The Nightly Build Friday February 9
The Nightly Build:
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CrunchGear reports that not only is there a Zune phone in the works, but that it could well arrive on the market as early as May, a full month before the iPhone.
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Reuters has a cool article on the growth of the ancient game Go on the internet. For those that don’t know, Go (that’s the Japanese name) is somewhat like Othello, but infinitely more complex and interesting. And unlike Chess, no computer program has been developed to compete with experienced human Go players — the infinite combinations and complexity have never been successfully modeled by programmers.
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The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis is a forthcoming article by Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Stumpf of the Journal of Political Economy. Unlike RIAA sponsored studies, this one finds that file sharing has “an effect on sales that is statistically indistinguishable from zero.” [via Techdirt]
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Mac rumor site ThinkSecret claims that the next version of OS X will arrive in late March. However, the dart I just threw at the wall calendar argues for April 6th so who knows?
