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Feb 06 2009 10:02am EDT

First Bytes: Mobile Books, MySpace Music, RIM, Free Online Dating

Now you can read Moby Dick on your iPhone, thanks to Google Books. And Amazon is working on putting its Kindle library on mobile phones too. [New York Times]

How MySpace Music plans to make money. (News Corp. sure could use the help about now) [PaidContent]

Executives at Blackberry maker Research in Motion agreed to pay $75 million to put the options backdating mess behind them. [Wall Street Journal]

Online daters are being hit by the recession, and free sites like PlentyofFish.com are gaining traction at the expense of paid sites like Match.com. [BusinessWeek]

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