DormNoise Raises $500,000 for Campus Event Calendars

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Mark Hefflinger
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Cranston,
R.I. – DormNoise, a provider of
online event organizing applications designed for college students, announced
on Thursday that it has raised $500,000 of investment capital from DN Ventures
and Present e-Learning Systems.

Cranston, R.I.-based DormNoise is an
interactive collegiate calendar system that gives students a series of
interconnected personal, student group, and campus-wide calendars to organize
all their events, and lets them sync everything to popular calendar
applications and smartphones.

Prior to this round of funding, DormNoise raised three
rounds of "friends and family" financing that totaled $450,000.

 

Related Links:
http://dormnoise.com

RapidShare

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Mark Hefflinger
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Google Asks Judge to Declare RapidShare Search Links Legal

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Mark Hefflinger
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Los Angeles
– Google (NASD:  GOOG) has asked a federal judge to declare that its search engine does not
infringe copyrights when its search results provide links to copyrighted works
hosted on file-hosting service RapidShare, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The company was sued by independent record label Blue Destiny Records last
year, which claimed that Google — along with Microsoft’s (NASD:  MSFT) Bing — was violating
copyrights by linking to unauthorized content hosted on RapidShare.

While Blue
Destiny withdrew its claims in March, it reserved the right to refile copyright
claims, prompting Google to ask the court for a declaratory judgment in its
favor.

"If Google can win this case and get favorable treatment on appeal,
it could go a long way toward clearing a big chunk of its potential copyright
liability," the article speculated.

 

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(Hollywood Reporter)

AT&T iPhone Exclusive Extended Until 2011

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Mark Hefflinger
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New York
– AT&T’s (NYSE: T) exclusive carrier deal with Apple (NASD: AAPL) for the iPhone has been extended
by six months, due to the contract-free data plan offered for the iPad,
Business Insider reported, citing Broadpoint AmTech analyst Brian Marshall.

While
AT&T’s exclusive on the iPhone was due to expire this summer, it will now
extend until 2011.

The carrier is not making consumers sign up for a contract
for 3G network access on the iPad, which Marshall
correlated to the extra period of iPhone exclusivity granted to AT&T.

 

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(Business Insider)

Will Page of PRS: The State of the Music Industry

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In the video below, Will Page, Chief Economist at PRS (UK) provides a
report on the state of the music industry with many slides and charts.
His presentation, which was given a few weeks ago at Born to be Wide,
Edinburgh, points out that while the major labels continue to see
declining revenue, there are other parts of the industry that are
doing quite well.

Will Page PRS presentation from Andrew Dubber on Vimeo.

Trademark Settlement Gives U.K. Users Gmail.com Addresses

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Mark Hefflinger
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London – Google (NASD: GOOG) users in the U.K. are now
able to register Gmail.com email addresses, following the settlement of a
trademark lawsuit with British research firm Independent International
Investment Research. To this point, U.K. users of Google’s email service
have been assigned email addresses using the domain googlemail.com.


 

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(Google Gmail blog)

AT&T Launches U-verse Online Video Website

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Mark Hefflinger
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Dallas
– AT&T (NYSE: T) on Wednesday launched U-verse Online, a new companion website for
its digital TV service that will let subscribers watch select streaming TV
shows and movies on their PCs. The service is actually available to all users,
but offers "additional features and account integration" for U-verse
TV subscribers. AT&T also plans to offer a U-verse Mobile
application later this year that will let users download and watch select shows
on Wi-Fi-enabled phones.


 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/w0fsa

http://att.net/uverseonline

NME Taps Webjam to Launch Online Music Community

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Mark Hefflinger
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London – Veteran U.K. music
magazine NME on Wednesday announced the launch of NME Breakthrough, a new
website powered by Webjam that lets artists upload songs and music videos, and
engage with fans and NME.com’s 4.2 million unique users. NME said it will offer
popular artists on the site incentives like slots at NME-sponsored concerts and
music festivals.


 

Related Links:
http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=285873

http://www.webjam.com

http://music.nme.com

Consumer Electronics Assn. Inducts 13 Into Hall of Fame

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Mark Hefflinger
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Arlington,
Va. – The Consumer Electronics
Association (CEA) on Wednesday named 13 new inductees to its Consumer
Electronics (CE) Hall of Fame. The 2010 class, selected by an independent panel
of judges from online nominations, will be officially inducted in San Francisco this October.
A complete rundown of the honorees is available at the link below.


 

Related Links:
http://www.ce.org/Press/CurrentNews/press_release_detail.asp?id=11899

Facebook Disables Chat After Bug Opens Security Hole

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Mark Hefflinger
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Palo Alto,
Calif. – Facebook has disabled
its chat function after a bug was found to allow contacts to view a user’s live
chats and pending friend requests, TechCrunch reported.

The bug appeared in
Facebook’s "Preview my profile" feature, which lets users see how
their profiles would be seen by friends, according to the privacy settings they
have enabled.

"When we received reports of the problem, our engineers
promptly diagnosed it and temporarily disabled the chat function,"
Facebook told TechCrunch.

"We also pushed out a fix to take care of the
visible friend requests which is now complete… We worked quickly to resolve
this matter, ensuring that once the bug was reported to us, a solution was
quickly found and implemented."

 

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(TechCrunch)

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