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3:35 PM ET, January 13, 2007

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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Cisco might have lost iPhone trademark in '06  —  Apparently Cisco has more "iPhone" trouble in store for it than just that prior art dispute we mentioned yesterday.  In order to keep a trademark alive, you have to file a "Declaration of Use" with the US Patent and Trademark office every six years or forfeit the trademark.
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Senators introduce bill to restrict Internet, cable, and satellite radio recording  —  A new bill introduced in the US Senate this week would force satellite, digital, and Internet radio providers (but not over-the-air radio) to implement measures designed to restrict the ability of listeners to record audio from the services.
Discussion: digg and Slashdot
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Will the iPhone be a Serious Business Device?  —  I had a long debate yesterday with James Joaquin, the former CEO of ofoto and one of the founders of When.com, about whether or not the iPhone will be just a toy or a serious business device.  I think it is.  He remains unconvinced.
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Michael Rose / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
NBC and NPR feature iPhone humor  —  Thank goodness that mainstream comedians have jumped in with bits on the iPhone introduction; us funny geeks are deeply grateful that the cavalry has arrived.  While CBS's Craig Ferguson weighed in with an iPhone/Zune comparison, the competition at Late Night …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Engadget: 10 million Page Views on iPhone Day  —  Jason Calacanis, the former CEO of Engadget's parent company, Weblogs, Inc., told me earlier today that the site had nearly 10 million page views on Tuesday when they covered the iPhone announcement - ten times their normal traffic of a million or so page views per day.
Discussion: digg
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
New E-Commerce Identity Tag Makes Online Debut  —  A long-promised technology for helping consumers verify the legitimacy of commercial Web sites made its debut on the Internet Friday: Visit online security company Entrust's login page with Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 Web browser …
Discussion: Slashdot
Laurie A. Duncan / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
iPhony launcher for Palm OS  —  Well that didn't take long!  If you're currently toting around a Treo, but really jonesing for an iPhone, you can install the Mo's iPhony launcher and get all the great icons without waiting for all of the great features!  —  The current version, 0.2 …
Darren Murph / Engadget:
MINI USA rolls out RFID-activated billboards  —  If there was ever a slick way to get folks to willingly carry around an RFID tag, MINI USA has it all wrapped up.  Catering to every person's egotistical side, MINI has begun a pilot advertising campaign in Chicago, New York, Miami …
Light Reading:
Avaya Swoops on Ubiquity  —  IP PBX giant Avaya Inc. (NYSE: AV - message board) has offered to buy SIP applications server specialist Ubiquity Software Corp. (London: UBQ - message board) for £74.3 million (US$144.8 million) in cash, it announced early Friday.
Discussion: GigaOM
emigroup.com:
EMI Group plc announcement  —  EMI today announces:  — A restructuring programme which will generate £110m of incremental annual cost savings  — Board and senior management changes  — An update on current trading  — A revised outlook for the Group reflecting …
Travis Hudson / Gizmodo:
Memory Infinite 'Stackable' USB Flash Drive Concept  —  Memory Infinite 'Stackable' USB Flash Drive Concept  —  Memory Infinite is a design concept by Vicky Wei.  Instead of having to use multiple USB flash drives when one fills up, this flash drive has a female connector on one end and male on the other.
Discussion: Gearlog and digg
Zephoria / apophenia:
a practice broken, another silo solidified  —  I know i have some quirky habits but i really really really hate when web companies break them with their latest updates.  One of my weird ones concerns getting directions to a place (which i do 2-3 times a day).
Ronald Grover / Business Week:
Why Hollywood Snubbed Jobs at Macworld  —  Most of Tinseltown won't buy into the Apple chief's digital vision until he ponies up more money and gets more serious about protecting content  —  By all accounts, Steve Jobs gave a socko performance, delivered with his usual charm and controversial style …
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Mike / Techdirt:   Hollywood To Steve Jobs: We Need Stronger DRM
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Tag Cloud View of Bill Gates CES Keynote  —  Todd Bishop at Seattle P-I newspaper has published a telling tag cloud view of Bill Gates' speech at CES earlier this week.  Notes Bishop: … Here is the result:  —  This is an excellent use of tag clouds!  I wrote in our wrap-of Gates' speech …
Mindy McAdams / Teaching Online Journalism:
Getting their video on, in New Jersey  —  How's this for attitude?  "The television station New Jersey doesn't have."  —  At The Star-Ledger, a Newhouse newspaper in Newark, New Jersey, a new video site called TV Jersey features work by staff photographers and contributions from the public.
 
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CowboyNeal / Slashdot:
No Third-party Apps on iPhone Says Jobs
Discussion: Fractals of Change
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
FCC denies Comcast request; "integration ban" coming in July
Donald Melanson / Engadget Mobile:
Verizon increases SMS rates — customers now free of their contracts
Richard / Apogee Weblog:
Not Search Engine Spam
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No blue movies on Blu-ray?
Mindy McAdams / Teaching Online Journalism:
Getting (and keeping) a job in journalism
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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Authentic Brands licenses Sports Illustrated's publishing rights to The Players' Tribune owner Minute Media for 10 years, with plans to keep the print edition

Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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