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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.
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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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:
Time Warner in exclusive talks with Google on AOL — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc. is in exclusive talks with Web search leader Google Inc. about broadening a partnership with Time Warner's AOL online unit, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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Nino Marchetti / news.designtechnica.com:
Dell Recalls 22,000 Notebook Batteries — Leading computer maker, working in conjunction with CPSC, issues voluntary notebook battery recall notice after reported incidents of overheating and fire damage. — Dell and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission today announced a voluntary recall …
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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 …
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!
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 …
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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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Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Start-up merges cell phone and PC into a handheld — It's a cell phone. It's a computer. It's the two invaluable companions of the modern executive in one. — DualCor Technologies next month will unveil the cPC, a full-fledged handheld Windows XP computer that also comes with a built-in smart phone that runs Windows Mobile 5.0.
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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.
BBC:
Ramp creates power as cars pass — A road ramp that uses passing cars to generate power has been developed. — Dorset inventor Peter Hughes' Electro-Kinetic Road Ramp creates around 10kW of power each time a car drives over its metal plates. — More than 200 local authorities had expressed …
