MySpace will announce today that its MyAds program is available to the public. One group MySpace is aggressively targeting the service towards is bands, which will be able to create their own banner ads and then select which MySpace users will see the ads based on the users' listed interests.

pGoogle (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=GOOG" class="ticker" title="GOOG"NSDQ: GOOG/a) has told paidContent.co.uk it intends to appeal two seperate copyright cases it lost in Hamburg, Germany today over its unauthorised indexing of an artist's work and a photographer's photo as thumbnails in Google image search results. a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204sid=a_C1wVkCvPww" title="Bloomberg reports"Bloomberg reported/a that Google lost both cases at the Regional Court of Hamburg: photographer Michael Bernhard brought the action after one of his pictures was shown in a search results page and artist Thomas Horn applied to the court after comics he holds the copyright to were shown in the results. bIn its ruling in favour of Bernhard the court said: "It doesn't matter that thumbnails are much smaller than original pictures and are displayed in a lower resolution." /b /p p b--Google's response:/b "Google is disappointed and intends to appeal the ruling to the German Supreme Court because we believe that services like Google Image Search are entirely legal... Today's decision is very bad for Internet users in Germany, it is a major step backwards for German e-business in general, and it is bad for the thousands of websites who receive valuable traffic through Image Search and similar services." /p p Google is no stranger to copyright battles and has a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/about-copiepresse-decision.html" title="appealed them"appealed them/a before, which it did after losing a ruling in the Belgian courts in the a href="http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-belgian-newspapers-to-google-pay-us-77m-for-indexing-our-news" title="long-running copyright dispute"long-running copyright dispute/a with Belgian newspaper association Copiepresses in 2007. Google-owned Youtube was a href="http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-mediaset-sues-youtube-seeking-500-million-damages" title="sued"sued/a in July by Viacom and media companies in Italy, France and Spain for infringement. /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-belgian-newspapers-to-google-pay-us-77m-for-indexing-our-news/" title="Belgian Newspapers To Google: Pay Us £39 Million For Indexing Our News"Belgian Newspapers To Google: Pay Us £39 Million For Indexing Our News/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-mediaset-sues-youtube-seeking-500-million-damages/" title="Italy's MediaSet Sues YouTube; Seeking At Least €500 Million Damages"Italy's MediaSet Sues YouTube; Seeking At Least €500 Million Damages/a/li /ul piCheck out the best business jobs in digital media. a href="http://jobs.paidcontent.org/"Go here/a for paidContent.org Job Board./i/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=dB1cl8"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=dB1cl8" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=DlusM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=DlusM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=xlWtM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=xlWtM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=ACmkm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=ACmkm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=hlppM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=hlppM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=vZmzM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=vZmzM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/419708819" height="1" width="1"/

The Sun is now in the quietest phase of its 11-year activity cycle, the solar minumum - in fact, it has been unusually quiet this year - with over 200 days so far with no observed sunspots. The solar wind has also dropped to its lowest levels in 50 years. Scientists are unsure of the significance of this unusual calm, but are continually monitoring our closest star with an array of telescopes and satellites. Seen below are some recent images of the Sun in more active times. (21 photos total)A sweeping prominence, a huge cloud of relatively cool dense plasma is seen suspended in the Sun's hot, thin corona. At times, promineces can erupt, escaping the Sun's atmosphere. Emission in this spectral line shows the upper chromosphere at a temperature of about 60,000 degrees K (over 100,000 degrees F). Every feature in the image traces magnetic field structure. The hottest areas appear almost white, while the darker red areas indicate cooler temperatures. (Courtesy of SOHO/EIT consortium)

