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Michael White / Bloomberg:
Sony May Not Meet PlayStation 3 Shipment Targets (Update2) — Oct. 20 (Bloomberg) — Sony Corp., which slashed its profit forecast yesterday, said it may not reach this year's shipment target for the PlayStation 3 game console because of a parts shortage in the Blu-ray high-definition disc drive.
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Kyle Orland / Joystiq:
Dissecting Sony's PS3/Xbox 360 price comparison — Over at sister site Engadget, they've noticed that a recently released Sony fact sheet (relevant section pictured above) uses some pretty interesting math to make the Xbox 360 look more expensive than the PS3 once all the extras are added in.
Charles Cooper / CNET News.com:
Perspective: Web 2.0 as a metaphor for 'rip-off' — In one of those delicious ironies that history occasionally dishes up, quasi-socialist Europe turns out to be leagues ahead of the capitalist United States when it comes to protecting intellectual property on the Internet. — Pardonnez-moi?
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Associated Press:
Be loyal, kind and don't steal movies — LOS ANGELES — A Boy Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, etc., etc. He is also respectful of copyrights. — Boy Scouts in the Los Angeles area will now be able to earn a merit patch for learning about the evils of downloading pirated movies and music.
Reuters:
YouTube deletes clips on Japanese media demands — The online video site removed 29,549 video files after receiving a demand from a group of Japanese media companies over copyright infringement. — TOKYO (Reuters) — Google Inc.'s YouTube.com removed 29,549 video files from its popular Web site …
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John Paczkowski / Good Morning Silicon Valley:Why so glum, Chad? Evolution of Dance guy ask you to pull his clip?
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Mark Wallace / 3pointD.com:
SL Adds Web to Beta Profiles, Login Screen — Download the new beta test client for the virtual world of Second Life and you can now browse the Web from a new "Web" tab in your profile, or load the Web pages that other users have set as their home page when you view their profiles.
Scott Gu / ScottGu's Blog:
ASP.NET AJAX Beta 1 Released — Last month I posted about the official new name for "Atlas," and discussed the roadmap plan for shipping a free, fully-supported, v1.0 release that works on top of ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. — Today I am very pleased to announce the first official Beta release of Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX v1.0.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Internet video business challenges — I'm going to be going to see John Battelle this afternoon (he runs the blogging advertising network, Federated Media) and I'm going to ask him about the challenges of making an Internet content business work. — Here's the trouble.
Bruce Schneier / Forbes:
Casual Conversation, R.I.P. — The political firestorm over former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley's salacious instant messages hides another issue, one about privacy. We are rapidly turning into a society where our intimate conversations can be saved and made public later.
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Profit Doubles at Google as It Continues to Expand — Google just doesn't stop. — The world's largest search engine said yesterday that its third-quarter profits nearly doubled from a year ago, as it maintained a torrid growth rate that is highly unusual for a company of its size.
Ryan Naraine / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft Blocks Vista Rootkit Exploit — Microsoft has blocked the attack vector used to slip unsigned drivers past new security policies being implemented in Windows Vista, according to Joanna Rutkowska, the stealth malware researcher who created the exploit.
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Sam Kennedy / 1up.com:
Phil Harrison Talks Downloadable PS1 Games on PS3 — New details on how backwards compatible games will work. — Following today's PS3 press conference in which Sony demonstrated its online PlayStation Store, 1UP was able to speak with Sony's Phil Harrison regarding the PS1 and PS2 titles …
Yuri Kageyama / Associated Press:
Sony Delays Sale of LocationFree TV Box — TOKYO — In yet another embarrassment, Sony on Friday postponed the rollout of a product promised for next week to do more tests, a day after lowering its earnings forecast because of a massive battery recall and manufacturing delays.
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Zombies try to blend in with the crowd — Hackers are trying harder to make their networks of hijacked computers go unnoticed. — Cybercrooks are moving to new Web-based techniques to control the machines they have commandeered, popularly referred to as "zombies."
David Kirkpatrick / Fortune:
The real reason that Google bought YouTube? — The $1.65 billion purchase of the video-sharing site could actually be a boon for traditional TV ads. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — When Google spent $1.65 billion for 19-month-old online video phenomenon YouTube, it was portrayed as a sign of the triumph of online video.
Steve Hargreaves / CNN:
Security analysts: Mac attacks rare but may rise — NEW YORK (CNN) — Apple computers have long been prized for being relatively virus-free. But as more people use Apple products, experts say the company is increasingly becoming a target for cyber pranksters and criminals writing viruses and other forms of malware.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
JibJab's "Great Sketch Experiment" — If you have no idea what JibJab is, turn the volume up on your computer and start with their original parody cartoon of the 2004 U.S. presidential election called "This Land," which has been viewed more than 80 million times. Then go watch all of their other original cartoons here.
Jason Clarke / Download Squad:
Scrybe - the online productivity suite I'm dying to try — In this era of worshipping at the temple of "The David" (Getting Things Done), there is no shortage of offline and online productivity suites. With that in mind, I rarely get all that excited about the new Web 2.0 offerings that get a bit of buzz here and there.
