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Reuters:
Microsoft to face challenge over Linux licenses — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Supporters of PC operating system Linux are preparing to counter a recent deal penned by Microsoft Corp (Nasdaq:MSFT - news) which establishes for the first time the principle of paying the software giant for the operating system …
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Ron Hovsepian / novell.com:
Open Letter to the Community from Novell — On November 2, Novell and Microsoft announced a significant, multi-part agreement to work together to improve the interoperability between Linux and Windows and for Microsoft to redistribute more than 350,000 subscriptions for SUSE Linux Enterprise …
David Berlind / Between the Lines:Novell and Microsoft enter into late night spitting match over $40M "IP payoff"
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knownow.com:
KnowNow and Automattic Offer Enterprise-Class Blog Authoring and Intelligence Tools — KnowNow WordPress Enterprise Edition combines RSS and personal publishing platform to help enterprise work forces organize, filter and aggregate information for effective collaboration
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:Wordpress Takes On SixApart With Enterprise Edition and Wordpress.com
Erik Sofge / Slate:
THE CASE AGAINST THE WII. — I'll admit it—I was in love with the Nintendo Wii long before we'd ever met. And then, a few seconds after I touched those strange, new motion-sensing controllers, months of giddy anticipation vanished. I've played and won 14-hour-long Halo tournaments.
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CrunchGear, Business Filter, michael parekh on IT, PVRblog, Kotaku, Game|Life, Joystiq and digg
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Chris Suellentrop / Slate:
Wii Is the Champion — NINTENDO'S NEW CONSOLE BESTS THE PS3 AND THE XBOX 360. — In a great video game, the narrative is secondary to the game's central appeal: satisfying my desire to be an NFL quarterback, a Jedi Knight, and a martial-arts wizard (though not—yet—all at once).
Muhammad Saleem / The Mu Life:
Limitations of Socially Driven News — A number of my friends from Digg pointed out a story to me today that epitomizes several very important limitations to socially driven news. — The following story made it to the front-page of Digg.com within 2 and a half hours of being submitted …
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:Fake News Story Games Thousands of Digg Users
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Reuben Schwarz / Stuff.co.nz:
Police and Weta eye 3D scanner — Industrial Research has developed a hand-held scanner that quickly creates realistic 3D models of crime scenes, movie sets and large objects, garnering interest from the police and Weta Digital. — The Scene-scanner can be waved over a scene or object …
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New York Times:
Google Mapping an Offline Course — Major Internet sites are showing a strong and growing interest in the advertising business, and traditional ad firms are starting to get worried. — Google has been leading the way, building on its online ad strength by striking deals to sell advertising …
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Google:
Google Checkout Makes Holiday Shopping Even Faster and Easier This Year — New Survey Says Forty Percent of Americans Expected to Shop Online From Work This Holiday Season — The Monday after Thanksgiving - Cyber Monday - is expected to draw another record crowd of online shoppers this year …
mobile-review.com:
Review of Windows Mobile 6.0 for PPC (Crossbow) operating system — Before starting the review, we have to make a short note in order to prevent an avalanche of letters similar to what we experienced after publishing the article on Windows Mobile 5.0. The crew working for Mobile-Review.com …
Katie Hafner / New York Times:
In Web World, Rich Now Envy the Superrich — James Hong, a co-founder of the dating site Hotornot.com, said that for him, the site's success meant "freedom money." He is making a symbolic switch in cars, from a Porsche Boxster, right, to a Toyota Prius. — Almost anywhere else, Reid Hoffman would be considered a major success.
Market Wire:
Nielsen//NetRatings Announces September U.S. Search Share Rankings — Nielsen//NetRatings reports October 2006 data for the Top U.S. Search Providers. — Top search providers, ranked by total searches. Searches represent the total number of queries conducted at the provider.
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Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Yahoo seeks geek credibility — Never before have small friends been so important to big companies. — Yahoo, best known as an Internet portal welcoming millions of consumers, is undergoing a transition to appeal to a different audience: software developers.
Jennifer Granick / Wired News:
Second Life Will Save Copyright — Businesses in Second Life are in an uproar over a rogue software program that duplicates "in world" items. They should be. But the havoc sewn by Copybot promises to transform the virtual word into a bold experiment in protecting creative work without the blunt instrument of copyright law.
