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10:20 AM ET, May 19, 2007

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Kevin C. Tofel / jkOnTheRun:
Dell Latitude Tablet PC spotted on Dell's blog  —  Let the rumors subside: Dell will indeed have a Tablet PC this year and you can see it showcased in a short video right on the Direct2Dell blog!  My first impressions: this looks light and very thin, possibly the thinnest convertible yet!
Discussion: TechSpot News and Newsome.Org
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
Under the Hood of The Pirate Bay's New Video Site  —  YouTube could get some unusual competition soon: The operators of infamous Swedish Torrent site The Pirate Bay have announced that they are going to start their own streaming video platform soon.  A short message on Thepiratebay.org …
Discussion: GigaOM
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Brokep / The Pirate Bay:
Oh some problems and a treat!
Discussion: Epicenter
Smaran / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay to Launch YouTube Competitor
Discussion: TechCrunch, Mashable!, P2P Blog and digg
Chris Pirillo:
Popfly: Microsoft Gets an A++  —  Oh.  My.  God.  —  I can't believe Microsoft did this.  No, seriously - I knew they were doing this for a while, since they're taking advantage of the bLaugh API.  This is unreal.  I'm so beyond impressed with Popfly, it's not even funny …
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Elinor Mills / ZDNet:
Quantifying Microsoft's biggest purchase ever  —  Aquantive who?  The company Microsoft is acquiring for its highest purchase price ever may not even register on the radar of most consumers.  —  But it's a well-known entity in the online advertising industry and can give Microsoft some much-needed …
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Charles Onyett / IGN:
Blizzard's Worldwide Invitational Begins  —  Updates directly from the show floor. … 4:07 - Just uploaded first ever screens of StarCraft 2.  Enjoy.  —  3:50 - Blizzard has not yet announced a release date for StarCraft 2.  —  3:44 - Had to run out of conference room to plug in laptop …
Andrea James / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
P-I has no immediate plans for bendable 'e-paper'  —  Someday, Seattle P-I readers may be able to carry around their news in a bendable, electronic paper device — but not any time soon.  —  Hearst Corp., which owns the Seattle P-I, has no plans to use the Seattle daily newspaper to test …
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Peter Finn / Washington Post:
Cyber Assaults on Estonia Typify a New Battle Tactic  —  This small Baltic country, one of the most wired societies in Europe, has been subject in recent weeks to massive and coordinated cyber attacks on Web sites of the government, banks, telecommunications companies, Internet service providers …
Reuters:
BitTorrent user loses appeal in movie piracy case  —  A Hong Kong man, believed to be the first person convicted of downloading pirated movies using BitTorrent file-sharing technology, lost his appeal on Friday in the territory's highest court.  —  Chan Nai-ming, who used the alias "Big Crook" …
Discussion: Gizmodo and Slashdot
Nokia:
Nokia 3109 classic offers affordable, straightforward functionality  —  Nokia today announced the new Nokia 3109 classic, a mobile phone that offers a productive feature set, long battery life and expandable memory for effective, reliable and distraction free communication.
Doreen Carvajal / International Herald Tribune:
Governments using filters to censor Internet, survey finds  —  PARIS: With the aid of sophisticated software, government censorship of the Internet is spreading into a global phenomenon, with tech-savvy governments filtering forbidden themes from politics and human rights to sexuality and religion …
Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
Get Your Own Theme at Method Music  —  If you're a "Family Guy" fan like me, you might remember the episode where Peter finds a genie in a lamp and wishes for his own theme music.  Well, a new website backed by the legendary frontman of the rock group "The Who", Pete Townshend …
Discussion: 606Tech
Ryan Stewart:
I'm Joining Adobe  —  Big news for me today.  I'm joining Adobe as a Rich Internet Application Evangelist on the Platform Team.  One of the things I get a lot of feedback on is that everyone appreciates me being "neutral" and covering all angles of the rich internet application space.
Discussion: JD on EP
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Origami 2.0 to be thinner, smaller, and (maybe) less expensive  —  Microsoft is working on a new set of specifications for its Origami project.  Microsoft development manager Vikram Madan spoke this week at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Los Angeles about some of the specs …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Netflix Sued For Violating Antitrust Law With Its Patents  —  from the who-to-root-for?  dept  —  I'm pretty skeptical of most class-action lawsuits.  They're often filed over bizarre claims, and the settlements almost always seem to enrich the lawyers a lot more than the "class."
Discussion: Slashdot
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Justin Berka / Ars Technica:
Hide your firewalls!  Adobe's CS3 may try to disable them  —  There are a lot of users out there who don't like to use the firewall included with OS X for various reasons.  It does, however, provide at least a decent amount of protection, especially for those who aren't behind another, perhaps a hardware firewall.
Discussion: The Mac Observer and JD on EP
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Google Acquiring Feedburner?  —  We've seen some ridiculously false rumors over the past few weeks, so we're not buying into this one until we see a press release.  But it does make logical sense: Vecosys hears from a "VERY trusted source" that Google is buying the RSS management …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Now that Feedburner Story....  Every so often we hear …
 
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Maximus / Just Another Mobile Phone Blog:
The latest PSP Windows PS3 mobile phone
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Martyn Williams / InfoWorld:
LG Electronics to cut PDP production
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Business Week:
A Cable Company People Don't Hate
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I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
Risk Is for Losers  —  No president could spend money …
Ellie Gibson / GamesIndustry.biz:
Nordic Game: Rock Band will be affordable, says Harmonix exec
Discussion: Kotaku, GamePro.com and Joystiq
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Joost's Deal Plans Hidden in PDF Presentation
Nico Vera / Facebook Blog:
Oh Canada...  If you were to check out the Toronto, ON network page …
Business Week:
Even Yahoo! Gets the Blues
Jon Healey / Los Angeles Times:
Nabbing (some) camcorders  —  Spider-Man 3 photo courtesy of Sony Pictures
Molly Graham / Official Google Blog:
Google Apps Partner Edition
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
New Copyright Alliance hopes to strengthen copyright law
Discussion: eHomeUpgrade
J. Alex Halderman / Freedom to Tinker:
AACS Updated, Broken Again
Discussion: Techdirt and Boing Boing