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Apple Beware: Dell (With A Little Help From Amazon and Google) is Taking on iTunes
The formidable triumvirate of Amazon, Dell, and Google is apparently poised to give iTunes the first serious run for its money just as the iPad is about to take Apple’s downloadable media megastore where no computer has gone before. [More]

Google's Schmidt: China Negotiations Should End 'Soon'
Google is actively negotiating with China over web censorship according to CEO Eric Schmidt. [More]

Veil Lifts on Apple's Secret Plan to Control Universe
The recently unveiled secret agreement that Apple makes iPhone developers sign supports what many have suspected all along: Apple is trying to control the universe. [More]

Texters Should Park the Car, Take the Bus
Taking public transit wouldn't just decrease our carbon footprint — it'd also end all that fiddling with the phone while driving, an insanely dangerous problem. [More]

10 Years After: A Look Back at the Dot-Com Boom and Bust
The Nasdaq peaked at 5,049 on March 10, 2000, then it promptly nosedived and hasn't come near that level since. Here’s a look at the era that launched — and crushed — a million dreams. [More]

Hot Property Sex.com on Auction Block
It’s a sadly familiar story from the high-flying market of the past few years: Speculator thinks values will continue to go up, up, up. Overbids for a hot property. Can’t keep up with the payments. Lender is forced to foreclose. Only this isn’t about real estate — it’s about the most expensive domain name in the history of the internet: sex.com. [More]

Digital-Ad Spending May Eclipse Print This Year
Spending on digital advertising is poised to surpass print for the first time in 2010, according to a new study prepared even before the announcement of Apple’s iPad, with all of that hardware's game-changing potential. But another view is: So what? It’s bound to happen soon if not this year. [More]

Grab 1,000+ MP3s From SXSW BitTorrent, Free and Legal
Fire up that bit torrent client to download more than 5 gigabytes of free MP3s from bands playing the SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas, next week and catch up on the latest in music with just a couple of clicks. [More]

Four In Five Consider Web Access A Fundamental Right
Four in five adults believe access to the Internet is a fundamental right — with those feelings particularly strong in South Korea and China — and half believe it should never be regulated, according to a global survey. [More]

'Hordesourced' Playlist: What's Popular On MySpace Right Now
A trio of nifty apps for Android, iPhone and MySpace profiles from We Are Hunted taps into the musical zeitgeist in near-real-time. It lets you listen to minute-long samples from whichever artist was most streamed on MySpace in the previous 60 seconds. [More]