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12:45 PM ET, April 18, 2006

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burst.com:
Announces Expansion of Legal Team  —  Santa Rosa, Calif., (April 17, 2006) - Burst.com, Inc. (OTC: BRST) today announced that it has filed counterclaims accusing Apple Computer of infringing four of Burst's U.S. patents.  In the counterclaims, filed in Federal District Court in San Francisco on Monday …
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Burst.com sues Apple for patent infringement  —  Burst.com has filed a countersuit against Apple Computer claiming that the iTunes software, the iPod and the Quicktime streaming software all infringe on patents held by Burst.com, Burst announced Monday.  —  After being approached by Burst.com …
Frank Gruber / TechCrunch:
Comparing the Mapping Services  —  Online mapping has come a long way in the last year.  Google Maps entered the field and added satellite imagery to spring itself into the spotlight - challenging the colorful cartoon-like map images of longtime mapping frontrunner Mapquest.
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Rachel Rosmarin / Forbes:
Making Money From Online Maps  —  Even the most dedicated Internet surfers have to get away from their PCs at some point.  But before they log off, they need to know how to get where they're going next.  —  Perhaps that's why the audience heading to online map sites has increased by nearly 20% …
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Eisner Makes Hairpin Turn in His Career  —  LOS ANGELES, April 17 — When Michael D. Eisner was bicycling in Italy last summer, he encountered a road sign that was so appealing to him, he named his new company after it.  —  The sign said "tornante," warning of a hairpin turn …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Veoh Raises $12.5 million
Discussion: paidContent.org and IP Democracy
Boston Globe:
Blogs 'essential' to a good career  —  Blogging is good for your career.  A well-executed blog sets you apart as an expert in your field.  —  Ben Day blogged his way into a career as a high-earning software consultant while maintaining the freedom to schedule frequent jam sessions and performances as a keyboard player.
dvd.themanroom.com:
Hands-On First Impressions: Toshiba HD-A1 HD-DVD Player  —  Thursday: 11am.  A series of planned phone calls are placed to four Best Buy stores within reasonable driving distance.  Each is asked one simple question to answer.  Each provides a different response ranging from "I don't think we carry that product.
ZDNet:
Zone Labs' glee at hobbled Vista firewall  —  The firewall built into Vista may be better than the one supplied with Windows XP, but by default, it will not automatically block outgoing traffic, which is great news for security software vendor Zone Labs.  —  When Microsoft updated Windows XP …
Discussion: Digital Inspiration
Wendy Davis / MediaPost Publications:
Display Impressions Double Year-Over-Year  —  MARKETERS INCREASED ONLINE SPENDING LAST month, purchasing 185 billion display ads—almost twice as many as last year's 97.1 billion and 31 percent more than February's 141 billion, according to new Nielsen//NetRatings AdRelevance.
Discussion: SearchViews
Tony Smith / The Register:
iRiver preps WiMAX UMPC  —  South Korea's iRiver is preparing to enter the ultra-mobile PC arena, the company has revealed.  This week it demo'd its first UMPC, the W10, at the Hong Kong Electronics Fair.  The prototype device shown at the event sports Wi-Fi, WiMax and WiBro connectivity.
Discussion: Gizmodo and jkOnTheRun
Dan Fost / San Francisco Chronicle:
Web 2.0 has a local address  —  South Park, the neighborhood that fostered the dot-com boom, is back  —  The unofficial meal of the Internet comeback is a bowl of Kellogg's Crispix and some fresh-squeezed grapefruit juice - served with pleasure at the Monday morning "cereal bar" hosted by the six-person Internet startup Rubyred Labs.
Discussion: Mark Evans, peterme.com and Valleywag
Howard Mintz / siliconvalley.com:
S.J. court to weigh blogger's rights  —  At PowerPage.org, a Pennsylvania blogger offers up a daily menu of passionate online dish about all things Apple Computer.  It looks like just another run-of-the-mill site in the vast and exploding blogosphere — advertisements, links and an introduction that says ``Publishing since 1995.''
Nick Paumgarten / New Yorker:
GETTING THERE  —  The science of driving directions.  —  It is a testament both to the early allure of the automobile and to the difficulty of travelling very far in one that, in 1907, Andrew McNally II, the grandson of the co-founder of Rand McNally & Company, chose to spend his honeymoon in Milwaukee.
Discussion: The Map Room
Andreas / chosaq:
Circumvent PDF DRM... with Gmail!  —  Apparently, Gmail's built-in "View as HTML" functionality, which allows you to view the content of PDF files (and other types of documents) as if they were classic webpages, works regardless of the files' usage restrictions (= DRM).
Ajit / Open Gardens:
A web 2.0 FAQ  —  Based on some initial feedback, I have republished this entry now as a FAQ for web 2.0  —  What is web 2.0?  —  Because of my work with mobile web 2.0, I am often asked the question - 'what is web 2.0'?.  This is often a genuine question - since there is a lot of confusion out there and many bandwagon seekers.
Robin Good / Independent Publishing News …:
Online Video Publishing Gets Into The Conversation: Click.TV  —  Online video publishing it's truly unstoppable.  As if the very recent announcements of video remixing and editing sites were not enough, a new highly innovative video service has just announced its ability to add …
PR Machine / MEDIA 2.0:
2006 INTERACTIVE FACTS PACK  —  Ad Age's 2006 Interactive Fact Pack is available.  With blogs and RSS feeds coming in as official media categories for the first time (e.g. Blogger.com has a 528% increase in traffic vs. the previous year), alternative media takes a position front-and-center …
Discussion: TechBlog
 
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Reuters:
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Kim Peterson / Seattle Times:
Steve Wozniak Q & A  —  Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple Computer …
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