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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  —  The judge who sentenced the four founders of torrent site The Pirate Bay to a hefty fine and a year in jail for copyright infringement has denied a conflict of interest after it was revealed that he is a member of pro-copyright lobby groups.
Discussion: TechSpot
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.
Discussion: The Noisy Channel and Slashdot
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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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Google Product Search Finally Useful as Mobile Service  —  Google announced this morning that Google Product Search is now tightly integrated with mobile search results on the iPhone and Android.  The new interface should make it easier to find price comparisons and customer reviews while on the go.
Discussion: TechCrunch and GPS Obsessed
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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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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Eric Savitz / Barron's Online:
Apple: Street Celebrates Strong Quarter; Multiple Upgrades
Discussion: MacDailyNews and 24/7 Wall Street
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).
Discussion: Big in Japan, Thanks:atul
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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.
Discussion: Incremental Blogger and CrunchGear
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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News Corporation:
Chris DeWolfe to Step Down as CEO of MySpace
Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Apple pulls iPhone ‘Baby Shaker’ game  —  Game for Apple iPhone that asks users to quiet baby by shaking it withdrawn amid outrage after two days  —  A game called “Baby Shaker” for Apple's iPhone, which encouraged people to try to quiet a crying baby by shaking it, has been withdrawn …
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.
Discussion: LinuxWorld.com, Datamation and Engadget
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.  In a message on Yahoo!'s help site, the company said that it would be shuttering Geocities …
Keith Kleiner / Singularity Hub:
Tweetbomb - A Tweet To Shake The World  —  A simple message, less than 140 characters, is sent out to followers around the world and within hours, perhaps minutes, more than 100 million people have been mobilized to act.  The message might instruct those who read it to look at a certain website …
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 …
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 …
Discussion: eWeek
Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Computer Buyers Have to Consider System Upgrades  —  If you're shopping for a computer now, there's an added factor to consider.  Later this year, both of the major computer operating systems, Microsoft's Windows Vista and Apple's Mac OS X Leopard, will be replaced with major new versions: Windows 7 and Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
Discussion: AppleInsider
William P. Barrett / Forbes:
Steve Jobs: Nobody Loves Me  —  Steve Jobs, adulated gadget hero, was feeling underappreciated not too long ago.  —  Steve Jobs, the man rolling out iPods, iPhones and cool computers to millions of adoring customers, once felt he wasn't getting enough respect—from his own board of directors.
Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:
Rural Riddle: Do Jobs Follow Broadband Access?  —  Two Hamlets That Got High-Speed Lines Show Wildly Different Results  —  In the southwest corner of Virginia, where tobacco farms meet the Appalachian Mountains, two towns desperately in need of an economic boost were given what many had hoped …
Discussion: DSLreports
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 …
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.
Ze Pequeno / Tiny Mix Tapes:
Joe Biden's Problem with Music  —  A different perspective on the RIAA's takeover of the Department of Justice  —  If there's something to be said about Vice Presidents, it's that they can wield unlikely power.  They may be just background figures at times, men who are simply one heartbeat away from becoming President themselves.
Discussion: ZDNet Government and p2pnet
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 …
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
Why high-performance computing needs financial engineering  —  Richard Bookstaber, the quant's quant, suggests that the CPU- and GPGPU-driven arms race among high-frequency, computer-automated trading shops should, and eventually might, come to a halt.  If it does, this would not be good for …
 
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Alice Marwick / tiara.org:
Foursquare, Locative Media, and Prescriptive Social Software - Part One
Theo Valich / Bright Side Of News:
nVidia's GT300 specifications revealed - it's a cGPU!
Discussion: Softpedia News and bit-tech.net
Louis Gray:
Google Reader Limits Your RSS Article Spam Potential
Bill Bergstrom / Associated Press:
Record attempt reaps 217K texts, $26K phone bill
Discussion: Neowin.net and Gizmodo
Jon Fortt / Fortune:
Why Yahoo shouldn't sell search
Discussion: CNNMoney.com, Thanks:atul
 Earlier Items: 
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
The Pirate Google Bay Gives the Finger to Record Companies, Studios
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Microsoft: The four elephants in the room
Discussion: CNET News
Rick Klau / tins:
Music rights are killing good TV shows
Thanks:atul
 

 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Bonnie Hammer plans to leave the company at the end of the year; she has been with the company since 2004

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