Techmeme: Standoff hits a sour chord with gamers (Hiawatha Bray/Boston Globe)

9:05 PM ET, December 20, 2007

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Apple, Think Secret settle lawsuit — PRESS RELEASE: Apple and Think Secret have settled their lawsuit, reaching an agreement that results in a positive solution for both sides. As part of the confidential settlement, no sources were revealed and Think Secret will no longer be published.

Bryan Gardiner / Epicenter:
Apple Kills Think Secret: Publisher Nick Ciarelli Talks

Discussion: The Apple Core

Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica: Settlement shutters ThinkSecret; EFF: it's for the best

Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Think Secret: Damn you, Steve Jobs

Discussion: HipMojo.com, Scripting News and The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Who Will Be The First Tech President? Help Us Endorse A Candidate — Our series of podcasts and interviews with the 2008 presidential candidates continue - so far we've spoken to Barack Obama, John McCain, John Edwards, Mitt Romney and Mike Gravel. We are in active scheduling discussions with all of the remaining candidates.

Discussion: Between the Lines, bub.blicio.us, The Last Podcast, Ryan Stewart, Life On the Wicked Stage and B.L. Ochman's weblog

Ashley Phillips / ABCNEWS: Tech Blog to Endorse Presidential Candidates

Dan Goodin / The Register:

Vista sets 2007 land-speed record for copying and deleting — It's been almost nine months since we first reported on Windows Vista's inability to copy, delete and move files without stalling indefinitely, and yet the problem continues. — Screenshots relayed this week by two Reg readers say it better than we ever could.

Discussion: Ed Bott's Microsoft Report

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Breaking: Kayak Raises $196 Million, Buys Rival SideStep — Discount travel site Kayak has acquired rival SideStep for $200 million. This story was set to be announced tomorrow but word is leaking all over the place after Sidestep CEO Rob Solomon told his company employees the news at an all hands meeting …

Discussion: Clickety Clack

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:

RIM: BlackBerry demand just swell; Earnings more than double — Research in Motion said Thursday that it added 1.65 million BlackBerry subscriber accounts for the third quarter ended Dec. 1 and shipped more than 3.9 million devices. That demand added up to RIM doubling its earnings.

Discussion: Business Technology, Tech Check with Jim Goldman and Electronista

Market Wire:
Research In Motion Reports Third Quarter Results

Discussion: Tech Trader Daily and Business and financial news

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Fair Use Vs. Free Speech in the Internet Age: The Lane Hartwell Problem — The furor surrounding the now infamous Bubble video (embedded above) is not over. To recap: the parody video was watched more than one million times on YouTube, then taken down because photographer Lane Hartwell objected …

Discussion: mathewingram.com/work, David Galbraith, odd time signatures, Wendy's Blog, Scobleizer, B.L. Ochman's weblog, Workbench, Social Media and CNET News.com

Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:

Red Hat Names New CEO; FY Q3 Slightly Beats Street — Red Hat (RHT) this afternoon announced that its board has named Jim Whitehurst as CEO, succeeding Matthew Szulik, effective January 1. Szulik will remain chairman. Whitehurst had been COO of Delta Air Lines.

Discussion: Business Wire, Between the Lines and CNET News.com

Matt Asay / The Open Road:
Matthew Szulik resigns as Red Hat CEO, is replaced by an airline COO (???)

Discussion: Valleywag

Stefan Constantinescu / IntoMobile:

7 pictures of the Nokia N96 leak! This isn't a render folks, this is real hardware — All 7 images can be found on my Flickr account here, the images came from Mobile Review. Immediate thoughts are it looks like an N81, but even larger. No specifications are known, but people say it is an N95 in a new shell.

Discussion: InfoWorld, Engadget, Electronista, Gizmodo, The Boy Genius Report, SMS Text News, CrunchGear, Unwired View, Gadgetell, PalmAddicts, Tech Blog and Gadget Lab

TED / uncov:

Pownce Is Still Alive — Yeah, I know. It surprised me too, but they are still kicking. Stagnation is the name of the game in Web 2.0, and Pownce is no exception. — In case you forgot, Pownce is a Twitter clone whose added value is the resale of Amazon S3 space.

Discussion: Scripting News

Hiawatha Bray / Boston Globe:

Standoff hits a sour chord with gamers — Guitar Hero's Activision takes a hard line in controller fight with Rock Band maker Harmonix — It's shaping up as a blue Christmas for some fans of the popular videogame Rock Band. — Game maker Harmonix Music Systems Inc. of Cambridge …

Discussion: Gizmodo, Opposable Thumbs, Joystiq, GamesIndustry.biz and Kotaku

Enigmax / TorrentFreak:

Yahoo! Found Guilty of Mass Copyright Infringement — After being hounded by the IFPI since April 2006, Yahoo! China - partly owned by one the world's most prominent internet businesses, Yahoo! - today had its music search (via deep linking) deemed illegal by a Beijing Court …

Discussion: WebProNews, Techdirt, Mashable!, O'Reilly Radar and WinBeta

Reuters:

Yahoo in Huge Mobile Search Deal — Yahoo nets a 16-country Web services pact with America Movil. — NEW YORK (Reuters)—Internet company Yahoo and Latin America's top mobile phone company America Movil said on Thursday they have struck a deal to provide mobile Web services to 16 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Discussion: Rough Type, Yahoo!, HipMojo.com, PC World, localmobilesearch.net and WebProNews

Todd Woody / Techland:

NetSuite's sweet IPO — By Michael V. Copeland — You have to hand it to NetSuite. While the markets have been whipsawing all around, the on-demand finance software company backed by Oracle (ORCL) CEO Larry Ellison got its IPO done via a Dutch auction at a price, $26, almost double the stock's original target.

Discussion: alarm:clock, The Docu-Drama Blog, Tech Trader Daily, Valleywag and Digital Daily

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Charlie Giancarlo, #2 Guy at Cisco Joins Silver Lake Partners — The exodus of senior management at Cisco Systems (CSCO) continues. Today, Chief Development Officer Charlie Giancarlo and the #2 man at Cisco resigned. He is joining buyout shop, Silver Lake Partners.

Discussion: eWEEK.com, Between the Lines, PC World, CNET News.com, Associated Press, Tech Trader Daily and Valleywag

MacNN:

Apple designs next generation iPod Boombox — A new patent filed by Apple describes a next generation digital device called the iPod Boombox, or simply the Boombox. Proof of the Cupertino-based company's plans surfaced today in a patent published by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office …

Discussion: Gizmodo and ParisLemon

InfoWorld:

IBM unveils ‘smart’ e-mail search engine — IBM has created a free semantic e-mail search engine aimed at users of the company's Lotus Notes software and Microsoft Outlook. — The engine, called IOPES (IBM OmniFind Personal E-mail Search), allows users to search their mail based on concepts …

Discussion: eWEEK.com

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