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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Bombshell from RealNetworks: Rip/Save/Burn "All" Online Video Fomats with New Player...Clips from YouTube and Yahoo Are Easily Downloaded — Just a few minutes ago at the "D" conference in Carlsbad, California, RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser made a bombshell announcement about a new product from RealNetworks.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
NEWS: Real Networks Takes YouTube (and other Flash) videos offline — Real Networks new Real Player now will take YouTube videos offline. Here's an interview I did with Real's Vice President, Jeff Chasen where he gave me a demo of the new player (coming soon, I'll let you know where it's up).
Wall Street Journal:
Bancrofts Open Door To a Sale Of Dow Jones — Controlling Family Says — It Will Meet Murdoch, — Consider Other Offers — Dow Jones & Co.'s 125-year history as an independent media company could be nearing an end. — The Bancroft family, which controls 64% of the company's voting power …
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Jaime Schopflin / emigroup.com:
EMI Music, Google and YouTube strike milestone partnership — Fans to have on-demand access to videos from EMI Music's roster of artists on YouTube — EMI Music - one of the world's leading global music companies, Google and YouTube, the leader in online video - today announced …
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Valleywag:
Linden Lab: The virtual world just got a little more real — TIM FAULKNER — Second Life may face a new threat, the need to apply and enforce real law in its virtual world. A Pennsylvania court has denied two requests by Linden Lab, which would have effectively ended the first legal challenge …
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The Official Parallels Virtualization Blog:
Yes, you heard right...PARALLELS DESKTOP 3.0 IS ALMOST HERE! — About 3 hours ago we let the world know that for the last few months, we've been quietly building and testing an entirely new version of Parallels Desktop for Mac. Named Desktop for Mac 3.0, this forthcoming major update …
Verizon:
Verizon Wireless Introduces G'zOne Type-S Rugged Phone — Streamlined Bluetooth-enabled G'zOne Type-S Meets U.S. Military Standards for Water Resistance, Humidity, Shock and Dust — BASKING RIDGE, NJ — Just as the weather begins to warm and outdoor activities kick into high gear …
Stan Schroeder / Mashable!:
Top 15 Google Street View Sightings — Google's Street View feature for Google Maps, which enables users to see certain parts of several big US cities through panoramic images, has caused a new trend: StreetSpotting (we just invented that). We've gone through the avalanche of reports about funny …
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Peter / PR. Differently:WHAT THE IMMERSIVE MEDIA PHOTO-CAR LOOKS LIKE!
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Jeffrey M. O'Brien / Fortune:
Wii will rock you — Fortune's Jeffrey M. O'Brien explains how Nintendo's new game machine won over the world - and beat the pants off Sony and Microsoft. — (Fortune Magazine) — Nintendo's legendary videogame designer Shigeru Miyamoto is lying face down on the floor in Kyoto, Japan …
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google Photos Stir a Debate Over Privacy — For Mary Kalin-Casey, it was never about her cat. — Ms. Kalin-Casey, who manages an apartment building here with her husband, John Casey, was a bit shaken when she tried a new feature in Google's map service called Street View.
Arn / MacRumors:
New MacBook Pros on Tuesday, June 5th 2007? [Updated] — While we had heard convincing reports that the MacBook Pro updates would have to wait until WWDC (June 11th), a few new reports have started trickling in that the MacBook Pro could see updates as soon as this Tuesday (June 5th).
Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
Last.fm Sale Fallout: User Response — All too often when we report about a major acquisition or merger, there is a part of the story that is ignored: how the users respond to the news. Reactions usually run the gamut from expressions of congratulations, to expressions of fear, to expressions of rage.
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Alex Iskold / Read/WriteWeb:
RIA: What is it good for? — This year there has been an explosion in Rich Internet Application (RIA) frameworks. The first major player to announce one was Adobe and its Apollo framework, which Richard covered back in March and I wrote about during ETech. Richard also wrote an explanatory post on Apollo.
Gershon Goren / O'Reilly Network:
Skype Developer Program: A Tale of Pioneering and Persevering — In my work as Director of Engineering, Research and Development at WebDialogs, Inc., I often feel like a pioneer on a number of levels. And pioneering is certainly an apt way to describe our company's experience in working with the Skype Developers Program (SDP).
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Frank Schilling / Seven Mile:
It's "OverSnap" — It's official, Snapnames has been acquired by Los Angeles based Oversee .. And while it may seem like the rumored 25mm sale was struck, purely on the EBITDA that Snapnames.com generates, I have a hunch this is all about what can be done with the industry's leading automated auction platform and clearing house.
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Hector Becerra / Los Angeles Times:
Hacker taps into Carson city coffers — A cyber-thief was able to take $450,000 from the city of Carson's general fund as part of an elaborate scheme that officials said raises questions about the security of municipal coffers. — Authorities said the hacker was somehow able to mimic …
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Johnny Minkley / GamesIndustry.biz:
Carmack "magic" powers new id Software franchise — New brand and new engine from Doom creators — Id Software's Todd Hollenshead has revealed that the Quake and Doom creator is working on a new gaming franchise powered by a brand new engine from developer John Carmack.
