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Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Bloomberg Runs Steve Jobs' Obituary — For whatever reason, the Bloomberg financial newswire decided to update its 17-page Steve Jobs obituary today. It's true that the secretive Apple CEO's battle with pancreatic cancer, and speculation over his health, rattled some investors earlier …
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Bloomberg mistakenly publishes Steve Jobs obituary — An electronic gaffe at news outlet Bloomberg mistakenly sent an incomplete obituary for Apple CEO Steve Jobs over the wire on Wednesday afternoon, and a tipster promptly sent the soon-retracted file to gossip blog Gawker.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Transcoding Is Not A Crime, Says Court In Veoh Porn Case — Update: More analysis of the decision here. — Finally, a judge who may have actually visited the Internet once or twice before deciding a case. Judge Howard Lloyd, a judge on the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
What The Veoh Decision Means For YouTube And Others — Attorneys representing online video sites around the country are salivating today over the Veoh summary judgment decision (I know this because I've spoken to a few of them). In a nutshell, here's what we learned today …
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:A Victory For Video Sites: Court Grants Veoh Its DMCA Defense …
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:Veoh Wins Copyright Infringement Lawsuit; Viacom-YouTube Next?
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Wall Street Journal:
More Artists Steer Clear of iTunes — Apple's Online Music Store Sells Lots of Singles, — But Labels Seek Higher Profits of Full Album Sales — ITunes has been the runaway hit of the music business, selling more than five billion song downloads since it started five years ago.
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Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
YouTube Finally Figures Out How To Make Money: Big Ads On Its Homepage — Take a good, long look at YouTube's (GOOG) homepage. You may not recognize it soon: The video site is trying out new ad format that will turn over a good chunk of the page to sponsors.
Dave Rosenberg / Negative Approach:
Google Apps Premier SLA credit and commitment to communication — Looks like Google is starting to take Apps Premier a bit more seriously, providing users with SLA credits for the August outage and realizing that the guy who chose Google Apps has to report to someone else when things go haywire.
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:Google Gives Google Apps Users Credit & Adds Communication Policies
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Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
It must be a rough day in Cupertino — They just keep coming, one negative headline after another after another. At least that's how it must feel today over at Apple. In the last 24 hours or so, there have been at least four separate events that have put the company in a negative light.
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BBC:
West Wing writer tackles Facebook — Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin has agreed to make a film about the founders of social networking site Facebook. — Sorkin, who created US TV drama The West Wing and wrote the Tom Hanks movie Charlie Wilson's War, has even opened a Facebook account to aid his research.
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Paul Carr / Bringing Nothing To The Party:Charlie Wilson's Wall: the Aaron Sorkin Facebook movie
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Adrian Covert / Gizmodo:
Sony's Thinnest Walkman Player Ever Has Active Noise Cancellation, Song Suggestion Software — Sony's S-series Walkman is their new high-end digital audio player that is not only their slimmest player to date, but has active noise cancellation and the SensMe music suggestion engine.
Microsoft:
Windows Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 Fact Sheet — An overview of the features and benefits of Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer 8. — Windows Internet Explorer 8 is the next version of the world's most popular browser that optimizes developer and end-user experiences to provide a window to the Web of online services.
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Sony:
NEW SONY CYBER-SHOT CAMERA'S VIDEO CAPTURE GOES HIGH DEF — NEW SONY CYBER-SHOT CAMERA'S VIDEO CAPTURE GOES HIGH DEF — Sony is adding high-definition movie recording to its digital camera line with the introduction of the Cyber-shot® DSC-T500 model.
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Peter Nowak / CBC News:
Quebec government sued for buying Microsoft software — Facil wants ban on regulatory loophole that lets Quebec purchase proprietary software — Quebec's open-source software association is suing the provincial government, saying it is giving preferential treatment to Microsoft Corp …
BBC:
Hackers prepare supermarket sweep — Self-checkout systems in UK supermarkets are being targeted by hi-tech criminals with stolen credit card details. — A BBC investigation has unearthed a plan hatching online to loot US bank accounts via the checkout systems.
David Pogue / New York Times:
New Nikon Holds a Secret — If you saw it just sitting there, you'd never guess that the new Nikon D90 is a mind-blowing, game-changing camera. — It looks like any other big, black intermediate single-lens reflex camera: much more compact than a professional model, but much bigger and heavier than a pocket camera.
GamesIndustry.biz:
Sony: “We like to provide as many services as possible for free” — The president of Sony Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida, has told GamesIndustry.biz that the company is keen to provide as many services to PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable users as possible - and is happy to look …
Tom Espiner / CNET News.com:
British man to face hacking charges in U.S. — Gary McKinnon has lost his legal challenge against extradition to the United States to face charges of hacking into NASA and military systems. — McKinnon had applied to the European Court of Human Rights for it to hear an appeal against his extradition.
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
FBI Apparently Has Nothing Better To Do Than Arrest GNR Album Leaker — from the what,-no-more-phones-to-tap? dept — Back in June, we were bothered by the fact that the FBI was wasting its time investigating a blogger who had posted some unreleased Guns N' Roses tracks on his site.
