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10:35 AM ET, March 19, 2008

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Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:
Apple mulls unlimited music bundle  —  Apple is in discussions with the big music companies about a radical new business model that would give customers free access to its entire iTunes music library in exchange for paying a premium for its iPod and iPhone devices.
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:   iTunes Unlimited: Does Apple really want to mess with a good thing?
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:   Apple Working On A “Radical New Business Model”: Flat-Rate iTunes: Report
Andy Space / 9 to 5 Mac:
Adobe developing Flash for iPhone  —  Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has confirmed his company is now working with Apple with a view to offering Flash support on the iPhone.  —  The move follows Apple's release of the iPhone Software Development Kit (SDK).  Narayen, who was speaking during …
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CNN:
Adobe Working To Bring Flash Player To IPhone
Discussion: Infinite Loop, iLounge and MacDailyNews
AppleInsider:
Adobe begins work on Flash player for iPhone
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
More Bloggers Raising Money.  Here Come The Politics.  And Here Comes My Rant.  —  More blogs are raising venture capital, we're hearing from people they've pitched.  Newcomer Silicon Alley Insider is looking for a $2 - $3 million round, if reports are correct.
ClickZ:
The Google Conflict: Search Engine or Destination?  —  Google's search results are evolving into destination pages, marking a change in the way marketers and Google itself will have to do business.  —  That assessment was made by several speakers during a Search Engine Strategies …
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David A. Utter / WebProNews:
Destination Google, Thanks To Universal Search
Leander Kahney / Wired News:
How Apple Got Everything Right By Doing Everything Wrong  —  One Infinite Loop, Apple's street address, is a programming in-joke — it refers to a routine that never ends.  But it is also an apt description of the travails of parking at the Cupertino, California, campus.
Discussion: Screenwerk and Digg
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Spreadsheets Adds Gadgets, a Directory of Features  —  Google Spreadsheets, the most mature application from Google's online office suite, has suddenly become much better.  —  Now you can get email notifications when your collaborators make changes or edit some specific cells.
John Borland / Technology Review:
The Technology That Toppled Eliot Spitzer  —  Anti-money-laundering software scrutinizes bank customers' every move, no matter how small.  —  If there is a lesson from former New York governor Eliot Spitzer's scandal-driven fall (aside from the most obvious one), it is this …
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Exclusive: Blogdigger Acquired by Odeo  —  Blog search engine Blogdigger will be announcing shortly that it has been acquired by SonicMountain, parent company of Odeo - the podcast network that is currently being rebuilt as a full-fledged platform for digital media.
Carol Pinchefsky / eWeek:
Spectrum Auction Process Disputed  —  The fate of the D Block is still in limbo, and it could be reauctioned later.  —  The 700MHz spectrum auction ended March 18 after 50 days of bidding, taking in $19.6 billion for the federal government, even though the D block—reserved for emergency access …
Discussion: Tech Trader Daily
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Tod / PhysOrg.com:
Logo Can Make You ‘Think Different’  —  Whether you are a Mac person or a PC person, even the briefest exposure to the Apple logo may make you behave more creatively, according to recent research from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and the University of Waterloo, Canada.
Discussion: MacUser and Slashdot
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The Semantic Hacker One-Million Dollar Challenge  —  Semantic startups and projects are hot right now.  (See Radar Networks, Freebase, Blue Organizer, Hakia, even Yahoo).  But what do you do if you are a little-known technology company in Rochester, New York with a powerful semantic-analysis engine …
Discussion: The Semantic Web and hakia Blog
Daniel Shen / DigiTimes:
Dell reportedly plans to resume handheld device business  —  Dell reportedly plans to resume its handheld device business and the company may team up with Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) to develop Windows Mobile-based handheld devices, according to market sources in Taiwan.
Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Google sees surge in Web use on hot mobile phones  —  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc has seen an acceleration of Internet activity among mobile phone users in recent months since the company has introduced faster Web services on selected phone models, fueling confidence the mobile Internet era …
Joshua Karp / The Boy Genius Report:
Opera for Helio Ocean gets official  —  This one has been a long time in the making, as we've had access to an unofficial hacked build of Opera Mini on the Helio Ocean for quite some time now.  Both Helio and Opera, responding to massive demand from the Ocean user community …
Discussion: Gizmodo and Electronista
Royal Pingdom:
Apache dominates the top 100 websites, IIS still far behind  —  There has been a lot of talk about the decline of Apache's dominance as a web server, with competition from IIS and other alternatives like Lighttpd, but Apache is still king of the hill when you look at the top 100 websites in the US.
Discussion: The Register
 
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Yuri Kageyama / Associated Press:
Toshiba losing money in HD DVD business
Discussion: Technology Live
Richard Thurston / The Register:
Motorola to offload half its Birmingham staff
John Markoff / New York Times:
Industry Giants Try to Break Computing's Dead End
Discussion: Intel and Epicenter
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Ron Jeremy Takes on Porn Pirates
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M:Metrics: iPhone Hype Holds Up
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
Songkick helps you discover new bands and their upcoming shows
James Lewin / Podcasting News:
Largest Podcasting Host Announces Record Profits
Discussion: Mashable!
Jackson West / Valleywag:
Buy a Porsche cheap from failed startup
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The Disruptive Entrepreneur's Dilemma
Discussion: SmoothSpan Blog
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
A Good Day for Internet TV  —  Internet TV is on a roll today!
Discussion: Labnotes
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Facebook About To Pass MySpace In Worldwide Traffic
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Exclusive Video of Facebook Chat Demo
 

 
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Alex Sherman / CNBC:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is preparing to fire CEO Bob Bakish as soon as Monday, after he lost the trust of controlling shareholder Shari Redstone

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The New York Times is broken, shown by its entitled, petulant reaction to Politico's report on its tense relationship with Biden

Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
Sources: Amazon Prime Video has a framework deal for NBA broadcast rights for at least a decade, starting in 2025-26; ESPN/ABC is expected to keep the finals

 
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