Newswatch 7.9.07: DVD Jon breaks iPhone/AT&T bond

By Richard Koman - July 9, 2007

Fixing typos by web users, without raising hackles
[NYT] With the cleverness of a Wall Street arbitrageur, David Ulevitch, a 25-year-old anthropology graduate from Washington University in St. Louis, has figured out how to use the numbers to make a business out of the propensity of Web surfers to make simple typing errors. Moreover, he has done it in a way that has not outraged the band of gray-bearded technical designers of the original Internet, which in itself is no simple feat and plays no small part in his success.

Apple plans cheaper, Nano-based iPhone
[Reuters] Apple Inc. plans to launch a cheaper version of the iPhone in the fourth quarter that could be based on the ultra-slim iPod Nano music player, according to a JP Morgan report.

Jon says he has cracked iPhone, can bypass AT&T
[nanocr.eu] I’ve found a way to activate a brand new unactivated iPhone without giving any of your money or personal information to NSA AT&T. The iPhone does not have phone capability, but the iPod and WiFi work. Stay tuned!

RIAA to feds: Make XM-Sirius pay higher fees, restrict listener recording
[News.com] At it again! The RIAA has already mounted a court challenge against XM over gadgets like the Pioneer Inno that allow consumers to trap individual songs originally played on air in alleged violation of copyright. Now it's urging the issue should be a deciding factors in the FCC's consideration of the proposedunion of XM and Sirius Satellite.

GOOG, YHOO working on new social nets
[Google Operating System] GOOG has been working for a year with Carnegie Mellon on a new social network, titled Socialstream, that is able to "draw content from a variety of sources. Socialstream would be based on a unified social network (USN), a single network that provides social data to other sites as a service. A service model allows many social networks to be linked together, letting them share both content and the nature of the relationships of the people who use them."
[TechCrunch] We’ve been hearing about a new Yahoo social network initiative called Mosh, which is at mosh.yahoo.com but can only be accessed from inside the Yahoo offices. It’s likely this would replace Yahoo’s 360 social network service, which has never really gotten traction. The existence of Yahoo Mosh also most likely puts a bullet in any further speculation that they are in acquisition talks with Bebo.

GOOG's $625m acquisition of Postini aimed at securing Apps
[News.com] "This does reaffirm our commitment to delivering hosted services," said Dave Girouard, VP/GM of Google Enterprise. That hosted services market is the one in which GOOG execs swear they are not targeting MSFT, but which observers say is a definite threat to the dominance of Windows.

US wants 7 years for Qwest's Nacchio
[Infoworld] Prosecutors are recommending that former Qwest Communications International chief Joseph Nacchio serve more than seven years in prison for insider trading during the telecommunications boom.

GOOG Earth shows China's new nuke sub
[Strategic Security Blog] A commercial satellite image appears to have captured China's new nuclear ballistic missile submarine. The new class, known as the Jin-class or Type 094, is expected to replace the unsuccessful Xia-class (Type 092) of a single boat built in the early 1980s. The new submarine was photographed by the commercial Quickbird satellite in late 2006 and the image is freely available on the Google Earth web site.

Intel to buy stake in EMC's VMWare
[Reuters] Intel will invest about $219 million for a stake in VMware and a seat on the board of the Silicon Valley software company.

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