Palo Alto startup Shopkick sends deals by phone to mall shoppers – San Jose Mercury News

NEW YORK — The nation’s biggest mall operator is teaming up with Silicon Valley startup Shopkick to reward smartphone-equipped shoppers for walking into its shopping centers. The partnership between Simon

Mall deal gives big boost to cell-phone coupons – Washington Post
NEW YORK — The nation’s biggest mall operator is teaming up with a Silicon Valley startup to reward smart-phone-equipped shoppers for walking into its shopping centers. The partnership between Simon Property

Chatroulette Calls Upon the Power of Napster – WebProNews
Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb reports that Sean Parker (of Napster and Facebook fame) announced from Techonomy that he’s working with ChatRoulette. This is particularly interesting, as TechCrunch

Mall giant in deal with cellphone ad start-up – Boston Globe
NEW YORK — The nation’s biggest mall operator is teaming up with a Silicon Valley start-up to reward smartphone-equipped shoppers for walking into its shopping centers. The partnership between Simon

How The Pentagon’s Reaction To Wikileaks Is Like The RIAA’s Reaction To Napster – Tech Dirt
Earlier, we wrote about the Pentagon’s ridiculous and counterproductive attacks on Wikileaks , noting that it was the exact wrong approach to take. In writing that, I probably should have made the connection

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with 19 years of experience producing and writing RAWSON started a production company to put out his own music. not to many artist do it for themself but rawson is an inspiration check out his single AYO! on itunes

Mall operator to beam ads and coupons on consumer smart phones – New Orleans Times-Picayune
NEW YORK — The nation’s biggest mall operator is teaming up with a Silicon Valley startup to reward smart-phone-equipped shoppers for walking into its shopping centers. David Paul Morris/The Associated Press

Wikileaks Is The New Napster – The Atlantic
Thiessen’s argument calls to mind the music industry’s effort to shut down Napster—a Web site where recorded music could be traded and downloaded without regard to copyright—in the nineteen-nineties, in that it

Why the Pentagon’s War on Wikileaks Is Like the Music Industry’s War on Napster – Gawker
The Pentagon is super mad about Wikileaks leaking 70,000 classified Afghanistan war documents . So mad that they have made the ridiculous demand that Wikileaks “return” the data. A massive organization willfully

Betamax, Napster good examples of content battles – Chattanooga Times Free Press
I’m basing this week’s article on a recent and excellent story on zdnet.com by David Gewirtz. There has been for some time a sort of battle going on between two opposite camps in the tech world. On one