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Scott McCartney / Wall Street Journal:
WiFi in the Sky: Airlines Prepare Cabin Hotspots — BlackBerrying, Web Surfing — Expected Aloft Within a Year; — Cellphone Service May Follow — The days when airplanes offer a hiatus from being connected to the office are numbered. — After years of discussion and delay …
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Gizmodo, Consumerist, MobileCrunch, Wi-Fi Networking News, TechSpot News, broadbandreports.com, UNEASYsilence and Slashdot
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Leander Kahney / Wired News:
How Steve Jobs Calls the Tunes — Steve Jobs' new partnership with EMI to sell music without copy protection is a lesson in how to wield power in the digital age. — Carefully and strategically, Jobs set up the pieces to create a new business model for online music — one without copy protection …
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Henry Blodget / Internet Outsider:
Vidmeter: Viacom Videos Were Only 2% of YouTube Views — Vidmeter Incorporated has published an in-depth study of the number and type of YouTube videos that have been removed at the request of copyright holders. Importantly, the study analyzes not only the number of videos removed …
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Mike Beltzner / Mozilla Labs Blog:
Keep track of your friends with The Coop — Just a few years ago, one of the most popular uses of the internet was to send jokes, cute pictures, and news stories to friends and family (social networks) via email. Fast forward to today, and you'll find that not a lot has changed except the medium.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Mozilla To Build Social Networking Into Firefox: Bad News For Flock — Mozilla has released details on The Coop, a new product that will incorporate social networking features directly into the Firefox browser. This is not good news for the privately-backed social browser Flock …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Will Utah's New Trademark Bill Stop Competitive Keyword Buys? — Wow. Via Techdirt, news from the EFF that the Utah legislature has passed a Trademark Protection Act law preventing people from buying ads linked to terms that are also trademarks of others. The Trademark Blog notes the law probably violates the US Constitution.
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Drinks with Dell — When I blogged that I was headed down to Austin and the University of Texas last week, I got email out of the blue from Dell's chief blogger, Lionel Menchaca, inviting me to meet him and his colleagues over drinks or out at Dell HQ. I said I hadn't been planning to pack …
Scott McNulty / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Google Desktop for the Mac 1.0 — Today Google announced the availability of Google Desktop for the Mac (this link will work shortly, I am sure!). What's Google Desktop, you ask? It is an application from Google, which indexes the contents of your hard drive (including applications …
New York Times:
DoubleClick to Set Up an Exchange for Buying and Selling Digital Ads — DOUBLECLICK, which delivers marketing messages to Web sites and monitors how many clicks they get, plans to announce today that it is setting up a Nasdaq-like exchange for the buying and selling of digital advertisements.
Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Microsoft sued over Windows Vista marketing — A lawsuit alleges that Microsoft Corp. engaged in deceptive practices by letting PC makers promote computers as "Windows Vista Capable" even if they couldn't run the new operating system's "signature" features.
Live Maps:
New Version of Live Maps Launches! — This afternoon a new release of Live Maps was launched, the sixth major rev since July 7, 2005 when V1 went out. Among the new feature items are a bunch of bug fixes, performance improvements and enhancements to existing functionality.
Alex Iskold / Read/WriteWeb:
The Future of RSS — There is little doubt that RSS is a disruptive, game-changing technology. The so called Really Simple Syndication (previously also called Rich Site Summary and RDF Site Summary), has powered a fundamentally new way to deliver and consume web content.
Toby Sterling / Associated Press:
Greenpeace Ranks Apple Last in Greenness — Greenpeace Int'l Ranks Apple Last for Environmental Friendliness, While Lenovo Group Tops List — AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — Greenpeace International placed Apple Inc. last in its rankings of major electronics makers for their environmental friendliness …
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Byte of the Apple, MacUser, Venture Chronicles, Gadget Lab, Macsimum News and Infinite Loop
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
ICANN may be looking for immunity from U.S. law — The closest thing the Internet has to a governing body seems to want the same kind of immunity from national laws that the International Red Cross and the International Olympic Committee have enjoyed for decades.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Technorati's Mating Dance — Update: Dave Sifry responds in the comments, saying "I'll be very clear about it - Technorati isn't for sale." Which means, of course, that Technorati is for sale. — Blog search engine Technorati has always been more secretive about itself than most other startups.
