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Music

Submission + - Jamendo Shares Advertising Revenue With Artists

Submitted by sylvinus
sylvinus writes: The free music website Jamendo which hosts more than 2000 albums under Creative Commons licenses has just announced that it will share half of its advertising revenue with the artists. The website already offers high-quality BitTorrent and eMule downloads for all the albums and allows users to make a donation to the artists they like via PayPal. With many websites like Revver or Metacafe already paying content creators for their most popular videos, will revenue sharing become a must-have for media publishing websites?
Businesses

Submission + - Online money transfer firm NETeller suspends trade

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An anonymous reader writes: NETeller, the leading independent online money transfer business, has suspended trading due to two former executives being arrested on Monday. http://www.gambling911.com/ or http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/investing-and-markets /article.html?in_article_id=416479&in_page_id=3.
John Lefebvre and Stephen Lawrence [founders of this hugely successful eProcessing company that handles the micro-transactions for a large number of online gambling websites] were arrested at their homes Monday.
Security

Submission + - Web vulnerability disclosure

Submitted by Scott
Scott writes: I'm submitting my own story on an important topic: Is it illegal to discover a vulnerability on a Web site? No one knows yet but Eric McCarty's pleading guilty to hacking USC's web site was "terrible and detrimental" to tech lawyer Jennifer Granick, who believes the law needs to be at least clarified, if not changed to protect those who find flaws in production Web sites as opposed to those who "exploit" production Web sites. Of course, the owners of sites often don't see the distinction between the two. Regardless of whether or not it's illegal to disclose Web vulnerabilities, it's certainly problematic, and perhaps a fool's errand. After all, have you seen how easy it is to find XSS flaws in Web sites? In fact, the Web is challenging the very definition of vulnerability and some researchers are scared. As one researcher in the story says: "I'm intimidated by the possible consequences to my career, bank account and sanity. I agree with [noted security researcher] H.D. Moore, as far as production websites are concerned: 'There is no way to report a vulnerability safely.'"
Portables (Apple)

Submission + - Amazon.de leaked iPhone prices

Submitted by
An anonymous reader writes: Amazon.de apparently leaked the prices for the iPhone on the European market, the German online magazine MacEssentials reports. The 8 GB version is set at a whopping 999 EUR (1'290 USD, including V.A.T.) without a contract. Well, you can no longer pre-order but still have a look.
GNOME

Submission + - New Gnome Control Center for Ubuntu's Feisty Fawn

Submitted by
Michael
Michael writes: "http://lunapark6.com/?p=2728 In Herd 2 of Feisty Fawn, there is a new Gnome Control Center that resembles Windows XP's control panel. This article compares the new Gnome Control Center in the upcoming Gnome 2.17/2.18 and Ubuntu Feisty Fawn with the older cascading menu style familiar in the current Gnome 2.16 release. There are also plenty of screenshots."
AMD/OSTG

Vendor Windows Vista and AMD to Send a Person to Space

Submitted by OSTG Marketing
If you've been dying to ride into sub-orbital space , then sign up for the 'Vanishing Point' sweepstakes. Sponsored by Microsoft and AMD, the sweepstakes is a large-scale online and offline collaborative puzzle game to celebrate the forthcoming consumer release of Windows Vista. "There are nearly a half million dollars in prizes, and the eventual winner will secure a ride into sub-orbital space, courtesy of Rocketplane Lim
Mozilla

Submission + - Offline Gmail and Blogger

Submitted by
BradNeuberg
BradNeuberg writes: "Check out these cool mockups of what an offline version of Gmail or Blogger could look like; imagine writing Blogger posts away from the network on your laptop, or checking your newest emails through Gmail while on an airplane. These mockups are for the Dojo Offline Toolkit, an open source project SitePen and I are creating to bring true offline access to web applications. See more info on Dojo Offline here."
Television

Submission + - TiVo for Motorola Cable Boxes & Series 3 Updat

Submitted by
TheTechLounge
TheTechLounge writes: "Tivo, probably my favorite Consumer Electronics company, made a few important announcements here at CES 2007. The first and most important announcement is the unveiling of the TiVo software ported to work on Motorola cable boxes that are subscribed to the Comcast cable network. The next feature is an update to the Series 3 software that allows you to view pictures in HD."
Announcements

Submission + - iRiver's new Clix 2 and more at CES

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TheTechLounge
TheTechLounge writes: "In 2007 iRiver will be introducing the second generation of the Clix, the Clix 2. iRiver has garnered a faithful band of loyal enthusiasts and the original Clix was very well received. I anticipate the Clix 2 will be an even bigger hit...and we got to play with one of the few existing examples (the Clix 2 is so new that even the iRiver reps hadn't seen one in person until CES). We also have a look at some of iRiver's other new players for 2007 in the article."
Announcements

Submission + - Samsung's New Two-Faced Cell Phone / MP3 Player

Submitted by
TheTechLounge
TheTechLounge writes: "Samsung has revealed the previously hidden side of their new SGH-F300 cell phone. The F300 looks like an MP3 player on one side, with a 2.1" TFT screen with a resolution of 176x220, and media control buttons. The buttons are touch sensitive and not only respond to clicks, but you can also slide your finger across them to scroll up and down or side to side. The opposite side of the F300 looks more like a traditional cell phone with the number pad and a smaller display."
Media

Submission + - warner brings blue ray and HDDVD on a single disc

Submitted by
ganjadude
ganjadude writes: "According to PC mag, Warner brothers has introduced total HD, a disc which has blue ray on 1 side and HDDVD on the other

FTA:
"A two-format marketplace is not ideal," he concedes. "We can't change the fact that the current multiple-format marketplace is there." But with Total HD, "you can get all of the content with none of the risk."

Could this be the solution we have been looking for?"

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