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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Here's Our New Policy On A.P. stories: They're Banned — The stories over the weekend were bad enough - the Associated Press, with a long history of suing over quotations from their articles, went after Drudge Retort for having the audacity to link to their stories along with short quotations via reader submissions.
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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
The Associated Press to Set Guidelines for Using Its Articles in Blogs — The Associated Press, one of the nation's largest news organizations, said that it will, for the first time, attempt to define clear standards as to how much of its articles and broadcasts bloggers and Web sites …
Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard:
AP backs off — or does it? — Confusing NY Times piece up tonight first suggests that the AP has “retreated” in an “about face” after its hamhanded takedown notices sent to Rogers Cadenhead and his Drudge Retort. — But then near the bottom of the piece we learn that the organization …
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Dane Hamilton / Reuters:
Icahn says Yahoo-Google ad deal has merit — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionare financier Carl Icahn, who launched a proxy battle in May to replace the board of Yahoo Inc (NasdaqGS:YHOO - News) in the wake of its failed deal to be acquired by Microsoft Corp (NasdaqGS:MSFT - News) …
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News.com:
AMD, Nvidia graphics chip designs diverge — On Monday, AMD and Nvidia are launching graphics chips based on distinctly different design philosophies. — Nvidia's GTX 280 and GTX 260 are designed to deliver the biggest performance bang per chip. A so-called “monolithic” …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Nvidia and AMD launch new salvos in graphics chip battle — Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices are both launching new graphics chips today. Ho hum, you say? Well, strap down. These chips are going to define the state-of-the-art in graphics and will determine which chip maker has the high ground …
Austin Modine / The Register:
Nvidia launches GTX 200 series GPUs — Nvidia today rolled out its next-generation 200-series GPUs, the GeForce GTX 260 and GTX 280. — The series name is at last a concession to the bewildering naming scheme Nvidia has played with in the vast array of GeForce graphics chips. That is — starting now.
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Associated Press:
FCC head backs Sirius-XM deal — Chairman Kevin Martin is recommending the $5 billion deal in exchange for concessions. — WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is recommending approval of the $5 billion merger between the nation's two satellite radio broadcasters …
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:FCC Staff Signs Off On XM, Sirius; Satellite Still Screwed
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Olga Kharif / Business Week:
The iPhone's Impact on Rivals — As Apple looks to make further inroads with its soon-to-be-released 3G device, both handset makers and wireless carriers may suffer — It didn't take Apple (AAPL) long to make its mark on the mobile-phone industry. In the first year after the introduction …
Georgina Prodhan / Reuters:
T-Mobile to sell 3G iPhone from 1 euro in Germany — FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom AG's (DTEGn.DE) T-Mobile will sell Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) new iPhone for as little as 1 euro ($1.54) for the 8-gigabyte version together with a 69 euro monthly contract, it said on Monday.
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Bonnie Cha / CNET News.com:
New Nokia E66 and Nokia E71 go a little more business casual — It may be that the Nokia E series sometimes suffers from Jan Brady syndrome as it gets overshadowed by the flashier members of its extended family—the Nokia N series (aka Marcia Brady)—but they're just as bright and deserve some recognition of its own.
Dan Sabbagh / Times of London:
Average teenager's iPod has 800 illegal music tracks — Teenagers and students have an average of more than 800 illegally copied songs each on their digital music players, the largest academic survey of young people's music ownership has found. — The research also showed that half of 14 …
Chris Kanaracus / LinuxWorld.com:
Microsoft now sponsor of Open Source Census — Microsoft has become a sponsor of The Open Source Census, a project started earlier this year that aims to track and catalog the use of open-source software in enterprises worldwide, the group announced Monday.
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:Can we advance open source by sacrificing software freedom?
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