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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
MP3 Patents in Upheaval After Verdict — Microsoft was ordered by a federal jury yesterday to pay $1.52 billion in a patent dispute over the MP3 format, the technology at the heart of the digital music boom. If upheld on appeal, it would be the largest patent judgment on record.
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Microsoft faces $1.5bn MP3 payout — Microsoft must pay French phone equipment firm Alcatel-Lucent $1.52bn (£777m) after a US court ruled the IT giant had infringed audio patents. — Alcatel had sued Microsoft, saying two patents related to the standards used for converting audio into MP3 files had been breached.
Hearst Corporation:
HEARST ANNOUNCES PLAN TO LAUNCH "NEWS READER" PRODUCT AT THE SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER AND IDENTIFY POTENTIAL USES ACROSS HEARST BRANDS — Software Offers Consumers a Superior Onscreen Reading Experience — In a continuing effort to expand the reach of its content, Hearst Corporation today announced …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:Why do a reader only for one publication? (Adobe vs. Microsoft for developers)
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:News Readers for New York Times, Forbes, and Seattle P-I
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Elise Ackerman / Mercury News:
Google to start filtering YouTube videos — Google is set to start filtering videos and other content on YouTube for copyrighted materials, taking a key step in helping the online video-sharing site comply with one of the biggest complaints it faces — rampant piracy.
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Forget party schools: The RIAA lists the top piracy schools in the US — Ohio University, Purdue University, and the University of Nebraska have made it to the top of a list, but it may not be something the universities want to brag about. The RIAA recently named the top 25 music-pirating schools …
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Cory Doctorow / Salon:
Steve Jobs' iTunes dance — Now the Apple CEO says he would gladly sell songs without digital restrictions, if the record companies let him. That's hardly a brave defiance, and besides, I don't believe him. — In early February, Apple CEO Steve Jobs published an extraordinary memo …
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Internet Explorer loses ground to Firefox, Safari in US; holds its ground worldwide — Safari is either making huge gains or holding steady in the browser wars; it all depends on whose stats you use. The same can be said of Firefox, while Internet Explorer is losing ground in the US but holding steady worldwide.
Vince Veneziani / CrunchGear:
Merrill Lynch Claims 30% Of US Households Will Have A Wii By 2011 — Looks like Merrill Lynch is the latest company to be added to the Nintendo payroll. Analyst Yoshiyuki Kinoshita is now claiming that by the year 2011, 30% of US households will own a Nintendo Wii and a third of Japanese households will own one as well.
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Skype petitions FCC for open cellular access — Skype petitioned the Federal Communications Commission earlier this week to force U.S. mobile operators to loosen controls on what kinds of hardware and software can be connected to their networks. — In a document dated February 20 …
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Judge rules against Canon in nanotube TV case — A federal judge has ruled that Canon breached a licensing agreement with a small nanotechnology company, a decision that puts another roadblock into Canon's effort to come out with a whole new style of flat screen TVs.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Will you trust Google with your data? — IN FOCUS » See more posts on: Google Office — Phil Wainewright raises an interesting beef in his post on SaaS data worries. In a nutshell, Phil says it's strange that people are trotting out the "your data may not be safe" argument when talking about Google Office.
BBC:
Emotion robots learn from people — Making robots that interact with people emotionally is the goal of a European project led by British scientists. — Feelix Growing is a research project involving six countries, and 25 roboticists, developmental psychologists and neuroscientists.
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Gord Hotchkiss / Search Engine Land:
Just Behave: Marissa Mayer on Personalized Search — It was almost 3 weeks ago today that Google posted on their corporate blog about some changes to the personalized search sign-up process. Danny covered this development quite nicely in a very comprehensive post, looking at the specifics …
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Saul / localglo.be:
OpenCoffee Club — What is it? — An attempt to establish recognized, open and regular meeting places where entrepreneurs can meet with investors (and anyone else who fancies coming along) in a totally informal setting. — We want to create some density — a few places where people know they can meet or bump into others.
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Traffic measuring continued: Why Compete doesn't work, and why Quantcast does — It sucks when your Web site's traffic isn't being measured correctly. — It also sucks when you're trying to measure the significance of someone else's site, and are getting conflicting signals.
