UC BERKELEY FIRST TO POST FULL LECTURES TO YOUTUBE  —  YouTube is now an important teaching tool at UC Berkeley.  —  The school announced on Wednesday that it has begun posting entire course lectures on the Web’s No.1 video-sharing site.  —  Berkeley officials claimed in a statement …

Source:   Webware.com
Author:   Greg Sandoval
Link:   http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9790452-2.html

Yahoo gets approval to buy ad firm BlueLithium  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) has been given U.S. antitrust approval to buy BlueLithium, the Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday.  —  U.S. antitrust authorities decided the deal posed no antitrust concerns.

Source:   Reuters
Link:   http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews…

RIAA anti-P2P campaign a real money pit, according to testimony  —  Duluth, Minnesota — During an occasionally testy cross examination, a Sony executive said what many observers have suspected for a long time.  The RIAA’s four-year-old lawsuit campaign is costing the music industry millions …

Source:   Ars Technica
Author:   Eric Bangeman
Link:   http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071002-music…

Wow.  We’re worth $100 million!  —  Not a day after I trash Henry Blodget for touting Google stock at $2,000 a share he write a post titled “TechCrunch to Sell to CNET for $100+ Million?”  —  So first of all I owe Blodget a big apology.  The guy is bright, insightful and dead on with […]

Zune vs. iPod specification smackdown  —  The new Zunes are official so let’s get to it: a spec-by-spec scrap between Redmond’s new Zunes and Cupertino’s formidable iPod foe.  Unfortunately, Microsoft failed to mention the all important battery performance of their new gear in addition to a few other minor details.

Source:   Engadget
Author:   Thomas Ricker
Link: […]

Apple reportedly considering Intel platform for iPhone  —  Apple reportedly is considering adopting Intel’s Moorestown MID (mobile Internet device) platform processor in a new iPhone, according to OEM sources.  —  Intel revealed a Moorestown-based MID product with functions similar …

Source:   DigiTimes
Author:   Monica Chen
Link:   http://www.digitimes.com/telecom/a20071001PD214.html

Releasing the Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries  —  One of the things my team has been working to enable has been the ability for .NET developers to download and browse the source code of the .NET Framework libraries, and to easily enable debugging support in them.

Source:   ScottGu’s Blog
Author:   Scott Gu
Link:   […]

Google Cuts Ads From Orkut Service  —  Facing complaints in Brazil about offensive content, Google Inc. in August removed ads from its social-networking service called Orkut.  —  Google said advertising appeared on only 1% of Orkut pages and represented a “test” of online marketing …

Source:   Wall Street Journal
Author:   Antonio Regalado
Link:   http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119136986121247087…

First-Gen Zune Getting All The New Features: This is How You Treat Your Customers  —  The first generation 30GB Zune—which 1.2 million of you already purchased—is getting all the new Zune’s features.  All.  Sure, the new Zune is more of a half step forward than a completely new design.

Source:   Gizmodo
Author:   Jason Chen
Link:   […]

Verizon’s LG Voyager heads up newly official fall lineup  —  Verizon isn’t kidding around this fall, with four new fashionable phones, a couple of which might divert a few iPhone dollars from archrival AT&T. It’s those exact four that Engadget Mobile got the scoop on last weekend, the Juke, Pearl, Venus and Voyager.

Source:   Engadget
Author: […]