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Stoobalou writes "The British music industry has called for a truce with the technology firms with whom it has till now fought a bitter battle over rights, royalties and file sharing. Feargal Sharkey, CEO of lobby group UK Music, told a conference in London this week that it was time for the music and technology industries to set aside their differences and strive instead toward a common goal: nothing less than the total global domination of British music."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fentertainment.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F06%2F0030238%2FUK-Music-Industry-Calls-For-Truce-With-Technology" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=UK+Music+Industry+Calls+For+Truce+With+Technology%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F96BCol" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/10/09/06/0030238/UK-Music-Industry-Calls-For-Truce-With-Technology?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1777964amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d755550/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lSs91ChavZbYYPJmBf5LWt8m_4E/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lSs91ChavZbYYPJmBf5LWt8m_4E/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lSs91ChavZbYYPJmBf5LWt8m_4E/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lSs91ChavZbYYPJmBf5LWt8m_4E/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/ELcvperQvNY" height="1" width="1"/

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pimg alt="Twitter" src="http://www.readwriteweb.com/imgTwitter.jpg" width="150" height="49" class="mt-image-none" style="" /There were no reporters present in Laurel, Miss. when a jury handed down a $131 million verdict against Ford after an Explorer rolled over, killing a young man who was on track to play baseball for the New York Mets. Hours after the verdict, there was no coverage of a case that involved a high profile victim, a major corporation, and the possibility that more than four million Ford Explorers are dangerously unstable./p pAdam Penenberg heard about the verdict immediately from the defense lawyer. Hours later, he was amazed to see there had been no major media coverage at all. So he turned to a href="http://twitter.com/penenberg"Twitter/a./p p align="right"emSponsor/embr /a href='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/ck.php?n=21655amp;cb=21655' target='_blank'img src='http://d.ads.readwriteweb.com/avw.php?zoneid=14amp;cb=21655amp;n=21655' border='0' alt='' //a/p pFiring off more than 50 tweets in two hours, Penenberg related the entire story of the fatal accident, the case and the verdict. The result reads like an entry from Simple English Wikipedia, interspersed with tweets pleading reporters to pick up the story./p p"Miss. jury awards $131 million in damages to family of Brian Cole, killed in Ford Explorer rollover accident. No news media there," he a href="http://twitter.com/Penenberg/status/22825231166"wrote/a. a href="http://twitter.com/Penenberg/status/22826943705"Then/a, "C'mon reporters. Am I only one who thinks $131 MILLION verdict against FORD in a product liability suit is news??"/p div class="pullquote""C'mon reporters. Am I only one who thinks $131 MILLION verdict against FORD in a product liability suit is news??"br/-Adam Penenberg/div pPenenberg is a contributing writer for the magazine Fast Company who wrote a a href="http://www.penenberg.com/book_tragic.html"book/a about the dangers of SUVs. He knew about the verdict immediately from the lawyer in the Ford case, but had no venue for breaking the news where people would see it - other than Twitter, where he has more than 2,800 followers./p pThe story eventually emerged in the major news media. But Penenberg's tweetstream was longer than many of the stories. He even corrected an Associated Press story in a a href="http://twitter.com/Penenberg/status/22833766889"tweet/a./p pPenenberg had an advantage over other reporters covering the case because he has written a book about the subject. A journalist who gets a complex, multi-million dollar unlawful death suit dropped in her lap is going to produce less robust coverage than one who already knows the history and the players. /p pThat combination of better coverage, faster, is the exception rather than the rule. Every media outlet strives for both. But more often than not, the quality of an article is inversely related to the amount of time it took to create. /p pThe Internet has made it possible to break news faster than ever, and Twitter epitomizes this. Typing 140 characters is faster than TV and much faster than blogging - especially if you can do it from your phone. /p pPenenberg a href="http://twitter.com/Penenberg/status/23015733263"said/a the a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/1686864/ford-rollover-verdict-brian-cole-131-million-twitter"experiment/a taught him how efficient Twitter is for breaking news, and he plans to use it from now on. What do you think - do you like your breaking news live-blogged from Twitter? 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This weekend, Craigslist removed its notorious “Adult Services” classifieds section in U.S. markets and replaced it with a black bar that read “censored,” implying that pressure from law enforcement or the legal and political systems of the country became too much to resist.

Craigslist is playing for sympathy, but will it get that sympathy from the public? We’ve put together this poll to find out.

