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Catherine Rampell / Chronicle of Higher Education:
How It Does It: The RIAA Explains How It Catches Alleged Music Pirates — To catch college students trading copyrighted songs online, the Recording Industry Association of America uses the same file-sharing software that online pirates love, an RIAA representative told The Chronicle …
LiMo Foundation:
LiMo Foundation™ Expands in Breadth and Depth With Further Swell of New Members — Diversity of Newest Membership Intake Illustrates Powerful Momentum within the LiMo Ecosystem — LiMo Foundation, a global consortium of mobile leaders delivering an open handset platform …
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Tom Krazit / One More Thing:Verizon, Mozilla to join LiMo Foundation
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eWeek, Linux-Watch.com, Verizon, Between the Lines, InfoWorld, LinuxWorld.com, VOIP IP Telephony, Computerworld, Gizmodo and Electronista
Fred / A VC:
Disqus and Seesmic Pair Up For Video Comments — First, let me say that I am not sure about the utility of video comments. I've seen them and even viewed them on Techcrunch and I think they slow down and break up the conversation more than they contribute to it.
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VentureBeat, The Bivings Report, The Blog Herald, Scripting News, The Social Times and The Boy Genius Report
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
115 CEOs Converge At Microsoft For CEO Summit — Microsoft's annual CEO Summit kicks off officially today with an 8:30 am keynote by Bill Gates titled “The Next Wave of Business Productivity and the Challenge of Continual Innovation.” — 115 CEOs will attend from 26 countries, says Microsoft.
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BBC:
MySpace wins bumper spam payout — MySpace has won a $234m (£120m) legal judgement over junk messages sent to members of the social networking site. — Victory in the case was awarded to MySpace after Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines, the men behind the junk mail, failed to show up in court.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Ok, Wired, Let's Do This. — A week ago Wired Magazine voiced its displeasure over our syndication partnership with the Washington Post. … When I read this I thought “WTF?” (with an emphasis on the “F"). Wired is a competitor to TechCrunch, but we've been on friendly terms with them for years now.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Hitwise: Google Again Hits New High; Microsoft & Yahoo Again New Lows — Hitwise released the latest statistics for search engine share in the United States for April 2008. Google has again hit a new high, jumping up 0.65% from the prior month's high, to 68% of the US search market.
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Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
Friend Connect, Open Social, Ning, and the web — First, I'm very happy to say that Ning will be rolling out our formal production support for Open Social in June. — In case you missed the news at the time, Open Social is a standard way, sponsored by Google, to build new features ("gadgets" …
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STARTUP CHATTER, Scobleizer, MarketingShift, Why does everything suck?, Outside the Lines, Know It All, Epicenter and PSFK
Richard Wray / Guardian:
O2 hints at 3G iPhone launch date — The 3G version of the iPhone will be unveiled “in the coming weeks”, the boss of Apple's exclusive mobile phone partner in the UK and Ireland hinted today. — Speculation is rife that Apple will reveal the 3G version of the phone at its Worldwide Developers' Conference …
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9 to 5 Mac, Unwired View, Electronista, Just Another Mobile Phone Blog, Engadget and iLounge
David Reiss / Facebook Developers:
Using Facebook Chat via Jabber — Since the launch of Facebook Chat, we've received a lot of positive feedback from users about being able to connect instantly with their friends on Facebook. With Chat fully launched and growing steadily, we've started working on more new features to enhance the Chat experience.
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The Inquisitr, The Social, BeyondVC, CyberNet, Inside Facebook, Compiler, VentureBeat, All Facebook, Mashable!, Alec Saunders SquawkBox and HighTouch
Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
Semantic Travel Search Engine UpTake Launches — According to a comScore study done last year, booking travel over the Internet has become something of a nightmare for people. It's not that using any of the booking engines is difficult, it's just that there is so much information out there that planning a vacation is overwhelming.
crtc.gc.ca:
Canadian Association of Internet Providers' request for interim relief regarding Bell Canada's practice of “throttling” its wholesale ADSL access services — In this Decision, the Commission denies the interim relief requested by the Canadian Association of Internet Providers (CAIP).
Raju Vegesna / Zoho Blogs:
Login to Zoho with your Google or Yahoo! Accounts — Now you can login to Zoho with your Google or Yahoo! accounts. Below the Zoho Sign-in section, you now have the option to login with your Google or Yahoo! accounts. — If you already have a Zoho account with your Google or Yahoo! …
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TechCrunch, Between the Lines, Enterprise Alley, Mashable!, Compiler, diversity.net.nz, Lifehacker and AppScout
Mary Hayes Weier / InformationWeek:
Workday Lands Software Industry's Biggest SaaS Deal — The deal, for 200,000 users, marks a tipping point in the interest and use of on-demand software among large companies. — On-demand software startup Workday has clinched its biggest deal yet — and the largest known in the software industry …
David Rothman / TeleRead:
Five-inch econo E Ink reader will go on sale in the U.S. next month: Astak's price in the $150 range? — Astak's rumored $150-so-so E Ink reader with a five-inch screen was unveiled at the IDPF conference today. It's to go on sale next month in the States, with other models following in July.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Yahoo: Can Icahn Get MSFT Back To The Table? — So here's the basic conundrum in this whole concept of Carl Icahn launching a proxy contest for Yahoo (YHOO): what's the point unless he can get Microsoft (MSFT) to launch a new bid? — It is certainly possible that institutional investors …
