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Tim Hames / Times of London:
Music file-share site Qtrax forced into humiliating U-turn — Jonathan Richards, Dan Sabbagh and Adam Sherwin in Cannes — A website which promised to give music lovers the world's first legal file-sharing service was forced into a humiliating climbdown today after it emerged that the company …
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Adam Sherwin / Times of London:
From today, feel free to download another 25 million songs - legally — After a decade fighting to stop illegal file-sharing, the music industry will give fans today what they have always wanted: an unlimited supply of free and legal songs. — With CD sales in free fall and legal downloads yet …
Tony Smith / The Register:
It's official! DVD plus/minus war ends in a draw — The battle of the recordable DVD formats - DVD+R/RW versus DVD-R/RW - is finally and officially over more than five-odd years after it began, and several years after the fight became largely symbolic. — Late last week, DVD6C …
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Windows 7 isn't headed for 2009, says Microsoft. More like 2011. — Hey, it's not Microsoft's fault that 2011 sounds like the realm of jet pack VR massage cars, but it's certainly a long ways away any way you slice it. Contrary to previous rumors of Microsoft planning a Windows 7 release sometime …
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Tony Ruscoe / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Docs Offline Access — In a post Philipp made last week about writing a book in Google Docs, he said: — Working with Google Docs requires an internet connection. In my case, I need this internet connection anyway [...] your mileage may vary (and who knows, Google …
Andrew Hogue / Official Google Blog:
Introducing new search views — Introducing experimental views for search results — There have been a lot of recent improvements to web search, but the appearance of results themselves has been pretty constant — 10 or so web pages in a vertical list. Frequently this is exactly the right format …
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Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
Gore-Backed Current TV Files For $100 Million IPO; $63.7 Million 2007 Revs; Losses Mount — A first look into the books of Al Gore's cable network: Current Media (parent of Al Gore-backed Current TV) has filed for a $100 million NASDAQ IPO, trading under the ticker “CRTM”.
Clive Thompson / Fast Company:
Is the Tipping Point Toast? … Don't get Duncan Watts started on the Hush Puppies. “Oh, God,” he groans when the subject comes up. “Not them." The Hush Puppies in question are the ones that kick off The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell's best-seller about how trends work.
MG Siegler / ParisLemon:
Tweetmeme, a Copy of Techmeme For Twitter But Mostly Not In English — The idea behind Tweetmeme seems pretty simple: look at Techmeme and copy that but based around Twitter rather than tech blogs. It has some potential functionality-wise and with the rabid users of Twitter but I see a couple problems …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple's $300 million gray market dilemma — Having stirred up a hornet's nest with his first take in the so-called missing iPhones, Bernstein Research's Apple (AAPL) specialist Toni Sacconaghi has taken a second look at the discrepancy between the number of iPhones Apple sold …
Shel / Global Neighbourhoods:
I'm Joining Scoble at FastCompany TV — In November 2003, I put up my first blog post: “Old dogs & New tricks." I had not a clue how my life was about to change. Maybe I should call this one: “Older dog. Newer trick." — I am about to become a video blogger. As of today, it is my main gig.
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Major iPhone breakthru ! — 42 COMMENTI: — bliss_charles ha detto... FlYaSS ha detto... Asbjorn ha detto... Neshill ha detto... Michael ha detto... DreamGuy ha detto... Zibri ha detto... a.Shustov ha detto... Jean Marie ha detto... Mauro Widman ha detto... Neshill ha detto...
Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
2008: The Year Web 2.0 Hits the Enterprise, Says Forrester — According to Forrester Research, there will be “strong demand” for web 2.0 tools in the enterprise in 2008. Even though 42% of enterprises say adding web 2.0 tools is not on their agenda, according to a Q3 2007 survey …
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Yahoo (YHOO) Going Forward With “Drastic” Layoffs—Source — A source close to Yahoo reports that Jerry Yang has decided to go forward with aggressive layoffs. The source believes the layoffs will be announced on the company's conference call this week and that the final number will be likely …
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Ed Hardy / Brighthand.com Handheld News and Reviews:
Skyfire Mobile Web Browser Review — A few weeks ago, I wrote an editorial commenting on how horrible browsing the Web is on most mobile devices. Amazingly, there's already a solution for this problem, at least for some users. It's called Skyfire, and it is far and away the best web browser for Windows Mobile I've ever seen.
