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10:20 AM ET, April 29, 2007

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Phil Wolff / Skype Journal:
Skype silences Alpha-blogger  —  Wow.  Talk about a chilling effect.  —  Skype lawyer Seema Sharma emailed blogger Jan Geirnaert Friday afternoon.  She told him his popular skype-watch.com and skype-gadgets.com blogs put him in legal jeopardy.  —  Jan, an independent IT consultant, took the implied threats seriously.
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Seema Sharma / webtown.com.my:
Start of Quote "  —  Lester Madden has passed to me a copy of your email below so that I may respond to it.  I am an IP lawyer at Skype.  —  In the first instance, I should like to stress that we work very hard at Skype to prevent third parties from illegally registering and using domains …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Lawyers at Skype bring negative PR to Skype  —  Ahh, the lawyers at Skype screwed the pooch.  I am actually on their side in this fight, too.  I know that they need to protect the trademarks otherwise they'll lose them.  At Microsoft the lawyers would do stuff like this from time-to-time …
Martin / mpwebwizard:
Hints at upcoming Gmail features  —  I've been listed as a translator for the XX-Hacker (known as l33t to the rest of the world) language on Google for quite some time.  The great thing about being a translator for Google is that you get to see some of the upcoming features of Google services.
Discussion: Vecosys, ben barren and Mashable!
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Google Blogoscoped:
Google Multi-User Chat?  —  Martin says he's one of the translators for Google and hit upon the following phrase hinting at a potential multi-user chat for Google Chat (as part of Gmail):  —  Phrase in English: NAME has joined (...)  —  Translation Help: System messages when user joined or left a muc conversation
Discussion: gSpy and Googling Google
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Vudu Casts Its Spell on Hollywood  —  FOR the last two years, the employees of Vudu Inc. have quietly toiled in a nondescript office in Santa Clara, Calif., in the heart of Silicon Valley.  The only hint of the company's plans are black-and-white Rat Pack photos that adorn its walls …
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Arn / MacRumors:
First Photos from Apple iPhone?  —  An unusual story has popped up on MobileGuerilla claiming to have found the first photos from an Apple iPhone on the web.  —  The search method seemed rather primitive... they simply searched for "taken with an Apple iPhone" on Google and found a set of Flickr images …
Discussion: Engadget and digg
Dpblogs / ADO.NET team blog:
ADO.NET Entity Framework Update  —  Microsoft is deepening its investment in the ADO.NET Entity Framework as a critical piece of Microsoft's Data Platform vision.  Based on the need to align with requirements from key internal partners that are building on the Entity Framework …
Discussion: Channel 9
Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
Wikipedia: Special Treatment for Wikia and other Wikis  —  Wikipedia: Special Treatment for Wikia and some other Wikis  —  There was a lot of controversy recently when Wikipedia announced that all outbound links from the online encyclopedia would include the nofollow tag.
Discussion: duncanriley.com and MediaVidea
Daily Mail:
Slaughter: Horror at Sony's depraved promotion stunt with decapitated goat  —  Electronics giant Sony has sparked a major row over animal cruelty and the ethics of the computer industry by using a freshly slaughtered goat to promote a violent video game.  —  The corpse of the decapitated animal …
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
JavaScript and HTML: Forgiveness by Default  —  I've been troubleshooting a bit of JavaScript lately, so I've enabled script debugging in IE7.  Whenever the browser encounters a JavaScript error on a web page, instead of the default, unobtrusive little status bar notification..
Discussion: paradox1x
Tris Hussey / One By One Media:
The blogosphere has stalled at 15.5 million blogs-So what  —  Lots of chatter about the this "plateau" in the blogosphere.  C|Net was gathering comments from folks like Mark Evans and WebProNews covered it as well.  Now the question is, so what?  —  David Sifry just talked about the …
Richard Bloor / SymbianOne:
The S60 Summit - What Was It All About?  —  With twenty four members of the press and an undisclosed number of bloggers attending, the S60 Summit should have been well covered in online media.  So what was this event all about?  —  Phil Schwarzmann on the See into S60 Blog informed the world …
Discussion: Ring Nokia
BBC:
Mouse brain simulated on computer  —  US researchers have simulated half a virtual mouse brain on a supercomputer.  —  The scientists ran a "cortical simulator" that was as big and as complex as half of a mouse brain on the BlueGene L supercomputer.  —  In other smaller simulations …
Discussion: Neowin.net, Joe Duck and Slashdot
 
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Rick Segal / The Post Money Value:
Fun with the Dinosaurs  —  I had a chance to visit the zoo today and feed some animals.
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
PIKSPOT LAUNCHES, JOINS MEDIA MASHUP FRAY
Discussion: Mashable!
Business Wire:
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Jeffrey Silva / RCR Wireless News:
Illinois House passes handset lemon law
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