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USA Today:
Sellers of Internet addresses surf for — and get — some big payoffs — SAN FRANCISCO — Internet domain names are red-hot again. — This year, 15 names used in Internet addresses have resold for at least six figures to companies and individuals hoping to tap into big audiences. On.com got $635,000.
David Berlind / Between the Lines:
Sun: Chasing after (and may catch) the open source DReaM — In March 2006, in a podcast interview with ZDNet, Sun president and COO Jonathan Schwartz dropped a hint that his company had something in the works that was very much like the Liberty Alliance (in the way that it undermined the usage …
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
How Sun's "open DRM" dooms them and all they touch — David Berlind has written about Sun's "Open DReaM" crippleware project, a DRM that pretends to be "open source" and an "open platform" in a cynical bid to curry favor with copyfighters and studios. The gimmick is that Sun's technology …
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A Copyfighter's Musings
vnunet.com:
China outlaws Outlook — Unlicensed email servers illegal under new rule — China has introduced regulations that make it illegal to run an email server without a licence. The new rules, which came into force two weeks ago, mean that most companies running their own email servers in China are now breaking the law.
Ismael Ghalimi / IT|Redux:
Office 2.0 on Overdrive — The pace at which new Office 2.0 applications are being released seems to be accelerating. For some applications, like Google Calendar, it's good news. For others, such as ajaxXLS, not really so. — Google just released Google Calendar, and as Jeff Nolan pointed out, the whole blogosphere is abuzz.
Marc Canter / Marc's Voice:
Reading the tea leaves: where the money is and isn't - new business models emerge — As Dave Winer and I were discussing how to pull off the unplanned unconference opposite Kevin Werbach's Supernova - it was the collision of business models that most dominated my mindstate.
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
ISP snooping gaining support — The explosive idea of forcing Internet providers to record their customers' online activities for future police access is gaining ground in state capitols and in Washington, D.C. — Top Bush administration officials have endorsed the concept …
Rogers Cadenhead / Wired News:
All Bets Are Off, Online Anyway — The United States is taking aim at internet casino ads as tensions build in a high-profile trade fight over the country's largely toothless online gambling ban. — Although many website operators insist internet gambling ads are legal …
Getluky / News Archive:
We added new support for Yahoo! Calendar and the newly-released Google Calendar, all-new subscription and maps options for searches, venues, and tags, and support for floating times for you iCal fans. More details after the jump... Yahoo! Calendar, Google Calendar, and iCal Downloads
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BBC:
Natural light 'to reinvent bulbs' — A light source that could put the traditional light bulb in the shade has been invented by US scientists. — The organic light-emitting diode (OLED) emits a brilliant white light when attached to an electricity supply.
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siliconvalley.com:
Jury verdict is more good news for TiVo — MARSHALL, Texas (AP) - In a case cast as crucial to TiVo's survival, a federal jury decided that EchoStar Communication Corp. copied key technologies from the digital video recording pioneer and awarded nearly $74 million.
Peter Kirn / Create Digital Music:
Hackable, Playable LED/Pad Music Interface — The Monome is a new music interface with LED-backlit pads, a USB interface that transmits OSC and MIDI data to a computer, and — here's the unusual part — open source, hackable firmware and software interface.
Sam / Signal vs. Noise:
Microsoft Origami: "Too revolutionary" — Price, Interface Dampen 'Origami' PC Debut — 'Origami' Stumps CEOs in Jobs-Style Presentation — Overpriced, underwhelming, cumbersome: pick three.
Matt Marshall / SiliconBeat:
Catchup Friday — Abrams to launch Socializr; Meetup, Zoom, Zixxo & more — Here are the latest Silicon Valley tidbits that fell between the cracks this week. Happy Easter weekend! — Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams to launch Socializr? Abrams, the early developer of the social networking concept …
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Jimmie Geddes / Gadgets on the Go:
Sprint Treo 700p mid May, first week of June latest — Ok, I just spoke to my contact again a few minutes ago. The Treo 700p is most likely end of May, latest first week of June. she said said it was originally supposed to be mid may, but they are finishing up testing it.
Russell Shaw / IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband:
Pulver's Post-Disaster Communications Petition now in FCC public Comments period — Jeff Pulver notes that on Monday the FCC put out for public comment the Post-Disaster Communications Petition that he and Tom Evslin and I filed back in March. — The FCC is soliciting comments on this petition.
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Lagging Ad Sales Contribute to Earnings Decline at Newspaper Chains — THE newspaper industry continues to flag financially, with three companies — The New York Times, Tribune and McClatchy — reporting sharply lower first-quarter earnings yesterday. — Executives of all of the newspaper companies …
Mark Ward / BBC:
Net clocks suffering data deluge — Technology Correspondent, BBC News website — Home network hardware supplier D-Link has been accused of harming the net's ability to tell the time accurately. — Detective work has found that many D-Link routers, switches and wireless access points …
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
AKISMET FOR MT: DEATH TO SPAM — If that headline means anything to you, then rejoice. It's long been known that Akismet, WordPress's remarkable anti-comment spam technology, was the best out there. Moveable Type users (like me) salivated at the thought of having Akismet-like functionality on our sites.
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