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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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Neal Singer / eurekalert.org:
'Mighty Mouse' robot frees stuck radiation source — DOE's Sandia, DoD's White Sands achieve successful extraction of deadly material — ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Sandia National Laboratories robot recently withstood enough radiation to kill 40 men in freeing a stuck radiation source …
Bill Werde / billboard.biz:
News Analysis: Publisher Apologizes To Online Lyrics Tool — The saga started in early December, in what has become almost standard practice: the music industry using legal threats to quash first, question later an interesting new technology. — But on Dec. 15 there was a less typical development …
Alfred Hermida / BBC:
Xbox 360 reaches out to mobiles — Gamers could soon be able to receive alerts on their mobile phones when their friends are playing on Microsoft's Xbox 360 games console. — The software giant is working on a system which would let players on its online gaming service, Xbox Live, send instant messages to a friend's mobile.
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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biosmagazine.co.uk:
Tekkeon Digital Bluetooth OLED Headset — Tekkeon's new ezTalker Digital is a next-generation Bluetooth v1.2 headset with an optimised organic LED (OLED) screen designed to significantly simplify making and receiving calls. — With the presentation of incoming caller ID and quick access …
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Daniel J. Solove / Concurring Opinions:
What If Copyright Law Were Strongly Enforced in the Blogosphere? — Suppose the mainstream media, fed up with the buzz bloggers keep getting and with bloggers criticizing their stories, decided to exact revenge. They initiate a vigorous copyright enforcement strategy …
Derek Picone / TechWB:
No Intel at Macworld — Apple says not to expect Intel at Macworld, in fact don't expect any new computer hardware. I have contact with someone that works for Apple at a higher level, when asked if they were attending Macworld he said he is not attending this year however they were not told …
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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Reuters:
HowStuffWorks says gets millions from Carl Icahn — NEW YORK, Dec 15 (Reuters) - HowStuffWorks, which provides product information for Internet users, on Thursday said financier Carl Icahn made a "significant investment" in the company to help fund its growth.
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Curt Feldman / GameSpot:
Q&A: SOE's John Smedley on Galaxies' outer limits — Galaxies boss sees only one game around that could possibly humble World of Warcraft. Are you sitting down? Part 2. — Last week, Sony Online president John Smedley discusssed the motivations and goals behind the recent update to Star Wars Galaxies.