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Mikko / Oikeuden edessä:
Finnish court rules CSS protection used in DVDs "ineffective" — Below is the press release we sent and here's more detailed analysis of the case and its potential implications. — Helsinki May 25, 2007 — Turre Legal — Free for publication immediately — Finnish court rules CSS protection used in DVDs "ineffective"
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:Finland court: Breaking "ineffective" copy protection is permissible
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Last.FM Too Slow: Users Create Their Own Facebook Application — Last.fm is a seriously popular music service (we've dubbed it a viral machine). So users are wondering why they are yet to release a Facebook application - competitors like iLike and MOG are the first and fifth most popular applications, respectively.
Louise Story / New York Times:
The High Price of Creating Free Ads — From an advertiser's perspective, it sounds so easy: invite the public to create commercials for your brand, hold a contest to pick the best one and sit back while average Americans do the creative work. — But look at the videos H. J. Heinz is getting on YouTube.
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Robert McMillan / InfoWorld:
Microsoft sues alleged stock scammers — (InfoWorld) - Hoping to tackle the growing problem of pump-and-dump stock scams Microsoft has quietly filed lawsuits against at least three alleged perpetrators who it says used its MSN Hotmail networks to promote stocks.
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Joshua Greenbaum / Enterprise Anti-matter:
Salesforce.com/Siebel 2.0: Criticism and a Refutation — Some say imitation is the highest form of flattery, but that's only for those who forget that a good rebuttal - or attempted rebuttal - is quite flattering as well. Jason Wood, a fellow Enterprise Irregular and blogger …
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Inside AdSense:
Make room for new video ad formats — This week marked the one-year anniversary of the launch of click-to-play video ads. To that end, we thought it'd be fitting to introduce three new members of our click-to-play video ads family: the 728x90 Leaderboard, the 120x600 Skyscraper, and the 160x600 Wide Skyscraper.
BL Ochman / B.L. Ochman's weblog:
Here Comes Zonbox - the $99 Zero-Emission, Linux Computer That's "as simple to use as a Mac" — The revolutionary Zonbox - the $99, ultra low-power, zero-emission Linux computer from Zonbu, is sure to be all the rage when it's launched next month. The computer is a fanless 1.2MHz platform …
Ben Ames / PC World:
OLPC Seeks Educational Games for XO Laptop — "Game Jam" contest on June 8 will challenge developers to produce fun, educational software for the OLPC. — The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Project is asking software coders to develop free, open-source educational computer games for the XO laptop …
Darren Murph / Engadget:
MedSignals' digital pill box charts your dosage — As the field of devices that let caregivers step away and give the elderly more independence expands, it was just a matter of time before digital pill boxes hit the mainstream. The aptly-dubbed med-minder holds one's pills in separated compartments …
Arn / MacRumors:
iPhone Used to Browse MacRumors.com? — It looks like someone at Apple has started more openly testing the Apple iPhone across web sites, including MacRumors.com. — One reader tipped us off that they had come across iPhone browser identification strings in the Apache logs of their eBay images.
CNET News.com:
The enduring force of 'Star Wars' — The 30th anniversary of the original film's theatrical release unleashes a gush of adoration and geekiness. — Three decades after the original film was released, the George Lucas creation is still influencing the tech community and pop culture.
Mark Schilling / Variety Asia Online:
Japanese government urges Internet regulation change — TOKYO — Seeking to promote Internet distribution of TV content, a government panel has recommended that regs be changed to allow webcasts without first getting permissions from all rights holders. — The panel, the Intellectual …
Rachel Metz / Associated Press:
Apple Rises After IPhone Media Report — Apple Shares Rise Following Media Report That IPhone Will Be Launched June 20 — NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of Apple Inc. rose Friday after a media report stated the company's much-anticipated iPhone will be released June 20.
Datamonitor / Computer Business Review:
Gates and Jobs to share the stage — Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and Apple chief Steve Jobs will make a rare joint appearance to wax lyrical about their visions of future technologies at the D: All Things Digital conference, which is to be held in Carlsbad, California.
