Recent Blog Posts
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MSNBC.com "Knows a Trend When It Sees One"
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Windows 7 Spin May Be on the Money
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Mapping Company Raises Millions
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Facebook Valuations Are All Over the Map
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The Future of Tech, 2010 Edition
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Automatic Pancake-Making Machine Attracts $2 Million in Capital
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Apple Talk of Microsoft's Annual Meeting
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There Is Still Hope for the News Business
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The Google Phone May Be Near
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Amazon Grocery Service Goes Mobile with iPhone
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Links
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- SciTech Daily
- Romenesko
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- Steven Johnson
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- TechCrunch
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- paidContent
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First Bytes: Rhapsody and the Labels, Family Guy, BitTorrent, more
-- Rhapsody, the online music service, with four major labels, launches a new MP3 store today without digital rights management. Songs are $1 and albums $10 dollars -- the catalog includes 5 million songs. Meanwhile, Verizon Wireless will offer unlimited downloads to its mobile devices for $15 a month. [AP]
-- Google teams up with Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane to distribute his new Web-only program using its AdSense advertising system. [NYT]
-- Verizon, Google, Cisco and Hewlett-Packard have formed a group called "Allied Security Trust," to preemptively buy up patents that could otherwise be used against them. The entrance fee is $250,000, plus $5 million in escrow. [WSJ]
-- A BitTorrent "seed farmer" has been found guilty of copyright infringement and faces 10 years in prison. Twenty-six year old Daniel Dove apparently led a small group of hackers who uploaded software, music and video games for others to download on the peer to peer network. [Ars Technica]
-- Sam Gustin
Laura Rich is a co-founder of Recessionwire, which provides news, advice, perspective and humor about the recession and the recovery.
