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Microsoft's Zune Delivers Connected Music and Entertainment Experience — Built-in wireless technology lets consumers share experiences device to device. — Marking the next big milestone for its Connected Entertainment vision, Microsoft Corp. today unveiled details of the first products to be released under its Zune™ brand.
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Microsoft launches the Zune! — As expected, Microsoft is busting out the Zune today, and we've got the rundown. Not a lot of surprises in the specs department, but they've confirmed the basics we've known for a while, like WiFi, 30GB of HDD, built-in FM, a 3-inch screen and the basic music, pictures and video playback.
Cyrus Farivar / Engadget:
Zune Marketplace to keep your Zune player stocked — The iPod had to move over (even if only a little today), and now it's turn for iTunes to move as well. Zune's software is, of course, called Zune, and it encompasses everything you'd expect from your standard single-shot media player, download, and management console.
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Blake Robinson / CrunchGear:Zune is Here — Microsoft today announced a bunch of official information on Zune.
USA Today:
Wii game system rolls out on Nov. 19 — The final pieces of this fall's video game battle fall into position today as Nintendo announces that its new Wii home system will sell for $250 — half the price of Sony's cheapest PlayStation 3 — and launch Nov. 19, two days after the PS3.
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Peter Rojas / Engadget:
Live at Nintendo's NYC Wii press conference — Yeah, so we already know most, if not all, of the gory details, but we're here live in New York for Nintendo's US press conference for the Wii anyway. We'll have updates on the regular, stay tuned! — 9:20AM EST - Perrin Kaplan is on stage doing an introduction.
Kotaku:
Well here we are, in Studio C of Pier 59. I'd be excited about the news, but since we already know most of what they are going to say, not so much. I do suspect that there will still be something new. So stay tuned to the site for the blow-by-blow. — Ooh, they're throwing around a Mario ball.
Seth Schiesel / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:Nintendo gets Wii ready for holidays
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Dogster raises $1M to expand — Woof! — but it's not about the dogs — About a year ago, Dogster, the social networking site for dogs, made some eyebrow-raising news: It had turned profitable. — Now Dogster has raised a round of $1 million from a group of accomplished "angel" investors, to help it step on the gas.
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New York Times:
Tiny Firm's H.P. Link Scrutinized — California prosecutors looking into the Hewlett-Packard spying case are focusing in part on a small private investigation firm in suburban Boston, operating out of a yellow house with black shutters in a quiet neighborhood.
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John Paczkowski / Good Morning Silicon Valley:So ya need some ... "pretexting," eh? Yeah, I think I know a guy who knows a guy.
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Corynne McSherry / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Canadian Sony Rootkit Settlement Misses the Mark — Almost a year after the Sony BMG rootkit debacle began, Sony BMG has finally settled with its Canadian customers. Much of the settlement, particularly the compensation customers will receive, mirrors the provisions of the U.S. agreement approved last May.
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Mike / Techdirt:
Diebold Brushes Off Yet Another Damning Security Report — Just a day after Avi Rubin discussed many of the real world problems of some Diebold e-voting machines in action, Ed Felten has come out with his quite damning independent review of the machines — noting just how problematic …
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Jaimie Sirovich / SEO Egghead:
Mattcuttsarama: 21 Great SEO Tips From Google's Matt Cutts — Part of Jaimie Sirovich's adventure in SEO — This is a compilation of stuff Matt Cutts has said historically, minus some of the more recent stuff here, here, and here. I decided I'd dig backwards and document some of the older stuff.
Katie Hafner / New York Times:
Philanthropy Google's Way: Not the Usual — The ambitious founders of Google, the popular search engine company, have set up a philanthropy, giving it seed money of about $1 billion and a mandate to tackle poverty, disease and global warming. — But unlike most charities …
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
Apple's iTV: Bridging the Big Divide — The iPod maker is betting it can do a better job than predecessors in getting digital content from the computer to the TV — Apple Computer (AAPL) often proves itself to be the best at building smartly designed consumer products. But it's not always the first.
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Yahoo! Mail Beta Release - Exclusive Podcast With Ethan Diamond — Today Yahoo is releasing the new Ajax-powered version of Yahoo Mail to all users in the US and across 18 international markets. Previously Yahoo Mail Beta (as it is known) was only available to a relatively small group of people.
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Rakesh Agrawal / Rakesh Agrawal's Blog:
The road to Google Calendar (talk by Carl Sjogreen of Google) — Carl Sjogreen delivered an extremely informative talk about how they built Google Calendar. He covers everything from the initial customer interviews and research, to the vision they established for the product …
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Showtime: The Big Picture — Apple came into yesterday's "Showtime" special event with an awfully high set of expectations to meet. First, the entire show pretty much had to be about movies — adding major motion pictures to the iPod Music Store, providing them in a high-enough quality format …
