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Sony:
SONY UNVEILS FIRST U.S. WALKMAN VIDEO PLAYERS — Sony today took the wraps off two new Walkman® players that not only support audio - but for the first time in the United States - video. — The new NWZ-A810 and NWZ-S610 series of Walkman digital music players will support an open platform …
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Chris Knight / The Knight Shift:
Viacom hits me with copyright infringement for posting on YouTube a video that Viacom made by infringing on my own copyright! — "Chutzpah" is a Yiddish word meaning "unbelievable gall or audacity". An example of it would be the story of the kid who murders both of his parents …
BBC:
Bloggers battered by viral storm — Google's Blogger site is being used by malicious hackers who are posting fake entries to some blogs. — The fake entries contain weblinks that lead to booby-trapped downloads that could infect a Windows PC. — Infected computers are being hijacked …
Sony eSupport:
CONNECT™ Music Service Phase Out FAQ — When is the store closing? — Specific timing will vary by region depending on market demand, but it will not be before March 2008. Connect customers will be informed of relevant details in advance. — Why is the store closing?
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Sony euthanizes Sony Connect — Sony Connect will soon join such notable names as Flooz.com, eToys.com, and Pets.com in the landfill of failed e-commerce ventures. Sony has announced that its online music store will cease operations no earlier than March 2008.
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Crave
Reuters:
CNN to stop using Reuters news service — NEW YORK (Reuters) - The CNN cable television news network said on Thursday it would stop using the Reuters news service, ending a 27-year relationship, to cut costs and invest in its own news gathering operations. — The global television news network owned …
Kurt / VersionTracker:
VersionTracker joins the CNET family — A little over ten years ago, when I started VersionTracker, my intentions were both modest and personal. I wanted something to track software updates, to help me in my position as a systems administrator. Some friends of mine took interest in what I did …
Daniel Goldman / Opera Watch:
Opera Mini 4 beta 2 released — The Opera Mini team just released a second beta version of Opera Mini 4, with many bug fixes and some newly added features. — In addition to the desktop-like browsing and the many other innovative browsing features that have already been released in the first beta …
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AppleInsider:
Apple accused of short-shrifting disabled retail shoppers — Two San Francisco women have filed a lawsuit that accuses Apple of largely ignoring accessibility laws at one of its retail stores, making shopping or service trips all but impossible for those confined to a wheelchair.
Steve O'Hear / The Social Web:
LinkedIn vs Facebook (round two) — Inside Facebook reports on the discovery of a couple of new functions in Facebook Platform's API (the set of hooks provided by Facebook for third-party developers building their own applications) which hint at additional features, which could put Facebook …
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Inside Facebook
Robert Selna / San Francisco Chronicle:
S.F. citywide Wi-Fi plan fizzles as provider backs off — Mayor Gavin Newsom's high-profile effort to blanket San Francisco with a free wireless Internet network died Wednesday when provider EarthLink backed out of a proposed contract with the city. — The contract, which was three years in the making …
Jon Stokes / Ars Technica:
AMD announces 128-bit (GPU-oriented?) SSE5 extensions to x86 — AMD is looking to repeat the market-leading success they had with x86-64 by introducing another major change to the venerable x86 ISA: a three-operand instruction format for vector instructions in the form of the newly announced "SSE5" extensions.
TUC: Law at Work:
Employers need to face up to the age of Facebook — The UK's Facebook users are 3.5 million accidents waiting to happen, warns the TUC in new advice published today (Thursday) for both employers and their staff. — In guidance available on workSMART, its working life website …
Tim Smalley / bit-tech.net:
BioShock: Gameplay, Graphics & Performance — Joe and I have both had a chance to play the Xbox 360 and PC versions of BioShock extensively at various stages of the game's development. Last month, we both voiced concerns about how the PC and 360 versions played so differently in the early builds.
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