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5:15 AM ET, April 4, 2007

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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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Grant Gross / InfoWorld:   FCC says no to mobile calls on airplanes
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:   WiFi (again) flies the friendly skies
Evan Blass / Engadget:   FCC declares in-flight cellphones a dead issue for now
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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Carlo / Techdirt:   Steve Jobs Not Quite So Enthusiastic About DRM-Free Video
Nancy Gohring / InfoWorld:
Jobs unlikely to push for lift of video DRM
Discussion: Epicenter, Apple 2.0 and NewTeeVee
BBC:
'Why I was wrong about Steve Jobs'
Discussion: the billblog
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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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
YouTube Not Built on Big Media's Back?
Discussion: TechCrunch and GigaOM
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.
Discussion: Between the Lines, Mashable! and 901am
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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.
Discussion: Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog
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Mike / Techdirt:   Utah Tries To Ban Keyword Advertising On Trademarked Terms
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.
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 …
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.
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.
 
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Ellie Gibson / GamesIndustry.biz:
Sony confirms PSP price cut for US
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
The Daylight Savings change: no savings, no point
Discussion: Techdirt, Reuters and digg
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Two Episodes Into Prom Queen And I'm Completely Hooked
Discussion: eirikso.com
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Zillow Relaunch - Adds Its Own Q&A Service.
Discussion: Webware.com
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Lenovo's ThinkPad X60 convertible goes Core 2 Duo
Erin Teeling / The Bivings Report:
4 Sites that Need a Makeover...Now!
Mike / Techdirt:
How Can New Satellite Radio Merger Analysis Be 'Independent …
Discussion: Orbitcast and paidContent.org
Yi-Wyn Yen / Business 2.0 Beta:
Justin.tv Is Just the Beginning
Discussion: PR 2.0
 Earlier Items: 
Muhammad Saleem / Pronet Advertising:
Time to Join StumbleUpon  —  A redesigned StumbleUpon homepage takes …
Discussion: Startup Meme and Mashable!
Read/WriteWeb:
P2P: Potential Future Applications
Discussion: Common Craft and Can Erten
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Startups beckon to some Microsoft employees
CNET News.com:
FCC imposes rules designed to prevent pretexting
Matt Martin / GamesIndustry.biz:
PlayStation 3 hardware sales plummet 82 per cent
Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
Your Guide to Online TV Guides: 10 Services Compared
Discussion: digg
Somasegar / Somasegar's WebLog:
Listening to your feedback - Expression and MSDN
 

 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
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