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Universal Music Takes on iTunes — Universal chief Doug Morris is enlisting other big music players for a service to challenge the Jobs juggernaut — Relationships in the entertainment world can be famously fraught. And few are more so these days than the one between Steve Jobs and Universal Music chief Doug Morris.
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Let's force people to take our music — It's hard to know where to start with Universal's rumoured TotalMusic plan, which Business Week has just written about (although as Techdirt points out, Digital Music News first had the story weeks ago). Apparently the idea is to get all the record labels together …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Report: Universal prepping revolutionary free music service — Universal has a plan to change the music download business: give people free, unlimited music subscriptions with the purchase of portable devices. — Universal boss Doug Morris is trying to launch a new, label-owned subscription …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Universal Music's Plan To Take On iTunes: Bring Back PressPlay And MusicNow! — from the wait,-that-sounds-familiar... dept — Business Week has the story that Universal Music's Doug Morris is planning to take on iTunes by bringing together the major record labels and having them set …
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
NYT Adds Reader Comments to Front Page! * — We're always impressed with the New York Times' (NYT) progressive use of its web site, but seeing reader comments above the fold on the Home page was still startling. Hats off to the company's web team for this smart move!
Saul Hansell / Bits:
LinkedIn Plans to Open Up in a Closed Sort of Way — Dan Nye, the chief executive of LinkedIn, has looked closely at the frenzy around Facebook, and has made a crucial decision: There will be no food fights on LinkedIn. — Yes, he's rushing to copy the electronic underpinnings …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
BEA To Oracle: "Your Bid Is Too Low"; This Could Get Ugly — BEA (BEAS) has issued a statement in response to Oracle's (ORCL) unsolicited $17-a-share takeover bid: and they're asserting that the offer is too low. BEA notes that the letter was sent to Oracle yesterday, before the bid was announced.
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Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Road to Mac OS X Leopard: Time Machine — Time Machine is one of the most visually prominent new features demonstrated in Mac OS X Leopard, even if the core idea of backups is as old — or perhaps older — than the concept of having any data worthy of being restored.
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Fox News:
Sen. Susan Collins' Web Ads Run Up Against Google, MoveOn.org — Google claims it was wasn't politics, just company policy that led to it rejecting campaign ads for Republican Sen. Susan Collins, the Internet giant told FOX News on Friday. — Adam Kovacevich, responding to questions via e-mail …
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Paul Thomasch / Reuters:
Ad dollars flood Web, but will they go far enough? — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Companies will spend a record $31 billion this year to advertise everything from toothpaste to home loans on the Internet, supporting countless news sites, social networks, video exchanges and blogs.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The Clock is Ticking for Joost — There's a time bomb out there with Joost's name on it. Full-screen, broadcast-quality video streams—the main selling point of Joost's peer-to-peer Internet TV client software—is quickly coming to the Web. Brightcove will soon be offering such streams to its video publishers using BitTorrent DNA.
Robby Stein / Official Gmail Blog:
More Gmail storage coming for all — When people ask me about my job, one of the common questions I get is, "Where does Gmail put all that mail?" I generally answer by pointing them to a web site like this one. While that's not exactly how it works, we do spend a lot of time working …
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GigaOM:
Enterprise Software's Youth Drain — By M.R. Rangaswami, publisher of SandHill.com and co-founder of Sand Hill Group — They say that youth is fleeting. In the enterprise software industry, the youth are fleeing. — One need only look at the hairlines of today's software leaders.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: MapQuest Plays Catch-Up With Launch of Beta — AOL's MapQuest may be the market-leading map site by a long shot (with 50 million monthly visitors versus 30 million for Google Maps), but it is still playing catch-up when it comes to features, functionality, and mash-up capabilities.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Windows Update automatically changing user settings (again) — After Patch Tuesday this week (October 9), some Windows Vista users noticed something strange: Windows Update had changed their Automatic Update settings and rebooted their machines automatically without their consent.
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Interview: Henry Copeland, CEO, Founder of BlogAds: To Make Money At Blogging, Rein In Comments — BlogAds' CEO and founder Henry Copeland stirred up the audience at Wednesday's Networked Journalism Summit with two points about blogs and advertising. First, he told attendees of the conference …
Edo / Pink Tentacle:
Brain-computer interface for Second Life — While recent developments in brain-computer interface (BCI) technology have given humans the power to mentally control computers, nobody has used the technology in conjunction with the Second Life online virtual world — until now.
