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Think Secret:
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.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Oh My God! Apple Killed Think Secret! Those Bastards! — Apple and Apple blog Think Secret have settled their long running legal dispute over leaked Apple secrets, and under the deal Think Secret will cease operation. — According to a statement from ThinkSecret (via CrunchGear)
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Apple Forces Rumors Site To Shut Down — For a few years now, there's been a legal battle going on between Apple and Think Secret, a very popular Apple rumors site for publishing certain rumors. The lawsuit had many people up in arms, as they pointed out that Think Secret should be protected …
Daryl Lang / PDNPulse:
Bubble Video: This Thing Ain't Over — Earlier today I e-mailed a few of the photographers listed in the credits of the now-infamous “Here Comes Another Bubble” video. (For background, see previous posts here and here.) Four of them wrote back right away.
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IEBlog:
Internet Explorer 8 and Acid2: A Milestone — As a team, we've spent the last year heads down working hard on IE8. Last week, we achieved an important milestone that should interest web developers. IE8 now renders the “Acid2 Face” correctly in IE8 standards mode.
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Michael Krigsman / IT Project Failures:
Twitter is dangerous — Twitter is rapidly becoming a serious threat to corporate information protection. The program's great strength — many-to-many messaging — becomes its great weakness in this context. — Imagine this scenario: 20 people are in a confidential meeting, one of them using Twitter.
Bloomberg:
Google's DoubleClick Buy to Win Clearance, People Say — Dec. 19 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc.'s $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick Inc. will be cleared by U.S. antitrust enforcers as early as this week, two people with knowledge of the decision said. — The five-member Federal Trade Commission …
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Pew Internet:
Teens and Social Media: The use of social media gains a greater foothold in teen life as they embrace the conversational nature of interactive online media — Amanda Lenhart Mary Madden Alexandra Rankin Macgill Aaron Smith — Content creation by teenagers continues to grow …
Bill Ray / The Register:
N95 struggles to find itself — The latest firmware for the Nokia N95 offers many new features and much better memory management, and is free to download - but it also takes away the tracking feature from Nokia Maps, which the company now claims was a limited-time promotional offer.
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Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Mac OS X 10.5.2 to deliver sprawling list of fixes for Leopard — Mac OS X 10.5.2 Update, the next in a year-long series of planned updates to Apple's new Leopard operating system, promises to be one of the most hefty maintenance releases put out by the company for its operating system software in recent years.
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Digital music: Go legal, get screwed — The Big Four record labels want us to think that the sound recording business is a reformed character these days. Recently, we've heard ritualistic self-flagellations from a succession of top executives. There was Ed Bronfman at Warner's, prostrating himself in front of Apple.
BBC:
BitTorrent search site loses case — A website which facilitated the online exchange of films, music and TV programmes without permission has lost a US copyright case. — TorrentSpy was taken to court by the Motion Picture Association of America. — A judge made a default ruling in favour …
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Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Look Who's Bidding in Auction 73 — The FCC's auction of wireless spectrum is swarming with participants, some of which you might not expect—including Chevron and Vulcan's Paul Allen — U.S. government auctions of wireless spectrum always attract plenty of established telecoms …
ClickZ:
Virtual Worlds Agency Electric Sheep Lays Off 22 — Virtual world technology firm The Electric Sheep Company let go nearly a third of its employees yesterday. The move is part of a restructuring to focus the company on larger monetization efforts in 2008, according to CEO Sibley Verbeck.
