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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Eisner's advice to striking writers: Blame Steve Jobs, not the studios — NEW YORK—In his keynote speech on Wednesday morning at the Media and Money conference hosted by Dow Jones and Nielsen, former Disney CEO Michael Eisner talked about writers as though they were a minority group that he didn't particularly understand well.
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Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:@ Media & Money: Keynote: Michael Eisner: Strike is 'Insanity …
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Leah Pearlman / Facebook Blog:
Facebook Ads — Today we announced an entirely new advertising solution for Facebook. Right now, we want to make clear what's changing—and what's not—for you. — First of all, what's not changing: — Facebook will always stay clutter-free and clean. — Facebook will never sell any of your information.
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Louise Story / New York Times:Facebook Is Marketing Your Brand Preferences (With Your Permission)
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Brad Stone / Bits:
Log Off and Get to Work — Turns out your bosses don't want you updating your social networking page at the office. — Web security firm Barracuda Networks polled 2,400 of its own customers and found that 50.2 percent block access to social networks MySpace and Facebook.
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
MLB rips off fans who bought DRM videos — Allan Wood (a baseball megafan who has written a book about Babe Ruth) purchased over $280 worth of digital downloads of baseball games from Major League Baseball, who have just turned off their DRM server, leaving him with no way to watch his videos.
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Redsock / The Joy of Sox:
If You Purchased MLB Game Downloads Before 2006, Your Discs/Files Are Now Useless; MLB Has Stolen Your $$$ And Claims "No Refunds" — Just bumping this to the top for awhile. — Great to see non-baseball sites like Boing Boing, Wired, Slashdot, Techdirt and others posting about this.
Grant Robertson / Download Squad:Fans shafted as Major League Baseball revokes DRM licenses
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Dolapo / Official Google Reader Blog:
Attack of the 20%'ers — At Google, 20% time is core to our culture and today's Reader release incorporates features developed by two engineers in their 20% time. Those two engineers would be us! — Steve Lacey: As a blogger I like to include a blogroll on my site so that friends …
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Stephen Shankland / Webware.com:
AMAZON TO HOST RED HAT LINUX ONLINE — Update: I added a lot more detail about Red Hat's ambitions and other moves. — Red Hat on Wednesday announced a significant departure from its current business plan, saying its flagship Linux product will be available on Amazon.com's Elastic Computing Cloud online service.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Cisco bests estimates in first quarter — Cisco's fiscal first quarter earnings topped expectations with net income of $2.2 billion, or 35 cents a share on revenue of $9.6 billion. Excluding charges, Cisco reported earnings of $2.5 billion, or 40 cents a share.
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Associated Press:
Google maps find their way to gas pumps — The Internet giant will join with another firm to give directions at service stations. — Lost drivers soon will be able to Google for help at the pump. — As part of a partnership to be announced today, the online search leader …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
AOL: Let's become an ad network before this really unravels — AOL acquired Internet advertising firm Quigo Tuesday in its latest move to transform itself into an ad network. And given AOL's financial state the rejiggering is a good idea. — In a statement AOL said it acquired Quigo …
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Kenneth Li / Reuters:Time Warner to buy Quigo
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Forbes Buys Clipmarks, RealClearPolitics Stake — Forbes Media, as long rumored, has acquired Clipmarks, a tool that lets people share Web content like text and images. Forbes has also acquired a 51% stake in RealClearPolitics. More info after the jump. Release Disclosure: Forbes Media is my former employer.
Susanne Ault / Video Business Online:
HD DVD set-top player $99 sales moves units — Toshiba HD-A2 model sells 90,000 over weekend — The HD DVD format significantly pumped its installed base over the weekend, as dueling store clearances sold an estimated 90,000 Toshiba players, according to sources close to retailers.
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Business Wire:
HP to Seek New Business Model for HP-branded Cameras — PALO ALTO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—HP (NYSE:HPQ - News) today announced that it will seek an alternative business model for its HP-branded cameras and shift resources toward its Print 2.0 growth initiatives.
Johansch / my.opera.com:
The power of the Web with Opera Mini 4 — After three betas we're proud to release the shiny new Opera Mini 4 to the world. — We've done a lot with this new Opera Mini. For example, we rewrote the entire code for Opera Mini 4 and added lots of improvements and new features to make the browser even better.
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Chris Williams / The Register:
Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail strike out Iran — Exclusive Yahoo! and Microsoft have removed Iran from the country lists of their webmail services as stronger US sanctions against the Islamic republic begin to bite. — Google has kept Iran as an option on the Gmail registration page, however.
Scot Finnie / Computerworld:
The verdict: Leopard spanks Vista, continues OS X's reign of excellence — This story caps off a truly comprehensive wave of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard coverage from Computerworld. Our readers have asked for more operating system coverage, and we're delivering.
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Class-action charges Apple with illegally tying iPods to iTunes — Apple Inc. in a new class-action lawsuit is charged with illegally tying iPods to its iTunes Store in order to forge a monopoly over the digital media market so it can inflate prices, exclude competition, and force consumers to continue to buy into its closed ecosystem.
