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Randy Picker / The University …:
iTunes and Identity-Based Digital Rights Management — Over the last week, it has been become clear that Apple is embedding some identifying information in songs purchased from iTunes, including the name of the customer and his or her e-mail address. This has raised the ire of consumer advocates …
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Ed Felten / Freedom to Tinker:
Apple's File Labeling: An Effective Anticopying Tool? — Recently it was revealed that Apple's new DRM-free iTunes tracks come with the buyer's name encoded in their headers. Randy Picker suggested that this might be designed to deter copying - if you redistribute a file you bought, your name would be all over it.
PAN Communications / Business Wire:
Incisive Media Taps Kevin Ryan to Join Executive Team, Direct Global Content for Search Engine Strategies, Search Engine Watch — NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Incisive Media announced today that Kevin Ryan has joined Search Engine Strategies and Search Engine Watch as vice president of global content, effective immediately.
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Jacques Steinberg / New York Times:
Converters Signal a New Era for TVs — At midnight on Feb. 17, 2009, the rabbit ears and the rooftop antennas that still guide television signals into nearly 1 of every 5 American homes will be rendered useless — unless they are tethered to a new device, including two versions unveiled yesterday …
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Louise Story / New York Times:
Promoting a Thirst for Sprite in Teenage Cellphone Users — The Coca-Cola Company is hoping its new mobile site for social networking, Sprite Yard, will become the MySpace of the cellphone world. — But some marketing executives say the plan could instead become the BudTV of the soda world …
Alexander Zaitchik / Wired News:
Soviet-Era Arcade Games Crawl Out of Their Cold War Graves — Alexander Stakhanov (left) and Alexander Vucman stand with the digital host of Magistral, one of the first games they repaired. — MOSCOW — If American teenagers during the Cold War ever stopped to consider …
Mark Jewell / Associated Press:
Akamai gives free peek at Internet — BOSTON - What does the Internet look like? A free new Web service from Akamai Technologies Inc. offers a peek, providing a sort of Internet weather report on global traffic tie-ups, cyberattacks and spikes in activity.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Jobster Now Offers Pay Per Applicant Job Listings — Eyebrows were raised when Seattle-based Jobster shredded their business model and moved to free job listings in February. It was a direct assault on Monster, which charges up to $475 per job listing. Many of the commenters …
Robert Vamosi / Webware.com:
FIREFOX 3 ALPHA 5 (GRAN PARADISO) — Although it's not intended for public consumption, a new build of Firefox 3 Alpha 5 (code name Gran Paradiso) is available for download from Mozilla. In this release add-ons created for Firefox 2 may not work. For end users, Firefox 2 remains the latest public version.
Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
How to hire the best people you've ever worked with — There are many aspects to hiring great people, and various people smarter than me have written extensively on the topic. — So I'm not going to try to be comprehensive. — But I am going to relay some lessons learned through hard experience …
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Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Web 2.0 madness grips China — reporter's notebook BEIJING—Forget Silicon Valley—if you want to see a place enthralled with Web 2.0, come to China. — A rising middle class, cheap start-up costs, increasing penetration of PCs and Internet-enabled cell phones, and an ability to tap …
Wall Street Journal:
Rivals Answer the iPhone — Apple Inc.'s iPhone may be the most anticipated device in the history of the wireless industry. But when it hits AT&T Inc. and Apple stores June 29, it will face plenty of competition. — Nokia Corp. has already begun selling the N95, a high-end smart phone that …
Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
Amazon one-click patent extended to gift-giving — Amazon's infamous one-click patent got a baby brother last month. The US Patent and Trademark Office approved patent no. 7,222,087 on May 22. — The patent is a continuation of the original one-click patent, meaning that it covers enhancements …
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Major Webcasters to face billions in new fees? — We already know that Webcasters small and large are outraged at the prospect of having to pay higher royalty fees to the music industry, particularly when compared with what is required of their satellite and terrestrial radio counterparts.
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Nintendo's New DS Controller — Slide the DS to control the latest Nintendo hero. — Stylus not enough control for you? Then you'll want to pick up Nintendo's newest DS game. The latest issue of Famitsu has the first word on Slide Adventure: Mag Kid, a new DS game that will make use of a bundled "slide controller" peripheral.
Michelle Slatalla / New York Times:
'omg my mom joined facebook!!' — I HAVE reached a curious point in life. Although I feel like the same precocious know-it-all cynic I always was, I suddenly am surrounded by younger precocious know-it-all cynics whose main purpose appears to be to remind me that I've lost my edge.
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