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Associated Press:
CBS, NBC to Offer TV Shows for 99 Cents — NEW YORK (AP) - CBS and NBC have announced deals to offer replays of prime-time programs for 99 cents per episode, shifting television toward a sales model that gained popularity with downloaded music. — CBS is teaming up with Comcast Corp. …
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Associated Press:
Grokster Goes Down — WASHINGTON — Grokster Ltd., a leading developer of internet file-sharing software popular for stealing songs and movies online, agreed Monday to shut down operations to settle a landmark piracy case filed by Hollywood and the music industry, The Associated Press has learned.
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Techdirt, PaidContent.org, dynamicobjects.com, Bag and Baggage and A blog doesn't need …
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Jennifer Bayot / New York Times:Grokster File-Sharing Service Shuts Down in Settlement
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Good Morning Silicon Valley
Mike / Techdirt:
Sony: Rootkits Are Okay, Because No One Knows What They Are — from the did-he-actually-say-that? dept. — Sony's response to the whole rootkit fiasco has been anything but reassuring — which is probably why they're facing a series of lawsuits about the matter.
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David Weinberger / Joho the Blog:
IBM shows del.icio.us for the enterprise, and more — I'm at a small IBM press event, "The Future of Social Networks" held in the IBM office in Cambridge. They're talking about 1) Social Nets Analytics, a "solution" [yech, I hate that term — What product isn't a solution? Can-opener= Your sealed can solution.
Dan Richman / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Internet takes a bite out of P-I, Times circulation — The Internet and telemarketing restrictions are hastening the decline of daily newspaper circulation nationwide and at both of Seattle's daily papers, experts and publishers said after the latest audited counts were released Monday.
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Not Too Geeky
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Simson Garfinkel / Wired News:
History's Worst Software Bugs — Last month automaker Toyota announced a recall of 160,000 of its Prius hybrid vehicles following reports of vehicle warning lights illuminating for no reason, and cars' gasoline engines stalling unexpectedly. But unlike the large-scale auto recalls of years past …
tech-recipes.com:
Digg Effect: The Top 10 Things Webmasters Should Know — Over the weekend, we were on the front page of digg.com again. Getting honored in this way is always a thrill to us. As a tech-tutorial site we have been highlighted on the front page many times now.
Presentation Zen:
Gates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic — As a follow up to yesterday's post on Bill Gates' presentation style, I thought it would be useful to examine briefly the two contrasting visual approaches employed by Gates and Jobs in their presentations while keeping key aesthetic concepts found in Zen in mind.
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The Blackfriars Blog
Nick / Rough Type:
Search is a commodity (again) — Until Google came along, internet search suffered from two big problems as a business. First, it was hard to make money off the end users (as a result, search engines had become commodity services sold to and rebranded by portals) and, second …
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Ten Technorati Hacks — If there's any one site I use more than others (with the exception of Gmail), it's Technorati. This site is a fantastic window into the psyche of the more digitally inclined. Here, in another in my series of hack postings, are 10 ways I get more mileage from T'rati.
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Lifehacker
The TNL.net weblog:
Reading the Google Tea Leaves — Every time Google comes out with a new product, many people talk about how great it is and highlight the product as a category killer. However, it increasingly appears to me that Google is filling up holes in their offering, in an attempt to match its competitors.
Marc Orchant / The Tablet PCs Weblog:
Gateway Chronicle: Happy support stories — As I've been working my way through configuring this new Gateway convertible Tablet PC, I've experienced a few glitches - both in process and what's been delivered. Hardly surprising really - these are the first of a new line of machines and some bumps in the road are to be expected.
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Yahoo Local Running Ingenio Pay Per Call? — Yahoo Local Running Ingenio Pay Per Call? — Here's a hot scoop about Yahoo from a post on the Search Engine Watch forums. Seems a member of the forums was doing some searches on Yahoo Local and noticed something different about the sponsored links.
Joanna Glasner / Wired News:
Some Technologies Will Annoy — If you're waiting for the "home of the future," filled with talking appliances and complex networks that let all our devices communicate with each other, prepare to keep holding your breath. It's not that those things aren't technically possible.
Jeremy Wagstaff / loose wire:
Verso Helps Block China Traffic — Verso Technologies has announced its first major deal for its Internet filtering technology — in China. Verso is best known for its high-profile promises to block Skype VoIP traffic, which have raised a few eyebrows, and very little take-up, in the U.S. and Europe.
