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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
OiNK.cd Servers Raided, Admin Arrested — The British and the Dutch police both contributed to the investigation that was initiated by the IFPI and the BPI, two well known anti-piracy organizations. The operation was supported by Interpol who coordinated the international cooperation.
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BBC:
Huge pirate music site shut down — British and Dutch police have shut down a "widely-used" source of illegally-downloaded music. — A flat on Teesside and several properties in Amsterdam were raided as part of an Interpol investigation into the members-only website OiNK.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Mozilla banks Google bucks; Builds a portfolio — Mozilla has released its 2006 audited financials and that little Google search box in the top right of Firefox is the gift that keeps giving. — Mozilla's revenue, which includes Mozilla's foundation and corporation, came in at $66.8 million in 2006.
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Traci Hailpern / Inside AdSense:
Coming soon: Make ad changes without replacing code — We're very excited to let you know about an upcoming feature that lets you easily manage your ad units from within your AdSense account. It isn't live yet, but here's a sneak peek so you'll know what to expect in the coming weeks.
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Search Engine Journal, Google Blogoscoped, Search Engine Land and Search Engine Watch Blog
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Switches to Its Own Translation System — Google switched the translation system from Systran to its own machine translation system for all the 25 language pairs available on the site. Until now, Google used its own system only for Arabic, Chinese, and Russian.
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Read/WriteWeb, michael parekh on IT, Search Engine Watch Blog, Search Engine Land and Mashable!
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Oracle Says BEA Rejects Bid; Threatens To Pull Offer — Oracle (ORCL) this morning announced that its $17-a-share bid for BEA Systems (BEAS) has been rejected, for at least the second time. Oracle says it will pull its bid from the table on Sunday if BEA does not change its mind.
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PR Newswire:
Oracle Delivers Letter to Board of BEA Systems — Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL - News) today announced that it had delivered a letter to the board of directors of BEA Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: BEAS - News). The text of the letter follows: — Board of Directors — BEA Systems, Inc.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Mapping The Southern California Fires — I'm back home (my original home) in Southern California for vacation, and to welcome me back, the Southland is on fire. Ah, just like old times. As I was keeping up with the news, I came across some maps online from Google Earth, Google Maps …
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Apple should start offering Windows-based Macs — Here's a question that I received from yesterday's mail bag: … Now, I have checked and I'm pretty sure that this email isn't from Steve Jobs, but it's an interesting question nonetheless. Apple is, without a doubt …
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Nancy Gohring / InfoWorld:
AOL launches new mobile services — San Francisco (IDGNS) - AOL plans to unveil a number of new mobile services Tuesday, including the customizable MyAOL for mobile phones as well as a redesigned AOL.com portal page for mobile phones. — The beta version of the mobile portal …
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InfoWorld, Download Squad, WebProNews, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, WebbyOnline and Mashable!
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Cisco buying WiMax start-up for $330 million — Cisco Systems is getting into the WiMax market. — The networking equipment maker said Tuesday that it will spend $330 million in cash and assumed options for Navini Networks, a Richardson, Texas-based start-up that makes mobile WiMax equipment.
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VentureBeat, Cisco, alarm:clock, GigaOM, Tech Trader Daily, Reuters, dailywireless.org and Valleywag
StumbleUpon:
Introducing SearchReviews! — We're really excited about this announcement. We've been hearing great feedback from you about our SearchReviews feature that has been in beta, and allows you to see StumbleUpon ratings layered on your searches on the major engines - Google, Yahoo, Ask & more.
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Download Squad, Profy.Com, TechCrunch, Search Engine Journal, GigaOM, Business Week, Beet.TV, Search Engine Land and 901am
Andy Oram / O'Reilly Radar:
Music industry association recommends flat-rate file sharing — I just heard from two contacts in Denmark that their branch of the International Federation of Phonogram and Videogram Producers (IFPI) (the equivalent of America's RIAA and MPAA) has seriously proposed allowing unrestricted downloads …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Bluepulse, lets you message friends everywhich way — The market for social networking on your mobile phone is wide open, with neither Facebook nor Google offering anything compelling. — Right now, mobile communication revolves around texting, and it's unlikely move away from that soon.
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Privacy Lost: These Phones Can Find You — Two new questions arise, courtesy of the latest advancement in cellphone technology: Do you want your friends, family, or colleagues to know where you are at any given time? And do you want to know where they are? — Obvious benefits come to mind.
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Microsoft to push functional programming into the mainstream with F — Microsoft has announced that support for the F# functional programming language will be fully integrated into Visual Studio. This marks a bold new commitment to facilitating functional programming on the .NET platform …
