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Jeff Leeds / New York Times:
Universal Music Will Sell Songs Without Copy Protection — Signaling another departure from the music industry's tenuous belief in its longtime antipiracy strategy, the Universal Music Group plans to sell a significant portion of its catalog without the customary copy protection software …
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Alex Veiga / Associated Press:
UMG Testing Sale of Unrestricted Tracks — Universal Music to Test Selling Downloads Without Copy-Protection — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Universal Music Group said Thursday it will sell digital music from artists such as Sting, 50 Cent and Stevie Wonder without the customary copy-protection technology for a limited time.
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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Music DRM in critical condition: Universal tests DRM free music sales — Universal Music Group has announced that the company is going to test selling DRM-free music to consumers in order to assess the market. It's a strange test, however: the company won't be hawking DRM-free music at Apple's iTunes Store, at least at first.
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Official Google Blog:
A simple way to get more storage — As someone who tests Google products daily, I know that the simplest solution is often the one that works best. In the case of online storage, whether it's a picture, a video or an email, you should just, well, be able to store it without having to worry …
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The Register, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Computerworld, Between the Lines, Search Engine Land, Insider Chatter, ParisLemon, WebProNews, Compiler, Joho the Blog, Google Blogoscoped, Mark Evans, Geek Speaker, Googlified, Web Strategy, VentureBeat, GottaBeMobile.com, jkOnTheRun, Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus and Windows Live SkyDrive …
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Shared Storage Program Released — To wrap up the mystery of the increased Gmail storage many of you saw today: Google just released a shared storage program. This new offer merges the storage of different Google products into a single storage back-end.
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:Pay for More Gmail Storage
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Inquirer, Zoli's Blog, Mashable!, Google Blogoscoped, loose wire blog and Paul Kedrosky's …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Google, Microsoft Storage News Falls Flat
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:Windows Live SkyDrive Launched - Enters a Crowded Online Storage Market
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
iPhone "Dead Zone" Screens — More Trouble Ahead? — Apple (AAPL) has responded swiftly to scattered reports of "dead spots" on iPhone touchscreens — and received high marks from users for the speed and efficiency with which defective devices were replaced.
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Donna Bogatin / Insider Chatter:
1-800 Pay-Per-Call: Marchex Buys VoiceStar, $4 billion Local Advertising Bonanza? — "Marchex adds call-based advertising services to local advertising platform with VoiceStar acquisition," so announces Marchex. — Marchex touts the "significant growth opportunities of the pay-per-phone-call market" …
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Ian Harvey / businessedge.ca:
Company bloggers can help put out fires — Dell manager's quick reaction won industry accolades — When Dell Computers started getting reports of laptops exploding in flames last summer, Lionel Menchaca took the heat - from his own legal team. — As the Texas-based computer maker's chief blogger …
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Symantec Products NavComUI ActiveX Control Code Execution — Critical: — Highly critical — Impact: — System access — Where: — From remote — Solution Status: — Vendor Patch — Software: — Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2006 — Symantec Norton Internet Security 2005
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MediaWhiz Latest Ad Network For Sale? — MediaWhiz, a holding company for a number of advertising networks, may be shopping itself to private equity firms. We are hearing that they are looking for $400- $450 million, which is 2.5 - 3 times estimated 2007 revenues.
Jonathan Cohen / Reuters:
AT&T censors Pearl Jam's anti-Bush lyrics — NEW YORK (Billboard) - Pearl Jam fans and Internet watchdogs were up in arms Thursday after it was revealed that AT&T Inc. censored portions of the rock band's live concert cybercast on Sunday. — While performing "Daughter" …
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Tkarr / Save the Internet Blog:AT&T Plays Gatekeeper. Censors Pearl Jam.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AOL May Kill Their Netscape Digg Clone — AOL is considering killing off the "Digg Clone" social news site that they launched a little over a year ago at Netscape.com, and redirecting traffic to the Netscape portal instead. One source says it's a done deal. Another says no final decisions have been made.
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Search Engine Land, Silicon Alley Insider, Susan Mernit's Blog, Search Engine Journal and digg
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Comcast Launches Beta Version Of Its Fancast — Comcast (Nasdaq:CMCSK) has quietly launched a slow and slightly buggy version of its Fancast site, in beta. This site is supposed to be its ambitious online video guide and portal, marking its first major product open-Web project outside of its still-limited Comcast.net portal.
Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
Beyond Brickbreaker — As Smart Phones Gain — In Popularity, Game Makers — Roll Out New Diversions — While running his education-related start-up, Ryan Thompson keeps up on his email by staying glued to his BlackBerry. Lately, the 29-year-old in Brooklyn, N.Y. …
Mike Yamamoto / Crave: The gadget blog:
A TV-PC that helps you shave — Apparently it's not enough to have a mirror that sends text messages or even engages us in conversation. We need one that'll run Windows too. — Facing stiff competition in its mainstay telly business, U.K.-based Mirror Media has created a line that incorporates …
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Om Malik / NewTeeVee:
In Reversal of Roles, Veoh Sues Universal — Veoh, the San Diego-based online video start-up, has sued Universal Music Group in federal court to reinforce its rights as a copyright compliant company under the safe harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Breaking: Veoh Sues Universal Music
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