Top Items:
Walter S. Mossberg / WSJ Personal Technology:
Microsoft's Zune Challenges iPod — Next week, Microsoft Corp. will launch the most serious challenge ever mounted to Apple Computer's iPod and iTunes juggernaut in digital music. The software giant is introducing a portable player called the Zune, an online music store called Zune Marketplace …
Discussion:
The Unofficial Apple Weblog, The Apple Blog, Wi-Fi Networking News and Guardian Unlimited
RELATED ITEMS:
David Pogue / New York Times:
Trying Out the Zune: IPod It's Not — Microsoft is probably the greenest company in all of high tech. Not green in the environmental sense — green with envy. — Microsoft is so jealous of the iPod's success that Tuesday it will unveil a new music system — pocket player …
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
For Start-Ups, Web Success on the Cheap — When Seth J. Sternberg and two colleagues started Meebo, a Web-based instant-messaging service, they didn't go looking for venture capitalists. Using their credit cards, they financed the company themselves to the tune of $2,000 apiece.
BetaNews:
Allchin Suggests Vista Won't Need Antivirus — During a telephone conference with reporters yesterday, outgoing Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin, while touting the new security features of Windows Vista, which was released to manufacturing yesterday, told a reporter that the system's …
RELATED ITEMS:
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Windows Vista system sounds — When Robert Fripp worked his magic on Windows Vista, everyone knew Vista is going to sound different and hopefully better. Now that Vista is literally peeking around the corner, not that it's possible for a software to peek or even exist in the physical world …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
On Universal Music Group's Zune Tax — The New York Times reported late last night and the press release has just gone out about a deal between Universal Music Group and Microsoft concerning the Zune. Microsoft will pay Universal more than $1 for every $250 Zune that is sold. (Or is that $251?)
RELATED ITEMS:
Om Malik / GigaOM:Microsoft, Zune & The Music Mafia
Discussion:
jkOnTheRun, Microsoft News Tracker, Change Is Good, michael parekh on IT, Digital Micro-Markets, Valleywag and Global Nerdy
Editor and Publisher:
Google's Web Video Service Sued — SAN FRANCISCO Google Inc.'s online video service has been sued for copyright infringement, providing a possible preview of the legal trouble that may plague the Internet search leader after it takes over YouTube Inc. and its library of pirated clips, the company said Wednesday.
RELATED ITEMS:
Paul Marks / NewScientistTech:
ISPs 'should be responsible' for hacker attacks — Internet service providers (ISPs) should be made legally liable for the damage caused by "denial of service" (DoS) attacks carried out via their networks, a leading internet lawyer says. — A DoS attack involves taking down a website …
RELATED ITEMS:
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Copyright eased for clips offered by Grouper — Film clips featuring stars such as Jack Nicholson, Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz can now be shared online without violating copyright law. — Grouper.com, acquired last August by Sony Pictures Entertainment, is offering snippets from 100 Sony films …
comScore:
More than Half of Top 25 U.S. Web Properties Generate More Traffic from Outside the U.S. than from Within — Lion's Share of Visitors to Top 5 U.S. Web Properties - Yahoo!, Time Warner, Microsoft, Google and eBay - Come from Outside the U.S. — comScore Networks, a leader in measuring the digital age …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
ReviewMe Launches: A Better PayPerPost — ReviewMe, which is a PayPerPost-like service that pays bloggers to write about advertisers' products, just launched moments ago. The company is backed by TechCrunch-sponsor Text-Link-Ads, which was recently acquired. — ReviewMe has a somewhat different model that PayPerPost.
fiercevoip.com:
And the winners are: — After deep thought, long and careful deliberations, numerous trips to the coffee pot, three bottles of Visine and an absolute minimum of coin-flipping, I am delighted to present the 2006 Fierce 15. — This list, as any such list must be, is subjective …
Discussion:
Jon Arnold's Blog, VoIP Now, VoIP Blog, VoIP Blog, VoIP & Gadgets Blog and TheVOIPGirl.com
Staci D. Kramer / PaidContent:
Alvey, Calacanis Sell Blogsmith To AOL; Cuban Had Stake — Brian Alvey and Jason Calacanis confirm that they have sold software company Blogsmith to AOL for an undisclosed sum; Valleywag, which reported the sale first, puts it at $4-5 million. When Weblogs Inc. was sold to AOL last year …
RELATED ITEMS:
David Needle / internetnews.com:
Google Wears a Bullseye At Web 2.0 — SAN FRANCISCO — The second day of the Web 2.0 Summit featured some of the Internet's heaviest hitters talking strategy, new products and how to compete with search king Google, one of several sponsors of the event. — "There is immense opportunity …
Evan Brown / InternetCases.com:
Open source withstands antitrust scrutiny — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has issued an opinion in which Judge Easterbrook declares, "[t]he GPL and open-source have nothing to fear from the antitrust laws." The case is called Wallace v. IBM., No. 06-2454. [Download a copy of the opinion.]
