links for 2007-05-28
Posted in Daily Reads by del.icio.us Monday, May 28th at 1:20 pm
Online advertisers in the U.S. spent a record $16.9 billion in 2006, up 35 percent from 2005, the fourth consecutive year the market has grown, according to a study released this week by the Interactive Advertising Bureau.
The company’s boy-wonder CEO wants to take social networking out of the dorm room and make it a platform for new businesses, reports David Kirkpatrick in a Fortune exclusive.
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The Helsinki District Court has dealt another blow to CSS, the copy-protection scheme used in commercial DVDs. In a ruling issued today, the court found that CSS is “ineffective” as a form of DRM and that the two defendants were not guilty.
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