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John Markoff / New York Times:
As Apple Gains PC Market Share, Jobs Talks of a Decade of Upgrades — It may have dropped the word "computer" from its name, but Apple is certainly selling plenty of Macs. — Driven in part by what analysts call a halo effect from the iPod and the iPhone, the market share of the company's personal computers is surging.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
The Vista wow becomes a whisper — I wasn't a big fan of the "Wow" campaign around Windows Vista. But its newest incarnation — "100 Reasons Why Everyone's So Speechless" — might be even worse. — The new site lists 100 reasons users should take a closer look at Windows Vista.
Mossblog:
Free My Phone — Suppose you own a Dell computer, and you decide to replace it with a Sony. You don't have to get the permission of your Internet service provider to do so, or even tell the provider about it. You can just pack up the old machine and set up the new one.
Erika Brown / Forbes:
Bikinis And Bums On Cue — Here's a story line that M.C. Escher could appreciate: Four fresh-out-of-college girls share an apartment in Los Angeles and star in a reality show filmed by a guy who is their friend. Except—this isn't a reality show. All the dialogue is scripted.
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Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
MySpace Gets in Bed with Roommates — MySpace continues its march into original content with the launch of Roommates, a new, scripted original web series, today. The move represents MySpace's (NWS) first co-development project and first original web series created specifically for MySpace TV.
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Facebook: Who needs Google? Facebook's stealth ad system — Facebook, in the midst of a high-stakes negotiation over its future, has just dramatically upped the ante. How? The social network is quietly starting to promote its long-rumored ad-targeting system — under a clever costume.
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Charles Forelle / Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Bows to EU Regulators On 2004 Antitrust Measures — Software Giant Won't Appeal EU Court Ruling — BRUSSELS — Microsoft Corp. threw in the towel on its nine-year antitrust fight with European Union regulators, saying it won't appeal a court judgment handed down last month …
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Kevin J. O'Brien / New York Times:Microsoft Concedes in European Antitrust Case
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Katie Hafner / New York Times:
Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web — Several major research libraries have rebuffed offers from Google and Microsoft to scan their books into computer databases, saying they are put off by restrictions these companies want to place on the new digital collections.
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Download Squad, Between the Lines, Search Engine Land, WebProNews, The Open Road, Mashable!, Slashdot, if:book and Smart Mobs
David Kravets / Wired News:
Exclusive: I Was a Hacker for the MPAA — Promises of Hollywood fame and fortune persuaded a young hacker to betray former associates in the BitTorrent scene to Tinseltown's anti-piracy lobby, according to the hacker. — In an exclusive interview with Wired News, gun-for-hire hacker Robert Anderson tells …
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Lucy Sherriff / The Register:
Cops pull plugs on TV-links, claim 'facilitation of infringement' — Copyright or copy-ridiculous? — Last week's arrest of a 26-year-old Cheltenham man, and the related closure of the TV-links website, has prompted a flurry of speculation that the very foundations of the internet (linking to stuff) might be under threat.
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Andrew Adam Newman / New York Times:
Penguin Audio Ends EMusic Deal — Last month eMusic, the company that gives Apple's iTunes the most competition in song downloads, announced that it would go up against the market leader on another front: audiobooks. — But eMusic has been dealt an early blow.
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
New data on Facebook application virality — Facebook has unveilved new valuable marketing data to application developers that show which channels inside Facebook lead to the most application installations. While the stats are not perfect, they do provide new insight into how your Facebook users find and add your application.
Carmen Nobel / Forbes:
Small Biz Wi-Fi Strategies — In the world of computer networking, Selina Lo is an entrepreneurial whiz. She co-founded Centillion Networks, a switching technology start-up that Bay Networks bought in 1994 for $100 million. In 1996, she joined Alteon WebSystems, a Web switch company …
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Reuters:
EU extends Google/DoubleClick inquiry — European Union regulators on Monday extended the deadline for their inquiry into Web search leader Google's proposed purchase of rival DoubleClick to November 13 from October 26. — The time limit for a decision on the $3.1 billion deal was moved …
Associated Press:
AT&T to Offer Music Downloads From Napster Catalog — AT&T is making Napster Inc.'s entire music catalog of more than five million songs available for wireless download starting early next month. — The service, which AT&T is unveiling Monday, will expand the company's …
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Aminu Abubakar / Agence France Presse:
Home-made helicopters hit northern Nigeria — KANO (AFP) - Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi, a 24-year-old physics undergraduate in northern Nigeria, takes old cars and motorbikes to pieces in the back yard at home and builds his own helicopters from the parts. — "It took me eight months …
Russell Shaw / IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband:
Reality check: Comcast packet forging proves you can't have Internet freedom with limited government — OK, class, it is time for yet another civics lesson. — According to Electronic Frontier Foundation testing, Comcast is not only forging BitTorrent packets, but Gnutella and even Lotus Notes packets.
Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:
Comcast TiVo In The Wild! — While most folks haven't been cleared to receive the Comcast TiVo and pricing still hasn't been revealed, some lucky New Englanders have the hookup. — But before we get to the exclusive pictures, I'd like to pose a series of questions... How much will the TiVo on Comcast service be?
Michael Geist Blog:
Canadian Public Domain Told To Cease and Desist — The International Music Score Library Project was a quiet Canadian success story. Using wiki technologies, it emerged over the past two years as a leading source of public domain music scores, hosting thousands of scores uploaded by a community …
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