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Apple Wins Like a Champ - Psystar is Toast — What? You're Surprised? — Psystar just got what's coming to them in the California case. Here's the order [PDF]. It's a total massacre. Psystar's first-sale defense went down in flames. Apple's motion for summary judgment on copyright infringement and DMCA violation is granted.
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Stephen Wildstrom / Tech Beat:Apple Crushes Clone Maker in Court
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Todd Bishop / TechFlash:
Ballad of a Windows 7 fanboy — Most kids in talent shows dance or play instruments. Fifth-grader Will Smith made a musical pitch for Windows 7 instead. — After seeing this video on YouTube yesterday afternoon, I almost didn't believe it was real, so I sent a message to the person who posted it …
Randall Stross / New York Times:
Apple Wouldn't Risk Its Cool Over a Gimmick, Would It? — “SOME of the best-loved technology on the planet” is how Apple describes its products when recruiting new employees. It's a fair description. — But the love that consumers send Apple's way could flag if the company puts into place …
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Is There a Method in Cellphone Madness? — HERE'S a consolation prize to the millions who recoil in bafflement from cellphone companies' labyrinthine price plans, with their ever more intricate arrays of minutes, messages and megabytes: Economists don't understand them, either.
Jon Ungoed-Thomas / Times of London:
Belle de Jour revealed as research scientist Dr Brooke Magnanti — The secret life of Dr Brooke Magnanti, an obscure research scientist, is revealed today as she unmasks herself as the writer behind the pseudonym Belle de Jour. — Her identity has been one of the great literary mysteries …
Chippy / UMPCPortal:
Sponsorship-supported Crunchpad is alive. ‘Steamrolling’ says Arrington. — I should have been in bed but I got hooked into an excellent Gilmore Gang videocast (below) this evening. Robert Scoble, Mike Arrington, P Rangaswami, Kevin Marks, and Saul Hansell talk a lot about the iPhone and Driod war …
Los Angeles Times:
Blogging moms wooed by food firms — As food makers lavish trips and goodies on parenting bloggers, critics see a shrewd marketing ploy. — Andrea Deckard, a stay-at-home mom in Monroe, Ohio, points to a post on her Mommy Snacks blog. Both Frito-Lay and Nestle have brought her to Los Angeles …
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Nvidia calls Intel's graphics chip tactics ‘aggressive’ — Advanced Micro Devices is not the only large Intel competitor to rail against Intel's alleged strong-arm tactics. — Nvidia has also complained loudly for years about Intel business practices in the graphics chip market, where Intel commands about 50 percent of the market.
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Seamusmccauley / Virtual Economics:
The growing value of URLs you can easily spell out in dead bodies — Probably the funniest bit of commercial ingenuity I've seen these past few months is the growth of corpse-spam in World of Warcraft.You see, it's quite hard, in-game, to spam people with commercial messages.
John Biggs / CrunchGear:
It's Google's world and handset makers just live in it — When the Motorola Droid launched this month everyone was amazed that a company so down on its luck was able to put together a well-designed phone running a powerful, “brand new” OS. The whole package - hardware, software, and marketing - seemed flawless.
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Apple looks to hire AAA game developer for in-house iPhone team — Apple is looking to hire a game and media software engineer for its iPhone and iPod touch team, perhaps signaling that the company intends to expand its first-party software offerings. — The listing posted this week …
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Roselyn Roark / Gadget Lab:
Verizon Won't Offer Free Tethering But Droid Hackers Might (Updated) — Updated 8 p.m. EDT: Google has released the source code for Android 2.0, according to Android developer Cyanogen. — In TV ads, Verizon is trying to sell its new Google-powered phone by highlighting everything the “Droid Does” that the iPhone doesn't.
