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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
PC World editor resigns over apparent ad pressure  —  Award-winning Editor-in-Chief Harry McCracken of PC World resigned Tuesday over disagreements with the magazine's publisher regarding stories critical of advertisers, according to sources.  —  McCracken, reached Wednesday evening …
Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited:
PC World editor quits over censorship of an Apple story
Discussion: Valleywag
Peter Rojas / peter.roj.as:   Harry McCracken takes a stand for editorial integrity, leaves PC World in protest
BBC:
Online TV viewing 'on the rise'  —  Almost half of European broadband users are using their computers to watch television online, a survey claims.  —  The ability to "take control" of their viewing was the motivation for many users said Motorola, which interviewed 2,500 people including the UK.
Discussion: Startup Meme
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
45% of Europeans watch TV online  —  A new study from Motorola has found that an amazing 45% of Europeans now watch television online.  —  The survey covering the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Spain found that the French lead Europe in terms of online television consumption …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Pandora To Shut Out Non-U.S. Users Thursday Evening  —  If you live outside of the U.S. and enjoy listening to customized radio stations on Pandora, brace yourself for some bad news.  The site will be shutting you out starting Thursday evening.  Registered users who access the service …
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Internet radio royalty hike delayed; last chance to petition Congress  —  Internet radio will remain safe and sound, at least through July of this year, on account of a new decision by the US Copyright Royalty Board.  Under the CRB's original ruling, Internet radio stations …
Brad Stone / New York Times:
In Web Uproar, Antipiracy Code Spreads Wildly  —  There is open revolt on the Web.  —  Sophisticated Internet users have banded together over the last two days to publish and widely distribute a secret code used by the technology and movie industries to prevent piracy of high-definition movies.
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CNN:
Digg.com in 'hacking' copyright row
Discussion: O'Flaherty
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Pandora shuts box on users outside US  —  Pandora.com, the popular net radio station that helps users discover new music and build custom playlists, will block most people outside the US from accessing its service because of legal pressure being exerted by record labels.
Discussion: Download Squad
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Music Industry Continues To Shoot Self In Foot; Forces Pandora To Block Non-US Listeners  —  It's really depressing to watch the recording industry so consistently shoot itself in the foot, focusing on capturing every immediate dollar, rather than recognizing the ability of using music …
Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
How Wi-Fi Can Extend T-Mobile's Range  —  Aims to Improve Reception, Savings  —  T-Mobile USA Inc., the fourth largest U.S. wireless operator, is planning a national launch this summer of cellphones that can roam on Wi-Fi hotspots in homes and coffee shops, carrying calls over the Web …
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Now Starring: The Algorithm - Ask.com To Focus On Ranking System In New TV Ads  —  Ask.com Hopes Ads Compute to Buzz from the Wall Street Journal reports that Ask.com is launching a new TV and Web advertisement campaign today, to try to generate buzz about the Ask.com search engine.
Discussion: Screenwerk and Todd Watson
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Wall Street Journal:
Ask.com Hopes Ads Compute to Buzz
Discussion: BloggingStocks
BBC:
Snowflakes promise faster chips  —  Chips could run faster and be more energy efficient thanks to a process from IBM that copies nature's creation of seashells and snowflakes.  —  The process, called airgap, enables trillions of microscopic vacuum holes to be placed between the copper wire in chips to act as an insulator.
Discussion: Engadget, Neowin.net and I4U News
Brady Forrest / O'Reilly Radar:
Yahoo! Pipes Adds Geo Data Support  —  Yahoo! Pipes, the graphical, web-based RSS re-mixer (Radar post), has significantly increased its geo support.  They now provide a map output that plots your data on a Yahoo! supplied map.  Pipes will also export geocontent in KML …
Discussion: Compiler
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Pipes Blog:   Pipes Adds Interactive Yahoo! Maps, KML Support (and More)
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Google Goes Wireless  —  A coalition led by the Web search giant is scoring early wins in a tussle over $10 billion in wireless airwaves  —  For a company that's had an office in Washington, D.C., for less than two years, Google is wielding a surprising amount of power in the nation's capital.
Andrew Brown / Guardian:
We all helped to speed the demise of professional photographers  —  Half a dozen lurid and splodgy pictures in the local paper brought home to me the death of an honourable profession this week.  I took them.  I am in my small way responsible for impoverishing an old friend, because he …
Discussion: Rough Type and Socialtwister 2.0
 
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Return To The Search Engine Shoot-Out
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Cell Phone Software: The Billion-Dollar Sand Trap
BBC:
The evolution of a giant  —  Microsoft is showing signs …
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James Hibberd / TVWeek.com:
Comcast Enters HD Quality Dispute
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Disney Targets Pre-Teens with New Social Networking Portal
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