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Frank Ahrens / Washington Post:
Digital 'Fair Use' Bill Introduced In Congress — Today, Reps. Rich Boucher (D-Va.) and John Dolittle (R-Calif.) introduced what they call the "Freedom and Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship" (or FAIR USE) Act they say will make it easier for digital media consumers to use the content they buy.
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Mike / Techdirt:
Silicon Valley Tech Policy Summit Has Plenty Of Tech Policy... Not Much Silicon Valley — from the where-is-everyone dept — On Monday, I attended the Silicon Valley Tech Policy Summit, and wrote about a few of the panels and talks at the event. While the list of speakers was impressive …
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Tom Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher:
Low turnout for Silicon Valley Tech Policy Summit - do tech companies care about policy? — There was a low turnout at the Silicon Valley Tech Policy Summit in San Jose that was attributed to six inches of snow in Washington D.C. which grounded travelers. — But that doesn't explain …
Hyatt / Surfin' Safari:
Background Music — macenstein.com has an interesting article about a slowdown in other applications when a Safari window with a specific set of pages is loaded in the background. What a browser should do when it is the background application is actually extremely complex …
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Reuters:
Publishers allow book browsing on the Web — NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dusty world of book publishing has taken a step into cyberspace as Random House and HarperCollins letting customers browse books online. — Random House, whose writers include Danielle Steel and Norman Mailer …
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Music executives lament state of industry — NEW YORK—The discussions at a music conference here Tuesday started with an all-around bashing of Apple CEO Steve Jobs before moving to the plethora of issues plaguing the music industry. — Apple, digital rights management (DRM) …
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Washington Post:
Google Searches For Government Work — Google, meet Uncle Sam. — The search engine giant showed off its ambition yesterday to expand its business with the federal government, kicking off a two-day sales meeting that attracted nearly 200 federal contractors, engineers and uniformed military members eager …
Jo Best / Business Week:
Nokia Tops in 2006 Smartphone Sales — Despite its underperformance in North America, the Finnish tech giant took 48% of market share. RIM came in second — 2006 was the year of the converged device with 80 million smart phones shipped worldwide, according to analysts …
Scott Kirsner / Variety:
Academy threatens YouTube — Site removes unauthorized Oscar clips — Web surfers will no longer be reliving the magic moments of the 2007 Oscarcast via YouTube. The vid-viewing site complied with a Tuesday request from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences to remove all unauthorized clips of the kudocast.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Software For Virtual Teams — Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus — It's 2007 and no longer do startup employees, or even those of medium-size and large companies, need to be located in the same place. Instead, more and more companies are going virtual.
Gizmodo:
Windows Mobile iPhone Edition: The Movie — If just seeing wasn't believing, here's a video that shows the Windows Mobile iPhone skin in action. — Most of the icons are just shortcuts to the equivalent apps on Windows Mobile, but the most impressive thing must be the screensaver and the scrolling.
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
A cure for e-mail attention disorder? — Corporate managers concerned about the amount of time employees spend sifting though mountains of unwanted e-mail may soon have World of Warcraft to thank for providing a solution. — That's because a Palo Alto, Calif.-based start-up called Seriosity …
BBC:
Fragrant future beckons for web — Within a decade the net will be able to deliver smells as fast as it does data, predicts a report. — The forecast came in a wide-ranging survey produced by the South Korean government to find out what consumers will want from future technologies.
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Tom McNichol / Business 2.0:
Wikipedia founder hunts for gold — Jimmy Wales built Wikipedia into one of the largest and most collaborative sites on the Internet - but has yet to make his fortune. Here's how he plans to fix that. — (Business 2.0 Magazine) — Jimmy Wales may have created the world's largest encyclopedia, but he can't keep his inbox in order.
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Samc / dailywireless.org:
MediaFlo Debuts March 1st — Verizon Wireless will begin offering mobile television on March 1, according to coverage maps on the carrier's Web site, reports RCR News. — Verizon Wireless has branded the service as "Vcast Mobile TV." No further details were offered …
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