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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Judge: Can't link to Webcast if copyright owner objects — A federal judge in Texas has ruled that it is unlawful to provide a hyperlink to a Webcast if the copyright owner objects to it. — U.S. District Judge Sam Lindsay in the northern district of Texas granted a preliminary injunction …
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Mike / Techdirt:
Judge Says No Deep Linking To Videos — from the that's-a-problem dept — Deep linking is apparently an issue that just won't die. You would think, by now, people would realize that if you put something on the web, people can link to it. If you don't want them to link to it …
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Microsoft seeks patent covering Web feed readers — Microsoft has filed for two patents covering technology used to organize and read syndicated Web feeds, such as those delivered via the widely used Really Simple Syndication, or RSS, family of formats. — The pair of applications …
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Patent lunacy defense — Microsoft reportedly has filed two patents covering certain aspects of RSS, Really Simple Syndication. Dave Winer is outraged. Nick Bradbury sagely says "Not so fast". I don't have the inside scoop on this yet, but here is what I think is happening.
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Nick Bradbury:
Microsoft's "Content syndication platform" Patent — Dave Winer links to a US Patent Application filed by Microsoft in 2005 regarding the Windows RSS Platform. Here's the abstract: … Wow. I had no idea Microsoft invented all that - I could swear some other folks have implemented similar ideas!
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
World of Origami still unfolding — Get ready for Origami take two. While Microsoft's minitablet effort may not be quite where the software maker had hoped, the project is ready for another cameo. — This spring, Microsoft attracted huge buzz for the Origami prior to its launch …
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Elizabeth Montalbano / InfoWorld:Microsoft offers Vista free to CES exhibitors
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Tom Yager / InfoWorld:
Kill two Windows servers with one Xserve — At its core, Xserve is a two-socket Core microarchitecture Xeon (Woodcrest) rack server. As I wrote in my review, in hardware design, Xserve lives up to market standards. Some touches, like the SAS/SATA drive bays, a PCI-X slot for existing expansion cards …
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Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Toshiba's SED TV a no-show at electronics show — Toshiba's long-awaited SED TV will not be appearing at the Consumer Electronics Show in January after all. — Televisions with SED, which stands for surface conduction electron emitter display, will provide a better picture than LCD …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Venice Project Details And Screen Shots — More information on TheVeniceProject from beta testers is starting to come in. We've covered the rumors of the new online tv, or IPTV, project since the rumors surfaced in October. — Last week, CenterNetworks (great up and coming blog) …
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veerle.duoh.com:
The new Adobe icons and branding — So many voices have expressed their thoughts on Adobe's new icons so far and one of the more noticeable one from users is that they all thought it was some temporary place holder art. When I first saw the splash screen and application icon of Adobe Photoshop CS3 …
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Global Nerdy, Scobleizer, O'Reilly Mac DevCenter Blog, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and JD on EP
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Jason Santa Maria / jasonsantamaria.com:What a Mess — he always generous Mr. Hicks pointed me towards …
Glenn Fleishman / Wi-Fi Networking News:
Connexion In-Flight Replacement Figuratively Up in the Air — The Wall Street Journal reports that the efforts by Lufthansa, Panasonic Avionics, and others to have a transition plan in place for Connexion's demise are delayed: Panasonic made the surprise announcement a few months ago …
Steve Gillmor / Steve Gillmor's GestureLab:
Bad Sinatra — Jonathan Schwartz has a problem. Me. I read his blog today, starting with the most recent post and eventually landing on one a few days ago about the resurgence of the thick client. Let me weigh inthusly : what a load of s**t this is. When Sun leadership starts moving away …
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Seeking Alpha:
Red Hat F3Q07 (Qtr End 11/30/06) Earnings Call Transcript — Executives — Matthew Szulik - Chairman, President and CEO — Analysts — Terry Tillman - SunTrust Robinson-Humphrey — Presentation — Operator — Good afternoon. My name is May, and I will be your conference facilitator today.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Why Doesn't CafePress Use Flash? — There are many sites that sell customized casino chips (just do a search), but we haven't found any that have an online design tool to allow you to create the chip itself. TheChipLab has take the extra step and has created a very nice Flash tool for designing your own casino-grade chip.
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Netcraft
CPaladino / Gamerscore Blog:
Getting Gears of War Soon? Newbies Listen Up! — If you are receiving Gears of War as a present this holiday season, the fact that other people have been playing online for a few months could be intimidating. — I wanted to give a few tips to the newbs/newbies/n00bs that I've picked up through my matches online.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
What's Ed Bott missing on his CES schedule? — Ed Bott is asking what he's missing on his CES schedule. — Oh, let's see. — How about an appearance on the ScobleShow? I still have some slots left open. By the way, we're gonna be doing the "Retrevo Gang" at 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. every day in the Seagate booth.
Chris Winfield / 10e20:
And the List of Domains Ditched by Digg Keeps Growing — Yesterday, Lee Odden posted about his blog being banned from Digg. A few of his stories were submitted and his domain was basically labeled as spam. The result - a lifetime banning from Digg. Don't pass Go, don't collect $200 - go straight to the Digg Jail.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AllPeers Adds Chat: Becomes Relevant Again — AllPeers, a Firefox P2P file sharing plugin, had incredible hype when it launched in August (the rumors had been around for nearly a year at that point). People were calling it the "killer app" for Firefox, and the company is backed by early investors in Skype …
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