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Roy Mark / internetnews.com:
Merry Christmas From The RIAA — The music industry dropped 751 copyright-infringement lawsuits in the mail today, bringing the total number of legal actions this year against alleged peer-to-peer (P2P) infringers to more than 7,000. — The John Doe lawsuits filed Thursday cite individuals …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
P2P use is up, down — Is the RIAA's crusade against file-swapping a success? Depends on who you ask (and on how you measure success). In another battle in the ongoing War of the Analysts, two new studies come to opposite conclusions. NPD Group suggests that file-swapping has dropped …
Mike / Techdirt:
Google Gets Its Groove On... But Are They Breaking The Law? — It's been rumored forever, but Google is finally launching their music offering. As we mentioned many months ago, the plan is not to offer their own music store, but to link to iTunes and others.
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Pranam Kolari / EBB:
Welcome to the Splogosphere: 75% of new pings are spings (splogs) — In the blogosphere, pings are notifications sent by updated blogs to PingServers. A major issue recently has been unjustified pings, also known as Spings, sent by Splogs. Splogs have been discussed a lot recently …
visto.com:
Visto and NTP Sign Patent Licensing Agreement — Visto Bolsters IP Portfolio With Addition of NTP Patents to Protect Customers, Partners and Prospects — (Redwood Shores, CALIF., December 14, 2005) - Visto Corporation, a leading global provider of secure push email, today announced …
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Guardian:
Searching for a fresher taste — First it bought photo-sharing site Flickr, and now it has snapped up bookmarking phenomenon Delicious. Why is Yahoo investing so heavily in the social networking stars of Web 2.0? Bobbie Johnson reports on the new face of the classic search engine
Reuters:
Will U.S. carriers switch mobile standards? — North American telecom operators may end up shifting to the GSM mobile standard from the rival CDMA system, according to senior executive at Siemens. — "Latin America is already moving from CDMA technologies to GSM," Christoph Catselitz …
Google Blogoscoped:
A Talk to Google's Larry Page in 2038 — First of all, I'm happy you finally agreed to an interview! So welcome, Larry. — Thanks. Glad to be here. — I know you're quite busy, as always. Has the pressure on you increased after Sergey retired? — Not really.
CNN:
Witnessing the Revolution — Hands on time with Nintendo's next generation system. Will it change gaming? — Game Over is a weekly column by Chris Morris — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Interesting factoid about the Nintendo Revolution controller: It's smaller and lighter than you might think.
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David A. Vise / Washington Post:
Googling Google — A deal with NASA? A subculture of former employees? What's really going on behind the walls of the Googleplex? Washington Post staff writer David A. Vise was online Thursday, Dec. 15 at 1 p.m. ET to dig into what makes Google Google. — In a recent Outlook piece titled What Lurks in Its Soul?
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Yahoo signs license with JPEG patent company — Search giant Yahoo has decided to take a license out on the so-called JPEG patent with Forgent Networks. Under the deal, Yahoo will pay Forgent royalties but be dismissed from the pending patent suit taking place in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Chris Sherman / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Gmail Now Accessible via Mobile Phones — If you've got a web-enabled mobile phone and a Gmail account, you can now access your mail on the run. Gmail mobile allows you to get your mail from just about any mobile phone browser, and most of the key features of Gmail are availble in the smaller format as well.
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Reuters:
Microsoft to reorganize entertainment division — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. has split its entertainment and devices division into four businesses, the latest reorganization at the world's largest software maker, according to a company e-mail to employees seen by Reuters on Wednesday.
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J. Alex Halderman / Freedom to Tinker:
Make Your Own Copy-Protected CD with Passive Protection — Here's a great gift idea just in time for the holidays: Make your friends and relatives their very own copy-protected CDs using the same industrial-grade passive protection technology built into XCP and Macrovision discs.
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Yahoo hires DARPA director to head research — update Yahoo has opened an East Coast research center and hired an artificial intelligence expert and former director at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to open research centers in other countries.
