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Eliot Van Buskirk / Listening Post:
Online Radio Is Saved; SoundExchange Will Not Enforce New Royalty Rates on Sunday — At today's Congressional hearing about the new rates for online radio that would essentially destroy it (as readers of this blog already know), SoundExchange, which was scheduled to receive the new royalty payments …
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Kendra Marr / Washington Post:
Shaken Internet Radio Stations Face Specter of New Fees Sunday — Sunday will be a day of reckoning for Internet radio stations. — The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to stop an increase in royalty and broadcasting fees, jeopardizing the future of some stations.
Ellie Gibson / GamesIndustry.biz:
E3: David Reeves Talks PS3 — The Euro bundle, the new PSP and the fight to be market leader. … GamesIndustry.biz: Now you've made the announcement about the PS3 bundle for Europe, what kind of reaction are you expecting? — David Reeves: I think people will say to us …
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BBC:
No price cut for Euro PS3 console — Sony is not cutting the price of the PlayStation 3 in Europe, but will offer free games and accessories instead. — There is also no word of plans for an 80GB version of the console in Europe. — Last week Sony said it would drop the US price of the 60GB PS3 by $100 …
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Man's quest for $10 AT&T DSL ends in success... kind of — Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins' internet ordeal is over, and he has detailed all the painful, laborious, and clearly unnecessary steps needed to put yourself into Cashville with AT&T's cheap-o DSL service over on his website.
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One Man's Quest for $10 DSL: Revolutions — Okay, this is the final chapter of the process, as I now have it ordered. Whether it will work is another story, but we'll talk about that once the activation date for the DSL has passed. For the other parts of the story, look here:
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Get An Invite To Any Private Beta — One of the most frustrating things for early adopters like ourselves to deal with is the private, limited invitation beta. The startups seed a few invitations to their friends, and each new account has 3 or so invitations that can be given away.
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Wheaties for Your Wallet:
Your bank has a REST API now (shhh! — don't tell them) — I'm very happy to announce the launch of the Wesabe API. This is a new release for us, and a new way of using Wesabe — as a tool for getting your data out of your banks and credit cards, and into whatever form or program is going to most help you manage your money.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Can Google Be Beat? They Already Have Been in South Korea... The International Herald Tribune had a good article recently about the search market in South Korea. It points out that local search company Naver.com has more than 77 percent of all Web searches originating in South Korea …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Researcher: Optimal copyright term is 14 years — It's easy enough to find out how long copyrights last, but much harder to decide how long they should last—but that didn't stop Cambridge University PhD candidate Rufus Pollock from using economics formulas to answer the question.
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comScore:
comScore Releases Worldwide Rankings of Top Web Properties 772 Million People Online Worldwide in May — Online Retail and E-Commerce Sites Boosted by Holiday Spending — comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today released a study of global Internet traffic for the month of May …
The Bad Astronomer / Bad Astronomy Blog:
Discover new galaxies! — Sometimes, astronomy is a zoo. — One of the big problems in recent astronomy is that we're collecting data faster than we can analyze it. This is no joke; modern survey telescopes equipped with digital detectors can generate many gigabytes of data every night.
Dennis Sellers / Macsimum News:
Apple patent involves media data exchange and portable electronic devices — An Apple patent (20070161402) is for media data exchange, transfer or delivery for portable electronic devices. It would seem to indicate wireless data sharing features between iPods, iPhones and perhaps other devices Apple has in the works.
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Maria Aspan / New York Times:
Promotion Is Not Just Another Brick in the Wall — ADOBE software is a well-established tool for anyone working, or even dabbling, in computer-based design. But in order to market its new Creative Suite 3 software package — which includes well-known design software like Photoshop and Illustrator …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Why Facebook, why now? — John Battelle asks a compelling question: why Facebook and why now? — Scott Rosenberg of Slate follows up with another point: that Facebook's friends definitions are all messed up. — Over on TechMeme everyone is talking about how Facebook's advertising isn't working.
