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12:20 PM ET, March 28, 2008

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Music Industry's New Extortion Scheme  —  Musicians themselves may just be crazy, but the music labels are dangerously stupid, and need to be stopped before they can do any further damage to the music industry.  Case in point: Warner Music, fully aware that the days of charging …
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Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
US students, alumni to get legal P2P  —  The beginning of the end of the file-sharing wars?  —  Exclusive US colleges and their alumni may be offered the right to P2P file-sharing under one of the most radical copyright reforms in a hundred years, The Register has learned.
Discussion: WinBeta
Portfolio:
Fee for All  —  Edgar Bronfman Jr.'s Warner Music Group …
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:   Report: Music downloads on your Net access tab?
Wei Yi Lim / CNN:
Hon Hai Gets Apple Order For New iPhones -Source  —  TAIPEI -(Dow Jones)- Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. (2317.TW) has secured an exclusive contract to assemble a more advanced version of Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) popular iPhone, a person familiar with the situation told Dow Jones Newswires Friday.
Discussion: iLounge
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple picks trusted supplier to assemble 3G iPhone  —  It should be no surprise that Apple has turned to Foxconn, the trade name for Hon Hai Precision Industries, to build the next generation iPhone.  —  China's Commercial Times reported early Friday that Foxconn was competing for the business …
Jemima Kiss / PDA:
The quiet boom of paidContent, and its new chief executive  —  Rafat Ali's digital media empire has grown, again.  I'll disclaim right away - I used to work for him and am in awe of what he has created since ditching the life of a staff journalist all those years ago.
Discussion: bub.blicio.us
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Jonathan Skillings / CNET News.com:
Dell offers sub-$1,000 Blu-ray laptop  —  The end of the next-generation DVD format battle may not mean a long victory lap for inflated Blu-ray prices after all.  —  Dell, which has more than a little clout in the PC market, on Friday announced that consumers can now spend less than $1,000 to get a Blu-ray-equipped laptop.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
What's Yahoo worth to Microsoft without Alibaba?  —  One of Yahoo's best arguments for getting Microsoft to raise its offer to acquire the company-the portal's stake in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba-is in jeopardy courtesy of antitrust regulations in China.
Discussion: TechCrunch and Seeking Alpha
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John Markoff / New York Times:   China Law Could Impede Microsoft Deal for Yahoo
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
NVIDIA drivers responsible for nearly 30% of Vista crashes in 2007  —  That huge bundle of damning emails and documents Microsoft produced as part of the Vista-capable lawsuit is full of fascinating information about how the company developed, planned, and launched Vista …
Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Microsoft looks to fix bugs with desktop search  —  $10,000 Panda Challenge - are you really protected?  —  Microsoft has slipped out a new version of its Windows desktop search engine for its Vista operating system to fix bugs with the previous version.  —  The release appeared …
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Zero Day Initiative / DVLabs:
PWN to OWN Day Two: First Winner Emerges! (updated)  —  Congratulations to our first winner of the CanSecWest PWN to OWN contest!  At 12:38pm local time, the team of Charlie Miller, Jake Honoroff, and Mark Daniel from Independent Security Evaluators have successfully compromised the Apple MacBook Air …
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Antone Gonsalves / InformationWeek:
Gartner Clarifies 3G iPhone Reports  —  The technology research firm says it doesn't know whether Apple has actually ordered 10 million iPhones that support 3G networks, as was reported on the Web.  —  Technology research firm Gartner on Thursday tried to clear up reports that it had said Apple might …
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors and LoopRumors
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Loopt Embraced by Verizon; Starts to Spread Its Mobile Wings  —  Loopt, a mobile social network that can be used to see where your friends are currently located, has partnered with Verizon to put its software on that carrier's phones.  It's a big win for Loopt since Verizon has more location-aware handsets than any other carrier.
WritersWeekly.com:
Amazon.com Telling POD Publishers - Let BookSurge Print Your Books, or Else...  BREAKING DEVELOPMENT: We were notified by a PublishAmerica author that her book was available for purchase through Amazon on Tuesday but today the “buy” button for her book on Amazon is gone.
Charles Cooper / Coop's Corner:
Here's a throwback idea that might offer a way out for Microsoft  —  Ray Ozzie is one of the most well-respected computer scientists around.  He pioneered innovations in groupware software during previous stints at Lotus and Groove and now is working to bring Microsoft's technology strategy …
Michael Malone / Broadcasting & Cable:
Google to TV: We Want to Work with You  —  Google TV Ads Director Michael Steib Speaks at Television Bureau of Advertising's Annual Marketing Conference  —  Addressing a room full of curious broadcasters at the Television Bureau of Advertising's annual marketing conference in New York Thursday …
 
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Sean Harding / Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:
Speaking the language of robots
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Firefox 4 will push out the edges of the browser
Discussion: DailyTech and CNET News.com
Darren Waters / BBC NEWS | dot.life:
Did the internet get away with it?  —  Video games have been the focus …
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Create your own web video mashups with Omnisio
Alan Boyle / MSNBC:
DOOMSDAY FEARS SPARK LAWSUIT
Discussion: The Register and Engadget
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
MPAA to broadband providers: Pull the plug on pirates
Discussion: DSLreports
Linux-Watch.com:
Red Hat posts great 2008 fiscal year earnings
The Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry 9000 delayed until July/August?
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Zoho Business Machine Rolls Forward: Invoices Next
Craig Newmark / cnewmark:
Multiple language support on craigslist
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Adobe's New Flash Codec is “Everyman's HD Platform”....has Improved …
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Gary Wolf / Wired News:
Futurist Ray Kurzweil Pulls Out All the Stops (and Pills) …
Discussion: Data Mining, Boing Boing and Digg
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Comcast Adjusts Way It Manages Internet Traffic