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Ted Bridis / Associated Press:
Grokster Downloading Service to Shut Down — WASHINGTON - Grokster Ltd., which lost a Supreme Court fight over file-sharing software used for stealing songs and movies online, agreed Monday to shut down and pay $50 million to settle piracy complaints by Hollywood and the music industry.
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riaa.com:
Music Industry Announces Grokster Settlement — WASHINGTON, DC - The owners and operators of the Grokster peer-to-peer (P2P) network - the lead and most well-known defendants in one of the Supreme Court's seminal decisions this year and the most profound case affecting copyright laws in two decades …
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Bag and Baggage, PaidContent.org, A Copyfighter's Musings and Silicon Valley Media Law Blog
John Borland / CNET News.com:
Last waltz for Grokster — update File-swapping company Grokster has agreed to stop distributing its peer-to-peer software, following a $50 million legal settlement announced Monday with Hollywood studios and record labels. — Along with co-defendant StreamCast Networks …
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Miss Rogue / HorsePigCow:
Miss Behavin' — Thanks Liz for your assessment of the Seattle Post's article. You have no idea what it means to me. — I swear, I felt sick when I read that article. All of the grand demos and in-depth conversations and contacts over the weekend were instantly twisted to "I'm a Bimbo" in that moment.
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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:Liz notices a bit of sexism in reporting about Mind Camp
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Worker Bees Blog
Reuters:
Yahoo, Google to launch new wireless services — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. are set to roll out new wireless services, taking advantage of advanced networks and cellphones to provide features similar to those available on computers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
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michael parekh on IT, Daily Wireless, Reuters, Phone Scoop, Gizmodo, The Tao of Mac, The Pondering Primate and InsideGoogle
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Om Malik / Om Malik's Broadband Blog:
Yahoo and Google Unwire — Christian Lindholm, the father of Lifeblog software and Navikey UI leaves Nokia . A few weeks later Lindholm joins Yahoo. A few months later WSJ publishes plans of Yahoo teaming up with SBC and Cingular of joining a co-branded phone made by Nokia.
Kasper Jade / appleinsider.com:
Over 1 million Windows to Mac converts so far in 2005? — The momentum generated by Apple's iPod digital music players and related products continues to translate into new Macintosh sales according to one Wall Street analyst who estimates that over one million Windows users have purchased a Mac in the first three quarters of 2005.
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Dave Winer / H Y P E R C A M P:
Camp as newsroom — I find the combination of blogging and news rooms very exciting. — The first time I experienced it was at a conference in Monterey in 2000. I was sitting in the conference computer room, a small hotel ballroom with about 100 workstations, updating my blog.
Financial Times:
CBS and NBC offer shows 'on demand' — Two US broadcasters, CBS and NBC Universal, have signed deals with cable and satellite operators to make top-rated television shows available for "on demand" viewing within hours of being aired. — The shows, which include CBS's CSI …
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Chris Sherman / Search Engine Watch:
Google Launches Local for Mobile — Google's new Local for mobile service is a stripped-down version of the web-based Google Local that puts a heavy emphasis on maps and driving directions. — The new service allows you to search for specific addresses, businesses or business categories in the United States.
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bastion.co.uk:
PHILIPS ANNOUNCES AMBX - A REVOLUTION IN AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE - TO THE GAMES INDUSTRY — Let There Be Light! — Redhill, Surrey, United Kingdom - Philips today introduced amBX - a light year leap in ambient experience - to the world of computer gaming, spotlighting a technology …
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
What do you call things like Flickr, Microsoft Gadgets, Google Maps, Amazon Affiliate parts? — I've been struggling to communicate with others what the new Internet ecosystem is made up of and it hit me a few minutes ago. — They are Internet Connected Components. — Hear me out.
Dinesh C. Sharma / CNET News.com:
Study: CEOs find blogs useful — A growing number of American chief executives rate blogs high as employee communication tools, though a majority of them remain skeptical about starting their own, a new study shows. — About 59 percent of CEOs surveyed said they find Web logs, or blogs …
Richard MacManus / Read/Write Web:
Web 2.0 Weekly Wrap-up, 31 Oct - 6 Nov 2005 — This week: Microsoft Live, Flash Maps and the Mechanical Turk, Web 2.0 meet-ups all over the world, 2.0 Blog of the Week - Supr.c.ilio.us. — sponsored by: — Microsoft Live wrap-up — The big news of the week was Microsoft's announcement of Windows Live and Office Live.
Tom Negrino / Backup Brain:
Audiophile Insanity — I don't consider myself to be an audiophile or a videophile. Now, Dori may look at the gear that I have in the living room and disagree, but that's just because she doesn't know how insane that world can get. I'm pretty aggressively mid-fi; I like stuff that is decent, but nowhere near excessive.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Perspective: Why they say spyware is good for you — Sony rightly came under fire last week from programmers and Internet users for injecting an undetectable copy-prevention utility into Microsoft Windows when certain CDs are inserted. — Now the lawyers are taking aim, too.