pFiled under: a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/audio/" rel="tag"Audio/a, a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/web-services/" rel="tag"Web services/a, a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/social-software/" rel="tag"Social Software/a, a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/web-2-0/" rel="tag"web 2.0/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.soundcloud.com/"img width="354" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="200" border="0" align="middle" alt="SoundCloud" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.downloadsquad.com/media/2008/10/soundcloudscreen-1.jpg" //a/div There are plenty of ways to share music, but most of them are slow or have clunky interfaces. a href="http://www.soundcloud.com"SoundCloud/a aims to be the first player in the market to catch on in a big way, by making things easy for its users. Soundcloud works like an inbox, so new songs come in from your friends (or from artists and record labels) and you can handle them all in one convenient place. You can also put a dropbox on any site (including MySpace, Facebook, and your blog) where people can click to send you a track.br / br / I love the idea of being able to play incoming tracks selectively before downloading them, and also the idea of letting them stream as one big playlist. Sending music looks to be just as easy. You can send to an email address or another SoundCloud account, and the result looks a heck of a lot better than MySpace Music. Also, there are no file size limits!br /br /If you're a musician, SoundCloud looks like a good place to post your new tracks. Each song gets its own URL and its own privacy settings, so you can decide who's allowed to listen to or download it. Create Digital Music says SoundCloud could be the Flickr of music, and after testing it out, I'm inclined to agree. br /br / [via a href="http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/10/09/soundcloud-here-like-flickr-for-music/"Create Digital Music/a]h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/10/13/soundcloud-is-live-bringing-music-sharing-to-the-masses/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/forward/1338374/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/10/13/soundcloud-is-live-bringing-music-sharing-to-the-masses/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?a=ZYKMrZ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?i=ZYKMrZ" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?a=b0r7m"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?i=b0r7m" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?a=hOYBm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?i=hOYBm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/downloadsquad/~4/419494551" height="1" width="1"/

Thomas O'Connor's "USB Floppy Drive" is a nice reimagination of technology from the not-so-distant past. We've seen a lot of these imaginative USB drives and hopefully we'll see a kit soon that will let you easily create your own design.

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pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/portableaudio/" rel="tag"Portable Audio/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-VtM_732IUamp;fmt=18"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/10/10-13-08-xmp3-xm.jpg" //abr //div We knew XM Radio's a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/14/xms-upcoming-xmp3-sneaks-into-latest-issue-of-popular-science/"XMp3/a handheld was a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/15/pioneer-built-xmp3-gets-specced-shows-up-for-sale/"on sale and shipping/a, but if you've been holding back and patiently waiting for some live video action of the UI before biting, have a gander at this. One xzitony managed to acquire the new Pioneer-built device and take it for a spin, but rather than just keeping it all to himself, he decided to host up a six minute clip walking us through the user interface. There are just no words to express our gratitude, but you can leave your thanks on his YouTube page after peeping the vid just past the break.br /br /[Thanks, a href="http:// http://www.xzi.com/"Anthony/a]pa href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/video-xm-radios-xmp3-interface-shown-off/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emVideo: XM Radio's XMp3 interface shown off/em/a/ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-VtM_732IUamp;fmt=18Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/video-xm-radios-xmp3-interface-shown-off/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1341011/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/video-xm-radios-xmp3-interface-shown-off/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~a/weblogsinc/engadget?a=Y5unon"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~a/weblogsinc/engadget?i=Y5unon" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=hRq4m"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=hRq4m" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=ffrTm"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=ffrTm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/419955224" height="1" width="1"/

Just in time for the release of the PSP-3000 comes the announcement of the latest firmware for the Sony hand-held device.

This weekend we brought you the first stills and poster (here) for Travis Betz' Lo, now we've added a look at the first teaser trailer over at BDTV. Love presents many challenges to couples...but none so daunting as the one Justin faces with his girlfriend April. Kidnapped by demons, April's mystery begins to unfold when he finds an ancient book that she has left behind. Using the book, he contacts the demon Lo, ordering it to help him rescue his girl from the fiery pits. But Lo has other plans for his new master...dinner being one of them.

Microsoft has announced that the latest version of Windows, due in the next couple of years, will be called - drumroll please - Windows 7. It’s about time Microsoft adopted a naming system that might actually make some sense to users, but I can’t wait for hordes of customers to start asking if they somehow missed Windows 1 through 6.

Windows has had one of the most ridiculous naming schemes in the history of software. First there were logical (but ugly) version numbers, like the once commonplace “Windows 3.1″. Then with the release of the overhauled Windows 95 the company adopted a naming system based on the year of release, which it continued until Windows 98.

Windows Me (perhaps the worst operating system I’ve ever used), sacrificed the scheme for a chance to be clever (it stood for “me” and the millennium at the same time!) Next up we hit Windows XP, which has served most of us reasonably well since 2001. It sounds sort of cool, it’s catchy, and we have no idea what it means. Fine.

