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Saul Hansell / Bits:
Microsoft May Build a Copyright Cop Into Every Zune — If you like to download the latest episodes of “Heroes” or other NBC shows from BitTorrent, maybe you shouldn't buy a Microsoft Zune to watch them on. — A future update of the software for Microsoft's portable media player may well include …
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Cesar Menendez / Zune Insider:
Just So No One Gets the Wrong Idea. . . I hope you are all having a great time discovering all the cool stuff in the 2.5 release. — We have seen some chatter in the blogosphere over the last 24 hours around a couple of posts speculating about what Zune may or may not do in terms …
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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Breaking: Facebook Profile Redesign - Detailed Specs & First Impressions — As most people in the Facebook developer community are aware, the upcoming Facebook profile redesign is the biggest and most far-reaching project at the company so far this year. Its impact on users and developers …
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Jesse Stay / Stay N' Alive:
Facebook Announces Developer Integration Points to New Design, New “Publisher” Feature … While still vague in regards to details, Facebook today released some important information regarding their new design that is sure to excite those users that are considering leaving for other networks.
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Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:
AMD talks Shanghai performance, features, roadmap to 2010 — Randy Allen, corporate VP and general manager for AMD's Server/Workstation division presented AMD's server roadmap for the rest of 2008 today, hosted a conference call today on what the company is planning for 2009 and 2010.
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Tom Krazit / One More Thing:AMD tears up server road map to push stability
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InfoWorld:
Internet Archive challenges FBI's secret records demand — The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has withdrawn a secret demand that the Internet Archive, an online library, provide the agency with a user's personal information after the Web site challenged the records request in court.
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Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
FBI Targets Internet Archive With Secret ‘National Security Letter’, Loses — The Internet Archive, a project to create a digital library of the web for posterity, successfully fought a secret government Patriot Act order for records about one of its patrons and won the right to make the order public …
Jason Mick / DailyTech:
Microsoft Doesn't Want Yahoo Back, Enjoys “Independence” — Bill Gates delivers an address seemingly making it clear that Microsoft doesn't want to re-enter talks in the near future — After Microsoft rejected Yahoo's demands for more money by dropping its merger offer …
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Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Bankers Talked To Facebook About a Deal — Microsoft Corp.'s bankers recently contacted Facebook Inc. to gauge the Internet company's willingness to sell Facebook to the software giant, according to a person familiar with the matter. — There are no active discussions between …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:Microsoft still shopping; Approached Facebook
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Jon Healey / Bit Player:
Defunct TorrentSpy kicked while down — U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper has handed BitTorrent index site TorrentSpy a bill it couldn't possibly pay. Having ruled in favor of the major Hollywood studios' lawsuit in December, Cooper awarded the studios damages of $30,000 per movie …
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Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:Studios win $100 million judgment against TorrentSpy
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
News Corp. Web Unit Sees Revenue Drop, Admits It Won't Hit FY 08 Goals — It took a while, but Rupert Murdoch has finally acknowledged that News Corp.'s Web business won't hit the goals he laid out for it last August. Actually, he made Peter Chernin say it: “Let me begining by saying yes …
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:News Corp: Selling Ads For MySpace Is Hard Work!
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XNA Team Blog:
Announcing: XNA Game Studio 3.0 Community Technical Preview (CTP) — Today, we are delivering the first Community Technical Preview (CTP) of XNA Game Studio 3.0, giving you the ability to build games for the entire family of Zune media devices. This feature gives you access to the majority …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Adobe launches Photoshop Express update with Flickr support — Adobe is launching an update to its free Photoshop Express image editing tool today, including support for Yahoo's Flickr online photo service. — The public beta of the tool now includes changes based on feedback from the community.
Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
Microsoft's Brand Confusion Runs Deep — The LiveSide blog today took a look at all the different bits of Microsoft's Live.com search universe and found that while the new look may live up to the stated design principle of “Simple and powerful. Human. Fast.” it doesn't provide a common, unified experience.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Twitter Starts Blacklisting Spammers — You know you've made it as a communications medium when you start attracting spammers. On Twitter, the problem is getting bad enough that the service is starting to blacklist people who spam other members. There is already an unofficial site called …
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Ideas Are Everywhere... So Why Do We Limit Them? — from the gladwell-missing-the-point dept — Malcolm Gladwell is a truly fantastic writer. However, sometimes he gets so interested in making a story sound good that he misses the real point. His latest piece for the New Yorker starts …
Cory Bohon / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
.Mac push e-mail coming to iPhone 2.0? — Sometimes, we at TUAW get awesome tips from our readers — this is proof. A certain, unnamed individual sent us some pictures of the latest build of the iPhone firmware showing .Mac push e-mail. The picture shows the main Settings page with a new button: “Fetch new data.”
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Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Can SlideShare make PowerPoint sharing interesting? — Many people think PowerPoint is a reason for a nap. But an Internet start-up that helps people share slideshows online has got the attention of several prominent Silicon Valley investors. — On Thursday, San Francisco-based SlideShare …
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