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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Jaiku Founder: “We're Not Dying, We're Morphing” — Last week, Google announced that the company was unceremoniously discontinuing or at least ceasing development of a number of services it had launched or acquired in the past, including Google Video, Notebook, Catalog Search, Dodgeball and The Mashup Editor.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Zumodrive Takes Cloud Storage And Syncing Up A Notch — Cloud storage and file synchronization is becoming increasingly important as users access the Internet and their data via a plethora of devices - desktop computers with large hard drives, laptops with smaller drives …
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Rick Turoczy / ReadWriteWeb:
Obama in 3D: Photosynth to Crowdsource Synth of the 44th Presidential Inauguration — Next Tuesday, the eyes of the United States - and likely the world - will be on Washington, DC, as Barack Obama takes the oath of office to become the 44th President of the United States.
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Developer considers charges after iPhone app is pirated — The developer of an iPhone app that has been cracked and distributed for free said he is considering pursuing criminal charges against whoever is responsible for the piracy. — On the Apple App Store, Annoy-A-Teen sells for 99 cents.
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BBC:
Microsoft is accused by EU again — The European Commission has accused Microsoft of harming competition by bundling its Explorer web browser with its Windows operating system. — The commission said it had reached the preliminary view that the US software giant had undermined consumer choice and infringed EU rules.
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Boxee, Used to View Web on TV, Generates Buzz — Piping Internet video into a television seems as if it should be simple — after all, a screen is a screen. But consumer electronics and media companies have been moving toward that combination with painstaking caution …
Matt / Signal vs. Noise:
Hulu CEO: “We screwed up royally” — Great apology note from Hulu's CEO [via DF]: … Mistakes happen. It's how you handle them that really matters.
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Ben Jones / TorrentFreak:
RIAA Scared of Court Case Webcast — RIAA court cases are few and far between. The cost of attorneys usually makes hiring one a costly alternative in comparison to the settlement money that they ask from alleged infringers. Thus far, only one case has actually gone to trial …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
First Facebook, Now MySpace - Power.com Denied — Social network aggregator Power.com was off to a hot start when it launched in late November. The service, which lets users access and share content among several social networking sites at once, raised $5 million in venture financing …
InfoWorld:
Firm seeks to bar Nokia, RIM, Palm from importing devices into U.S. — A patent-holding company from Texas is seeking to bar six companies — including BlackBerry maker Research in Motion, Palm, and Nokia — from importing handheld devices into the U.S. for allegedly violating its patents.
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
Intel's Barrett on Paranoia, the Core Craze and the End of Gigahertz — At first, Intel chairman Craig Barrett struck me as a testy old dude. — This would be fair, considering his company was about to announce a sudden 90% plunge in profits. So it's understandable that …
