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Charles Babcock / InformationWeek:
Linus Torvalds Responds To Microsoft Patent Claims — The holder of the Linux trademark suggests Microsoft should name the patents it alleges have been violated so the claims can be tested in court. — Linus Torvalds, lead developer of the Linux kernel, has a sharp retort …
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Brier Dudley / Brier Dudley's blog:
Patent Armageddon is here — The terrific Fortune magazine story about Microsoft threatening free software groups with patent lawsuits has one thing wrong. — Patent Armageddon isn't coming, as the magazine suggests. — It has already begun, and I'm starting to wonder if we should chuck …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace To Acquire Flektor — MySpace will acquire Flektor, a just-launched service that allows users to create widgets from photos, video and text, according to two sources with knowledge of the deal. This comes right after the news of MySpace's pending acquisition of Photobucket last week for $250-$300 million.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Fox Interactive keeps on buying — A few days ago I had breakfast with Peter Levinsohn, President of Fox Interactive Media, days after Rupert Murdoch made a $5 billion bid for Dow Jones. We chatted about a variety of topics, but most of them were off the record.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Truemors Launches — Truemors, Guy Kawasaki's new startup, opened to the public about an hour ago. — We covered them last week when we were able to get into the beta. Truemors is a rumor reporting site. Users text, email or call in a rumor and other users vote on it. Popular rumors make it to the home page.
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Yinka Adegoke / Reuters:
Warner Music sues social network site for piracy — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Warner Music Group Corp. sued Imeem Inc., a music-based social networking Web site, on Tuesday for infringing the copyright of its artists including Madonna, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Green Day.
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Motorola:
Motorola Introduces RAZR2 — The Next-Generation RAZR — Sleeker Outside, More Powerful Inside, the Next Iconic Device Delivers the Ultimate Mobile Experience — Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today invited the world to experience the evolution of the RAZR brand as it unveiled RAZR2, the ultimate iconic feature phone.
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
MySpace responds to states' request for sex offender data — MySpace responded Tuesday afternoon to >the letter sent by eight states' attorneys general Monday requesting the popular social networking site to turn over data pertaining to registered sex offenders who have profiles on the site.
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Matt / WordPress Development Blog:
WordPress 2.2 — On behalf of the entire WordPress team, I'm proud and excited to announce the immediate availability of version 2.2 "Getz" for download. This version includes a number of new features, most notably Widgets integration, and over two hundred bug fixes. It's named in honor of tenor saxophonist Stan Getz.
Geoff Price / Mac Mojo:
Get converted — As previously announced, and as indicated by the lower frequency in blogcasting here, everyone at MacBU is exceedingly busy completing Office 2008, which is on track for release later this year. This work is our primary focus, and is the largest undertaking in our ten year history as an independent team.
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Intellectual Property Protection Act to make attemped infringement illegal — US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has proposed tightening the United States' intellectual property laws. Titled the "Intellectual Property Protection Act," the proposed legislation would for the first time, criminalizes attempted copyright infringement.
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Edward N. Albro / Today @ PC World:Life in Prison Proposed for Some Copyright Pirates
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Sean Ammirati / Read/WriteWeb:
Google's Potential Vulnerability - An Open Ad Network — Robert Scoble recently wrote an interesting post, about FOG - Fear of Google (an acronym coined by CEO of eMarketer Geoff Ramsey). I observed this phenomenon strongly first hand at the Web 2.0 Expo and shared my thoughts on it in the R/WW post Thoughts from the Web 2.0 Expo.
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Jay Westerdal / DomainTools Blog:
Porn.com Sells for 9 Million — MXN Limited acquires Porn.com for $9 Million. Terms of the transaction were not fully disclosed, but this is the second largest adult domain transactions behind sex.com. It was not more then two months ago when I saw this domain at auction for 7 .5 Million and thought it was a bargain.
B.Mann Consulting:
Twitter is Jabber, Part II — So, both Dave and Robert Scoble raked me over the coals for daring to say that a popular service with lots of users could be done differently. I had some good back and forth comments in Scoble's comment thread, re-posted below. — I don't plan on building a "Twitter killer" using Jabber
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Valleywag:
The Question: Is 30 too old to start a company? — Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures noted, to the dismay of some of his older readers, that almost all the entrepreneurs he'd backed were in their thirties. Steven Levy, in his feature this week on young entrepreneurs …
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Apple 2.0
Jason / Rails Envy:
Hi, I'm Ruby on Rails... What do you get when you cross the Mac vs PC commercials and Rails Envy? Ruby on Rails ads to get everyone hyped for Railsconf, that's what! — Gregg Pollack and Jason Seifer from RailsEnvy present: — Ruby on Rails vs Java — ad #1 of 4 — Click here to view on YouTube
Robert Vamosi / CNET News.com:
New gang war raging on the Internet — It's like something out of the Sopranos. Antivirus researchers at Moscow-based Kaspersky Labs have identified criminal gangs engaged in a turf battle online. The primary groups are responsible for the Warezov and Zhelatin worms …
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
By the numbers: piracy rate in China down 10 percent — The software piracy rate in China dropped four percentage points in 2006 from a year prior, according to a new report released by the Business Software Alliance and IDC, and showed an overall decline of 10 percentage points since 2003.
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