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Jeff Leeds / New York Times:
Universal Music Will Sell Songs Without Copy Protection — Signaling another departure from the music industry's tenuous belief in its longtime antipiracy strategy, the Universal Music Group plans to sell a significant portion of its catalog without the customary copy protection software …
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Alex Veiga / Associated Press:
UMG Testing Sale of Unrestricted Tracks — Universal Music to Test Selling Downloads Without Copy-Protection — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Universal Music Group said Thursday it will sell digital music from artists such as Sting, 50 Cent and Stevie Wonder without the customary copy-protection technology for a limited time.
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Official Google Blog:
A simple way to get more storage — As someone who tests Google products daily, I know that the simplest solution is often the one that works best. In the case of online storage, whether it's a picture, a video or an email, you should just, well, be able to store it without having to worry …
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Shared Storage Program Released — To wrap up the mystery of the increased Gmail storage many of you saw today: Google just released a shared storage program. This new offer merges the storage of different Google products into a single storage back-end.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Google, Microsoft Storage News Falls Flat
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:Pay for More Gmail Storage
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:Windows Live SkyDrive Launched - Enters a Crowded Online Storage Market
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
iPhone "Dead Zone" Screens — More Trouble Ahead? — Apple (AAPL) has responded swiftly to scattered reports of "dead spots" on iPhone touchscreens — and received high marks from users for the speed and efficiency with which defective devices were replaced.
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Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Apple addressing dead spots on iPhone touchscreens — A small number of iPhone users are receiving help from Apple after reporting that their handsets have permanently lost responsiveness to touch input across portions of the screen. — Customers posting to Apple's support forums (1, 2 …
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Comcast Launches Beta Version Of Its Fancast — Comcast (Nasdaq:CMCSK) has quietly launched a slow and slightly buggy version of its Fancast site, in beta. This site is supposed to be its ambitious online video guide and portal, marking its first major product open-Web project outside of its still-limited Comcast.net portal.
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Donna Bogatin / Insider Chatter:
1-800 Pay-Per-Call: Marchex Buys VoiceStar, $4 billion Local Advertising Bonanza? — "Marchex adds call-based advertising services to local advertising platform with VoiceStar acquisition," so announces Marchex. — Marchex touts the "significant growth opportunities of the pay-per-phone-call market" …
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Ian Harvey / businessedge.ca:
Company bloggers can help put out fires — Dell manager's quick reaction won industry accolades — When Dell Computers started getting reports of laptops exploding in flames last summer, Lionel Menchaca took the heat - from his own legal team. — As the Texas-based computer maker's chief blogger …
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Andrew / NotebookReview.com:
Shipping "Dell-ays" — As students head back to school there might be something missing from their backpacks — the new Dell laptop they ordered weeks ago. Shipping delays on the new Dell Inspiron and XPS line of notebooks are causing people to wait several weeks longer than they anticipated …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MediaWhiz Latest Ad Network For Sale? — MediaWhiz, a holding company for a number of advertising networks, may be shopping itself to private equity firms. We are hearing that they are looking for $400- $450 million, which is 2.5 - 3 times estimated 2007 revenues.
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
NBC "allows" bloggers to use debate footage — On Wednesday, NBC announced that it will join rivals CNN and ABC in making video footage of presidential debates aired on its networks freely available for non-commercial use. Under licensing terms posted on the MSNBC website …
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Jonathan Cohen / Reuters:
AT&T censors Pearl Jam's anti-Bush lyrics — NEW YORK (Billboard) - Pearl Jam fans and Internet watchdogs were up in arms Thursday after it was revealed that AT&T Inc. censored portions of the rock band's live concert cybercast on Sunday. — While performing "Daughter" …
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Tkarr / Save the Internet Blog:AT&T Plays Gatekeeper. Censors Pearl Jam.
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Beyond Brickbreaker — As Smart Phones Gain — In Popularity, Game Makers — Roll Out New Diversions — While running his education-related start-up, Ryan Thompson keeps up on his email by staying glued to his BlackBerry. Lately, the 29-year-old in Brooklyn, N.Y. …
John Siracusa / Ars Technica:
Stuck on the enterprise — As Jobs proudly reported this Tuesday, the Mac is doing well. Quibbling over exact numbers aside, the iPhone launch was also a success. Despite stagnating for a bit, design-wise, the iPod continues to be a mass-market monster. Yep, Apple looks like quite the industry giant these days.
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