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rizzn.com v11.1:
GPhone - It's Confirmed — I'm going to talk about this on the show today, so don't miss Episode 116 of RizWords. — I talked to one of my inside sources at Google today. He spoke on conditions of anonymity, but the guy is someone I trust implicitly. He said that he was baffled …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Google Phone An Attempt To Take On $100 PC? — Google Phone has been a subject of many rumors lately. Mark Hopkins, a technology podcaster, says he got the confirmation of the Gphone after talking to an insider Google (GOOG). … If that indeed is the case, then it makes sense for Google …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
TorrentSpy Blocks Searches From US Visitors — This service denial seems to be a preventative measure to protect their users, when US users try to search on TorrentSpy they now get this message: … The search redirect will be permanent, TorrentSpy owner Justin Bunnell told TorrentFreak …
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
TorrentSpy shuts down in the U.S. — TorrentSpy.com, the BitTorrent tracking site facing a copyright lawsuit from the motion picture industry, is shutting down access to users in the United States, the company said in a statement late Sunday night. — The barring of U.S. residents …
John Kremer / Yodel Anecdotal:
Introducing the all-new Yahoo! Mail — My kids, like most, love text messaging. But while their nimble fingers can easily navigate cell phone keypads at lightening speeds, I definitely prefer a full keyboard, and am much more inclined to use email than text messaging.
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Business Wire:
Hi-Media Group Enters into Agreement to Acquire Fotolog, Creating One of Europe's Largest Publicly-Traded "Pure-Play" Internet Companies — Would Combine One of the World's Largest Global Social Networks and a Leading Online Publisher with Hi-Media's Extensive Ad Network
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alarm:clock, THINK / Musings, BeyondVC, blogging.vc, Tech Confidential Blog and Mashable!
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
I Want This In Photoshop Immediately — This image resizing and manipulation demonstration is sort of jaw dropping, particularly as the video goes on. The related paper, written by Dr. Ariel Shamir and Dr. Shai Avidan is available here. — Sphere It -
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Bobbie Johnson / Guardian:
Vint Cerf, aka the godfather of the net, predicts the end of TV as we know it — Web guru foresees download revolution — Thirty years ago he helped create a technology that has revolutionised millions of lives around the world. But yesterday the man known as the "godfather of the net" …
Nick / Rough Type:
Google's friend-to-friend ad network — If Google has its way, web advertising is about to get a whole lot friendlier - and the definition of spam a whole lot fuzzier. — Recently, the search giant has, as noted by Bill Slawski, filed a series of patent applications that point to a new …
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Grant Gross / InfoWorld:
Unlocking the iPhone could invite DMCA suit — San Francisco (IDGNS) - Hackers who unlock Apple's iPhone from the AT&T network and share the method with 10 million of their closest Internet friends are inviting a lawsuit from the two companies, several intellectual property (IP) lawyers said Monday.
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Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
AT&T legal hits the brakes on (commercial) iPhone unlocks
AT&T legal hits the brakes on (commercial) iPhone unlocks
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Facebook App — Google made a lovely app for Facebook that lets you search the web and share the results with your friends. Your queries are automatically included in Facebook's mini-feed, so your web history can be shared with your friends. There's also a page that showcases popular results found by other Facebook users.
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Valleywag
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Acer to acquire Gateway: so long cow spots? — Acer — the third largest PC company globally — just announced a definitive agreement to acquire Gateway. The acquisition has been approved unanimously by both boards and is expected to close by December 2007. You know, following the usual international, anti-trust approvals.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
FotoFlexer Raises The Bar On Online Photo Editing — Online photo editors keep getting better and better. For hardcore image manipulation, desktop software like Photoshop or Gimp will always have its place, but online editors are free, easy to use and a lot of fun.
New York Times:
Unauthorized Enjoyment of Song Irks Law Firm — It sounds like the setup for a joke: a law firm picks a fight with a legal blogger over the leak of an internal song celebrating — well, itself. — First, the song: after the law firm Nixon Peabody was named to Fortune magazine's 2007 list …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Judge sides with RIAA: file-sharing apps lead to direct infringement — One of the arguments the RIAA has made in every file-sharing lawsuit it has ever filed is that making a song available on a P2P network is the same as distributing it, therefore violating the record label's copyright on the song.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
For Earthlink Black Tuesday Looms: Job cuts, restructuring — EarthLink (ELNK), the Atlanta-based Internet Service Provider that has been taking it on the chin in the stock market for the past few months, is in for some major bloodletting, perhaps as soon as tomorrow.
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IP Democracy
Markrussinovich / Mark's Blog:
Vista Multimedia Playback and Network Throughput — A few weeks ago a poster with the handle dloneranger reported in the 2CPU forums that he experienced reduced network throughput on his Vista system when he played audio or video. Other posters chimed in with similar results …