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9:05 PM ET, July 7, 2009

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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Pandora (And Other Internet Radio) Has Officially Been Saved  —  After two years of uncertainty, Pandora's future has finally been secured.  —  For those not familiar with what was going on, basically the streaming rates for Internet radio were in danger of being raised to levels …
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Claire Cain Miller / New York Times:
Music Labels Reach Online Royalty Deal  —  Internet radio, once on its deathbed, is likely to survive after all.  —  On Tuesday, after a two-year battle, record labels and online radio stations agreed on new royalty rates that cover music streaming.  —  Many of the music sites had argued …
Tim Westergren / Pandora:
Important update on royalties  —  For more than two years now I have been eagerly anticipating the day when I could finally write these words: the royalty crisis is over!  —  Webcasters, artists, and record labels have reached a resolution to the calamitous Internet radio royalty ruling of 2007.
Discussion: GigaOM, paidContent and ChannelWeb
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:   Web Radio Darling Pandora Slips the Noose, But at a Cost: Heavy Users Have to Pay.
The Official Google Blog:
Google Apps is out of beta (yes, really)  —  We're often asked why so many Google applications seem to be perpetually in beta.  For example, Gmail has worn the beta tag more than five years.  We realize this situation puzzles some people, particularly those who subscribe to the traditional definition of …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Amazon Killing Mobile Apps That Use Its Data  —  Well, this sucks.  I had not yet gotten around to downloading the new Delicious Library iPhone app, which I heard was great.  And now I can't because the developer had to remove it from the App Store.  Why?  Because of Amazon.
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Demand for Apple's 13" MacBook Pro may be outpacing supply  —  Apple's newly-coined 13-inch MacBook Pros appear to be off to a hot start, with the company reportedly having difficulty keeping some of the new models in stock as it enters the heart of the back-to-school buying season.
Ross Miller / Engadget:
Sony Vaio W netbook now official in US, coming August for $499  —  Not so much of a surprise now, but Sony's bringing its 10.1-inch Vaio W stateside as well, and yes, according to the Sony reps we talked to, this time they really do mean to call it a netbook, unlike its Vaio P brethren.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Michael Jackson funeral delivers pop in video streams  —  Updated: Live video streams of the Michael Jackson funeral are delivering a big jump in activity and some sites are struggling under the strain.  —  According to Akamai's live stream tracker, a handy link of current activity, the Jackson funeral is getting a lot of attention.
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
AT&T Will Scare You Into Keeping Your Landline  —  Keep your landline or your loved ones may die, seems to be the messaging tied to AT&T's Home Base campaign released today.  It comes on the heels of a Verizon ad aimed at getting non-Verizon landline customers to ditch their wires in exchange for wireless.
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Firefox stability to get a boost with multiprocess browsing  —  Mozilla has launched a new project called Electrolysis that aims to bring multiprocess browsing to Firefox.  According to Mozilla, splitting up the page rendering workload into multiple processes will improve the browser's performance, security, and stability.
Discussion: VentureBeat and eWeek
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Feedburner Founder/CEO Dick Costolo To Leave Google  —  It's always hard to hold onto those pesky entrepreneurs after you acquire their company - the best ones always get restless and bail.  Feedburner cofounder and CEO Dick Costolo will be leaving Google within the week, we've confirmed.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Apps Standard Edition Findable Again  —  Last night we reported that Google had stripped all references and links to the free version of Google Apps from the landing page for the product.  New users had just one option - to sign up for the Premier version and pay $50 per user per year after a 14 day free trial.
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Push Gmail Comes To The iPhone — Through An App (If It's Accepted)  —  You'd think on a phone that can do as many cool things as the iPhone, push email through one of the world's most popular email services, Gmail, would be one of them.  But for some reason, Google and Apple haven't turned …
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Celebrates First Anniversary of App Store  —  Apple has started celebrating the first anniversary of the App Store with a special section on iTunes [link] highlighting their favorite applications and games.  While the App Store officially launched on July 11th 2008 …
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Hey, Online Display Ads Don't Suck After All!  —  Since the dawn of time, advertisers have been worried about the efficacy of online display ads.  This is in part because, in the mid-1990s, they were taught that online display ads had one purpose in life, which was to get people to click on them.
Julie Zhou / Google LatLong:
