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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
feature: Smoking guns, dark secrets aplenty in YouTube-Viacom filings — Court documents in the $1 billion lawsuit between Viacom and YouTube were unsealed today, finally shedding some light on key questions: did Viacom have “smoking gun” evidence that YouTube was deliberately profiting …
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Greg Sandoval / Media Maverick:
Reasons to care about Viacom vs. Google (FAQ) — Viacom has accused YouTube of looking the other way when clips from the Viacom-owned Paramount Pictures were once plentiful on the site. — (Credit: Greg Sandoval/CNET) — Thursday's 200-page dump of court documents in the 3-year-old …
Kyle VanHemert / Gizmodo:
Blackberry Internet Service 3.0 Coming March 28 With Gmail Syncing — In the wee hours of the morning on March 28, RIM will roll out Blackberry Internet Service 3.0. During the four hour upgrade, Blackberry users can expect their email service to be a bit wonky, but it'll be worth it …
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Zee / The Next Web:
Happy Birthday Twitter. This little bird is all grown up... Many people, usually those who aren't using Twitter yet, are under the impression the service has only just launched. In many respects it has, but at four years old it's fair to say it has officially flown the start-up nest.
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Blake Ellis / CNNMoney.com:
Palm's new price target: $0 — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Palm's future already looked bleak. But after reporting worse than expected results for the third quarter Thursday, some analysts think the company's stock is now essentially worthless. — Shares of Palm (PALM) plunged 19% to $4.59 a share early Friday, a new 52-week low.
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Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
iPhone will be first mobile device to fall at Pwn2Own 2010 — The fourth annual Pwn2Own contest—which takes place at the CanSecWest security conference every year—kicks off next week. Like last year, 2010's contest will offer security experts and hackers the chance to “pwn” …
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
Video: This is easily the coolest thing I've seen an iPhone do this week. — You hear that sound? That's the sound of my mind being blown. — When the folks over in Cupertino strapped a little speaker to the bottom of the iPhone and released an SDK, do you think that any of them thought …
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Maya Baratz / All Shook Down:
Choose Your Own Adventure! On Twitter. — Remember the Choose Your Own Adventure series? If you do, skip to the third paragraph. If you don't, read on. — CYOA was a book series with a non-linear structure that allowed you to explore multiple possible endings via making your own decisions as per what the protagonist should do.
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
Happy Birthday, Gnutella: Pioneering P2P Protocol Turns Ten — Ten years ago this week, online music pioneer Justin Frankel released a little application dubbed Gnutella that enabled file sharing through a distributed P2P network. Frankel, whose previous claim to fame was programming …
Stephen Totilo / Kotaku:
Apple Bans Game, Days After Developer Publicly Trashes App Store — Last week, game developer Tommy Refenes publicly called Apple's app store “awful” and “horrible.” This week, Apple yanked his game from their store. — There are a couple of reasons that may have compelled Apple …
Rosa Golijan / Gizmodo:
Wrapsol Ultra Film Protects Phones When They're Dragged Behind a Car at 35 MPH — The makers of Wrapsol Ultra adhesive film wanted to prove how well their product protects gadgets. So they took an innocent Nokia, wrapped it up like a sandwich, and dragged it behind a car at 35 miles per hour.
Mike Blanchfield / The Canadian Press:
Supreme Court overturns child-porn conviction, says search was unreasonable — Mike Blanchfield, THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA - A botched search warrant and the right to computer privacy featured Friday in a Supreme Court ruling that overturned the child pornography conviction of a Saskatchewan man.
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Michael Grothaus / TUAW:
Cool weird stuff: TUAW reader accidentally downloads 10.6.3 pre-release — Here's one for the freak occurrence archives. A TUAW reader e-mailed us after running Software Update on his new 2.8GHz i7 iMac last night. Something odd popped up. — “I got a new 27-inch iMac earlier this week,” he wrote.
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