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AT&T Will Donate Share of $1 Million Netflix Prize to Science Organizations

Team Bellkor's Pragmatic Chaos accepts the million dollar Netflix Prize (Bell on far right, Volinsky third from right). Photo: Eliot Van Buskirk The Netflix Prize has at least four more winners. AT&T plans to donate its share of the $1 million Netflix Prize, which was awarded to the team with...

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Judge Halts Online Sale of Beatles Songs

A federal judge on Thursday ordered a Santa Cruz company to immediately quit selling Beatles and other music on its online site, setting aside a preposterous argument that it had copyrights on songs via a process called “psycho-acoustic simulation.” A Los Angeles federal judge set as...

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Essay: Steve Jobs’ Legacy Is Missing Clue to Apple Tablet

If you’ve only been half paying attention, you probably think that the Apple Tablet is a done deal. It isn’t. Outside the impervious hallways of One Infinite Loop, the tablet remains a technological unicorn — a mythical beast whose beauty, elegance and singularity we can only i...

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BlueBeat Claims to Own New Copyrights to Old Beatles Songs

The curious saga of the Beatles catalog finally going on sale online at a little-known site called BlueBeat.com just became even curiouser. Hank Risan, owner of BlueBeat and other companies named as defendants in the lawsuit EMI filed on Tuesday, has a novel defense to allegations he is unlawfull...

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MySpace Traffic Drop Costs News Corp About $100 Million

MySpace traffic stats courtesy of Alexa The MySpace social media network’s traffic has dropped so much that it will fail to satisfy a minimum traffic level crucial to parent company News Corp’s three-year $900 million advertising deal with Google, inked in 2006, that made Google the e...

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Google Seeks Revenue From Online Retailers

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google is selling a special search product to online retailers, as the Internet giant widens its hunt for new sources of revenue. Google Commerce Search, which the company Wednesday said it would begin selling at a starting price of $50,000 a year, puts a key element of...

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