Is The Antitrust Trap Getting Ready to Close Around Google? 
Paul Sweeting- Tuesday, November 3, 2009
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The Google Books case, by attracting the attention of an articulate and politically connected constituency made up of writers and intellectuals, has drawn an ever-brightening spotlight onto the company's size, ambitions and influence in the marketplace of ideas. And it's getting a bit hot under the glare. Subscribe now or sign in to view this Weekly Update »
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NBC Preps All-HD Winter Olympics
The Vancouver games will be a big test for Akamai's new HD Network and Microsoft's adaptive-streaming enhanced Silverlight.
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First-Run Movie Plan for Cable Gets Look From FCC
After lying dormant for a year or more, the FCC now says it is giving the studios' proposal to offer early-release HD movies on VOD "active attention." Consumer groups cry foul.
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Near-Final Thunderbird 3 Due Next Week
Can add-ons do for the Mozilla Foundation's email client what they have done for its Firefox browser?
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YouTube Dominates Embedded Videos
If you want get seen and go viral, YouTube is still the place to post your video.
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From Report: 3DTV Market is Ready for Takeoff
46Million - the number of annual 3DTV shipments expected by the year 2013.
From Why Is the Plasma HDTV Market Dying?
7%The share of TVs sold worldwide that will be plasma. For every one plasma TV sold, 8 LCD TVs will be sold in 2009.
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Nov 6, 2009 — Want proof that DRM drives people mad? Check out Media Rights Technology, a Silicon Valley provider of "content management" services. In 2007, the company sent cease-and-desist letters to Microsoft, Adobe, RealNetworks and Apple, claiming that Vista, Flash, RealPlayer and iTunes were infringing MRT's technology under the DMCA. Their alleged crime? Not using MRT's anti-stream-ripper to protect Internet radio transmissions. Then this week, MRT subsidiary BlueBeat.com started selling Beatles downloads for 25 cents a track. When challenged by EMI, MRT founder Hank Risen claimed BlueBeat actually owns the copyright on the tracks it's selling because he recorded them himself using "psycho-acoustic simulation." Yesterday, a judge issued a restraining order. Restraints might have been more appropriate.
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theaters must love the resurgence of 3D as it a draw for the punters (Coraline was the first time I'd been out to the theater in ages), but I still think of it as a gimmick rather than a technology I would want for my home.
—Simon Mackie on How 3-D TV Will Go From Hasselhoff To Must-Have
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