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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?
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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
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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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.
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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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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Bruce Schneier / Wired News:
Hold the Photons! — How would you feel if you invested millions of dollars in quantum cryptography, and then learned that you could do the same thing with a few 25-cent Radio Shack components? — I'm exaggerating a little here, but if a new idea out of Texas A&M University turns out to be secure, we've come close.
Catherine Yang / Business Week:
At Stake: The Net as We Know It — Google et al fear broadband carriers will tie up traffic with new tolls and controls. Ultimately, it could mean a world of Internet haves and have-nots — The Internet has always been a model of freedom. Today the Web is flourishing because anyone …
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unstrung.com:
Last Call for Vivato? — Everyone is talking about rumors of the imminent demise of Vivato Inc., one of the startups that originally kick-started the wireless LAN switch movement. — Multiple sources [ed. note: It's even on the message-board!] have told Unstrung that the company is expected …
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.
Poynter Online:
Giving Classifieds Away Free — The Craigslist- (and Google- and Microsoft-) inspired trend for newspapers to offer free classifieds inches along. — The San Diego Union-Tribune is reporting that its free-classifieds program, in place since late August, is a "success."
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 …
appleinsider.com:
Briefly: Mac OS X 10.4.4 development winding down — The development of Mac OS X 10.4.4 Update appears to be in the final stages at Apple Computer, as tipsters say the latest developer builds of the software are accompanied by only a few outstanding issues.
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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 …
