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• Today’s the day: Adobe has announced the pricing structure and other details about the new Creative Suite 3 application packages. Be sure to check out all the Wired coverage here, here, here, here, and here.

• Microsoft said yesterday that it has sold 20 million licenses of its new Windows Vista operating system. That’s more than double what Windows XP did in its first month.

• Everybody’s favorite satirical newspaper, The Onion, is taking the big leap into the world of online video. The new Onion News Network clips can be found on the front door. Hopefully they’re as funny as The Onion reps at SXSW, who were as funny, if not funnier, in person than the writing on the site.

• AT&T and Napster have partnered to give one year of free Napster access to qualifying AT&T customers. According to Reuters, “new or existing AT&T wireless customers outside of the AT&T’s traditional 22-state territory who agree to a two-year wireless agreement with purchase of the SYNC phone by Samsung, or the BlackJack phone” will qualify.

• Someone named Ozy from AwkwardTV has posted a video (video link) showing how he managed to get an AppleTV to boot from an external USB hard drive. The process involves doing a “recovery boot” which somehow causes the AppleTV to recognize and boot from a USB drive.

• And finally, it’s not exactly news, but the TimesOnline pretty much nails Twitter on the head with this title: The Seinfeld of the internet.

The Morning Reboot:

• Apple Insider reports that Amazon has leaked pricing and package details for Adobe’s Creative Suite 3 software packages. Adobe’s official announcement is expected tomorrow, but the Amazon page lists the basic specs now. The only real surprise is that most apps are not universal binaries, instead you’ll have to choose between Intel and PowerPC versions (according the Amazon anyway).

• Flickr has introduced some new filter technology designed to give users more options when marking images as objectionable. While many will no doubt appreciate the fine-grained control and ability to specify exactly why an image is potentially objectionable, the cynical among us might note that these filters have coincidentally popped up just before the launch of the new Chinese version of the site — and what would a Chinese site be without some serious censorship?

• Zimbra, the online web office suite, has announced Zimbra Desktop, which enables offline access to Zimbra’s Ajax-powered suite of office apps. Add Zimbra to the growing number of online services offering offline components — Adobe’s recent launch of Apollo, Firefox 3‘s purported offline support and more.

• Just a quick note, since we did the same for Windows a while back, Saturday marked the sixth anniversary of Mac OS X. Seems like a bit longer than that, but that could probably be the amount of effort I’ve put in to suppressing all my memories of Mac OS 9. Shudder.

• And finally, Bruce Lehman, architect of the DMCA, has admitted what everyone else already knows — the DMCA is a failure. Speaking at a conference on music and copyright reform hosted by McGill University, Lehman reported said, “our Clinton administration policies didn’t work out very well” and “our attempts at copyright control have not been successful.” Kudos to Lehman for acknowledging the obvious — now fix your mistake buddy.

The Morning Reboot:

• A federal district court has struck down the Child Online Protection Act of 1998 — signed into law by President Bill Clinton — saying that it violates the First Amendment and is not the most effective way to keep children from adult websites due to the current state of web filtering software. 27B Stroke 6 has more.

• Oh the search engine wars. The analyst firm comScore says Google’s share of U.S. web searches grew to almost 50 percent in February. Google’s closest rival in web search, Yahoo, had just over 28 percent of the U.S. market, while Microsoft’s share dipped to down to about 10 percent.

• The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has started a “notice of inquiry” into the question of whether or not high-speed Internet providers like AT&T and Comcast should be barred from charging extra fees to guarantee access to the Internet — AKA net neutrality. The FCC’s glacial pace has irritated some, Democratic commissioner Michael Copps said, “I want an FCC that unconditionally states its preference for nondiscrimination on the Internet.” So do I. Plus I want a pony.

• The EFF is suing Viacom claiming that the media giant is misusing copyright law by forcing YouTube to remove a parody video of The Colbert Report. Viacom denies the accusation and says it does not object to the video being on YouTube.

The Morning Reboot:

• The media giants are making good on their promise to deliver a YouTube knock-off. The LATimes reports that News Corp. and NBC plan to announce a new video service today that sounds pretty much like YouTube — pro production shows plus clips that users can remix and share with friends. Expect this to be in the news again inside of year when it collapses from lack of interest.

• The KDE developers have released a timeline/roadmap for KDE 4.0. The first betas will be available toward the end of June with the final release scheduled for October 23. KDE 4 will feature, among other things, improved speed through Qt 4, integration of hardware through Solid, and completely new artwork experience called Oxygen.

• Google’s Picasa web photo service has added a data API. The Picasa Web Albums data API is part of the GData family so if you’re familiar with other GData APIs you should be able to use the Picasa API with no trouble. The API isn’t quite as robust as the Flickr API, but it’s a step in the right direction.

• Zoho has launched a new feature, Zoho Meeting, currently in private beta, that lets users conduct meetings online. Most of the key features mirror those of WebEx including the ability to control remote desktops, chat, email the host, and view meeting details. The new service is cross platform and utilizes ActiveX on Windows, and Java and Flash on Mac and Linux.

The Morning Reboot, Ode To Spring:

• If you were thinking you could migrate your Adobe apps from XP to Vista, think again. Adobe posted a statement yesterday (PDF) saying that it has no plans to update its existing line of products, including Photoshop, InDesign, and Dreamweaver, for Windows Vista. Instead the company suggests upgrading to the new CS3 suite which is expected to be released later this month.

