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PRWeb:
Bebo Launches 'Open Media' A New Vision for Social Media and Entertainment — Bebo, the global social network, opens its doors to media brands, deepening user engagement with popular entertainment. Launch partners include global media brands CBS, MTV Networks, BBC, Turner, ESPN, Yahoo!, Next New Networks, Crackle and more.
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Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider: Bebo's Anti-Hulu Pitch: We Play Your Video, You Keep The $
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS07-061 - Critical — Vulnerability in Windows URI Handling Could Allow Remote Code Execution (943460) — Version: 1.0 — General Information — Executive Summary — This update resolves a publicly reported vulnerability.
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europa.eu:
Mergers: Commission opens in-depth investigation into Google's proposed take over of DoubleClick — HTML: — EN — FR — DE — PDF: — EN — FR — DE — DOC: — EN — FR — DE — IP/07/1688 — Mergers: Commission opens in-depth investigation into Google's proposed take over of DoubleClick
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Tech Trader Daily, paidContent.org, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Reuters and Computerworld
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Yahoo settles lawsuit with jailed Chinese journalists — UPDATE: Includes statement from Yahoo and information from World Organization for Human Rights USA. — Yahoo listened. — A week after being excoriated by lawmakers over supplying information to the Chinese government that landed …
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Associated Press:
Murdoch: WSJ.com expected to be free — ADELAIDE, Australia - News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said Tuesday he intends to make access to The Wall Street Journal's Web site free, trading subscription fees for anticipated ad revenue. — "We are studying it and we expect to make that free …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:Murdoch Serious About Tearing Down WSJ.com's Subscription Wall
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CNET News.com
Dan Nystedt / Computerworld:
China Mobile in talks with Apple to sell iPhone — China Mobile is in talks with Apple to sell the iPhone in China, the company's CEO said on Tuesday. But he's not keen on the type of revenue-sharing model that Apple has insisted on elsewhere in the world.
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Silicon Alley Insider, Gizmodo, Business Week, 9 to 5 Mac, iLounge, CNET News.com and Blackfriars' Marketing
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Virtual Palm OS on your Nokia N-Series tablet — hoozah! — You read that headline right, now you can run a Palm OS Garnet VM on your Nokia N-series N770, N800, or N810 tablet. Access just released a beta copy of their Garnet Virtual Machine software. Yes, Snappermail, DateBk5, Pocket Tunes …
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IntoMobile, Internet Tablet Talk, The Boy Genius Report, Mobility Site, TabletBlog.com and Ubergizmo
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Tom Espiner / CNET News.com:
Microsoft exec calls XP hack 'frightening' — A Microsoft executive calls the ease with which two British e-crime specialists managed to hack into a Windows XP computer as both "enlightening and frightening." — The demonstration took place Monday at an event sponsored by Get Safe Online …
Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
Box.net launches OpenBox: One place to save all your stuff, everywhere — Box.net is one of my favorite online storage services, not only because of its various widgets, which are as pretty as they are functional, but also for its design and UI, which shares a lot in common with the file browser built …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:Hyped New Platforms: Explaining the Difference Between One and the Other
Kevin J. Martin / New York Times:
The Daily Show — IN many towns and cities, the newspaper is an endangered species. At least 300 daily papers have stopped publishing over the past 30 years. Those newspapers that have survived are struggling financially. Newspaper circulation has declined steadily for more than 10 years.
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
"Citron" colored 4/8GB Zune discovered — The Zune software hasn't been released for very long but I've already thrown my usual arsenal of weapons at it in the hope something undisclosed in the source will waive the white flag. Fortunately, I won't go to sleep empty handed as I've discovered …
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Engadget, Gizmodo, TechBlog, Mobility Site, Gadgetell, Zune Thoughts.com and Xbox Live's Major Nelson
Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
DivX support coming to PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 support in the works — DivX has announced that the Sony PlayStation 3 will soon support the DivX video codec. We suspected as much when the PS3 2.0 firmware was released, as it includes the ability to detect both DivX and Xvid files.
San Francisco Chronicle:
Now the other Google founder is planning a secret wedding — (11-12) 23:29 PST San Francisco — Google Inc. co-founder Larry Page is planning to wed his girlfriend, Lucy Southworth, at a ceremony next month that is steeped in secrecy. — The event is scheduled for the weekend of Dec. 8 …
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
iPod gets exploded, trapped in resin — Sure, your iPod is portable, lightweight, and easy to use — but it's not exactly special is it? Perhaps you should be thieving a page from a young man named Billy Chasen, who has decided to rip apart his 4G player and encase it in a brick of translucent resin.
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Bank intern busted by Facebook [Your Privacy Is An Illusion] — Who says Facebook is the province of the young? Increasingly, the 30something bosses of naive recent college grads are proving adept at turning the social network against its earliest adopters.
InfoWorld:
November's coolest gadgets — The hundreds of thousands of people entering the Tokyo Motor Show are getting a chance to see more than just the latest cars — there's a whole section of the mammoth exhibition devoted to the gadgets and gizmos that are increasingly becoming part of motoring in the 21st century.
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PC World
Ryan Block / Engadget:
New Zune review: better than before, but not quite good enough — We all cheered Microsoft on when learning that the same firmware powering its freshly announced second-generation hardware would also be made available as a free update to all first-gen Zune users.
