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Wall Street Journal:
Amazon Plans Music Service To Rival iPod  —  In recent years, Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Jeff Bezos has explained his company's deliberately paced approach to the digital-music business by saying he wants to avoid simply imitating the dominant player in the field, Apple Computer Inc.'s iTunes Music Store.
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Henry Blodget / Internet Outsider:
Amazon Music Strategy a Wrong Turn  —  The WSJ reported Amazon's plans to offer an Amazon-branded iPod competitor and digital music download store.  I haven't done much work in this area yet, so please weigh in, but this strikes me as a startlingly bad move.
Discussion: David Card
Earthling / EarthLink blog:
Helio Detailfest 2006: MySpace Partnership and Two New Phones  —  I've been begging Helio since I first got their number in November to give me a hint about which phones and services they'd be supporting.  Today, they are announcing some of what will be available when they launch their service later this Spring.
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Matthew Maier / CNN:
MySpace unwired  —  News Corp.'s youth-oriented Web portal extends its influence into the wireless world.  —  SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0) - MySpace.com, the website that has become a nationwide craze, is headed to a mobile phone near you.  —  If you aren't familiar with MySpace …
Discussion: B2Day and Om Malik on Broadband
Arn / Mac Rumors:
The First Mac OS X Virus?  (A New OS X Trojan)  —  On the evening of the 13th, an unknown user posted an external link to a file on MacRumors Forums claiming to be the latest Leopard Mac OS X 10.5 screenshots.  The file was named "latestpics.tgz"  —  The resultant file decompresses …
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John Leyden / The Register:
'First' Mac OS X Trojan sighted
Alec / Alec Saunders .LOG:
Aliens are Calling Me From Nevada: Area775 Debuts  —  You've got to hand it to Michael Robertson.  He certainly has a sense of humor.  Area775 is his new calling service for SIPPhone and Gizmo customers.  The press release hit the wire about an hour ago.  Sign up today, and you can have …
Discussion: Skype Journal and VoIP Watch
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Business Wire:
SIPphone Offers Free U.S. Telephone Numbers …
Marc Orchant / Office Evolution:
Office Live: bring out the trolls  —  There's nothing like a big announcement from Microsoft to start what my friend Ed Bott charitably calls "OS food fights".  Yesterday's soft launch of Office Live is a classic example of how good ideas can go right off the rails when marketing messes around …
variety.com:
A pause in the action  —  Studios cut PSP titles  —  Sony's PlayStation Portable isn't turning out to be the hot new movie platform many in the biz had hoped.  —  With sales falling below expectations, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Paramount Home Entertainment and Warner Home Video are cutting back on movie releases for the PSP.
John Borland / CNET News.com:
New DVDs already sparking copy-protection confusion  —  When the first high-definition DVDs finally hit shelves this spring, a mad scramble may ensue—not for the discs themselves, but to figure out what computers and devices are actually able to play them in their full glory.
Discussion: Fast Company Now and Techdirt
John C. Dvorak / PC Magazine:
Will Apple Adopt Windows?  —  This would be the most phenomenal turnabout in the history of desktop computing.  There's just one fly in the ointment.  —  Total posts: 15  —  The idea that Apple would ditch its own OS for Microsoft Windows came to me from Yakov Epstein …
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Microsoft driver flaw saps battery strength  —  Microsoft has confirmed the existence of a flaw in its USB 2.0 drivers for Windows XP Service Pack 2 that can cause a notebook to consume power at a faster-than-expected rate when using a peripheral device.  —  The issue, first uncovered …
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Wanted: Critical Windows Flaw ... Reward: $10,000  —  iDefense, the Reston, Va.-based vulnerability research company recently bought up by Verisign Inc., is offering $10,000 to any hackers who can find a previously unknown security hole in Microsoft's Windows operating system.
Jessica Holzer / Forbes:
Chinese Delicacy  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yahoo!, Microsoft, Google and Cisco: conduits of free speech or accomplices to torture and oppression?  Some folks on Capitol Hill would have you believe the latter.  —  On Wednesday in a charged hearing before the House subcommittee on human rights …
Discussion: InsideGoogle
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Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:
Harsh words for US tech firms from House at China 'net hearings
Jason / Signal vs. Noise:
LAUNCH: Campfire, easy group chat for business  —  Jason Feb 16  —  132 comments Latest by Security...  Today we officially announce the launch of Campfire, our simple real-time web-based group chat tool for business.  We've been using it internally for the last 45 days or so and it's become …
RawmeatCowboy / Go Nintendo:
Nintendo: Official Magazine (UK) scans!  —  MASSIVE thanks to Tallon for all the scans.  Very, VERY much appreciated.  —  Once again, many thanks to Tallon for this awesome work.  You really helped us out.
Discussion: Kotaku and Joystiq
Enid Burns / ClickZ:
Local Search to Hit $13B by 2010  —  The global online local search market, which includes Internet Yellow Pages, local search and wireless, is set to grow from the $3.4 billion it brought in last year to nearly $13 billion by 2010.  That's according to a new forecast by the Kelsey Group.

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