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Kim Zetter / Epicenter:
PC World Editor Quits Over Apple Story — Colleagues at my former outlet, PC World magazine, have told me that Editor-in-Chief Harry McCracken quit abruptly today because the company's new CEO, Colin Crawford, tried to kill a story about Apple and Steve Jobs.
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
PC World editor resigns over apparent ad pressure — Award-winning Editor-in-Chief Harry McCracken of PC World resigned Tuesday over disagreements with the magazine's publisher regarding stories critical of advertisers, according to sources. — McCracken, reached Wednesday evening …
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Valleywag
Brad Stone / New York Times:
In Web Uproar, Antipiracy Code Spreads Wildly — There is open revolt on the Web. — Sophisticated Internet users have banded together over the last two days to publish and widely distribute a secret code used by the technology and movie industries to prevent piracy of high-definition movies.
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CNN:
Digg.com in 'hacking' copyright row — LONDON, England (CNN) — Digg.com, one of the most popular sites on the Web, is bracing for a possible legal battle over refusing to remove stories containing a single 32-digit code that lets people crack HD-DVD copyright protection.
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O'Flaherty
BBC:
Online TV viewing 'on the rise' — Almost half of European broadband users are using their computers to watch television online, a survey claims. — The ability to "take control" of their viewing was the motivation for many users said Motorola, which interviewed 2,500 people including the UK.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:45% of Europeans watch TV online
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Pandora shuts box on users outside US — Pandora.com, the popular net radio station that helps users discover new music and build custom playlists, will block most people outside the US from accessing its service because of legal pressure being exerted by record labels.
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Music Industry Continues To Shoot Self In Foot; Forces Pandora To Block Non-US Listeners — It's really depressing to watch the recording industry so consistently shoot itself in the foot, focusing on capturing every immediate dollar, rather than recognizing the ability of using music …
Brad Hawkes / Official Google Reader Blog:
There are people who don't use feed readers? — It's fun to share interesting items with your friends and coworkers. Google Reader has a "Share" button and a public page to go along with it, and some people have been putting that to great use. Once you start sharing …
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Search Engine Roundtable, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, O'Flaherty, Download Squad and InsideGoogle
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Pandora To Shut Out Non-U.S. Users Thursday Evening — If you live outside of the U.S. and enjoy listening to customized radio stations on Pandora, brace yourself for some bad news. The site will be shutting you out starting Thursday evening. Registered users who access the service …
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Ars Technica, CrunchGear, Guardian Unlimited, Ken McGuire On The Web, gHacks tech news, Mark Evans and Hear 2.0
Yahoo! Search Blog:
Introducing Robots-Nocontent for Page Sections — We recently returned from our annual rendezvous at SES New York and, like always, learned a lot from our webmasters. The 'Robots.txt Summit' generated some healthy discussions and support for adding a tag to parts of a page that do not relate …
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Jeff Bonforte / Yodel Anecdotal:
Yahoo! Messenger, hold the download — Here's something I have been waiting to say for a long time... Yahoo! Messenger: Fast, Easy, Beautiful, and now with no download! — Again, no download. — That's right, today we launched the all-new Web-based Yahoo! Instant Messenger.
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jkOnTheRun, Lifehacker, WebProNews, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, Neowin.net and The Boy Genius Report
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Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Google Goes Wireless — A coalition led by the Web search giant is scoring early wins in a tussle over $10 billion in wireless airwaves — For a company that's had an office in Washington, D.C., for less than two years, Google is wielding a surprising amount of power in the nation's capital.
BBC:
Snowflakes promise faster chips — Chips could run faster and be more energy efficient thanks to a process from IBM that copies nature's creation of seashells and snowflakes. — The process, called airgap, enables trillions of microscopic vacuum holes to be placed between the copper wire in chips to act as an insulator.
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Neowin.net
Alex Krupp / Sensemaking:
Cell Phone Software: The Billion-Dollar Sand Trap — We all know the advantages: Everyone owns one. We all know how to use them. Women love them and they fit nicely into a pocket. Did I mention they do wireless? — Cell phones seem like the obvious platform for the next generation of billion-dollar startups.
James Hibberd / TVWeek.com:
Comcast Enters HD Quality Dispute — This week Comcast launched a major ad campaign that opened a new battlefront in the HD service provider war: comparative picture quality. — Touting a study by Frank N. Magid Associates, Comcast took out full-page newspaper ads in 15 markets claiming …
