.com to Launch DRM-Free MP3 Music Download Store with Songs and Albums from EMI Music and More Than 12,000 Other Labels — Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced it will launch a digital music store later this year offering millions of songs in the DRM-free MP3 format from more than 12,000 record labels.
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Amazon to Sell Music Without Copy Protection — After years of industry speculation, Amazon.com is getting into the digital music business. — Amazon, the Internet's most successful seller of physical CDs, today announced plans to introduce a music download store later this year …
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Amazon announces long-rumored DRM-free music store — Amazon dropped the bomb today by announcing its DRM-free music store. The previously-rumored store will be launched sometime "later this year" and offer unprotected MP3 files for purchase. The Amazon music store …
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Amazon to offer DRM-free music downloads — Amazon.com plans to launch a digital music store later this year, featuring music downloads without copyright restrictions. — The e-commerce giant announced Wednesday that it would offer songs from more than 12,000 record labels in the MP3 format …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
iPhone delayed until October, Leopard delayed again until January — This one doesn't bode well for Mac fans and the iPhone-hopeful: we have it on authority that as of today, the iPhone launch is being pushed back from June to... October (!), and Leopard is again seeing a delay, this time being pushed all the way back to January.
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Sony In Advanced Talks To Buy Kids Social Gaming Service ClubPenguin — Sony is in advanced talks to buy the two-year-old kids focused social gaming ( ClubPenguin, paidContent.org has learned. We have confirmed the talks from senior insiders, but have not been able to confirm the potential price.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Club Penguin In Acquisition Talks With Sony For $500+ million
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Fugitsu:
Fujitsu Announces the New 'U Series' of Tablet-Convertible Notebook PCs, the World's Smallest in its Class — Weighing only 580g, with a 5.6" widescreen LCD in a small, light body, new ultra-mobile PCs offer advanced mobility and style for business users — Fujitsu Limited today announced …
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BBC:
Halo 3 launch date is announced — Hugely popular video game Halo 3 is due for a September debut, Microsoft has announced. — The September release date is earlier than expected and will help Microsoft in its drive to make the Xbox 360 console the gaming machine of choice this Christmas.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Searchology Day: Recap Of Announcements — It's Searchology Day today at Google, where the company is devoting time to look at the past, present and future of search at Google. There will be a number of significant announcements coming out of the event. Want to keep up? Stay tuned to this page.
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Jeff Weiner / Yodel Anecdotal:
Mission as strategy - connecting the dots at Yahoo! — Last year, the executive team at Yahoo! made the decision to re-organize the company with one of the central themes being the evolution of a culture from one largely organized around products, to one that is far more organized around our customers.
Villu / About Skype:
Skype Puts Mac Users First With Fresh Features in New Release — LUXEMBOURG, May 16, 2007 - Skype today released Skype™ for Mac 2.6, the latest version of its communication software for Mac users. In addition to improved quality, stability and more features, the company …
Anton Shilov / X-bit labs:
XFX Ordered to Stop Selling Graphics Cards Insulting EVGA — EVGA, a supplier of graphics cards and mainboards, on Tuesday said that Germany trade regulators ordered its rival XFX, a division of Pine Technology, to stop selling graphics cards that potentially insult EVGA as a company.
Tony Ruscoe / Google Blogoscoped:
Google's Presentation Application? — Dirson reports that some users, myself included, are seeing a "View as slideshow" link in Gmail when receiving PowerPoint files. — Clicking "View as slideshow" opens a new window where you can view the slideshow using Google's Flash-based player.
Wi-Fi Alliance:
Wi-Fi Alliance® Reveals New Logo and Announces First Wi-Fi CERTIFIED™ 802.11n Draft 2.0 Products and Test Suite — Customers will soon be able to buy interoperable, backward-compatible, next-generation Wi-Fi products — CERTIFIED 802.11n draft 2. products sporting an eye-catching …
Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:
Secunia: 28% of all installed apps are insecure — According to data culled from Secunia's free software inspector, about 28% of all detected applications are vulnerable to a known security vulnerability. — The utility, which uses a signature database to pinpoint the specific versions …
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Scott Martin / Red Herring:
uTube Rings In YouTube Cash — Pipe company taps Internet video craze to sell ring tones. — uTube.com has found a way to cash in on the Internet video craze. — Universal Tube & Rollform Equipment, owner of uTube.com, was besieged by a crush of Internet visitors when Google bought YouTube last fall …
