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Agence France Presse:
Google sues Polish poets over gmail.pl — WARSAW (AFP) - Google has launched legal action against a group of Polish poets, demanding that they give up their Internet domain name gmail.pl, a member of the cultural collective said. — Izabela Krawczyk of GMAiL — the "Grupa Mlodych Artystow i Literatow …
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Phil Butler / Profy.Com:
Polish Poets Threaten Google Supremacy! — Google has launched legal action once again, this time against a group of Polish Poets! How's that for coming down hard on the little guy? In the press release Google is evidently trying to get the money hungry, robber baron poets to give up their Internet domain name gmail.pl.
Smaran / TorrentFreak:
MPAA Steals Code, Violates Linkware License — Patrick Robin, a 29 year old web developer from South England, is the developer of an ASP-based blogging platform called Forest Blog. He distributes it freely under a linkware license, asking that anyone who uses it merely link back to his site where Forest Blog is offered for download.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Macrovision CEO Fred Amoroso's Response to Steve Jobs's 'Thoughts on Music' — Source: "Macrovision's Response to Steve Jobs's Open Letter". … F**k you, Jobs. … We've been helping and encouraging the entertainment industry …
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brainwagon, Ars Technica, The Tao of Mac, Boing Boing, Podcasting News, Techdirt, broadbandreports.com, digg and Slashdot
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Reuters:
Microsoft shares tumble on CEO comments — Software maker's stock slips after Ballmer warns that analysts' forecasts on Vista sales were too 'aggressive.' — BOSTON (Reuters) — Microsoft Corp. shares fell as much as 2.7 percent on Friday, their biggest drop in nine months …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Following your dreams — One thing I try to teach Patrick, my 13-year-old son, is that he can make his dreams happen. That's why today I'm taking him to the San Francisco Apple store. No, dummy, not to check out the latest Macs or iPods, but to meet Aaron Stanton. — Who's he?
Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited:
Dell 2.0 — Michael brews up an IdeaStorm — Dell has done something brilliant: it's launched an IdeaStorm site that enables users to make suggestions so that other people can "digg" them. At the moment, there are 141 idea proposals, 1,632 diggs and 146 comments.
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Download Squad, rev2.org, Mark Evans, CyberNet Technology News, Sadagopan's weblog …, Ring Nokia and robhyndman.com
Stowe Boyd / Message:
Big Spike In Feedburner Subscribers — I was at Feedburner approving an ad for my /Message feed, and I saw that the number of subscribers to the feed went up 700+ yesterday: a 34% increase in one day. — If anyone has an explanation, I would be interested. I wasn't dugg yesterday, was I?
Justin Fox / Time:
Getting Rich off Those Who Work for Free — It might seem very odd to look to a long-dead Russian anarchist for business advice. But Peter Kropotkin's big idea—that there are important human motivations beyond what he called "reckless individualism"—is very relevant these days.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Newest Flash Tools on Display at Photobucket — The latest Flash photo/video/sound editing tools that we mentioned last week are now enabled at Photobucket for premium users, and will go live for all users in March. Geoff Baum at Adobe confirmed that these tools are not yet available anywhere on the web except for Photobucket.
Caroline McCarthy / Crave:
If Captain Jack Sparrow had a toaster — I'm not really sure what this gadget's product page is saying, because it's all in German. But regardless, I want this toaster. It's sleek, black, and printed with a skull-and-crossbones as well as a bizarre Guns & Roses reference ("Sweet Toast of Mine" …
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Skitzzo / SEOrefugee Blog:
10 Mistakes that Will KILL a Forum — As we've already discussed, there are certain things you need to do in order to promote your forum. However, even if you're successful, you and your community are still not care free. There are several things that can effectively kill even the most established forum.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Nokia 6280 overheats, erupts in smoke on video — We've seen dozens and dozens of aftermath photos from laptops and other random batteries suddenly possessing violently explosive tendencies, but we all know full motion video is more satisfying than simple stills.
KPaul / bungie.net:
Halo 3 Beta FAQ — Is Halo 3 beta registration closed? — Yes, phases one and two of the beta have already ended. If you haven't received an email by this point, then you were not one of the lucky few. — Is there no other way?! — If you didn't get in to either phase …
Brent Simmons / ranchero.com:
NetNewsWire 3.0d46: sneak-peek release — It is not feature-complete—there are a bunch of features still to do before 3.0 ships. — It has lots of bugs! There are lots of bugs to fix before 3.0 ships. — It is a work in progress! — If you're not comfortable running pre-release software, please don't use this version!
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Everything USB News, Reviews, Tips:
Flash Drive Talks When Plugged In — Oh, crap. I can see it at next years CES show, all the flash drives they hand out with press kits on them will play sales pitches when I plug them in. The only thing I need less than another flash drive to add to my desktop pile is one that talks to me every time I plug it in.
Mike / Techdirt:
Microsoft Applies For Patent Telling You If A Website Is On A List Of Phishing Sites — from the non-obvious? dept — It seems that every few days when new patents are announced there are a few gems from Microsoft. Take, for example, Microsoft's latest patent application on Phishing Detection, Prevention, and Notification.
Gizmodo:
The Things Other Apple Airport Extreme Reviews Don't Tell You — You're all familiar with the specs of the Extreme, so let's just skip to how it performed—later moving on to the problems we had. — On the performance side, 802.11n really does work a lot faster than our old 802.11g D-Link DGL-4300 Gaming Router.