Finally we had Windows Vista, which seemed to stick with the naming convention of “something that sounds sort of cool” but didn’t really mean anything. It had been more than five years since the release of XP, so there was little chance of confusion.

Microsoft is now in a hurry to push out its next operating system after the generally dismal response to Vista. And so we’ve come to Windows 7, which is apparently tied to the build numbers and not the actual releases.

The new naming scheme lends itself well to faster, more incremental releases similar to what we’ve seen from Apple (about once every 18 months), but it’s probably going to confuse everyone and couldn’t be more bland.

You can read more at the company’s blog post here.

Crunch Network: CrunchGear drool over the sexiest new gadgets and hardware.

pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/sports/" rel="tag"Sports/GTs/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/videos/" rel="tag"Videos/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/supercars/" rel="tag"Supercars/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/nissan/" rel="tag"Nissan/a/pa href="http://www.gtrblog.com/index.php/2008/10/09/nissan-offer-porsche-proof-and-driving-t?blog=4"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/10/nissangtrtires.500.jpg" //abr / div align="center"strongemsmallPhoto of stock tires used on the GT-R that tackled the 'Ring in 7:29/small/em/strongbr //div br /Nissan released a second video of the incredible a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/05/01/gt-r-drops-ring-time-down-to-7-29/"7:29 lap time/a achieved by the GT-R earlier this year at the Nuuml;rburgring Nordschleife along with a photo of the stock tires that were installed on the car at the time. It did so to dispel accusations that the time might not be 100% authentic. a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/09/30/porsche-accuses-nissan-gt-r-of-cheating-the-ring/"Porsche/a in particular seemed highly suspicious, and boldly claimed its belief that Nissan wasn't using stock tires at the time. The new video starts with some off-track buildup and shows the 50kg of test equipment that was on-board the car at the time, as well. Although we don't speak Japanese, we think that's what they're talking about along with discussing the fresh stock tires that were fitted to the car. The actual lap starts about 4 minutes in and looks pretty authentic to us. We're sure there will continue to be questions and complaints from all sides in this controversy, and we know that this is starting to turn into a a bit of a melodrama, but we really can't help ourselves. You can catch up on the whole sordid affair by clicking a href="http://www.autoblog.com/search/?q=porsche+nissan+ringamp;invocationType=wl-autoamp;searchsubmit="here/a and check out the video after the jump.br /br /[Source: a href="http://www.gtrblog.com/index.php/2008/10/09/nissan-offer-porsche-proof-and-driving-t?blog=4"GTR Blog/a via a href="http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/News/articleId=133467#3"Edmunds/a]pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/13/nissan-offers-more-evidence-of-gt-r-ring-run-second-video-and/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emNissan offers more evidence of GT-R 'Ring run: second video and pic of tires/em/a/ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.gtrblog.com/index.php/2008/10/09/nissan-offer-porsche-proof-and-driving-t?blog=4Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/13/nissan-offers-more-evidence-of-gt-r-ring-run-second-video-and/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1340537/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/13/nissan-offers-more-evidence-of-gt-r-ring-run-second-video-and/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~a/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=Q9Ara5"img src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~a/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=Q9Ara5" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=B8iYm"img src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=B8iYm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=UTtam"img src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=UTtam" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/419949144" height="1" width="1"/

Last week, the technology company Novell announced the release (http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/mono-project-announces-mono-20-for-cross-platform-microsoft-net-development,567497.shtml) of version 2.0 of Mono - something which was described as an an open source, cross-platform .NET development framework....

Fox News/Rasmussen Reports Poll: Obama gains lead in swing state of Ohio, holds narrow edge in Virginia, Florida and Missouri | FULL RESULTS (pdf)

