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Richard Perez-Pena / New York Times:
A.P. Moving to Halt Use of Its Articles on Web Sites — The Associated Press and its member newspapers will take legal action against Web sites that use newspaper articles without legal permission, the group said on Monday, in a clear shot at aggregators like Google.
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Why baseball benched Microsoft Silverlight — The thwacking sounds of bats striking balls will once again fill stadiums, as Monday is opening day for Major League Baseball. This year, Microsoft will watch from the sidelines. — MLB.com no longer uses Microsoft's Silverlight to stream games to its 500,000 subscribers.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
MLB's Web Video Puts Everyone Else To Shame — Today is Major League Baseball's Opening Day, which means the first real game in more than five months for most players and fans. It's also a big day for the league's Internet division: MLB Advanced Media is pushing a full slate of games …
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Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple listing implies iPod touch to eventually gain digital camera [Updated] — Apple holds aspirations of extending digital camera functions found on its popular iPhone handset to its iPod touch digital media players, according a listing posted on the company's website last month.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Closing the loop: Howard Stern picks BlackBerry Bold over Pre — Howard Stern got his Palm Pre demo and picked the BlackBerry Bold instead. — As noted last week, Palm worked the word of mouth marketing for the Pre and received a lot of air time from Stern. That word of mouth turned into a commercial for RIM, however.
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Bret Taylor / FriendFeed Blog:
A new design for FriendFeed at http://beta.friendfeed.com/ — We've been spending a lot of time thinking about how to improve FriendFeed. And we've been tinkering with those ideas at http://beta.friendfeed.com. — Today, we're opening up that site for you to try it for yourself.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:New FriendFeed: Simpler, Faster, Better (Maybe Too Fast)
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Sun following the IBM deal collapse: Customer confusion en route — Sun Microsystems won't be acquired by IBM after all. Now the explaining—mostly to customers and shareholders—really begins. — Sun will tell its customers that the IBM deal was just a slight detour and that the company's plan …
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Chris Preimesberger / eWeek:Why Sun Had Better Have a Solid Backup Plan
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
YouTube, Sony Pictures in talks over feature films — “YouTube is in negotiations with Sony Pictures to get licensing rights to some of the studio's movies. The Professional” is from Sony Pictures and is available at Crackle.com. — YouTube is in talks to acquire licensing rights …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
New iPhone To Have FM Radio Transmitter, Video Editing — In addition to faster wi-fi networking via a new wireless chip, Apple's (AAPL) next iPhone — which we expect the company to announce on June 8 — will have a built-in FM transmitter, 9 to 5 Mac reports.
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Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
How I Came to Get a PC and Not a Mac — I don't buy new computers very often, and for a long time I slightly favored Macs over Windows PCs. So no one perhaps is more surprised than me that my now four-month old laptop is a Sony and not an Apple. I found my decision process to be similar …
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple: Barclays Expects New iPhones; Ups Target, Ests — Barclays Capital analyst Ben Reitzes this morning pounded the table on Apple (AAPL), repeating his Overweight rating, upping his price target to $143, from $113, and increasing his estimates. For the September 2009 fiscal year he now sees $5, up from $4.85.
Information Architects:
Web Trend Map 4 - Final Beta — Here it is, posted in a panic: Web Trend Map 4. We'll give you a week for final feedback before we send it to the printer. Download: For the final feedback round, we only offer a PNG (2.6MB). There are more formats to come. Feedback: Use the comment section below for feedback. ...
Ty McMahan / Digits:
Payment Processor Revolution Money Pumped With $42M — At a time when both consumers and merchants are looking for ways to cut costs, several major financial firms and individual investors have pumped $42 million into Revolution Money, the payment-processing company backed by AOL co-founder Steve Case.
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
X-Men Leak Downloaded Over a Million Times — Less than a week after 20th Century Fox's ‘upcoming’ blockbuster first appeared online, and three long weeks before the official premiere in the movie theaters, over a million people have already downloaded X-Men Origins: Wolverine via BitTorrent.
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Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Time Warner laying ground for possible AOL spin — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc said on Monday it is asking some bondholders to change credit terms, a move expected to pave the way for a spin-off of its beleaguered Internet unit AOL. — The media conglomerate …
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Commodore 64 Original Hardware Laptop — This project somehow has the distinction of being both the longest and fastest portable electronics project I have ever done. I originally started making a C64 laptop in the fall of 2006, and kept pecking away at it every so often.
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
OpenMoko hits a snag, hangs up on its next-gen phone — OpenMoko CEO Sean Moss-Pultz says that the company will have to delay—and possibly cancel—the launch of its next-generation handset. The company is refocusing its efforts on its current product, the FreeRunner, and a new secret initiative that is referred to only as Project B.
Scott M. Fulton, III / BetaNews:
Should AT&T be obliged to enable Skype for the iPhone? — What may already have become the iPhone's most popular app is sending bad vibes to its US-based carrier, which last Friday signaled that enough is enough. — With the P2P voice communication service Skype now available for Apple's iPhone …
Maneesh Arora / The Official Google Blog:
CVS joins Google Health Rx network: millions can access medication records online — When I first started working on Google Health, I was shocked by how hard it is for people to access their own medical records. I wondered why that's the case when it's so easy to access other types …
Doug Aamoth / CrunchGear:
External hard drive dock kills a whole flock of birds with one stone — Convergence abounds with Brando's laboriously-named SATA HDD Dock Station Combo Stereo Speaker + Hub. The product costs $59 and serves as a dock for 2.5- and 3.5-inch hard drives, a speaker system, a two-port USB hub …
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Now streaming on Netflix: SpongeBob, Cartman — Viacom's MTV Networks has brought some of its television content to Netflix's library of streaming online video, the companies announced Monday. — The offering consists primarily of kids' shows from the Nickelodeon network …
Ben Kunz / Business Week:
A Pricing Revolution Looms in Online Advertising — Demographic profiling and behavioral targeting by such companies as Google, Quantcast, and ValueClick is slashing ad costs and threatening Web publishers — Look just to the right of this article. There, on your computer screen …
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
iTunes 8.1.1 enables HD rental support plus bug fixes — Those waiting to watch the promised-but-never-delivered iTunes HD rentals on a Mac or PC have reason to celebrate today. Apple has just released an update to its iTunes software that enables HD rental support on the computer, among a handful of other fixes.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Cooliris Keeps On Growing, Adds Desktop Support — Cooliris, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based startup that makes a browser plug-in for sifting through large amounts of videos and photos on the web using a 3-D interface, is set to release a major new version of its software later this week.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft will allow Windows 7 users to downgrade to XP — Microsoft and its PC partners are going to allow Windows 7 users to downgrade not just to Windows Vista, but also to Windows XP, Microsoft officials are confirming. — Some company watchers have been wondering about the downgrade rights …
