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10:15 AM ET, March 10, 2006

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Richard Siklos / New York Times:
Amazon Considering Downloads  —  Amazon.com is in talks with three Hollywood studios about starting a service that would allow consumers to download movies and TV shows for a fee and burn them onto DVD's, according to three people briefed on the discussions.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
American Airlines subpoenas Google, YouTube  —  update American Airlines is demanding that Google and video-sharing site YouTube reveal the name of the person who posted a portion of one of the airline's training videos on their Web sites.  —  Someone uploaded part of a video used …
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Derek Slater / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
DMCA Subpoena Provision Still Endangers Privacy  —  News.com reports that American Airlines has subpoenaed Google and YouTube, demanding the name of someone who posted an airline training video online.  This is yet another abuse of DMCA 512(h), which allows copyright holders to unmask …
Discussion: Techdirt and InterMedia
Dan Warne / apcmag.com:
Microsoft bombshell: no EFI support for Vista  —  Microsoft revealed today that it will not support EFI booting for Windows Vista on its launch.  The news will be a shock for owners of Intel Macs who had hoped they would be able to dual-boot between Windows Vista and OS X. Intel Macs only support booting via EFI.
Dave Caolo / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
I already have an Ultra-Mobile PC: It's called a Newton  —  Yes,everyone's going crazy over the Ultra-Mobile PC(UMPC), the new class of handheld devices that run Windows XP and are supposed to be the best thing since sliced bread(sliced bread with two and ahalf hours of battery life, but that's a different story).
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Lora / What Is New:
Step up to the plate with UMPC apps  —  After reading news and blog posts about Ultra-Mobile PCs, ISVs have been asking me how they can "step up to the plate" (inspired by GottaBeMobile) and test their existing applications on a system and learn about developing a new application for them.
Discussion: GottaBeMobile.com and jkOnTheRun
origamiportal.com:
Origami News : New UMPC Cast podcast goes live  —  The first episode of our UMPC Cast podcast has just been released.  —  Or just download the MP3 directly here  —  We will be adding a podcast section and permanent location on our homepage in the next couple days.  —  Comments?
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Dustin / Team Blog:
Microsoft Touch Pack...What's That?
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Un-Origami  —  Update: My report on Microsoft Origami just went up.
Discussion: CNN, Uber Tablet and robhyndman.com
Richard MacManus / Web 2.0 Explorer:
Windows Live Search review  —  The technology behind the new Windows Live Search was unveiled to me and around 50 other external people at Microsoft Search Champs back in January.  It was probably the product that most impressed the attendees, particularly the whizzy new image search.
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Nathan Weinberg / InsideMicrosoft:
WINDOWS LIVE TOO SLOW?
Quinn Norton / Wired News:
Porn Biller Says It Was Framed  —  Online payment company iBill on Thursday said a massive cache of stolen consumer data uncovered by security experts did not come from its database.  —  "I'm the first person that would have taken this to the FBI and the first person to have gone on 60 Minutes …
Discussion: InterMedia
Tom Foremski / IMHO:
Blogging is crucial to SAP's attack Oracle plan  —  Part 3 of interview with Jeff Nolan, one of SAP's top strategists.  —  Part 2 is here and it discusses SAP's competitive landscape.  —  "We believe we have at least a two year head start on Oracle, our main competitor.
Stephen Totilo / MTV:
New 'Ghost Recon' Title Gives Xbox Users A True 360 View  —  Title utilizes machine's power to show multiple views of same battle scene.  —  Back in the '90s when people were still playing the first PlayStation, the promise of a PS2 held the potential that games could look so good they might resemble the movie "Toy Story."
Discussion: Xbox 360 Fanboy
Phil Sim / Squash:
Google/Writely points to online/offline future  —  UPDATE: I've just woken up to find the Google/Writely thing was on the money.  —  The Great Om reckons there's a rumour floating around about Google buying Writely.I've got some thoughts (surprise, surprise)...
Christopher Carfi / The Social Customer Manifesto:
On The Conference Thing: Etech, SXSW, Unconferences and Monocultures  —  It's the idea that just keeps on giving.  It's been brought up before.  It'll be brought up again.  And this week is going to be an interesting study in contrasts.  —  "I can't think of a conference that is more insider …
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Firefox to get phishing shield  —  update An upcoming version of Firefox will include protection against phishing scams, using technology that might come from Google.  —  The phishing shield is a key new security feature planned for Firefox 2, slated for release in the third quarter of this year …
Claudia / Writely Blog:
Google?  Yep, Google!  —  Some of you have been worried about our future here at Writely.  As one concerned user wrote: … We appreciate the sentiment, and all the support we've gotten from our users, but thankfully, your donations won't be necessary, for one very exciting reason:
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Rustybrick / Search Engine Roundtable:
Wedding Registries Being Indexed Causing Fraudulent Registry Orders  —  My finance calls me, she is all nervous, she says people are placing fake orders on our registry.  She starts listing off names of people and their location.  I never heard of any of the people she lists off.
Station A:
iGame?  —  Details are scarce right now, but a friend just passed me a photocopy of what is supposedly an article from an upcoming issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly about Apple's soon to be released gaming device called, what else, iGame.  —  I don't have many details …
Russell Buckley / MobHappy:
Who Gave Google Permission to be the Judge and Jury of Mobile Content?  —  Big Picture Advertising pointed to an entry on the Google Blog that I must have missed first time around.  —  If you use your mobile to search for something with Google and then click through to that site …
Tony Smith / reghardware.co.uk:
Panasonic preps 4GB SD HC card  —  CeBIT Panasonic will this Summer ship a 4GB SD card which will meet the SD High Capacity (SDHC) specification - also known as the SD 2.0 standard - which paves the way for cards capable of holding up to 32GB of information.
Discussion: Engadget and Pocket PC Thoughts
 
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