• Speaking of Vista, Microsoft has announced a change to the Vista licensing agreement. Reversing an earlier stance, Microsoft says it will allow those who purchase a boxed copy of Vista and then upgrade to a more expensive version to move that upgraded edition to other machines.

• TSIA: Oops! Computer tech wipes out info on $38B fund.

• Google is beta testing a new “pay-per-action” advertising scheme. Under the new system, which is in limited testing mode, advertisers only pay when a consumer takes a specific action, for instance, makes a purchase, fills out a form or visits a web page. The new program is designed to combat problems with click fraud in Google existing adwords program.

The Morning Reboot:

• YourMinis has added a new blog directory to highlight widgets for specific blogs. The widgets themselves aren’t new, but the new section makes it easier to find a widget for your favorite blog. That said, the “featured” blog widgets happen to mainly be tech review sites (which are likely to reviewing the new feature) which I find a bit tacky.

• Google inked a deal yesterday to provide software for students and government workers in Rwanda and Kenya. The students and government workers will have access to the Google Apps set of free communications tools, including e-mail, shared calendars, instant messaging and word processing.

• Wired’s own Jeanette Borzo has an interesting piece on NetVibes which includes an interview with Tariq Krim, the man behind Netvibes and Krim’s plans to revamp online advertising.

• Symantec has released a new study which claims “the current Internet threat environment is characterized by an increase in data theft, data leakage, and the creation of targeted, malicious code for the purpose of stealing confidential information that can be used for financial gain.” In other news, the world is apparently “round.”

• And finally, of interest to science nerds: Discover magazine has opened its online archives to everyone, you no longer need to be a subscribe to access older articles.

The Morning Reboot:

• Adobe Labs has launched Apollo, the new cross platform runtime environment designed to help web developers deploy web apps that behave like traditional desktop software. Apollo is a free download and includes a software development kit and the runtime software for deploying Apollo applications.

• Look out Hollywood, YouTube Oscars are on the way. Starting later today YouTube members can browse through videos in seven genres and vote for their favorites (note link not working as of 8 AM Eastern). Voting ends on friday and the awards will be handed out March 26th. The “YTAs” is kinda catchy and way more fun than the self-important pomp of the Oscars — by the people, for the people.

• According to a company press release, the popular Windows CD/DVD authoring tool Nero will be coming to the Linux platform. A beta version of Nero Linux 3 is expected to be available at the end of March 2007.

• AOL has released a plugin for the AIM instant messaging service that adds new capabilities which allow you to see where people on your buddy lists are physically located. Not recommended for those that already have a stalker, but handy if you’re looking to pick one up.

• Okay we know you’re probably sick of hearing about Twitter, but check out what Gordon Meyer over at O’Reilly has done to integrate Twitter into his home automation set up. Imagine getting a Twitter message from your motion sensitive porch lights informing you that someone has just left the building.

The Morning Reboot:

• The Google Talk widget can now be added to your personalized homepage. The Google Talk Gadget is a web-based module that brings the Talk functionality in GMail to your Google personalized homepage — letting you see your friends and chat with them.

• WordPress, the popular blogging platform, has rolled out the WordPress Plugins Directory, where plugins can be browsed, rated, commented on and downloaded. Previously plugins were largely scattered around at personal sites and lacked a centralized repository other than a developer’s Subversion-based site which many casual users found difficult to figure out.

• The word “wiki” has officially made it into the English language. The word, which comes from Hawaiian and means roughly “quick” in its native language, has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary with the definition: a type of Web page designed so that its contents can be edited by anyone who accesses it.

• The web loves phone rumors. Ever since the iPhone turned out to be a real product (and perhaps even before that) rumors have swirled about a Google Phone. Now, according to Engadget, a Google exec has confirmed the existence of R & D project phone.

The Morning Reboot:

• In a move that I find downright shocking, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has announced that it is putting Microsoft’s Open XML format — used for Office 2007 documents — on the fast track to become a full ISO standard. Of course having OOXML on the fast track does not mean it will be accepted, that is still up to the voting countries come ballet time.

• Today is the last day for old school Flickr users to switch over to a Yahoo account and to make things perhaps a bit less painful, Flickr announced a new feature yesterday called “collection.” Collections are essentially another top level organization tool that allows you to make sets of sets. Collections are available to Flickr Pro users only.

• Google is reversing its long standing policy of storing user search data indefinitely. Our own Ryan Singel has an in depth look at what the decision means over at 27B Stroke 6: “by the end of the year [Google] will begin removing identifying data from its search logs after 18 months to two years, depending on the country the servers are located in.”

• Interesting copyright news: author Jonathan Lethem has announced he will give away the film option rights for his new novel (taking payment in royalties) so long as the filmmaker agrees to release all the materials and rights into the public domain after five years. It seems to me that this is exactly what it will take to raise the level of dialogue about copyright — for the public to see actual authors/musicians/artist embrace alternative structures. Kudos to Lethem.

The Morning Reboot, on the road again:

• Regarding yesterday’s $1 billion Viacom lawsuit against YouTube and Google, Google remains unfazed (nearly limitless capital can do that for you) and claims that it is protected under current copyright law.

• Apple released a significant new update for OS X users yesterday. The update brings the system to version 10.4.9 and addresses a number of security updates including patches for a number of security flaws in third party products like the Adobe Flash plugin. Fire up Software Update to get the fixes.

• Our own Michael Calore has the inside scoop, including leaked photos of a test site, on the rumored MySpace Digg-clone. Yes it is real Virginia.

• And finally, Gadget Lab one of the coolest iPod screenhacks ever. Bound to be a hit at SXSW.