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Saul Hansell / Bits:
Microsoft May Build a Copyright Cop Into Every Zune — If you like to download the latest episodes of “Heroes” or other NBC shows from BitTorrent, maybe you shouldn't buy a Microsoft Zune to watch them on. — A future update of the software for Microsoft's portable media player may well include …
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Cesar Menendez / Zune Insider:
Just So No One Gets the Wrong Idea. . . I hope you are all having a great time discovering all the cool stuff in the 2.5 release. — We have seen some chatter in the blogosphere over the last 24 hours around a couple of posts speculating about what Zune may or may not do in terms …
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Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Bankers Talked To Facebook About a Deal — Microsoft Corp.'s bankers recently contacted Facebook Inc. to gauge the Internet company's willingness to sell Facebook to the software giant, according to a person familiar with the matter. — There are no active discussions between …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Microsoft's Project Granola-Facebook Tastier Than Yahoo? — Project Granola? — Apparently, that's the jokey nickname that's been given by some in the company to Microsoft's (MSFT) new online strategy, in the wake of its failed efforts to acquire Yahoo (YHOO) that ended in a big heap of mess this past weekend.
Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:
AMD talks Shanghai performance, features, roadmap to 2010 — Randy Allen, corporate VP and general manager for AMD's Server/Workstation division presented AMD's server roadmap for the rest of 2008 today, hosted a conference call today on what the company is planning for 2009 and 2010.
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Tom Krazit / One More Thing:AMD tears up server road map to push stability
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Associated Press:
Gates says Microsoft will go it alone — TOKYO: Bill Gates said Wednesday that Microsoft was not pursuing other deals following the withdrawal of its $47.5 billion takeover bid for Yahoo. — Those comments seemed to set a different tone than those he made Tuesday in South Korea …
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InfoWorld:
Internet Archive challenges FBI's secret records demand — The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has withdrawn a secret demand that the Internet Archive, an online library, provide the agency with a user's personal information after the Web site challenged the records request in court.
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Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
FBI Targets Internet Archive With Secret ‘National Security Letter’, Loses — The Internet Archive, a project to create a digital library of the web for posterity, successfully fought a secret government Patriot Act order for records about one of its patrons and won the right to make the order public …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Twitter Starts Blacklisting Spammers — You know you've made it as a communications medium when you start attracting spammers. On Twitter, the problem is getting bad enough that the service is starting to blacklist people who spam other members. There is already an unofficial site called …
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Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:Spammy Twitter accounts to get the virtual guillotine
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Jon Healey / Bit Player:
Defunct TorrentSpy kicked while down — U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper has handed BitTorrent index site TorrentSpy a bill it couldn't possibly pay. Having ruled in favor of the major Hollywood studios' lawsuit in December, Cooper awarded the studios damages of $30,000 per movie …
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Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:Studios win $100 million judgment against TorrentSpy
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Aviv Raff / Aviv Raff On .NET:
Happy Birthday Israel! — Today we are celebrating, here in Israel, 60 years of being an independent country. As part of the celebration, I'm releasing a new 0day vulnerability. — One of our customs in Independence day is to play a “treasure hunt” game.
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
News Corp. Web Unit Sees Revenue Drop, Admits It Won't Hit FY 08 Goals — It took a while, but Rupert Murdoch has finally acknowledged that News Corp.'s Web business won't hit the goals he laid out for it last August. Actually, he made Peter Chernin say it: “Let me begining by saying yes …
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Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
Microsoft's Brand Confusion Runs Deep — The LiveSide blog today took a look at all the different bits of Microsoft's Live.com search universe and found that while the new look may live up to the stated design principle of “Simple and powerful. Human. Fast.” it doesn't provide a common, unified experience.
Alertbox:
How Little Do Users Read? … We've known since our first studies of how users read on the Web that they typically don't read very much. Scanning text is an extremely common behavior for higher-literacy users; our recent eyetracking studies further validate this finding.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Adobe launches Photoshop Express update with Flickr support — Adobe is launching an update to its free Photoshop Express image editing tool today, including support for Yahoo's Flickr online photo service. — The public beta of the tool now includes changes based on feedback from the community.
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
Customer service via Twitter works for unpopular people too — Yesterday I was in Internet purgatory. Today I'm back in the land of the living. — The occasion? Cable installation—an activity on par with going to get fillings at the dentist. It's time consuming …
philly.metro.us:
Citywide Wi-Fi could be shut down — Earthlink says tomorrow deadline for city takeover — PHILADELPHIA. A citywide wireless Internet network that promised to help bridge the “digital divide” may be shuttered if the city isn't able to reach an agreement with Earthlink, the company that built the system for free but now wants out.
Ben Lorica / O'Reilly Radar:
Macs in the Enterprise — In every O'Reilly conference and event I've been to, the number of Mac laptops is disproportionately high: I would say at least around a quarter (if not more) in most of our conferences. The most common answer I hear is that the Mac combines an elegant UI, a suite of useful software, and a Unix command line.
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