WATCH: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Stars In An Early Apple PowerBook Commercial (AAPL)

With all the obsession over which new devices are coming out tomorrow, next month, and next year, we thought it'd be nice to take a quick look backwards. Check out Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in an early Apple commercial for the PowerBook.

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Google Declares Progress Against Piracy as it Seeks Media Partners

Seeking to disassociate itself with copyright infringement in the eyes of potential business partners, Google says it's made progress in its effort to combat online piracy this year.

The company's four-pronged approach to reeling in the amount of copyright-infringing content found on its sites was announced in December in response to years of criticism from media outlets and rights holders over the ease with which users have been able to publish and find such content via Google's properties, including YouTube and Blog Search.

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The search giant claims to be fulfilling its prior vow that it would respond to Digitial Millenium Copyright Act (DCMA) content removal requests within 24 hours, a process it has expedited by giving publishers the tools to more easily report infringement. Chairman Eric Schmidt told a gathering of UK television executives last week that the company's average response time to takedown requests is down to four hours.

Google has made two changes to its search results pages aimed to discourage piracy and promote original content when published by its rightful owners. Rich Music Snippets help highlight legit audio content, while changes they made to Autocomplete have blacklisted a number of piracy-related search terms, so as not to appear to openly encourage copyright infringement.

They've also begun to more actively enforce their long-standing prohibition against AdSense users displaying Google's ads on pages that offer pirated content.

In more directly addressing copyright issues, Google is not only protecting itself from future litigation like Viacom's failed $1 billion lawsuit, but also assuages the concerns of large content providers, with whom Google needs to partner if it wants initiatives like Google TV, Google Music, Google Books and its YouTube movie rental service to succeed.

"We are not your enemy and we want to help," Schmidt told the crowd at the Edinburgh Television Festival. Not coincidentally, the company announced the day before that Google TV would soon be launching in Europe, starting with the UK.

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Amazon to Launch a $250 7-inch Android-based Tablet in November

As widely expected, Amazon will indeed be launching an Android-based tablet device before the end of this year. Rather than a launching a new product line, the company is simply updating its existing Kindle product to be a full color, multi-touch, 7" tablet that will sell for $250.

Several details about the device, which has been rumored for the last year or so, were revealed by Techcrunch's M.G. Siegler, who had a chance to see it and test it out.

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In terms of its form factor, Siegler describes a black, Blackberry Playbook-style device with a rubber back and little in the way of physical buttons. Instead, the UI is mostly touch-based. While it's based on Android, it appears to be a fork of the original OS, radically altered to match Amazon's branding. The result is a design and user experience that bears only a limited resemblance to what Android users are used to.

Instead of Google's apps, the device will be tightly integrated with Amazon's services. In addition to the obvious choice of the Kindle app for reading, it will sport Amazon Cloud Player for music, Instant Video Player for movies and even Amazon's Android App Store, rather than Google's. Presumably Amazon will continue to build out this new fork of Android independently of Google, which explains why they've been hiring so many Android developers.

The device is expected to launch in late November and if it sells well, we may see a 10-inch version before long.

Rumors first started circulating that Amazon was working on a tablet device late last summer. Since then, that speculation turned into inevitable reality as more details leaked and Amazon began ordering the parts necessary to build a device with a touch screen. Even though the product has not been formally announced, analysts are already scrambling to predict what kind of an impact it will have. Forrester, for example, has said the device could sell as many as 5 million units in the fourth quarter.

At $250, the new Kindle will cost half as much as the least expensive iPad, which currently dominates the tablet market in the U.S.

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Friday Roundup: Court Tosses Oracle Award, App Engine Pricing, Fake IDs, Seesmic and More...

It's been a crazy conference week with VMworld and Dreamforce '11 going on at the same time. News from those shows have been all over ReadWriteWeb's channels this week, like the VMware vFabric Data Director announcement, and CloudStack going 100% open source.

We also looked at storing Salesforce data locally, and Microsoft's digs at a certain virtualization vendor over cloud computing.

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Top Stories of the Week

This week, Scott Fulton's been on fire. He turned in an exceptionally thoughtful piece about the implications of friending things. Says Fulton, "we have to start wondering, at what point will this leveraging of social media for the purposes of data mining and customer engagement drive back the social media revolution, and force millions upon millions of new users to dial down the volume?" Seriously, take the time to read this piece, it's worth the time.

Also check out SSL Certificates: What's Left to Trust?, where Fulton looks at the SSL certificates improperly granted by DigiNotar. Must-read material for anyone that depends on SSL, and if you're reading this site – you almost certainly do.

Along those lines, David Strom looks at the proliferation of fake IDs online. Strom reports that as much as 40% of the accounts registered on some sites were created by spammers.

Good news for SAP this week in the Oracle case, but not so much for AT&T.

Finally, the folks at Seesmic have big plans with Seesmic CRM replacing the desktop.

As usual, there's much more from the ReadWriteWeb Channels this week that you shouldn't miss:

• Linux Kernel Host Kernel.org Breached
• Big Question (Answered): What Else is There to Cloud Computing?
• A Big Splash for Enterprise Password Management Tools
• Research: Mobile Ad Inventory Could Swallow All Internet Advertising
• Data.com Is Just a Big Nothing

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TweetDeck to launch as HTML5 Web app, now accepting beta testers

When TweetDeck landed in the Chrome Web Store, it seemed like an indication that it might eventually evolve into a pure HTML5 Web app. Now it looks as though that's exactly what's going to happen, with TweetDeck announcing that a new, not-just-for-Chrome Web client is ready for beta testing.

It's a natural progression for TweetDeck, especially since its originally Adobe Air app is practically all Web code. TweetDeck Web will sport a feature set which is nearly identical to the Chrome app, with the notable exception of Twitter streaming.

Initially, TweetDeck is targeting Firefox 4 and 3.6, Google Chrome, and Safari. Opera and Internet Explorer 9 won't be invited to the dance until a bit later on.

If you'd like to get in on the TweetDeck Web beta, head on over and register -- or sign up using your existing TweetDeck account.

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Windows Home Server 2011 released to manufacturers

Just a little under two months after its release candidate went live, Windows Home Server (WHS) 2011 has been finalized and released into the wild. The new version of Microsoft's slick, do-it-all server OS is a big step forward from its predecessor.

Built on the Windows Server 2008 R2 base, Home Server 2011 features a simpler dashboard, a better backup solution, dead simple remote access to your home computers, and Silverlight-powered remote media streaming. For a more detailed look at what's new in Windows Home Server 2011, you check out Microsoft's official breakdown.

Drive Extender, of course, didn't resurface for the final release of WHS 2011 and that's something a lot of power users are still pretty irked about. Even without Extender, Windows Home Server offers a boatload of useful functionality and might be a good fit for your home network. Manufacturers have already begun building hardware, so you should be able to pick up a device in the very near future.

An evaluation download for Windows Home Server 2011 will be made available in April -- we'll let you know when the links are ready.

Windows Home Server 2011 released to manufacturers originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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