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Thursday, January 17, 2008

iTunes rentals, Facebook Scrabulous and more tech news

SpendView gets $2M Series A round
Houston-based personal finance tools site SpendView.com was recently featured on Mashable.com after receiving $2 million in their first round of financing from Meakem Becker Venture Capital out of Pennsylvania.

ITunes Movie Rentals and Netflix Online: Different Markets
It’s easy to wonder whether the recently improved online video feature from Netflix will be hurt by the promotional blitzkrieg that Apple will launch for its iTunes movie rental service.

Facebook Asked to Remove “Scrabulous”
The makers of word game Scrabble have asked Facebook to remove its popular online version "Scrabulous," which they say infringes their copyright.

Mixing It Up Over Remixes and Fair Use
What is fair use in the digital age? How much can I remix, quote, make fun of, or summarize without infringing on a copyright?

If You're Not Insane About Sound, Maybe You Can Just Go Crazy
If you had to choose between two sets of speaker cables, one costing a few dollars and sounding fine, the other a few thousand dollars but perhaps sounding slightly better, and you chose the second pair, then you would have had a great time last week in Las Vegas. CONTACT: Leave me a Houston or Texas media news tip | COMMENT: Click to leave your thoughts on this post here