• Obama: My Plan Will 'Spread the Wealth Around'
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• Report: Candidates Split on Selective Service to Women
• Opposing View: Palin Is True Judeo-Christian Candidate
• FOX FORUM: Bill Kristol Says McCain Should Fire Campaign

pTech vendors in the digital advertising and marketing business got a nice bump in stock prices today -- a sign that the sector holds promise among investors./p pWhile the Nasdaq climbed 11.8 percent, Google ended the trading day at $381, up 14.7 percent. Still, Google is nowhere near its 52-week high of $747./p pMeanwhile, Yahoo's stock price climbed 9.8 percent to $13.49./p pValueClick, which has not been a Wall Street darling lately, also did better than the Nasdaq, closing the day at $8.41, an increase of 19.3 percent./p pThe optimism didn't carry over to all companies. Lyris, which provides tools for e-mail marketing campaigns, analytics, and PPC bid management, saw its share price drop to 39 cents, a decline of 11.4 percent./p pWill Wall Street's enthusiasm for the digital marketing and advertising sector bode well for these businesses? Take a chapter from history -- and don't count your a target="_blank" href="http://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dutch_tulip_bulb_market_bubble.asp"tulip bulbs/a until they flower.br / /pimg src="http://feeds.clickz.com/~r/clickzblog/~4/419946388" height="1" width="1"/

Considering the world's current economic problems, Europe is now expected to suffer negative growth in 2009, while the United States and Japan will be flat, analysts with Gartner said.

From one sexy role to another: Carla Gugino will soon (hopefully) be on the big screen as Sally Jupiter, hero and pin-up girl of Watchmen, and now she's taking on another seductive role. Variety reports the gal will be the last point in the romantic love triangle called Every Day, which got cooking earlier this month. Liev Schreiber plays a guy who writes for a "semi-pornographic TV show" (that wasn't in the earlier news release!) that gets propositioned by his colleague (Gugino). But the man already has wife Helen Hunt at home, and this "strains his marriage to the breaking point." Could you resist if Gugino was tempting you?

Meanwhile, we've got Rachael Harris, who stood her own against mockumentary heavyweights in For Your Consideration (she played Mary Pat Hooligan, the actress who played the lesbian coming out to her family in Home for Purim). Variety reports that she's going to nurse Todd Phillips' The Hangover with the likes of Bradley Cooper, Heather Graham, and more. Graham is already playing a Vegas local, so maybe Harris will play the bride who might get left at the altar. But the actress isn't all laughs -- one of her upcoming films is The Soloist.

Lastly, we've got a cute, Korean hip-hop dancer on the way -- Som Dam-bi has signed onto Hype Nation. But this isn't just a tale of dancing: "An American dance crew goes head to head with a crew from South Korea," one that mixes hip-hop moves with at least one gun-toter. Oooh, it's like You've Been Served International!

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Treasury Department intends to unveil on Tuesday a $250 billion plan to purchase equity stakes in financial institutions along with a three-year guarantee of bank-to-bank lending, according to a financial policy source familiar with the plan. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/zh-kHzgfLhY2LTmUTexR8P1XPn8/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/zh-kHzgfLhY2LTmUTexR8P1XPn8/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=FaJ6KP9g"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=5Tvz92vM"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=5Tvz92vM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~f/reuters/topNews?a=WLNBCy5n"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/topNews?i=WLNBCy5n" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/topNews/~4/ht22cSCe-vY" height="1" width="1"/

pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/desktops/" rel="tag"Desktops/a, a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/laptops/" rel="tag"Laptops/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/10/13/introducing-windows-7.aspx"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/09/9-21-08-windows_7_screen.jpg" //abr //div Microsoft is expected to be a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/25/microsoft-to-hand-out-windows-7-pre-betas-at-pdc-winhec/"handing out pre-betas/a of a href="http://engadget.com/tag/windows7"Windows 7/a to devs at WinHEC and PDC soon, and it looks like it's settled on an official name for its next-gen OS -- ahem, Windows 7. Yep, the code name is the real name, which is a first for Windows. According to Mike Nash on the Vista blog, the company went with Windows 7 because it "just makes sense" as the seventh release of Windows, and MS doesn't want to come up with a new "aspirational" name like Vista because it "doesn't do justice" to the goal of staying "firmly rooted" in the ideas of Vista -- which explains why it looks a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/22/new-screenshots-of-windows-7-emerge/"so much the same/a, we suppose. Uh, sure, call it whatever you like, just get it out the door on time, okay?h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsvista/archive/2008/10/13/introducing-windows-7.aspxRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/windows-7-to-be-officially-named-windows-7/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1341131/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/windows-7-to-be-officially-named-windows-7/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~a/weblogsinc/engadget?a=SobZt1"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~a/weblogsinc/engadget?i=SobZt1" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=bI3Lm"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=bI3Lm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=PtKYm"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=PtKYm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/419929317" height="1" width="1"/

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