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Amazon beats Apple to non-DRM Warner music — Amazon today landed a coup by announcing the availability of Warner Music Group albums on Amazon MP3. The store becomes the first to offer music from the label in a universal format withoutdigital rights management (DRM), permitting buyers …
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Amazon MP3 Adds Music Audio Downloads from Warner Music Group — Customers Can Now Choose from More Than 2.9 Million MP3 Songs on Amazon MP3, Including Music from Warner Music's Renowned Catalog of Artists — Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Warner Music Group (NYSE:WMG) …
Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo:
Amazon Now Selling MP3s from Warner; 2.9 Million DRM-Free Tracks Now Available — Amazon just kicked a certain Cupertino-based company where it counts, scoring DRM-free MP3s from Warner Music Group that you can buy today. This leaves out only the big S, Sony, which is always the last to cave …
Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
Apple's Piping Hot Innovation — Want a coffee with your iPhone? — Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) Chief Executive Steve Jobs wants to patent a process that will save customers the hassle of waiting to order a cup of coffee at a local Starbucks (nasdaq: SBUX - news - people ) …
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:Yahoo to patent “smart drag-and-drop,” Ars submits prior art
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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Dell's All-in-One PC Has the Guts, Design To Compete With iMac — Something interesting is going on at Dell. The Texas personal-computer behemoth, long associated with boxy, boring machines, has started emphasizing industrial design. And the company, which in recent years seemed to care …
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Apple to Offer Fox Movie Rentals — Twentieth Century Fox and Apple are preparing to announce a deal in which Fox movies would be available for rent digitally through Apple's iTunes Store.
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Apple in online film-rental deal with Fox studio — By Matthew Garrahan in Los Angeles and Kevin Allison in San Francisco — Apple has signed News Corp's 20th Century Fox studio to a new online video-on-demand service in a deal that could change the way people pay for online film content.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:iTunes Movie Rentals: Winners And Losers (AAPL)
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Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Google suffers patent blow — Google has been hit by a setback in a patent row with Hyperphrase Technologies, LLC. — A federal appeals court in Wisconsin yesterday rejected part of a summary judgment that could have worked to Google's advantage in the case.
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Karl Ribas / Karl Ribas.com Blog:
NEW at Wal-Mart: SEM Services — This should make for a good laugh. — The following is an email marketing campaign that was forwarded on to me from my good friend Gene Carbonell who just so happens to run an online store over at My Health Management.com.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Keeping It Private On Google Reader — Almost two weeks ago, I wrote my Google Reader Gets Social With Friends Shared Items post detailing how disturbing it was that Google Reader was now sharing items with people it considered my friends, on an opt-out basis.
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The major incidents on the internet in 2007 — We have gathered 13 of the most notable internet-related outages and incidents of 2007. Why 13? Though you usually can't blame downtime on bad luck, we thought it was an appropriate number for a collection like this. — Now on to the list!
The Boy Genius Report:
Apple's new laptops: confirmed! — Leave it up to our music industry spies (Ok, well, Just Blaze really) to set the record straight! Apple will 100% be announcing a new laptop at MacWorld. We've also heard the laptop will go on sale a week after MacWorld, too. What laptop is this?
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Wacom Cintiq 12WX Video Review (Verdict: Simply Amazing) — Here's the video review for the new Wacom Cintiq 12WX, a tablet that allows you to draw directly on the screen with extreme precision, great feel and amazing results (even with butter fingers like mine).
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Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
Digg This: Deal or No Deal? — CEO Jay Adelson discusses rumors that the thriving content-sharing site is up for sale and its plans for 2008 — As the year winds down, so often does the Web rumor mill. After all, even the most prolific bloggers have to put in some holiday time with the family.
