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Kim Cameron / Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog:
Modern Times: False alarm with nutso DRM — It turns out that I when I tried to burn Modern Times, I just ran into an incredibly unhelpful user interface telling me that "burning was disabled" for a bunch of tracks..." But it wasn't due to DRM. — Posted on Saturday 2 September 2006
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AppleInsider:
Apple settles iTunes software interface lawsuit — Apple Computer has settled a lawsuit filed by a Vermont-based business owner who claimed the iPod maker stole his software interface design and used it to create iTunes. — The terms of the deal, which were reached following a 15-hour negotiating session …
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Mike / Techdirt:
Apple Settles Yet Another iTunes Interface Patent Suit — Hot on the heels of Apple's decision to settle with Creative over a patent on the basic interface for finding music on your iPod, Apple has also settled another patent claim concerning a patent for a computer-based system and user interface for media playing devices.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
An interview with VC Paul Graham of YCombinator — Paul Graham believes we're not in a bubble, that startups shouldn't worry about their business models and the best companies are the ones with potential to kill old monopolies. Graham is a partner at YCombinator, a Mountain View venture capital firm …
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Dead2.0, ben barren, michael parekh on IT, A VC, Mark Evans and Mark Watson's opinions …
Lisa Gade / mobiletechreview.com:
Palm Treo 700wx for Sprint — When the Treo 700w on Verizon came out at the beginning of January 2006, it made quite a stir since it was the first Windows Mobile rather than Palm OS Treo. The Palm OS Treo line had nearly defined the PDA phone market with it's great ergonomics, ease of use and cross-platform syncing ability.
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Google to Give Data To Brazilian Court — Google Inc., which refused in the past year to hand over user search data to U.S. authorities fighting children's access to pornography, said yesterday that it was complying with a Brazilian court's orders to turn over data that could help identify users accused …
Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
MySpace to sell music from nearly 3 million bands — NEW YORK (Reuters) - MySpace, the wildly popular online teen hangout, said on Friday it will make its first move into the digital music business by selling songs from nearly 3 million unsigned bands. — MySpace is the latest company …
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog, IP Democracy, TechCrunch UK, TechCrunch, Open (finds, minds …, Mark Evans, CrunchGear, robhyndman.com and Slashdot
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Clocke / all noise all the time:
you snooze, you win — z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z... But seriously, folks, you owe it to yourself to check out this hot new — and hysterical — Web 2.0 parody site, The New New Internet. I was Rolling on the Floor Laughing My F**k*** Ass Off. Favorite line: "Gain a Deep, Non-Technical Understanding of Web 2.0." …
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Al W / Tech Digest:
IFA 2006: USRobotics Skype DECT Phone — Yet another company is joining the race to get every home using Skype. This is USRobotics' Skype compatible USR9630 cordless phone. It has one obvious flaw already - other companies, such as Philips, are cutting out the middle man and making DECT Skype phones that work independent of a PC.
VoIP Blog:
Alcatel Acquires 3G Assets from Nortel — Today Nortel announced it has shed its 3G UMTS radio access assets and sold them to Alcatel. On a conference call with financial analysts and the media, Nortel President and CEO Mike Zafirovski was quick to point out that his company remains committed …
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Google Archive Search — The first thing I thought of when I saw domains like google-archivesearch.com (registered Friday) was the WayBackMachine. If my gut instinct is correct, it won't be long before Google launches a similar service that lets us peer into the history of the web.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
An Open Challenge to David Maynor and Jon Ellch — When I play poker, I will occasionally place or call bets that I expect to lose. Sometimes it's a simple matter of pot odds — a bet that's a mathematically sound long shot. Occasionally, though, I'll throw away money on a bad bet simply because I want to see an opponent's cards.
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John Biggs / CrunchGear:
CrunchGear's Back to School Cheat Sheet — September is here and maybe you or someone in your household-you know, the kid upstairs with the headphones who listens to that demon hippity-hop music?-might be in the market for some back to school technology. Here's a quick rundown of our favorite picks from the past few months.
David Chartier / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Jobs might deliver a keynote, updated MacBook Pros on September 12th? — Egads, the rumor engine has caught on fire and September 12th is to blame: HardMac cites anonymous sources (i.e. - take it with a grain of salt) that Steve Jobs still won't be present in Paris for the upcoming Apple Expo …
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Hands-on with the Sony Mylo — Holy hot damn, we got us a Mylo up in this piece. Yes, unfortunately it's only a late prototype (we haven't actually heard of anyone getting a final production unit yet) but here she is, Sony's ever-hopeful ace in the hole to get a foothold in the pockets …
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
VentureBeat is back — We launched early yesterday morning, but an overwhelming spike in traffic, a subsequent server crash and no fallback combined to shut down the Web site for a whole day. — We've learned some lessons. — 1) It is hard to launch a start-up.
Lifehacker:
Make your own "official" seal — Web site Says-It's Official Seal Generator lets you design your very own seal with customized text. — I'm really not sure how "official" you can consider your completed seal (I guess it's official if you say so), but they are kind of cool.
Ismael Ghalimi / IT|Redux:
About a Chap — Once upon a time, there was a chap who liked computers, databases, and cool little widgets that can be displayed in a web browser. He started writing about it, gave it yet-another-two-dot-zero-name that people could make fun of, and got a couple more chaps reading what he had to write about it.
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dailywireless.org:
Samsung's 4G — Fourth-generation wireless technology (4G) was in the news this week as Samsung demonstrated 100 Mbps while moving in a bus. NTT DoCoMo, the giant Japanese-based telecommunications company and Korean-based Samsung are both testing 100 Mbit/s mobile technology.
Cyrus Farivar / Engadget:
Meet Zazoox, a new Internet café gaming kiosk — You know, if you could use proper names in Scrabble, Zazoox would be a good one to play. We hadn't heard of them until today, when we read in the trade publication Kiosk Marketplace that Zazoox is a new pay-for-use game café kiosk …
MSN Search's WebLog:
Windows Live QnA beta goes public! — In addition to the testing we're doing you may have seen the news we launched Windows Live QnA beta this week! A link to it is also showing up in the search bar on our recent testing. — For all of you still new to our question-and-answer service …
