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by Mimi Turner, Hollywood Reporter
by Darren Waters, BBC News
by Greg Sandoval, CNET News.com
The Electronic Frontier Foundation says that Microsoft has "betrayed" MSN Music customers and wants the company to make things right by issuing an apology, refunds, and eliminate digital rights management technology from the Zune music player.
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
by blog.pmarca.com
My bet is that hostile takeovers, particularly of larger and more mature companies, are going to become increasingly common in our industry.
by Ben Kunz, BusinessWeek
As more consumers browse the web on their cell phones, the no. 1 search engine must cope with less space to place ads.
by Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody
We're going to look at every place that a reader or a listener or a viewer or a user has been locked out, has been served up passive or a fixed or a canned experience, and ask ourselves, "If we carve out a little bit of the cognitive surplus and deploy it here, could we make a good thing happen?" And I'm betting the answer is yes.
by Anne Eisenberg, New York Times
Services are appearing that may make it easier for consumers to do their own preliminary homework on legal issues in advance of seeking help from a professional.
by Kate Greene, MIT Technology Review
Mozilla's chairman explains why mobile devices need an open-source browser.
by Jennifer Guevin, CNET News.com
by Dave Slusher, Evil Genius Chronicles
by Charles Cooper, CNET News.com
by Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek
Following in the footsteps of Facebook, Google, and Microsoft, to name a few platform players, Yahoo is opening up to third-party developers.
by Dan Farber, CNET News.com
by Ina Fried, CNET News.com
For years, Microsoft has maintained that the PC is the center of the digital home and office. But chief software architecture Ray Ozzie said Tuesday that it's time for the company to ackowledge a new reality.
by Daisuke Wakabayashi, Reuters
Microsoft Corp has begun testing technology that brings together a person's pictures, documents and other data scattered across a growing number of machines with the goal of allowing people to access their information from anywhere and at any time.
by Dave Slusher, Evil Genius Chronicles
by Tim Arango, New York Times
The explosion of new media, especially with regard to advertising income, has made competitors out of two traditional allies — news media and professional sports.
by Paul Graham
by David Strom, New York Times
Instant messaging has come of age. No longer the province of chatty teenagers, it is now part and parcel of advanced communications networks at many corporations. And as instant messaging takes hold, companies are benefiting from new productivity gains and improvements in customer response time.
by Randall Stross, New York Times
by Lev Grossman, Time
by Dave Winer, Scripting News
When any customer could also be a publisher, well that does change things.
by Louis Gray
by Matt Asay, CNET News.com
by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, ZDNet.com
If there's a dominant desktop distro, Ubuntu is it. Has this had a bearing on Red Hat's decision to leave the desktop?
by Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com
by Michael Agger, Slate
In our time, internet commenting has become its own special form of social idiocy.
by John Markoff, New York Times
An e-mail scam aimed squarely at the nation's top executives is raising new alarms about the ease with which people and companies can be deceived by online criminals.
by Martin LaMonica, CNET News.com
As more application development moves to hosted platforms, does data and application portability get lost in "the cloud"?
by Martin LaMonica, CNET News.com
by Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times
A lack of bullet-proof protection against piracy isn't stopping studios from making more of their TV shows available online for free.
by Caroline McCarthy, CNET News.com
by Sarah Perez, ReadWriteWeb
by Noam Cohen, New York Times
These are not conventional books, and it is perhaps more accurate to call Mr. Parker a compiler than an author. He has developed computer algorithms that collect publickly available information on a subject — broad or obscure — and, aided by his 60 to 70 computers and six or seven programmers, he turns the results into books in a range of genres, many of them in the range of 150 pages and printed only when a customer buys one.
by Alina Tugend, New York Times
Everything seems to be getting more diminutive and more complex just as I am getting older and slower.
by John Markoff, New York Times
A new style of "hybrid" technology organization is emerging that is trying to define a path between the nonprofit world and traditional for-profit ventures.
by Tim Harford, Slate
Why software and media companies should encourage priacy (sometimes).
by Erica Naone, MIT Technology Review
Companies are finding novel ways to target advertising to your cell phone and television.
by Michael Arrington, TechCrunch
by The Economist
Big and small companies are getting into the business of building an intelligent web of linked data.
by Kevin Maney, Portfolio.com
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick bought Guitar Hero and became a star. But will competitors' aggressive moves—like Electronic Arts' hostile bid for Take Two—knock him on his ax?
by Larry Dignan, ZDNet.com
by Victor Keegan, The Guardian
by Joel Spolsky, Inc
Instead of paying attention to what your competitors are doing, start reading your customer feedback e-mail personally.
by Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica
by Michael Arrington, TechCrunch
by Scott Rosenberg, Wordyard
by Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com
In a bid to broaden Flickr if not actually crush YouTube, Yahoo is adding videos to what has just been a photo-sharing site.
by Don Clark, Wall Street Journal
by Josh Catone, ReadWriteWeb
by Anne Broache, CNET News.com
by Dan Farber, CNET News.com
Call it Web 2.5, where the platform-as-a-service providers allow developers to create web applications via the cloud and for users to consume them on any web-connected device, anytime and anywhere.
by Brady Forrest, O'Reilly Radar
by Rebecca MacKinnon, Far Eastern Economic Review
Many would agree that being a socially responsible internet or telecommunications company requires respect for users' rights to privacy and free expression, but there is great disagreement over how to accomplish this ideal.
by Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com
by Darren Waters, BBC News
Search engines should delete personal data held about their users within six months, a European Commission advisory body on data proection has said.
The recommendation is likely to be accepted by the European Commission and could lead to a clash with search giants like Google, Yahoo and MSN.
by Larry Dignan, ZDNet.com
The point I was tryng to make was that nothing (certainly the deaths of Russell and Marc Orchant and Om's heart attack) exist in a vacuum. You have to take care of yourself.
by Associated Press
by Matt Richtel, New York Times
This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home.
by Peter Judge, ZDNet.co.uk
In a few years' time, almost all busiensses will use open source, according to Gartner; even though IT managers may be unaware of it, and prefer to talk about fashions such as software as a service.
by Damian Kulash Jr., New York Times
We can't allow a system of gatekeepers to get built into the network.
by Chris Cadelago, San Francisco Chronicle
Giving away books as podcasts is new way to promote sales.
by The Economist
What does it mean when people click on Google's ads less often?
by Reuters
Microsoft Corp, co-founder Bill Gates said on Friday he expected the new version of Windows operating software, code-named Windows 7, to be released "sometime in the next year or so."
by Don Reisinger, CNET News.com
The economics of the e-book reader industry are off and so far, no one in the business has realized it. It's time they wake up and see what's really going on.
by Miles Raymer, Chicago Reader
The internet has made the fan remix an integral tool for artists.
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
by Kevin Kelly, The Technium
I realized the types of pros who are most eager to employ the latest technology are those fields which have already been Turing'd.
by Paul Boutin, Slate
Web-based applications are all well and good, but there's still no beating the desktop computer.
by John Timmer, Ars Technica
by Darren Waters, BBC News
by Nate Anderson, Ars Technica
by Daniel Terdiman, CNET News.com
The safe harbor protections of the DMCA can sometimes protect web-based services from liability related to the infringing behavior of their users.
by Kevin J. O'Brien, New York Times
by Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times
by Karen Pinchin, Newsweek
by Gary Kamiya, Salon
Beneath the gawking, the online reaction to the Spitzer and Paterson revelations shows that Americans are wary of passing judgment on private sins.
by Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica
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