There’s something to be said for the free flow of information on the Internet; you know we believe in that general rule. But Adult Services (formerly “Erotic Services”) has been used by prostitutes since its inception — and by at least one serial killer who hunted them. Craigslist stood to gain $36 million in revenue from the adult services classifieds in 2010 according to an estimate from the Advanced Interactive Media (AIM) Group.

Was Craigslist profiting from prostitution, or facilitating free speech and standing for the fundamental principles on which the Internet and the United States were both (supposedly) founded? Answer in our poll, and feel free to discuss your answer in the comments.

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Hugh Pickens writes "Members of 4chan aren't known for doing things that are cute and heart-warming and when they decide to go after someone, it's typically to subject them to ridicule. But not this time. Someone at 4chan decided that the Internet should get together and wish 90-year-old WWII veteran William J. Lashua a happy birthday, and soon Lashua's local branch of the American Legion was deluged by birthday calls from people as far away as Sweden. The account someone set up for Mr. Lashua's birthday on Facebook had 3,956 'likes' and over 500 comments, most of which wished him a happy birthday and thanked him for his military service. It's not clear how 4chan originally came across a photo of Lashua, but a member of the site posted a snapshot of a flyer that was on the bulletin board at a store in Ashburnham, Massachusetts asking for guests to attend the nonagenarian's birthday on at the American Legion hall and the post took off. In contrast to their usual behavior, 4chan members 'were giving him nice phone calls and sending him nice notes' and discouraging those who wanted to do something stupid or mean. 'They were all being.. well, shucks, awful nice.'"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F10%2F09%2F05%2F2148248%2F4chan-Gives-90-Year-Old-Vet-a-Great-Birthday" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=4chan+Gives+90-Year-Old+Vet+a+Great+Birthday%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Faf4Fm6" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/09/05/2148248/4chan-Gives-90-Year-Old-Vet-a-Great-Birthday?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./piframe src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?op=discussamp;id=1777912amp;smallembed=1" style="height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;"/iframeimg width='1' height='1' src='http://slashdot.feedsportal.com/c/32909/f/530758/s/d748c8f/mf.gif' border='0'/ pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/sG7mh2JxlQrTYDCuTjSm8fosefY/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/sG7mh2JxlQrTYDCuTjSm8fosefY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/sG7mh2JxlQrTYDCuTjSm8fosefY/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/sG7mh2JxlQrTYDCuTjSm8fosefY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/1EujbKfgX_I" height="1" width="1"/

Everybody loves a good watch, and the best thing about watches is that they actually serve a practical purpose. These handy, portable gadgets are more than just decoration, which means you can usually justify spending money on a decent one.

However, being geeks, we want more from our timepiece than the ability to inform us of the hour, so we’ve found 10 great watches that offer some special geek-friendly functionality too.

Whether you want to use your wristwatch to make a call, to control your iPod or record video, the gallery below has got a watch for you. Let us know your favorites in the comments.

1. Casio Databank DBC32C-3B

Casio is such a giant in the geek watch space it could easily warrant a top 10 list of its own. For now, we're bringing you news of the limited edition Databank that offers up-to-date geek functionality in a design reminiscent of Casio's classic calculator watches.

Cost: $59

2. Wifi Finder Watch

This watch will sniff out Wi-Fi at a distance of 100 meters, meaning you'll be kept abreast of when you're in a hotspot or not without the trouble of pulling out your laptop or smartphone to check. Tidy!

Cost: $65.99

3. LG GD910 Watch Phone

Available on contract in the UK and some other regions, the LG GD910 - or Watch Phone - can be purchased SIM-free in the States, if you're willing to pay the price. Arguably one of the only credible phone-watch combos to have ever hit the market, the GD910 boasts a 1.3-inch touchscreen, video as well as voice-calling capabilities. It can be used with a Bluetooth headset or for those yes-I'm-with-the-Secret-Service moments, via the built-in speakerphone.

Cost: From around $800

4. Nike Amp+ Sport Remote Control

This clever bit of gadgetry integrates with your iPod nano and Nike+ running system to offer remote control over your iPod, and voice feedback on your time, distance, calories burned and pace. Its reduced price on the Nike online store suggests it's heading towards end-of-life (it's been around since 2007), so if you are interested, you might want to grab one sooner rather than later.

Cost: Currently $39.99, down from $79

5. Spy Camera Video Watch

Want to be able to record audio and video from your wristwatch? Of course you do! No one would suspect this classic-looking mini-clock is in fact capable of such cloak-and-dagger video capture. There's a tiny lens between the hours 12 and 1 that will capture events around you in AVI format, ready to be transferred to your PC next time you're back at HQ.

