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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
THE AAP/GOOGLE LAWSUIT: MUCH MORE AT STAKE  —  I spent some time yesterday and this morning speaking with Allan Alder, counsel for the AAP (see my initial post on this here).  I came away convinced of what I initially suspected but so far had not stated: this is a far bigger issue …
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Hiawatha Bray / Boston Globe:
Publishers battle Google book index  —  Suit joins action filed by authors over copyright  —  Five major publishing firms filed suit against Internet search giant Google Inc. yesterday to stop the company from creating a digital index of millions of copyrighted books.
Discussion: Smalltalk Tidbits …
Kevin Werbach / Werblog:
BREAKING APART AT THE SEAMS
Reuters:
Voice phone calls to be free within years: eBay CEO  —  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - In a few short years, users can expect to make telephone calls for free, with no per-minute charges, as part of a package of services through which carriers make money on advertising or transaction fees, eBay's chief executive said on Wednesday.
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Rob Hof / TechBeat:
No Head-Scratching at eBay About Skype's Potential
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Flock is Launching Publicly Today  —  I just heard from Geoffrey Arone at Flock that they will be launching it to the general public within 3 hours (by 5 pm PST).  —  Feedback to their recent beta expansion has been so positive, Geoffrey tells me, that there is no reason to delay any longer.
Clint Ecker / Ars Technica:
Video iPod  —  Introduction  —  iPod (30 GB)  —  System requirements: PC with USB port running Windows 2000 SP4 or Windows XP SP2; Mac with USB port running Mac OS X 10.3.9  —  The new iPod was announced by Steve Jobs last week at a highly anticipated "special event" in San Jose, California.
swissinfo.org:
Voters go to polls armed with mobile phones  —  Voting by text message could become the norm (Keystone)  —  The first ever SMS vote is taking place in Switzerland with the residents of Bülach using mobile phone text messages to decide on speed restrictions in the town.
Discussion: textually.org
Out-Law.Com / The Register:
Secret tracking codes in laser printers cracked  —  The pages that are printed by your colour laser printer may include tiny dots, almost invisible to the naked eye.  The dots form a code that can be read by the US Secret Service, ostensibly to track down counterfeiters.
Discussion: TechSpot
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
Phone buy puts Adobe head-to-head with Microsoft  —  Flash the stealth killer platform, all along?  —  Macromedia is to acquire Mobile Innovation, a privately-held design and integration house in the UK with around 50 staff, for an undisclosed sum.  —  What makes this deal noteworthy …
Discussion: Neowin.net
Anita Campbell / Small Business Trends:
Adventures in Entrepreneurship: Small Business Essentials  —  Editor's Note: The following article is part of a series written in connection with the American Express OPEN "Adventures in Entrepreneurship" event, featuring Richard Branson.  The event includes an online "panel discussion" …
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Sphere pass 1  —  It's really hard to review a search engine if I can't point to results of queries.  Hmmm.  Maybe I can.  —  This morning I did a search on "Wilma" in the last day.  It's a breaking story, twenty four hours ago it was a tropical storm, since then it has become the largest storm ever observed.
Ken Belson / New York Times:
Hewlett Urges Compromise in Battle Over New Formats for DVD  —  The Hewlett-Packard Company, a member of the Blu-ray Disc Association developing the next-generation DVD, urged the group yesterday to adopt software that has already been included in the rival format.
Ted Leung on the air:
Aperture - Wow.  —  At OSCON, I was asking James Duncan Davidson about photo processing software.  He told me that he had tried most of the programs available for the Mac and that they were all inadequate.  That was yesterday.  Today Apple announced Aperture, which they describe as …
Reuters:
UPDATE 2-Intermix settles NY Attorney Gen'l suit  —  NEW YORK, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Internet media company Intermix Media Inc.'s former chief executive, Brad Greenspan, will pay $750,000 in penalties for his role in the company's bundling of hidden spyware that delivered pop-up advertising …
Discussion: Techdirt and PaidContent.org
iwr.co.uk:
Macmillan parent opens digital repository  —  Publishing group offers book digitisation rival to Google Print  —  Holtzbrinck Group, the parent company of scientific and business journal publisher Macmillan is to develop a searchable online repository for digital book content …

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