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Wall Street Journal:
Music Industry to Abandon Mass Suits — After years of suing thousands of people for allegedly stealing music via the Internet, the recording industry is set to drop its legal assault as it searches for more effective ways to combat online music piracy. — The decision represents …
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
RIAA Abandoning Mass Lawsuits In Favor Of Backroom 3 Strikes Policy — from the it's-a-step,-but-a-very-small- one dept — It really was just three days ago that we suggested that if the record labels actually wanted anyone to take them seriously concerning their desire to come …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:No more lawsuits: ISPs to work with RIAA, cut off P2P users
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Samsung Electronics will launch Google Phone in Q2 — Samsung Electronics will release its first Google phone in the second quarter of the next year in North America. — The launch of Google phone by Samsung is regarded as a signal of its plan for increasing the shares in the smart phone market …
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Android's New Version To Support Upload to YouTube? — Google's mobile phone OS “Android,” will soon be updated with several new features as a part of a major roadmap update. One of those features will include support for a video recording mode that will also let users share the content.
Times Online / Tech Central:
Is the internet going down? Undersea sub-cables have just broken... Breaking news: something's happening to the internet, right now. We're just not quite sure what. — Interoute, the internet networks company, reports that three of the four internet sub-cables that run from Asia to North America have been damaged.
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Bloomberg:
Severed Cables in Mediterranean Disrupt Communication — A A A — Dec. 19 (Bloomberg) — Internet and telephone communications between the Middle East and Europe were disrupted after three submarine cables between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea were damaged.
Spencer E. Ante / Business Week:
A Wrench in Silicon Valley's Wealth Machine — A year ago, cash rained on tech startups like Digg. Now their valuations are slipping, and venture capital is drying up — A year ago there were reports that Digg had hired investment bank Allen & Co. to put the popular news aggregation Web site …
Steve Poland:
Evan - Twitter needs a better policy on Usernames — I have a bunch of Twitter usernames — I gobbled them up in March 2007. I'd consider them some of the “quality” ones. Almost like the domain game of 1995, I grabbed some of the best Twitter usernames, because I could see value in their use in the future.
Arn / MacRumors:
Evidence that Next iMacs and Mac Minis to use NVIDIA Chipsets — Configuration files buried within some versions of Mac OS X show evidence that the next iMac and Mac Mini will indeed be based on the NVIDIA MCP79 chipset. Apple recently switched their MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models to the NVIDIA chipsets in October.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Meebo Passes IMs Between MySpace And Facebook — MySpace and Facebook may be frenemies forever, but now they have a new mutual friend that will pass notes between them. Meebo, the Web-based IM service, now supports IM accounts from both social networks. That means you can enter your Facebook …
Between the Lines:
Palm CEO: It's not too late for us; Is it a dead company walking? — Is Palm a dead company walking or just one in a rough transition to a set of next generation products that will return the company to past glory? — Palm CEO Ed Colligan clearly believes Palm is that latter.
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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News:
EA boosts layoffs to 10 percent of workforce — Updated 8:02 a.m. PST with more information about EA's decision to increase the size of its layoffs and with Friday's share price performance. — Game publishing giant Electronic Arts announced Friday that it is expanding the scope …
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Dave / MacBlogz:
One More Thing: Apple's New Multi-touch Mighty Mouse — Let's face it, the Mighty Mouse is flawed. Luckily, Apple has filed for numerous patents directly hinting at a multi-touch Mighty Mouse, which could prove to bring us an unexpected treat sometime in the near future.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
ComScore: YouTube Now 25 Percent Of All Google Searches — Video search on YouTube accounts for a quarter of all Google search queries in the U.S., according to the latest search engine numbers from comScore. Its monthly qSearch report, which was released on Thursday night, breaks out the number of searches conducted on YouTube.
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Windows Expertise:
Windows 7 Beta download coming? — Neowin's Tom Warren is reporting that Microsoft's Windows 7 homepage has been updated with a download link for the beta release. Here's what it looks like: — Currently, the link goes nowhere. — I'm still highly doubtful that the public …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Scribd Raises $9 Million. Still Working on Business? — Over the past few years we've seen the rise of cute ideas, ones we love using on a daily basis, but are hard to turn into real, long-term businesses. Most were hoping that a sugar daddy would buy their cuteness for bags full of money.
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Agence France Presse:
Japanese seek to scrap Google's Street View — TOKYO (AFP) - A group of Japanese journalists, professors and lawyers demanded Friday that the US Internet search giant Google scrap its “Street View” service in Japan, saying it violates people's privacy. — Google launched Street View …
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Chilling Effects: Another Mixtape Provider Shut Down — A few months ago, the RIAA shut down Muxtape, a very popular and incredibly useful online service that let individuals create “mixtapes” for streaming to others. As anyone with even a hint of business sense would recognize, this was a great promotional tool for musicians.
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Dell Studio XPS 13 leather-wrapped laptop revealed, Adamo info leaked! — Thanks to a totally amazing Engadget source, we've gotten our hands on photos of the absolutely sick Dell Studio XPS 13, and some new info about the company's forthcoming Adamo. First off, the photos in the gallery …
Linda Moss / Multichannel News:
Rainbow Pulls Plug On Voom HD Service — Shutting Down Suite of 15 Networks — Rainbow Media Holdings, blaming a loss of carriage on Dish Network and the expected lengthy litigation stemming from that drop, is shutting down the domestic operations of its beleaguered Voom HD, its suite of 15 HD networks.
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Stephen Shankland / Webware.com:
Search results show Delicious remains a tech niche — There's no doubt the Internet enables a new level of social engagement—e-mail was, after all, its first killer app—but social bookmarking looks to me like it's been relegated to a techie niche. — I'm not the first to have this thought …
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