NewsFactor - The Beatles have long been rock-and-roll’s most notorious holdouts from the digital revolution. Stroll through the electronic aisles of Apple’s iTunes Store, and there’s a big, gaping hole where the Fab Four should be, a gap not really filled by A Tribute to the Beatles by The Silver Beatles, or Lullabye Renditions of the Beatles by Rockabye Baby.
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AFP - Google on Thursday made its version of communally-constructed online encyclopedia Wikipedia multi-lingual, opening its Knol compendium to nuggets of knowledge shared in French, Italian or German.
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Reuters - Yahoo Inc and Time Warner Inc’s AOL unit are looking at each other’s books to figure out how much money they could make together and where costs can be saved, a person familiar with the talks said on Wednesday, indicating a merger may finally be on the way.
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CNET - Google’s JotSpot service, which allows people to collaborate on online documents, has been found to expose user names and e-mail addresses to anyone on the Internet.
The breach, which was uncovered by a Harvard Business School professor and security researcher, posts the sensitive user data and even allows Google to index it, despite promises to secure data in its privacy policy, Ben Edelman writes in a blog post.
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AFP - Internet-age users overwhelmingly back Barack Obama for US president, according to a poll at at the world’s largest social networking website, MySpace said Thursday.
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NewsFactor - Google is settling its long battle with the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers (AAP). The groups have been embroiled in copyright litigation with Google over its Book Search product for two years.
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NewsFactor - The debate about using white spaces in the television spectrum white space is getting red-hot as a Nov. 4 vote by the Federal Communications Commission grows closer. As further proof that telecommunications policy makes strange bedfellows, Microsoft has joined Google in urging the FCC to allow white space to be used for a national wireless broadband.
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AP - The top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee is joining a chorus of lawmakers urging the Justice Department to scrutinize the planned Internet advertising partnership between Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.
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Reuters - Sony Computer Entertainment America’s “LittleBigPlanet” game, released in North America on Tuesday, lets players create characters and scenarios for the PlayStation 3, taking the Internet’s embrace of community-created sites to video games.
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AFP - Yahoo has followed through on a promise to give outside developers access to its software in order to jazz-up the website with fun, hip or functional programmes.
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