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Thomas Crampton / New York Times:
On a Russian Site, Cheap Songs With a Backbeat of Illegality — PARIS, June 2 — Rising consumer popularity is turning AllofMP3.com, a music downloading service based in Moscow, into a global Internet success story, but with a catch. The site may well be illegal.
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Mike / Techdirt:
Why Would The US Gov't Get Involved In Taking Down Foreign Music Sites? — from the seems-a-bit-out-of-their-realm dept — With all of the bills that have shown up in Congress lately that are all about protecting the entertainment industry's increasingly obsolete business model …
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Investors sue Vonage over IPO — Internet phone provider Vonage is being sued in a class action lawsuit on behalf of shareholders who bought stock in the company prior to its initial public offering. — The suit filed on Friday in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey …
Business Week:
A VC's View of Web 2.0 — The day of giant corporate software packages is over, says Oracle vet Ray Lane. The future lies in bottom-up, user-driven services — WEB 2.0 — If Web 2.0 points to the future of information technology inside corporations, as some people believe …
Robert Levine / New York Times:
Limited Appeal? Sell Songs Online — Record companies often issue collections of the B-sides and soundtrack contributions of popular acts; Rhino Entertainment, a division of Warner Music Group, is once again faced with a band whose regular albums never sold very well.
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Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
PS3 hardware slow and broken — In words and pictures — AFTER BREAKING THE news to me about PS3 RSX speeds earlier on the flight to Japan, my row-mate said 'if you think that's interesting, wait till you see this. Cell is hurting, badly'. — For those of you that believe in religions …
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Daimaou / akihabaranews.com:
Hybrid Touch Screen Panel from Samsung — Samsung will show a 3.5" LCD hTSP screen (Hybrid Touch Screen Panel) at the SID 2006 (San Francisco CA). So what exactly is this stuff? Well normally a Touch Screen consists of 2 different elements, a PCB and the Screen, here Samsung neatly incorporated the PCB part into the screen...
timesofindia.indiatimes.com:
Apple software logs out of India — BANGALORE: The company that redefined the way we listen to music has decided to call it quits in India. Apple, known for its popular iPods, is pulling out its software development and support operations in India. — The company had commenced operations …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Acme Packet, Another VoIPO — With all the attention focused on the Vonage's initial public offering, it just might be the beginning of a steady and long line of VoIPOs (aka Voice over IP public offerings.) Acme Packet, a Burlington, Massachusetts has just filed its registration statement …
Loren / Incremental Blogger:
Looking for a couple Firefox users to test out an ink plug-in — The ink plug-in for Firefox is inching along. There's a test page online now (located here—Firefox REQUIRED), that I've been using to check out some of the plug-ins' features. — If you have Firefox 1.5, a Tablet PC …
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Jon's Radio:
Earth to Google PR — A Google developer and API evangelist, P., invites me to take a look at a new API. I reply that, instead, I'd like to discuss the GData APIs. P. thanks me for my interest in GData, and promises to try to connect me with someone. — A couple of days later I hear from S., on Google's "communication team."
Ilse Jurriën / Lets Go Digital:
Sony Alpha 100 — Sony Alpha 100 : Since Sony and Konica Minolta announced that Konica Minolta consigned their camera service operations for Konica Minolta, Konica Minolta brand cameras and related equipment to Sony, the news of a Sony digital SLR camera is a hot topic among digital SLR camera enthusiasts.
Thomas F. Anglero / Telecom's Tsunami:
The End of Telecom; The Emergence of Utilicom — For as long as I have been involved in VoIP (1994), I have been one of the guilty souls who have declared from the highest mountain top that Telecom was coming to an end due to the latest flavor of disruptive technologies, companies, regulations …
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Read/WriteWeb:
The Future of Personalized Start Pages — Personalized Start Pages is a growing, but fiercely competitive, market. So what are they? Predominantly they're homepages for Web information, gadgets and widgets. The difference from old-style web portals are: the user can personalize them much more …
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Seth Schiesel / New York Times:
The Video Game Goes Minimalist: Nintendo Comes Full Circle — SOME new media, like the Internet and cellphones, begin life in a niche, as curiosities even, before becoming everyday elements of mainstream culture. Others evolve in the opposite direction. — Think about video games.
