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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Record exec to academic: stop criticizing us or I'll tell your university — Andrew Dubber, who is on faculty at the University of Central England, blogged a link to a story critical of RIAA lawsuits. Paul Birch, a British record exec who sits on the boards of the BPI and IFPI …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Embedded Joost Will Change The Market — Reports that Joost is now talking to hardware vendors about embedding Joost into set-top boxes and televisions will change the market as we know it. — While Joost is generally now regarded as the leader in the television over internet …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
CellCarriers fear mobile VoIP planet — Why is T-Mobile UK blocking calls to mobile VoIP start-up Truphone? — Mobile carriers are scared of one thing: becoming dumb pipes whose only utility is to carry voice and text. And it is one of the reasons why they are fighting tooth and nail …
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Frank Ahrens / Washington Post:
Gone in 30 Seconds — Traditional TV Spot May Be Headed Toward Extinction As More Advertisers Pitch Their Messages on the Web — As they have for more than half a century, thousands of advertising executives, art directors, writers and moviemakers converge tomorrow in Cannes, France …
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Ben Popken / Consumerist:
Backend: Dell Demands Takedown Of Our "22 Confessions Of A Former Dell Sales Manager" — subject Posting by former Dell employee — Please remove the posting located at the following link: — http://consumerist.com/consumer/ insiders/22-confessions-of-a-former- dell-sales-manager-268831.php
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Facebook's app feeding frenzy — NEW YORK—At Wednesday night's Facebook Developer Meetup, the mood could be summed up by the appearance of a clean-cut young entrepreneur who had written "I NEED AN APP" in thick black marker on his name tag. — His Web endeavor hadn't even gone live yet …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
The Long Tail Is Getting Fatter — Three separate news stories involving numbers this week caught my eye. iLike announced it has now has 6 million registered users and is now adding 300,000 new users a day. Apple's Safari browser for Windows has now had 1 million downloads.
PR Newswire:
Quadrangle Capital Partners and Kent Brownridge to Acquire Dennis Publishing, Owner of Maxim, Blender and Stuff Magazines and Websites — Brownridge to Serve As CEO — NEW YORK, June 15 /PRNewswire/ — Quadrangle Capital Partners II LP, a private equity fund focused on the media …
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Sam Sethi / Vecosys:
Firefox 3 to support SQLite for offline storage — Mozilla have given a sneek peak at the new version of Firefox 3. The newest and most exciting feature for me in this Alpha 5 release is the confirmation that "Places" will be stored locally using SQLite. Places is the new name/replacement for Firefox Bookmarks.
Jim Courtney / Skype Journal:
Why You Need to Upgrade to Skype for Windows 3.2 — and, if on 3.2, to the latest build. — As mentioned in a previous post during the April/May beta period for Skype 3.2, Skype has introduced some new sound engine technology into the Skype for Windows client.
Dan Kaplan / VentureBeat:
BlogHer, site for female bloggers, said to get money from Venrock — BlogHer, a site that aims to popularize blogs by women, has raised its first round of capital from Silicon Valley firm, Venrock. — We're not sure of the amount. The company has declined comment, [as has Venrock] …
RSnake / ha.ckers.org web application security lab:
XSS Irony — My good (and hilarious I might add) friend Arian Evans from Whitehat Security sent this link out to a few people. Arian has a flair for the comedy - you'd just have to spend some time with him to really understand what I mean. The link made me laugh and thereby I am now sharing it with you.
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Tony Pierce / LAist:
LA DirecTV Customers Can Now Get NY's WNBC, Experience NBC's Amazing Shows 3 Hours Early — DirecTV called LAist on the phone and left us a message. The recorded voice said that DirecTV had worked out a deal with WNBC in NY that allowed certain zipcodes in LA the ability to get the east coast channel for just $6 a month.
Mike Weiss / San Francisco Chronicle:
How victim snared ID thief — She chased down woman who had given her 6 months of hell — If it hadn't been for the distinctive suede coat, there would have been no chase through the streets of San Francisco, no heroine and, in all likelihood, no justice.
Michelle Meyers / CNET News.com:
Pirates nab Michael Moore's yet-to-be released doc — From all that we've heard about Michael Moore's soon-to-be released documentary indictment of the U.S. health care system, he clearly supports universal health care. — But does he support universal Web access to his film two weeks before its official release?
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
New bill would create family tier, extend indecency standards to cable — A new bill introduced into the House of Representatives yesterday would force cable operators to offer a family tier of programming, along with an "opt-out" à la carte cable programming option.
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