France May Force ITunes Open

It's a start. Now if we could have the same thing happen on this side of the ocean, we'd be golden.

DRM Boycott at over 3000 signatories

"I will pledge to never purchase a CD containing any form of Digital Rights Management (DRM), but only if 500 people around the world will too." This pledge, started by participatory culture activists at FreeCulture.org, has become the most successful pledge on PledgeBank.

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Free Culture Northeast Regional Summit

As of yesterday, the first FreeCulture Regional Summit began at Columbia University.

Seagate demos W-USB harddrive, pluggable hard drive concept

Imagine having a phone, PDA and digital camera linked to a 120GB hard drive via a wireless connection? This Seagate proof of concept product at CES provides the storage aspect. Device manufaturers need to get on this.

Language Support on Newsvine

Many users on Newsvine are commenting that there is no way to really look for articles in their local languages. I agree that this is an important feature that should be implemented.

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Commentary on Newsvine vol. 2

Outside of the commentary on contribution and contributor ratings, I did notice a few other things that I thought was worth mentioning including some new features.

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Visiblity rules for Newsvine posts

Maybe some one with much more knowledge about this, could clarify exactly how visibility works in Newsvine but I believe that there must be a better way to sort and present content.

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After long wait, line between PCs, TVs blurring | Reuters Business Channel

Dell, Panasonic, HP and Intel, among others, introduce convergent products into the entertainment devices arena.

Hydrogen Hybrid Hijinks | Autopia

Mazda will unveil it's MAZDA5 Hydrogen Hybrid concept car which really has three different power components: hydrogen, gasoline and hybrid-electric drive. I've been wondering when we'd have consumer level hydrogen based cars.

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