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Apple thwarted in bid to unmask leaker — update Apple Computer suffered a setback in its effort to plug an internal leak, after a state appeals court ruled that the computer maker can't immediately get its hands on records of who may have contacted an Apple enthusiast site with details on an unreleased product.
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
On the Apple decision — A very simple editorial on yesterday's decision by the Sixth District Court of Appeals that bloggers are entitled to the same protection as print journalists; that a rich corporation can't control the bloggers that cover it. — 1. The day a U.S. court comes …
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techeblog.com:
Top 10 Strangest Gadgets of the Future — This week, our editors have compiled a list of the "Top 10 Strangest Gadgets of the Future", from solar powered LEDs to memory LCD screens, it's all here. Which ones are your favorites? — 10. Citizen's Memory LCD
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Can anyone own "Web 2.0?" — O'Reilly Media have taken a ton of criticism for attempting to enforce a service mark against a nonprofit group in Ireland that wanted to have "Web 2.0" conference. O'Reilly exec Dale Dougherty coined the term Web 2., and O'Reilly used it for a line …
Tim Arango / New York Post:
TALKS COOL BETWEEN MICROSOFT AND EBAY — May 26, 2006 — For several weeks Microsoft has been in discussions about a possible acquisition of online auctioneer eBay, The Post has learned. — According to multiple sources close to the matter, Microsoft has considered buying eBay and merging …
IEBlog:
Announcing IE7+ — With the release of Windows Vista Beta 2, I want to announce that we will be naming the version of IE7 in Windows Vista "Internet Explorer 7+". While all versions of IE7 are built from the same code base, there are some important differences in IE7+ …
Timothy J. Mullaney / Business Week:
Netflix — The mail-order movie house that clobbered Blockbuster — Truly ambitious web startups think of making money merely as a starting point. Real respect goes to companies that change the rules of the game. And few upstarts this side of Google (GOOG). have grander ambitions than Netflix Inc.
Darren Ennis / Reuters:
EU lawmakers consider taxing emails, SMS messages — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union lawmakers are investigating a proposed tax on emails and mobile phone text messages as a way to fund the 25-member bloc in the future. — A European Parliament working group is reviewing the idea …
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Gonzales pressures ISPs on data retention — U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller on Friday urged telecommunications officials to record their customers' Internet activities, CNET News.com has learned. — In a private meeting with industry representatives …
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USA Today:
Financial firms attack child porn — The nation's leading banks and credit card companies will soon team with law enforcement in a groundbreaking coalition to catch people who sell child pornography online. — The financial institutions will report child porn sites they discover on the Web …
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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Strict Net neutrality passes House Committee, but fate is rather uncertain — The House Committee on the Judiciary today approved the Internet Freedom and Nondiscrimination Act (HR 5417) in a vote of 20-12. This particular 'Net neutrality bill would make it an antitrust violation to …
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Inquirer:
Blackberry-killer plans leaked — Data-only clamshell nears launch — A HIGHLY-PLACED mole in a North American company has attempted to leak details of a data only clamshell to the INQ. The device is intended as a mass market version of the original RIM Blackberry.
Inside AdSense Team / Inside AdSense:
Video ads: Your questions answered — A couple of days ago, we launched click-to-play video ads. We thought we'd follow up with answers to some of your top questions: … Google will host the video, and it is user-initiated, so it will not slow down your site and you will not have to pay for the bandwidth.
Ravi / All about Linux:
First impressions of Picasa - Google's first rate Graphics suite for Linux — Today, Google did something which would gladden the hearts of thousands of GNU/Linux users - well atleast those who are not as rigid in outlook about GPL any way. That is they finally released a version of Picasa for Linux.
USA Today:
Feds cut off phone tax after 108 years — A pesky, century-old tax on your phone bill is finally being put to rest. — The Treasury Department said Thursday that it will no longer collect a 3% federal excise tax on long-distance calls and would refund about $15 billion to taxpayers.
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