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Xbox 360 Teams With CBS, MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures, Turner Broadcasting, UFC and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment to Digitally Deliver TV Shows and Movies to Gamers — Xbox 360 will become first gaming console to offer downloads of over 1,000 hours of TV shows such as "CSI," …
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Robert Levine / New York Times:
Microsoft Moves Into Video Download Fray — Owners of Microsoft's Xbox 360 game console will soon be able to watch science fiction epics as well as play them. — Microsoft said tonight that it would offer movies and episodes of television shows for download through its Xbox Live online service …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Xbox Live Video hands-on — We snagged a few shots of Microsoft's new Xbox Live Video HDTV and HD movie download platform tonight. There isn't a whole lot to say since there was essentially zero mystery excepting seeing the actual XBL interface in person, but you should still click …
David Berlind / Between the Lines:
Could Adobe's contribution to Mozilla force MS to take Internet Explorer open source? — News.com's Martin Lamonica has the details on "the largest code contribution yet to the open source Mozilla Foundation:" … So, I have a couple of quick observations on this.
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Adobe:
Unifies Modern Scripting Across Firefox and Flash and Advances Innovation on the Web — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) and the Mozilla Foundation, a public-benefit organization dedicated to promoting choice and innovation on the Internet, today announced that Adobe has contributed source code …
Mike / Techdirt:
Is It Tech Rage Or Bad Customer Service Rage? — from the let-it-all-out dept — Over the past few years there have been numerous stories about the growth of tech rage, where people get so frustrated with technology products not working as they should (or it not being at all clear how to work them) …
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BBC:
Zune problems for MSN customers — People who have bought music from Microsoft's MSN Music store could face problems if they decide to buy the firm's new Zune portable player. — Microsoft has said it will stop selling music from MSN music from 14 November, when Zune goes on sale in the US.
Time:
YOUTUBE — Meet Peter. Peter is a 79-year-old English retiree. Back in WW II he served as a radar technician. He is now an international star. — One year ago, this would not have been possible, but the world has changed. In the past 12 months, thousands of ordinary people have become famous.
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Real-Time Clock / Real-Time Society:
The Proposal to Control Net Access — Senator Eduardo Azeredo (PSDB-MG) is the responsible for a bill that will end with Internet privacy and anonymity altogether. This bill, if passed into law, will require every ISP to store each connection performed by a user for at least 3 years.
Brian Morrissey / Adweek:
Barnett Takes 2nd Turn vs. Google — NEW YORK Jim Barnett knows the perils of competing with Google. He saw firsthand how the company's mastery of search vanquished early leaders like AltaVista (where he was CEO) and Excite. — Now, he's striving to take on Google in the online advertising realm …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Samsung's SPH-P9000 Deluxe MITs: Windows XP at 75 MPH — Ultra-portable XP devices have been getting a whole lot of interesting lately. Now Samsung just upped the ante with this — the SPH-P9000 Deluxe MITs — at the Mobile WiMax Summit 2006 in South Korea.
Business Wire:
Dell Notebooks Deliver New Level of Value for Consumers, Small Businesses — Dell Adds Inspiron 1501, Latitude 131L to Its Award-Winning Line of Notebooks — ROUND ROCK, Texas—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Just in time for the holidays, Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) today announced the Inspiron™ 1501 …
Michael Calore / Monkey Bites:
Widgets Live: Demo Roundup — We were just treated to a round of "lightning demos" here at Widgets Live to end the day. Here are some of the best. — Feedburner, the RSS feed management company, announced a service that applies sticky branding to SpringWidgets.
Scott Gilbertson / Wired News:
Delete Your Bad Web Rep — The mistakes you make on the internet can live forever — unless you hire somebody to clean up after you. — A new startup, ReputationDefender, will act on your behalf by contacting data hosting services and requesting the removal of any materials that threaten your good social standing.
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Reuters:
Verizon near content deal with YouTube: WSJ —Text+NEW YORK (Reuters) - Verizon Communications Inc., the No. 2 U.S. telecommunications company, is in advanced talks with YouTube Inc. to bring the Web site's videos to cellphones and television sets, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.