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Darren Murph / Engadget:
Video: Sony's PSP Go leaks out before E3, is obviously a go — Look up there, folks. That's the future of Sony's hopes and dreams in the handheld gaming sector. With just hours to go before the company's official E3 2009 press event, it looks like the pieces are all coming together.
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Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Microsoft Update Quietly Installs Firefox Extension — A routine security update for a Microsoft Windows component installed on tens of millions of computers has quietly installed an extra add-on for an untold number of users surfing the Web with Mozilla's Firefox Web browser.
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
Opening Up Closed Doors: What News Execs Asked Brill — Some two dozen newspaper industry execs gathered quietly (they thought) in suburban Chicago Thursday to continue a conversation about industry solutions that started last month. In between the two, Steve Brill, Leo Hindery …
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Gordon Borrell / Borrell Associates:
Are we NUTS? — We've had lots of questions about our numbers for email advertising — $12 billion - being wildly higher than other tracking companies' numbers. For instance, the Interactive Advertising Bureau, through Price Waterhouse, is reporting less than $500 million for e-mail. Are we nuts?!
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“Best video” not so great — we're working on it. — No matter how good that “best video” looks, don't go to any juste.ru domains. We're aware of the situation and are working on it.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Downloading 3322 Copyrighted Movies is Okay in Spain — Today, the Criminal Court of Pamplona ruled that a man didn't break any laws by downloading thousands of movies and an undetermined number of songs. The defendant was acquitted of copyright infringement charges because there was no evidence …
Sridhar / Zoho Blogs:
Microsoft Silverlight vs Google Wave: Why Karma Matters — Inevitable comparisons are made between the hugely enthusiastic developer response (including from us at Zoho) to Google Wave yesterday with the relatively tepid reponse to Microsoft's new search engine Bing.
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Less Than A Third Of Australia's Censor List Actually About Underage Images — For years and years and years, the Australian government has been looking to come up with a rationale for censoring the internet. The most recent plan has gone through some hiccups with mass protests.
Elizabeth Woyke / Forbes:
Sprint's Palm Pre ‘War Room’ — For the phone's launch, the carrier plans to create “situation rooms” to troubleshoot problems. — Sprint is approaching its June 6 launch of the Palm Pre with military strategy. — The introduction of the hotly anticipated handset will be Sprint ( S …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Detailed Notes From CEO Armstrong's All-Hands Meeting for AOL Staff Today — After officially announcing that AOL was going to be spun off yesterday, Tim Armstrong, the CEO of the Time (TWX) Warner online unit, held an all-hands meeting for employees today.
Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Yahoo adds Google Suggest developer to labs — Yahoo has snagged a Googler, adding Yoelle Maarek from Google's Haifa Engineering Center to its ranks. — The company announced Friday that Maarek would be joining Yahoo Labs as co-leader of Yahoo's Haifa Lab in Israel.
Austin Modine / The Register:
Sims 3 pirated 180,000 times in three days — Beating Spore's download rate so far — Hitachi IT Operations Analyzer - 30-day free trial — So much for Electronic Arts' open palm approach to video game piracy. The game maker nixed its draconic digital rights management (DRM) …
Joe / joestump.net:
Zombies and sheep tossing comes to Twitter — It was bound to happen sooner or later. Spam-based viral applications, first made popular on Facebook's platform, have come to Twitter in the form of Spymaster. The #spymaster tag is trending on Twitter's search right now and, judging by my own stream, a bunch of people are playing it.
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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Let's talk about Windows 7 Starter — There has been a lot of talk recently about Windows 7 Starter, so I thought I'd dive a little deeper into what it means to have this edition of Windows 7 running on a small notebook PC (a.k.a. a netbook). — Today, the Starter edition of Windows …
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