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Ryan Singel is a San Francisco-based blogger and journalist covering civil liberty and privacy issues. His work has appeared extensively in Wired News, and Singel recently (2006) began co-authoring a blog with journalist and convicted hacker Kevin Lee Poulsen.

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Google Submits Second Proposal for Library of the Future

Google and a coalition of authors and publishers are hoping a second draft of a legal settlement will clear the way through a thicket of copyright laws to let Google to build the library of the future. The second version, filed close to midnight Friday ...

From RYAN SINGEL, Epicenter | Wired Blog,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  U.S. Department of Justice,  Yahoo!

Google Submits New Proposal for Library of Future

Google and a coalition of authors and publishers are hoping a second draft of a legal settlement will clear the way through a thicket of copyright laws to let Google to build the library of the future. The second version, filed close to midnight Friday ...

From RYAN SINGEL, Wired,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  U.S. Department of Justice,  Yahoo!

Intel Pays AMD $1.25 billion To Settle All Disputes

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Chip makers Intel and Advanced Micro Devices said Thursday they have settled all outstanding legal disputes, including antitrust litigation and patent licensing issues. Intel said it will pay AMD $1.25 billion as part of the ...

From RYAN SINGEL, Wired,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: AMD,  Intel,  Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.,  NVIDIA,  New York Stock Exchange

Google Poised to Become Your Phone Company

Google is set to become your new phone company, perhaps reducing your phone bill to zilch in the process. Michael Robertson, the founder of Gizmo5 Google has reportedly spent $30 million to buy Gizmo5, an online phone company. The service is akin to ...

From RYAN SINGEL, Wired,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Michael Robertson,  Skype,  AT&T Inc.,  TechCrunch,  Federal Communications Commission

Microsoft's Bing to Feature Wolfram|Alpha Search Results

Microsoft’s search engine Bing will soon feature results from the innovative Wolfram|Alpha web service that attempts to compute answers to searchers’ questions, rather than link to web pages. So for instance, Bing users who want to compare the ...

From RYAN SINGEL, Wired,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Google Inc.

Google Buys Mobile Ad Company for $750M

Google purchased mobile ad firm AdMob for $750 million Monday, placing a heavy bet that targeted ads on mobile devices could help diversify Google’s income stream. While Google already has text ads that accompany mobile searches, AdMob specializes in ...

From RYAN SINGEL, Wired,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  AdMob,  AdSense

Google Gets Till Friday for Digital Library Settlement

Google and a coalition of authors and publishers now have until Friday to submit a new plan on how to drain the swamp of copyright law to let Google build the digital library of the future. A federal court judge granted the extension for the Google ...

From RYAN SINGEL, Wired,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Department of Justice,  Denny Chin,  Philip K. Dick,  Yahoo!,  Amazon.com

App Records All Sounds, Waiting for Twitterable Moment

Careful what you say — that iPhone over there could be a live microphone. Which is to say there’s a new, free iPhone app called Soundbiter designed to monitor the world’s audio and upload it to Twitter and Facebook with the push of a button. When ...

From RYAN SINGEL, Wired,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc,  Facebook Inc.

Fed’s Search of Twittering Anarchist Upheld

Federal authorities can resume combing through the notebooks, memory cards and computers of a twittering anarchist being investigated for violating an anti-rioting law, a federal judge in Brooklyn ruled Monday. The Joint Terrorism Task Force raided ...

From RYAN SINGEL, Wired,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: G-20,  US State Department,  Twitter Inc

Startup Hits Sweet Spot for Selling Local Services

A startup called Groupon has discovered a hit formula for selling local services in bulk on the net — offer a lot of people a great deal on a massage or a night out at a wine bar, and they’ll collectively buy hundreds or thousands of discounted gift ...

From RYAN SINGEL, Wired,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  James Beard

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