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4:25 PM ET, April 6, 2007

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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Judge puts halt on new Vonage customers  —  update ALEXANDRIA, Va.—A federal judge on Friday ordered Vonage not to accept any new customers while it continues to infringe on Verizon Communications patents covering some aspects of Internet phone calls.  —  In at least a temporary setback …
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Reuters:
Vonage lawyer: Ruling a 'bullet to the head'  —  Judge says Internet phone company can use patented technology for existing customers.  —  ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Reuters) — Vonage Holdings Corp. cannot service new customers while it appeals a finding that it infringed Verizon Communications Inc. patents …
Discussion: The Browser, GigaOM, A VC and CrunchGear
Matthew Barakat / Associated Press:
Judge imposes Vonage injunction  —  ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A judge issued an injunction Friday that would bar Internet phone carrier Vonage from signing up new customers as punishment for infringing on patents held by Verizon Communications Inc. Vonage planned an immediate appeal.
Alan Sipress / Washington Post:
Patent Ruling Impact
Jonathan Richards / Times of London:
Microsoft set to unlock EMI songs  —  The software giant is on the verge of a deal similar to Apple's with EMI to sell tracks without anti-piracy protection  —  Microsoft has hinted that it may be close to reaching a deal with EMI to sell songs without anti-piracy protection via its Zune platform.
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Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
Apple Stokes a Digital Music Standards War
Discussion: Macsimum News and Slashdot
Jessica Hodgson / MarketWatch:
Apple probe will shake up whole music industry
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
VeriSign to raise domain fees  —  VeriSign on Thursday said it that it will increase the fees it charges for Internet domains ending in .com or .net.  —  Starting October 15, VeriSign will charge $6.42 for .com domains and $3.85 for .net domains, it said in a statement.
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Mininova Wins .com Domain, Takes Down Scammer
Discussion: digg
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Bambi Francisco, the star reporter, and her conflicts  —  The WSJ and Zdnet have published oddly incomplete stories about Bambi Francisco, a reporter at Marketwatch, who they say "invested" in a side company called Vator.tv.  —  They suggest scandal, because she reported at Marketwatch about people who also invested in Vator.
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
Francisco, MKTW and DJ Draw Attention For Reporter's Role In Start-Up
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
AFP & Google Settle Over Google News Copyright Case  —  The most significant copyright case against Google News, that filed by Agence France-Presse back in March 2005, has now ended.  Google has signed a licensing agreement with AFP that settles the suit.  News from the AFP here.
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Seth Sutel / Associated Press:
Agence France-Presse, Google settle suit
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Technorati CEO Search Confirmed  —  Technorati has retained New York-based James & Company to conduct a CEO search for the company.  For the last few weeks, the firm has been reaching out to potential candidates in Silicon Valley and elsewhere to gauge their interest in leading the nearly four year old company.
Nopporn Wong-Anan / Reuters:
YouTube offers to help Thais block offending pages  —  BANGKOK (Reuters) - Video-sharing Web site YouTube will help Thailand block access to pages that contain clips offensive to its revered monarch instead of blacking out the whole site, a cabinet minister said on Friday.
Rob Beschizza / Wired News:
Hackers Dissect Apple TV to Create the Cheapest Mac Ever  —  Apple TV is dead, long live the Mac Nano.  Sort of.  —  Just two weeks after Apple released its streaming media box to the public, hackers successfully installed OS X, Apple's desktop operating system, on the $300 device, making it the cheapest PC Cupertino has ever sold.
Eric Goldman / Technology & Marketing Law Blog:
Google AdWords Contract Upheld (Again)—Feldman v. Google  —  Feldman v. Google, Inc., 2007 WL 966011 (E.D. Pa. March 29, 2007)  —  Yet another click fraud lawsuit, this time involving one of the 556 plaintiffs that opted out of the Google click fraud settlement.
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Spinning into oblivion - the death of the music business, and the habits of a mouse  —  Record store owners Tony Sachs and Sal Nunziato wrote a touching editorial in the New York Times about the death of the retail record store, and the music business in general.  They started a record (CD) store in New York City in 1993.
Discussion: rc3.org
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Microsoft:
Embracing Real Life in Virtual Earth  —  Microsoft announces 21 winners of the Virtual Earth and SensorMap Request for Proposal programs with funding totaling US$1.1 million to help academic researchers innovate in advanced mapping and location-based search technologies.
Inquirer:
Intel to unveil new UMPC platform  —  Gates says jump, Otellini designs platform  —  INTEL WILL BE releasing a new ultra mobile PC platform at IDF Beijing, on April 18, according to slides published by HKEPC.  —  Whilst most have suggested the UMPC is a product which serves no readily discernible need …
Discussion: Gizmodo, Gadget Lab and The Tech Report
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
GOOGLE DOES FREE 411  —  Google has a new telephone service in the U.S. called Voice Local Search.  It's the equivalent of dialing 411, but free, really fast, and pulls multiple listings like you'd get from a search in Google local.  Mobile phone users can get listings sent to their phone via SMS …
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
MediaMaster: Access Your Music Library Online  —  MediaMaster is a new web service that, like Faces and Oboe, let's users upload music from their hard drive and listen to it online.  —  The original service to experiment in this area was MP3.com's My.MP3.com service.
Discussion: Compiler
 
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