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Pirate Bay lawyer calls for retrial — A lawyer representing one of the men convicted in the Pirate Bay trial has called for a retrial after reports that the judge was a member of the same copyright protection organisations as several of the main entertainment industry representatives.
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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Pirate Bay Judge Accused of Bias, Calls for a Retrial — It's been almost a week since the verdicts of one year in prison and heavy financial damages were passed against the four accused in the Pirate Bay trial. The sentence seemed surprisingly tough to many analysts …
Claudine Beaumont / Telegraph:Pirate Bay trial judge denies accusations of bias
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Quietly Pulls The Plug On Geocities — Not with a bang, but with a whimper. Yahoo! is unceremoniously closing GeoCities, one of the original web-hosting services acquired by Yahoo! in 1999 for $2.87 billion. (Fun venture fact: Fred Wilson's Flatiron Partners was an investor).
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VentureBeat, Download Squad, Mashable!, Vinny Lingham's Blog, AppScout, Pocket-lint.com, ...My heart's in Accra and TechVi, Thanks:atul
Rob Stacey / Google Mobile Blog:
Google Product Search for Android and iPhone — In my spare time, I like to build computer systems at home. So I often use Google Product Search on a desktop computer to look for video cards, memory, and peripherals. Google Product Search gives me information like prices, ratings, reviews, and product details from all over the web.
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Fred / A VC:
A Second Market Is Emerging — Claire Cain Miller has a story in today's NY Times about Second Market, a NYC based company that makes markets in illiquid securities. She reports that they will shortly be launching a marketplace for private company stock. — I've written about this idea in the past and I think it is badly needed.
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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
With Private Trades, Venture Capital Seeks a New Way Out — SAN FRANCISCO — Founders of start-ups and the venture capitalists who finance them have two ways to get their money out of the company: sell it to another company or sell shares to the public. — The market for initial public offerings …
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Digits, paidContent.org, SecondMarket, Venture Capital Dispatch, The SiliconANGLE, Dow Jones Newswires and Xconomy, Thanks:atul
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
The State Of The iPhone Is Strong — Very Strong — Of the major companies that announced their earnings yesterday, two of them, AT&T and Apple, beat Wall Street estimates largely thanks to a single product: The iPhone. We're approaching the two year birthday of the device, and it still remains one of the hottest items out there.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple's Q2: Analyzing the analysts — No analyst we know of correctly predicted Apple's (AAPL) second fiscal quarter results for 2009, in which the company proved that computer makers don't have to slash prices or build “junky” $400 netbooks to weather an economic storm. But some analysts did better than others.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Android Catches Up To Palm In Mobile Ad Market Share. IPhone Still Blows It Away. — Android is making steady gains in mobile ad market share, accounting for 6 percent of all mobile ad requests measured by AdMob in its latest March metrics (full report embedded below).
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Bruce Perens / perens.com:
A Cyber-Attack on an American City — Just after midnight on Thursday, April 9, unidentified attackers climbed down four manholes serving the Northern California city of Morgan Hill and cut eight fiber cables in what appears to have been an organized attack on the electronic infrastructure of an American city.
Dan Sabbagh / Times of London:
ITV, YouTube and Simon Cowell miss out on Susan Boyle windfall — ITV, YouTube and Simon Cowell have missed sharing a million-pound windfall because they have failed to reach a deal to sell advertising against clips of Susan Boyle, the internet singing sensation.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
With MySpace Changes, a Social Networking Era Ends — Murdochs & MySpacers Tom Anderson & Chris DeWolfe in Happier Days. (Photo via Flickr courtesy of Oxfam America) — The legendary New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra is rumored to have said about a restaurant: “Nobody goes there anymore because it's too crowded.”
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Chris Nuttall / blogs.ft.com:
Aliph and Plantronics in ears race escalation — It's an ears race rather than an arms race, but the contest for the coolest and quietest Bluetooth headset has just been stepped up another notch with new releases by Aliph and Plantronics. — San Francisco-based Aliph brought forward …
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Apple Researching Methods to Offer Customized Control of Browser-Based Audio Content — In a patent application filed in November 2007 and released today, Apple reveals that it is researching methods for providing customized audio control for Internet browser content.
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Ubuntu 9.04 is available for download — Right on schedule, the folks at Canonical released the latest version of Ubuntu Linux this morning. Ubuntu 9.04 adds a number of new features including a revamped notification system, support for the Ext4 file system, and updated applications like Firefox 3 and OpenOffice.org 3.0.
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook TOS Voting Concludes, Users Vote for New Revised Documents — Facebook's first-ever user vote on proposed changes to the site's Terms of Service has just concluded, and the results are in: the new documents have won out over the old documents by a 74% - 26% margin.
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csh.rit.edu:
Fun with YouTube's Audio Content ID System — Anybody who hasn't been living under a rock knows about YouTube. It's a video site built entirely around user-submitted content. Anybody can film anything, upload it to the site, and anybody on the Internet can watch it if they so choose.
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P2P Blog
Bill Bergstrom / Associated Press:
Record attempt reaps 217K texts, $26K phone bill — PHILADELPHIA - — Their thumbs sure must be sore. Two central Pennsylvania friends spent most of March in a text-messaging record attempt, exchanging a thumbs-flying total of 217,000. For one of the two, that meant an inches-thick itemized bill for $26,000.
Kevin Fitchard / blog.telephonyonline.com:
T-Mobile: 1 million Android phones sold — Deutsche Telekom revealed one particularly interesting tidbit when it released T-Mobile's Q1 subscriber numbers Monday: T-Mobile USA has sold 1 million G1 Android phones since the Google-powered device emerged in October.
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CNET News, IntoMobile, Macworld, InformationWeek, Deutsche Telekom, Electronista, Softpedia News, Android Phone Fans and FierceWireless
Aaron Ricadela / Business Week:
Oracle's Sun Deal: A Closer Look — Oracle's conference call left plenty of questions about its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Here are a few, and how they might be resolved — Oracle's Apr. 20 conference call with Wall Street analysts to discuss its $7.4 billion buyout …
John D. Sutter / CNN:
Experts: Malicious program targets Macs — (CNN) — Mac computers are known for their near-immunity to malicious computer programs that plague PCs. — But that may be changing somewhat, according to computer security researchers. It seems that as sleek Mac computers become more popular …
Sumner Lemon / Network World:
Researchers show how to take control of Windows 7 — Proof-of-concept code takes control of the computer during the boot process — Security researchers demonstrated how to take control of a computer running Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 operating system at the Hack In The Box Security Conference (HITB) in Dubai on Thursday.
Engineering Windows 7:
Ink Input and Tablet PC — There's a strong community of developers who take advantage of the ink input/TabletPC functionality to develop unique solutions for specific markets (medicine, education, line of business) and create software in Windows that builds on this experience to streamline …
Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report:
Verizon unveils the Samsung Trance — Just as we said in our exclusive post a few weeks ago, Verizon Wireless has just announced that the Samsung Trance will go on sale Friday, April 24th for $49.99 after a $50 mail-in with a two-year contract. For those of you not familiar with the device …
Nat Ives / AdAge:
‘Us Weekly’ Sells Facebook Fan Page Ad to State Farm — Social Network Doesn't Get Any Revenue From Deal — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Us Weekly has sold sponsorship of its new Facebook profile to State Farm in what appears to be a first for a media company on the social network website, as well as a first for a company's fan page.
