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David Kravets / Wired News:
Like Amazon's DRM-Free Music Downloads? Thank Apple — Amazon's Tuesday launch of a DRM-free music store with some 2 million tracks represents the music industry's clearest repudiation yet of the elaborate copy-protection schemes it once staked its future on.
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Sam Sethi / blognation UK:
Facebook IM Client Coming Soon — I have just been given a sneek preview of a new Facebook IM client that is going into beta this Friday. What I like about this Facebook app is there is nothing to download or install, no registration and best of all, all of your friends in Facebook can use it instantly.
Pdp / GNUCITIZEN:
Google GMail E-mail Hijack Technique — I feel a bit dirty now. First of all, I would like to say that I am a huge Google fan, so don't take this post personally. Here I am going to show you how someone can install a persistent backdoor within your GMail account and snoop onto all your conversations.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Demonoid Shut Down by the CRIA — As of now it is still unsure what exactly happened, but the popular Dutch news site nu.nl reports that the CRIA is responsible for the downtime. — TorrentFreak contacted some of the Demonoid administrators, but they are not sure what happened either.
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
RealNetworks To Buy Online Casual Games Site GameTrust; Price Less Than $50 Million — RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) is making a smallish online gaming acquisition, paidContent.org has learned: NYC-based online casual gaming site Gametrust. While we don't know the exact price, we do know it is less than $50 million.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Kara Swisher Deconstructs Facebook — Kara Swisher of AllThingsD takes a contrarian point of view on Facebook and does a pretty good job of deconstructing the social-networking company, its potential and all the hype around it. What set her off: Facebook has apparently indicated …
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Louise Story / New York Times:
Microsoft Takes Aim at Google's Ad Supremacy — MICROSOFT has used its might, clout and smarts to take on any number of products and services — the browser, the operating system, the portable music player, to name just three — with varying degrees of success.
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Barryg / windowsultimate.com:
Windows DreamScene released! — In early July, I wrote about The Ultimate Team's intention to ship the remaining promised Ultimate Extras (DreamScene and the remaining Language Packs) by the end of the summer. Unfortunately summer never really came to Seattle this year—so we missed our cue.
Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
"iPhone Dev Team" issues statement — A spokesman for the iPhone Dev Team, the group that developed the iPhone unlock has issued a statement condemning Apple and promising a tool in the next week which will restore your iPhone to a factory-fresh state. The unlock, he writes …
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Dan Goodin / The Register:
eBay forum mysteriously leaks account details on 1,200 users — 'Trust and safety' board in emergency shutdown — Exclusive Hackers brazenly posted sensitive information including home addresses and phone numbers for 1,200 eBay users to an official online forum dedicated to fraud prevention on the auction site.
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Kim Hart / Washington Post:
Sprint Wins Patent Case Against Vonage — Reston Firm Awarded $69.5 Million in Second Blow to Internet Phone Company — A federal jury yesterday ordered Vonage Holdings to pay Sprint Nextel $69.5 million in damages for violating six of its patents, prompting analysts to question whether …
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Olga Kharif / Business Week:
AOL's Mobile Ambitions — The company once known for bringing the Internet home wants to make its software available on cell phones worldwide — In recent months, Google's mobile aspirations have generated headlines aplenty. But out of the limelight, another major Internet player, AOL …
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Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
WHAT THE KIDS ARE BUILDING: BRAIN RETRACTORS AND THROAT MICS — I'm sitting in the audience at DemoFall listening to organizer Chris Shipley interview three young entrepreneurs (Emile Petrone, 22; Michale Callahan, 24; Arash Sabet, 25) about their innovations.
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Seth Porges / CrunchGear:
EchoStar To Buy Sling Media — I love me a SlingBox. And so will millions of Dish Network subscribers if this works out like I hope it will. The satellite TV provider is buying the privately-held place-shifting wonders to the tune of a cool $380 million.
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Sydney Morning Herald:
No space for non-Optus Aussie mobile users — MySpace has blocked Australians from accessing the new mobile phone version of its site in order to protect its exclusive and probably lucrative partnership deal with Optus. — The social network yesterday launched a free …
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Time Warner (TWX): How AOL Blew Q2 — Based on further research, this is our current understanding of what happened last quarter, when AOL missed its advertising targets. As with our previous piece on the coming AOL layoffs, none of this has been confirmed by the company:
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
Sugar Publishing Acquires Social Shopping Site ShopStyle — Sugar Publishing, the company behind PopSugar and a network of other sites, has acquired ShopStyle, a social shopping site targeted at women. The company, which is also renaming itself Sugar, Inc, plans to integrate ShopStyle across …
