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Napster has launched the world’s largest online music store without digital rights management (DRM). 
More than six million tracks will be sold as MP3 files, from all of the major record labels and independents. 
The songs will play on any MP3 player, including iPods, and can be burnt to CD and transferred to other devices. 
Napster boss Chris [...]

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This news comes from the horses mouth
Yahoo Inc. spurned Microsoft Corp.’s $44.6 billion takeover bid as inadequate Monday without explaining how its management will match the payoff that the slumping Internet icon’s shareholders would have received had the unsolicited offer been accepted.
Read More: Yahoo rejects Microsoft’s $44.6B bid - Yahoo! News

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Google has unveiled a new API that it hopes will make data created by users of social networks portable.
The Social Graph API makes information about the connections people have with each other on different websites easily available, said Brad Fitzpatrick, a Google software engineer. Once the data is available, developers can solve the problem of [...]

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The new Jackass movie, Jackass 2.5, can now be viewed for free online! 
For the first time a studio feature film presently streams in its entirety on Blockbuster.JackassWorld.com. According to the site, you will need Microsoft Silverlight (Microsofts alternative to Adobe Flash Player) and after registration just press play! 
The release kicks off a new joint venture [...]

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theregister.com reports that from “early 2008″ the top three per cent of uploaders and the top three per cent downloaders will be throttled between 4pm and 9pm as opposed to the current restrictions imposed between 4pm and midnight. 
Once the throttle is applied, it’ll stay in place for five hours. The present regime allows for two [...]

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A major porn producer filed a lawsuit Monday against an X-rated knockoff of YouTube, alleging that it profited from piracy by allowing users to post copyrighted material. 
Vivid Entertainment Group filed the lawsuit (the first of its kind) in Los Angeles federal court against PornoTube and its parent, Data Conversions Inc., which does business in Charlotte, [...]

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Jamiroquai has launched a new social networking site with the aim of getting the English funk band’s content onto fans’ websites. 
Fans will be able to interact with the band, enabling them to place popular widgets and Jamiroquai content on their own social networking and blog pages easily. 
The new Jamiroquai.com website is driven by an e-commerce [...]

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Microsoft recently sent out invitations for private Beta of their upcoming Windows live messenger 9.0. Later, Redmond Company also sent invitations and within a few days the Windows live messenger was leaked all over the web.  
 
BizznTech reports that the leaked version of the Windows Live Messenger 9.0 Beta (Build 9.0.1407.1107) is now available for [...]

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Core Facts 
* WebEx, the leader in on-demand collaboration applications and services, today launched the Green Guide to your Office - a free booklet designed to give businesses advice on how to be more environmentally friendly when using technology at work. 
* The guide has been written in partnership with environmental charity The Climate Group, IT analysts [...]

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Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) has unveiled PLAYSTATION®Store for the PC in North America. 
 
The new store enables PSP users to access PLAYSTATION Network games, video content and services over the Internet through a personal computer at http://store.playstation.com. This new free service allows users to establish a PLAYSTATION Network account, download free content or purchase content [...]

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Five members involved with famous BitTorrent site, the Piratebay.org, are preparing to face a copyright infringment lawsuit at the end of January. 
A showdown between Swedish authorities and the Pirate Bay has been a long time coming. Police raided sever locations connected with the site in May 2006, following pressure from the US government. The server [...]

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The Canadian police announced that it will stop targeting people who download copyrighted material for personal use. Instead their priority will be to focus on organized crime and copyright theft that affects the health and safety of consumers instead of the cash flow of large corporations. 
According to the Canadian police it is impossible to track [...]

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Prepare yourselves for another Flickr and YouTube guys, because Microsoft’s latest job advertisement for a project manager is indicating just that: 
Come make Windows Live the best place to share your digital memories! Heard of Flickr? YouTube? How about. Mac? This role will work across the new Windows Live division with teams like Spaces, SkyDrive, Messenger [...]

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