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Is it an iPod? Is it an old-fashioned transistor radio? These are the questions the Slacker portable digital music player will have to answer when it hits U.S. stores this month. NEW YORK–Is it an iPod? Is it an old-fashioned transistor radio? These are the questions the Slacker portable…
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MySpace, the world’s largest social networking site, unveiled a long-expected joint venture with all four major music companies in a bid to compete with Apple’s market-leading iTunes store. NEW YORK–News Corp’s MySpace, the world’s largest social networking site, on Wednesday unveiled a long-expected joint venture with all four major…
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Japan’s trade ministry said on Tuesday that three fires had been caused by overheating Apple iPod nanos, which it said could be due to a battery defect. TOKYO–Japan’s trade ministry said on Tuesday that three fires had been caused by overheating Apple iPod nanos, which it said could be…
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The music player which Dell has been testing features a small navigation screen and basic button controls to scroll through music play lists, according to reports. BANGALORE–In recent months, personal computer maker Dell, has been testing a digital music player that could go on sale as early as September,…
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Professor’s computer algorithms collect publicly available information and turn it into books, printed on demand or delivered digitally.(From The New York Times) It’s not easy to write a book. First, you have to pick a title. And then there is the table of contents. If you want the…
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Some professional bloggers complain of the stressful demands of a constant flow of news and comment.The New York TimesThe stress of blogging: Why I didn’t make the cut (ZDNet) They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece–not garments, but blog posts. This is…
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Tina Brown is hooking up with InterActivCorp to create a competitor to the Drudge Report, or possibly the Huffington Post.(From Reuters) Move over, Matt Drudge. A fresh site for aggregating links to the hottest news stories is coming courtesy of Barry Diller and Tina Brown. Diller…
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U.S., British libraries team up to put Shakespeare’s earliest printed editions online.(From Reuters) A U.S. and a British library plan to reproduce online all 75 editions of William Shakespeare’s plays printed in the quarto format before the year 1641. The Bodleian Library in Oxford and Folger Shakespeare…
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Yoani Sanchez says Cubans can no longer visit her “Generacion Y” blog, which describes economic hardships, political constraints. (From Reuters) Cuban authorities have blocked access from Cuba to the country’s most-read blogger, Yoani Sanchez, the blogger said on Monday. Sanchez, whose critical “Generacion Y” blog received…
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CEO Barry Diller proposed a spin-off of key businesses to gain leverage in a potential asset swap, Liberty Media Chairman John Malone tells a court. WILMINGTON, Del.–Chief Executive Barry Diller ran InterActiveCorp as if he owned it and proposed a spin-off of key businesses to gain leverage in…
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Survey says almost 70 percent of Americans believe traditional journalism is out of touch, and nearly half are turning to the Internet for news. Nearly 70 percent of Americans believe traditional journalism is out of touch, and nearly half are turning to the Internet to get their news,…
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Pakistan orders local Internet service providers to block access to the popular YouTube Web site because of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad that have outraged many Muslims. ISLAMABAD–Pakistan ordered local Internet service providers to block access to the popular YouTube Web site because of cartoons of the…
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Video of two young women looting stores during rioting in the Serbian capital draws scornful comments on video site. A video of two young women looting with abandon during rioting in the Serbian capital Belgrade was becoming a Balkan smash hit on the video-sharing site YouTube on Friday….
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Registrar for .mobi domain says giving software developers cell phone specifications will help them design better mobile sites. DotMobi, the industry group that registers domain names for the mobile Web, launched a database of cell phone specifications on Tuesday to help software developers better design Web sites for…
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Following lead of top movie studios, video rental company decides it will stock only Blu-ray DVDs. Online video rental company Netflix said on Monday it would exclusively stock Blu-ray high-definition DVDs after a decision by some the world’s biggest movie studios in favor of the Sony developed format….
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Internet attorney Eric J. Sinrod notes that where technology travels, the law will follow–sometimes to our detriment. George Orwell’s 1984 envisioned a world where individuals were controlled and monitored by centralized government. In such a world, the individual had no place to hide from governmental omnipresence. …
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Universal, Sony BMG, and Warner ask a Beijing court to order China’s top search engine to remove all links to copyright-infringing tracks. Three global record companies have launched legal proceedings against China’s top Internet search engine Baidu.com, accusing it of violating copyright by giving access to music…
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Film scheduled for July release is basis for game being developed by Brash Entertainment. Brash Entertainment is developing a video game based on the upcoming movie Space Chimps, from Vanguard Animation and Starz Media. The Chimps game, which has been in development for more than a year,…
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Developer of the Linux kernel says improvements in power-management, energy-diagnosis tools are in the offing. The infrastructure and tools required to make Linux a green operating system are now in place, according to Linux leader Linus Torvalds, who was in Melbourne this week attending Australia’s largest Linux conference….
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U.S. video-on-demand firm strikes agreement with children’s entertainment specialist for rights to a selection of programming. U.S. video-on-demand Webcaster ReelTime.com has struck an agreement with children’s entertainment specialist Nelvana for rights to a selection of its cartoons. The agreement will see ReelTime.com acquire Nelvana titles including Jacob…
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