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Eliot Van Buskirk / Listening Post:
Online Radio Is Saved; SoundExchange Will Not Enforce New Royalty Rates on Sunday — At today's Congressional hearing about the new rates for online radio that would essentially destroy it (as readers of this blog already know), SoundExchange, which was scheduled to receive the new royalty payments …
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Kendra Marr / Washington Post:
Shaken Internet Radio Stations Face Specter of New Fees Sunday — Sunday will be a day of reckoning for Internet radio stations. — The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to stop an increase in royalty and broadcasting fees, jeopardizing the future of some stations.
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:SoundExchange offers temporary reprieve on 'Net radio royalty increase
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Ellie Gibson / GamesIndustry.biz:
E3: David Reeves Talks PS3 — The Euro bundle, the new PSP and the fight to be market leader. … GamesIndustry.biz: Now you've made the announcement about the PS3 bundle for Europe, what kind of reaction are you expecting? — David Reeves: I think people will say to us …
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DailyTech, Guardian Unlimited, Kotaku, BetaNews, Alice Hill's Real Tech News, Gizmodo, ParisLemon and DigitalBattle
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Ellie Gibson / GamesIndustry.biz:
E3: No more 60GB PlayStation 3 in US after July, says Reeves — 'All they're doing is taking their stock and marking the price down' — SCEE president David Reeves has told GamesIndustry.biz that the 60GB PlayStation 3 will no longer be available in the US after stock sells out - which he predicts will occur by the end of the month.
Valleywag:
Mythbusting: Why Facebook isn't the reincarnation of Google — Why Facebook isn't the reincarnation of Google … NICK DENTON — People assume that Facebook will find some way to make money besides traditional advertising, which is clearly not working. And why do they assume that?
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Facebook Backlash: What If They Can't Sell Any Ads? — There's a growing counter theory to the snowballing buzz on Facebook. The contrary view is that the company, rather than having a potential value in the billions, might really be worth next to nothing.
comScore:
comScore Releases Worldwide Rankings of Top Web Properties 772 Million People Online Worldwide in May — Online Retail and E-Commerce Sites Boosted by Holiday Spending — comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study of global Internet traffic for the month of May …
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rizzn.com v11.1:
One Man's Quest for $10 DSL: Revolutions — Okay, this is the final chapter of the process, as I now have it ordered. Whether it will work is another story, but we'll talk about that once the activation date for the DSL has passed. For the other parts of the story, look here:
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:Man's quest for $10 AT&T DSL ends in success... kind of
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Reuters:
Google takes swipe at Viacom — Google on Friday mocked media conglomerate Viacom, which is suing the search giant for $1 billion for "massive copyright infringement" by its video-sharing site YouTube. — Google CEO Eric Schmidt, speaking with reporters at a hotel bar …
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Scott / Self Made Minds:
AdSense for mobile launches in Beta — Just a quick update rather than a post, a feature high up on the request list for some has now come to fruition. I received an email tonight to say that I was invited to test out Adsense for Mobile. — What is Adsense for mobile?
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Search Engine Journal, Russell Beattie's Weblog, MobileCrunch and Search Engine Roundtable
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Get An Invite To Any Private Beta — One of the most frustrating things for early adopters like ourselves to deal with is the private, limited invitation beta. The startups seed a few invitations to their friends, and each new account has 3 or so invitations that can be given away.
Wheaties for Your Wallet:
Your bank has a REST API now (shhh! — don't tell them) — I'm very happy to announce the launch of the Wesabe API. This is a new release for us, and a new way of using Wesabe — as a tool for getting your data out of your banks and credit cards, and into whatever form or program is going to most help you manage your money.
Vince Veneziani / CrunchGear:
The iPhone Made People Switch To AT&T — One of the biggest concerns from other carriers regarding the iPhone was that customers would be jumping ship to go with AT&T. Sure, maybe a handful of iPhone buyers would switch, but how big of an impact could it possible make? Try a huge one.
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USA Today:
iPhone buyers have no regrets — Early iPhone owners are overwhelmingly happy with their devices, a survey out Friday says, and Apple (AAPL) and AT&T (T) are luring customers from rivals as a result. — In one of the first such studies, 90% of 200 owners said they were "extremely" or "very" satisfied with their phone.
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Researcher: Optimal copyright term is 14 years — It's easy enough to find out how long copyrights last, but much harder to decide how long they should last—but that didn't stop Cambridge University PhD candidate Rufus Pollock from using economics formulas to answer the question.
