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John Markoff / New York Times:
How Will Apple's Marketing Maestro Marry the Computer and the Home TV? — Has Apple Computer's chief executive, Steven P. Jobs, found a way to connect the PC to the TV? — With an enticing invitation proclaiming "It's Showtime," Mr. Jobs last week touched off speculation about how far Apple …
Robert Andrews / Wired News:
9/11: Birth of the Blog — When the world changed on Sept. 11, 2001, the web changed with it. — While phone networks and big news sites struggled to cope with heavy traffic, many survivors and spectators turned to online journals to share feelings, get information or detail their whereabouts.
Steven Levy / Newsweek:
Living a Virtual Life — Is World of Warcraft a game, or is it a harbinger of virtual realities that we all might inhabit? Only a Night Elf knows for sure. — Two years into the history of World of Warcraft-an online game that accommodates 7 million players around the world …
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Joint Statement of Podcasting Organizations and Podcasters on the Proposed Wipo Treaty for the Protection of Broadcasts and Broadcasting Organizations Presented to 15th Session of Wipo Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights — We, the undersigned individuals and organizations …
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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:URGENT: Podcasters act now to stop anti-podcasting UN treaty!
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A View from the Isle
Rick Segal / The Post Money Value:
Microsoft Max and You — Important note: If you hate Microsoft, aren't a developer, etc, hit the next blog entry, nothing to see here. — Important note 2: I used to work for Microsoft, good comments, I'm an unpaid shill, bad comments I'm a sour grapes, ex-employee, feel free to pick either.
John Naughton / Observer:
Why Vista will mean the end of the Microsoft monolith — Well, the long wait is nearly over. Microsoft's elephantine parturition has produced an heir. Last week the company distributed 'Release Candidate 1' (RC1) of Vista, the new incarnation of Windows, to about 5 million favoured customers.
David A. Kaplan / Newsweek:
Suspicions and Spies in Silicon Valley — It was supposed to be an easygoing celebration of a coronation. In early 2005, after Mark Hurd had been chosen to be Hewlett-Packard's new chief executive officer, he and his wife joined chairman of the board Patricia Dunn and her husband at the Marin County home of director Tom Perkins.
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Evan Blass / Engadget:
Ben Heckendorn's Xbox 360 laptop: best mod ever? — Every so often a mod comes along that's so intricate, so amazing, so over the top, that words simply don't do it justice (but we'll try anyway). Ben Heckendorn's Xbox 360 laptop is one such mod. Having garnered no small amount of fame …
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Igniq.com Gaming News
Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
Top social media users getting paid; is the balance shifting? — Jason Calacanis says in an AOL memo he's posted that his model for Netscape has been vindicated by the recent conflagration at Digg and rapid growth of page views at Netscape. He says recent events are proving that top contributors …
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The Paradigm Shift
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:Netscape Update (the internal memo)
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Sparkplug 9 >> bizhack
CNET News.com:
HP board mum on Dunn's fate — Hewlett-Packard's board of directors met for several hours Sunday but adjourned without announcing a decision on the fate of Chairman Patricia Dunn, who is facing calls to resign in the wake of a probe of board members and journalists that involved personal phone records.
Wolfgang Gruener / TG Daily:
Preview: Tom's Hardware benchmarks Intel's first quad-core "Kentsfield" — Culver City (CA) - Intel's first quad-core processor "Kentsfield" has found its way into the Tom's Hardware test lab. Several weeks before Intel will provide evaluation processors to the press …
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Ted Leung on the air
David Chartier / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Viral .Mac feedback - copy and paste this, let's make Apple listen — We've all seen the complaints about .Mac from every corner of the internets. Our own Dave Caolo posted a fantastic editorial covering .Mac's slow death, but he isn't the only one tossing a vote into the hat.
New York Times:
An Industry Is Based on a Simple Masquerade — When Patrick Baird, a private detective in Granbury, Tex., was hunting a runaway or helping a husband find out if his wife was cheating, he would often look for clues in telephone records. He bought them from firms that specialized in obtaining them …
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Payments News
natrium42.com:
IDE to NDS Connection — I was busy the past couple of months, so this is the first post after a long while. — To get back to hardware development, I decided to do a quick IDE to GBAMP (GBA Movie Player v2) hack. I also took a few pictures for the few people interested in doing this (at their own risk)
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
World Internet Penetration Now 16% - Asia Growing Fast! — The latest internetworldstats.com statistics show that worldwide Internet penetration has increased to 16.0%, largely thanks to Asia. About 3 months ago when I last posted on this, the worldwide penetration was 15.7%.