Cost: $79.99

6. Sony Ericsson MBW-150 Music Edition Bluetooth Watch

Falling short of full-fat phone-watch capabilities, this Bluetooth-enabled timepiece hooks up to your phone and displays data such as the name and number of incoming callers and when a text has been received. In addition, for anyone with a Sony Ericsson Walkman phone, there are media buttons to control your music on the move.

Cost: Approx $120

7. USB Hidden Flash Drive Watch

The true geek never leaves the house without a flash drive. Concealed in the side of this watch is a teeny-weeny storage stick boasting 8 lovely gigs of flash memory.

Cost: $49.99

8. Stanley Tape Measure Watch

Part of a range of tooled-up Stanley watches released in Japan, gadget emporium Brando offers an easy way to import this item. It cunningly conceals a 3-foot tape measure behind its plastic exterior, offering a charmingly lo-fi way to geek out.

Cost: $44.50

9. Luminox Men's 3051 EVO Navy SEAL Colormark Watch

Ideal for a tough gal or guy geek, there's some cool sci-fi tech in this timepiece used by the Navy SEALs and U.S. Air Force pilots. Glowing 100 times brighter than your average luminous watch, the 24/7 luminosity comes via tiny gas lights (technically known as "borosilicate glass capsules") which are good to glow for over 25 years.

Cost: $168.99

10. InPulse BlackBerry Smart Watch

If you're a red-blooded, gadget-loving BlackBerry owner, then you're really going to want to take a look at the inPulse watch. Thanks to some Bluetooth magic, it'll hook up to your RIM-made device and offer you on-screen info on incoming e-mails, texts and calls - meaning if you're in a meeting (or otherwise socially engaged) a quick glance at your watch is all you'll need to do to stay connected.

Cost: On pre-order for $149 with a September beta release planned

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We’ve all run into someone with a new iPhone. And we’ve all learned to expect the inevitable “watch this” moment involved in this encounter.

Whether they identify the background music with Shazam, pull up a fancy screen saver, or fire up a classic PC game, it’s easy for even the most loyal BlackBerry owner to feel a slight pang of jealousy while witnessing these demonstrations. The iPhone is so shiny, so trendy, and it does so many cool tricks.

It’s better to cope with these feelings than to admit them. There’s no need to give up your BlackBerry. The following six iPhone tricks can be accomplished by BlackBerry Apps (and by the way, Shazam makes a BlackBerry app, too).

1. Cute Bubble Text Messages

crunchSMS changes BlackBerry text messages to an iPhone-like speech bubble format. All you need to do is block incoming text messages from your regular inbox, and you can use the app as an alternative.

2. Doodling

Doodle Buddy lets iPhone and iPad users finger paint all over their touch screens, drop in stamps, and even collaborate with friends over the Internet.

Doodle allows owners of the touch-screen BlackBerry Storm do the same thing for $0.99. Similarly, Make a Mess has fewer features but doesn’t charge. BlackBerry enthusiasts who prefer navigation via ball don’t need to feel left out, either. SketchIt allows them to make Etch A Sketch drawings using the scroll ball or keypad.

3. Photoshop

Adobe makes an app for the iPhone that crops, rotates, changes the color of, and draws on photos. There’s even a Soft Focus feature. Sadly this awesome app has no BlackBerry sister, but the unbranded BlackBerry version, imgEdit, accomplishes just as many editing tasks. Plus it a has “a special Warhol effect.”

4. Doppler Radar

There’s something about the weather that turns us all into geeks. The iPhone has widgets and apps specifically designed to supply live radar maps to wannabe weathermen. While there isn’t a specific radar map app available for BlackBerry users, the “maps” feature of the Weather Channel’s free app is more than adequate for backing up amateur forecasts.

5. InstaPaper

Often cited as one of the coolest apps for the iPhone, InstaPaper sends articles you find on the web directly to your phone so that you can read them later, even if your phone is offline. It turns out that the BlackBerry can do that, too. Save Web Page adds a “save PDF” option to your phone’s browser. Saved pages can be read without connecting to the Internet.

6. Remote Control Capability

iPhone users can purchase an accessory that plugs into the USB port and allows them to use their iPhone as a TV remote. The problem with this is that it changes the “where is the remote?” question to a “where is my USB accessory?” question. BlackBerry’s version of a home theater remote control, however, is a box that sits near entertainment equipment rather than connecting to a phone. The AV Shadow can use one phone to control your television, TiVo, DVD player, and satellite box. You can even use your BlackBerry to control Apple products like iPods.

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