Virgin sued for using teen’s photo  —  The photo of Alison Chang (left) from Justin Ho-Wee Wong’s Flickr photo-sharing web page.  The photo was used by Virgin Mobile in an advertising campaign.  —  A Texas family has sued Australia’s Virgin Mobile phone company, claiming it caused …

Source:   Sydney Morning Herald
Link:   http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/virgin-sued-for…

Slim Aluminum MacBooks Coming Soon from Apple  —  We have received some information about some upcoming Apple laptops - we think they are MacBooks but aren’t 100 percent sure they aren’t the fabled Pro slim line.  —  What we know:  — Black aluminum and silver aluminum (like MacBook Pros) have been seen

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GPL Finally Goes to Court in US  —  For the first time in the U.S., a company and software vendor, Monsoon Multimedia, is being taken to court for a GPL violation.  Previously, alleged GPL violations have all been settled by letters from the FSF (Free Software Foundation) or other open-source organizations, pointing out the violation.

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Source:   Nokia - Nokia on the Web
Link:   http://www.nokia.com/A4568203

Fox To Offer Free Shows On iTunes  —  Fox Broadcasting will offer season premier television shows for free on iTunes, beginning next week.  —  The move is said to be part of a push by Fox to expose iPod users to the new season of shows appearing as part of the new US television ratings […]

The Forbes 400  —  ONE BILLION DOLLARS IS NO LONGER ENOUGH.  The price of admission to this, the 25th anniversary edition of the Forbes 400, is $1.3 billion, up $300 million from last year.  The collective net worth of the nation’s mightiest plutocrats rose $290 billion to $1.54 trillion.

Source:   Forbes
Link:   http://www.forbes.com/2007/09/19/richest-americans…

Stealthy Startup Mixx Launches Into Private Beta  —  Mixx is a startup we’ve been watching for the last few weeks.  They’ve been extremely quiet about their service until very recently.  And since they are located well outside of Silicon Valley, in Virginia, they’ve been able to stay below …

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Michael Arrington
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Customers Ask: Is Apple Going Rotten?  —  Karma.  Doing the “right thing.”  Thinking different.  Apple’s enlightened approach to building customer loyalty is now famous, generating big headlines every time CEO Steve Jobs takes on Hollywood or the music industry.  Attempts to raise iTunes prices?

Source:   iLounge
Author:   Jeremy Horwitz
Link:   http://ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments…

Firefox memory usage and memory leak news  —  Many Mozilla community members, including both volunteers and Mozilla Corporation employees, have been helping to reduce Firefox’s memory usage and fix memory leak bugs lately.  Hopefully, the result of this effort will be that Firefox 3 uses less memory …

Source:   Indistinguishable from Jesse
Author:   Jesse Ruderman
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Open source impossible to avoid, Gartner says  —  By 2011, at least 80% of commercial software will contain open source code, analysts predict  —  You can try to avoid open source, but it’s probably easier to get out of the IT business altogether.  By 2011, at least 80% of commercial software …

Source:   Network World
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