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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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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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James Niccolai / PC World:
Visto Sues Microsoft Over Patents — Update: Dispute centers on patents for wireless e-mail, challenges Windows Mobile. — Visto has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, accusing it of improper use of patented Visto technologies in Microsoft's software for accessing e-mail from phones and other wireless devices.
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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 …
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
platinax.co.uk:
Links are dead - long live links! — Contents: — Links are dead - long live links — Florida — Sandboxing — Clickstream — Clickstream indicates quality — Building for Clickstream — Clickstream vs Links — Conclusion — Links are dead - long live links!
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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.
Business Wire:
JupiterResearch Forecasts Online Advertising Growth to be Driven by Media and Entertainment, Financial and Automotive Industries — NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Dec. 15, 2005—JupiterResearch, a division of Jupitermedia Corporation (Nasdaq: JUPM), forecasts that online display …
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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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.
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.
Kim Tae-gyu / KoreaTimes:
Water-Proof Cell Phone Unveiled — LG Telecom, Korea's smallest mobile operator, Thursday took the wraps off the nation's first waterproof mobile phone, canU 502S, developed under alliance with Japanese firm Casio Computer. — ``If dropped in a pool, tub or sink, this phone will survive …
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?
Arshad Mohammed / Washington Post:
MCI Wins Network Deal With Dutch Bank — MCI Inc. yesterday said it had won a roughly $550 million deal to manage Dutch bank ABN Amro's communications networks, calling it the second-largest commercial contract in the company's history. — MCI spokesman Peter Lucht said the five-year contract …