Help customers find their way with new Google Maps gadget  —  Last week, I looked up directions to the hotel in Sacramento that I had booked for the 4th of July weekend.  As I had never been to that part of the state before, I was puzzled by the directions offered by their website …
Discussion: Screenwerk, Inside AdWords and AppScout
Laurie Sullivan / MediaPost:
Amazon Patents Detail Kindle Advertising Model  —  Would you buy a Kindle ebook reader from Amazon if you received a free, ad-supported version of a book for each physical copy purchased?  The U.S. Patent Office has published several Amazon patents in the past 30 days that could lead the online bookseller in that direction.
Douglas MacMillan / Tech Beat:
Facebook Flight?  No, Graduation Season  —  As more baby boomers take to the world's most popular social network, the average age of Facebook users has risen steadily.  But the site's bread and butter, kids in college and high school, haven't gone anywhere.  Have they?
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Acer Aspire Timeline 1810T  —  It's not an Acer Aspire One, but it's close enough.  —  You could however easily mistake it for the Aspire One 751, as it's based on the same chassis with a few modifications.  It also shares the 11.6 inch screen with 1366x768 resolution.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Where have all the white iPhones gone?  —  It's the reverse of Henry Ford's line about the Model T. Today you can buy any iPhone you want, as long as it's not white.  —  Apple (AAPL) has been having trouble keeping the entry-level white iPhone in stock since the new 3GS went on sale two and a half weeks ago.
Jordan Golson / GigaOM:
Clearwire Launching WiMAX in Las Vegas  —  Clearwire is launching its Clear WiMAX service in Las Vegas on July 21.  That's great news for conventioneers (especially the numerous tech-focused shows in the area every year) and casino attendees, never mind the locals, who will get to play with the new 4G technology.
Matthew Newman / Bloomberg:
Microsoft, EU Said to Be in Talks to Settle Two Antitrust Investigations  —  Microsoft Corp., which has been fined 1.68 billion euros ($2.4 billion) in European Union antitrust cases, is in preliminary talks to settle two additional investigations before EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes leaves office …
Spencer Ante / Tech Beat:
Made Men: Why Venture Capitalists Sponsor Other VCs  —  The big news out this week in the venture capital market is the launch of Andreessen Horowitz, a new $300 million venture capital fund co-founded by Marc Andreeseen, a tech visionary who founded Netscape Communications, the startup that triggered the Internet tsunami.
Discussion: TechFlash and PE Hub Blog
Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
Blogs-on-Paper Idea Runs Out of Steam  —  Starting a newspaper filled with material from blogs seemed audacious — as did the idea of starting any kind of newspaper in 2009.  But Joshua Karp did just that in January.  In the end, it didn't work out.  —  Mr. Karp, the founder of The Printed Blog …
Joe DePriest / The Charlotte Observer:
Small city plucks a big plum in Apple  —  MAIDEN Three years ago, Catawba County economic development leaders targeted the data center market by developing a 183-acre business park outside Maiden, just west of U.S. 321.  —  On Monday, they announced a big catch: Apple's new $1 billion center …
Discussion: MacRumors, AppleInsider and bizjournals
Matt Asay / CNET News:
VideoLAN releases VLC 1.0.0: Your media will never be the same  —  On April 3, arguably the world's best media player, VideoLAN's VLC media player (VLC), hit version 0.9.9.  A few months and over 78 million downloads later, VideoLAN has announced VLC 1.0.0 ("Goldeneye").  —  Your media will never be the same.
Janko Roettgers / P2P Blog:
Kazaa's bizarre new PR campaign  —  Remember Kazaa?  I know, it's been a while.  Kazaa used to be one of the most popular P2P applications, until Edonkey and Emule and eventually Bittorrent came along to offer better ways to download media files.  And then there was that lawsuit …
Discussion: PRWeb and MobileCrunch
John Timmer / Ars Technica:
New algorithm guesses SSNs using date and place of birth  —  Two researchers have found that a pair of antifraud methods intended to increase the chances of detecting bogus social security numbers has actually allowed the statistical reconstruction of the number using information that many people place on social networking sites.
 
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Brian Prince / eWeek:
Symantec Pushes Reputation Technology in Norton Beta
Discussion: internetnews.com, iTWire and Reuters
Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
Veodia Launches Screenjelly for Snackable Screencasts
Discussion: TechCrunch
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Judge Curbs YouTube Copyrights Suit
Discussion: CNET News and VentureBeat, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
Twitter Fake Profile Case Settled
Discussion: TechCrunch
Chris Kanaracus / Computerworld:
VMware offering ‘safe passage’ to Virtual Iron users
Discussion: The Register
Kenneth Li / Financial Times:
Sun Valley set to consider paid content
Discussion: Digits
Joseph Tartakoff / paidContent:
Yahoo Withdraws Lawsuit Over Rights To Fantasy-Sports Stats
Discussion: CNET News
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent:
IAC's Match Agrees To Buy People Media For $80 Million
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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
YouTuber MrBeast announces a deal with Prime Video for Beast Games, a reality-competition show with 1,000 contestants, promising the winner a $5M cash prize

 
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