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Hiawatha Bray / Boston Globe:
Northeastern sues Google over patent — University, Waltham license holder say they own technology — A law firm told patent holder Northeastern and license holder Jarg Corp. that Google was using their technology. (Barry Chin/Globe Staff/File 2004) — Text size - +
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Update: Russian hacker gang vanishes day after moving to China — Infamous Russian Business Network may be breaking into smaller bits — The shadowy hacker and malware hosting network that only recently fled Russia to set up operations in China has now pulled the plug there and vanished yet again, researchers said late Friday.
Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
F.C.C. Planning Rules to Open Cable Market — The Federal Communications Commission is preparing to impose significant new regulations to open the cable television market to independent programmers and rival video services after determining that cable companies have become too dominant in the industry, senior commission officials said.
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Games that can educate: SimCity donated to OLPC project — Electronic Arts announced yesterday plans to donate the original version of the SimCity computer game to the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project so that it can be distributed to schoolchildren in developing countries on OLPC's XO laptop.
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Blist Prepares Easy Web-Based Database Application — I recently had the opportunity to see a demo of a product coming out in early 2008 called Blist (pronounced like "bliss" with a "t" at the end) that will take on DabbleDB and Trackvia by giving users the tools to easily create and manage databases online.
Mike / CrunchNotes:
Blogworld — I am watching as the blogging world crucifies me for not attending Blogworld in Las Vegas this week. — Here is why I didn't attend Blogworld in Las Vegas this week: — I never agreed to attend the conference. — I would really appreciate it if the organizers of Blogworld would post something clearing this up.
Matt Asay / The Open Road:
127 million Oracle shares vote for open source at annual shareholders meeting — While seemingly a lot, 127 million shares doesn't add up to much in Oracle's world. 127,717,018 shares only account for 3.58% of Oracle's total share count. Last week ~96.5% of Oracle shareholders voted …
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Deeko News:
Analyst: DivX Support Coming to Xbox 360 — DivX followed up Tuesday night's earnings report with a presentation at the JP Morgan SmMid cap conference. JP Morgan analyst Paul Coster coyly probed Kevin Hell about whether or not we were about to see DivX support on the Xbox 360.
Bill Ray / The Register:
Battery firm: iPhone could melt your brain — Exradia has launched a range of replacement batteries for popular models of mobile phone which incorporate its special magic circuit to interfere with the bad RF coming from your handset, but iPhone users, with their non-replaceable battery, will just have to suffer.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Prince to sue The Pirate Bay — Continuing an aggressive campaign to defend his copyright, rock star Prince is preparing to file lawsuits in three different countries, including the U.S., against The Pirate Bay. — One of the world's best known BitTorrent indexing sites …
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Microsoft drops IE's 'click to activate' nag — Eolas deal gives Microsoft green light, will issue tweaked IE in December — Microsoft Corp. will strip a "click to activate" warning from Internet Explorer 7 starting next month, a company product manager said yesterday …
Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
iPhone: Testing the 1.1.2 Jailbreak — After a really late night, I had the privilege of being able to test some of the jailbreak software this morning. This is not the final jailbreak software. That will involve using a nice graphical user interface. For now, I'm invited to use …
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Ben Drawbaugh / Engadget HD:
Hands-on with HD TiVoToGo and Multi-Room Viewing — It seems as if we've been waiting a lot longer than a year for TiVo to add two of our favorite features to the Series3, and while complications with CableLabs haven't exactly made the process possible before now, we're elated that TiVoToGo and Multi-Room viewing are finally a reality.
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Anne Zelenka / GigaOM:
Web 2.0 Manages to Sober Up — A couple of weeks ago, Edelman marketing strategist Steve Rubel declared the Web 2.0 world to be skunk drunk on its own Kool Aid. But I've seen signs of sobriety recently. Kleiner Perkins has said no more Web 2.0 startups.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
That's Your AIM in My GTalk — It is amazing that we still have major instant messaging platforms that don't talk to one another. Yahoo and Microsoft got their two systems to work with each other more than a year ago, but AOL is still working on interoperability issues with those two.
