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Music boss: we were wrong to go to war with consumers — The boss of Warner Music has made a rare public confession that the music industry has to take some of the blame for the rise of p2p file sharing. — Speaking at the GSMA Mobile Asia Congress in Macau, Edgar Bronfman told mobile operators …
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New computer interface: Blow on the screen — Georgia Tech researchers have created a hands-free user interface that uses a microphone to tell where on a computer screen a person is blowing. (From News.com's Underexposed blog.) — Marvel pops comics online, hopes fans pay
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Sun launches xVM virtualization platform — At Oracle OpenWorld Rich Green, executive vice president of software at Sun, unveiled his company's latest twist on virtualization-the Sun xVM platform. Sun xVM is based on the Xen hypervisor and supports Windows, Linux and Solaris guest operating systems, Green said.
Quentin Hardy / Forbes:
Radio Google — Google's phone plan begins a war with Verizon, Microsoft and the wishes of the feds. — Google's November surprise will rattle the wireless industry for months. On Nov. 5 the Mountain View, Calif. search giant announced that it had cobbled together an alliance …
BBC:
'Virtual theft' leads to arrest — A Dutch teenager has been arrested for allegedly stealing virtual furniture from "rooms" in Habbo Hotel, a 3D social networking website. — The 17-year-old is accused of stealing 4,000 euros (£2,840) worth of virtual furniture, bought with real money.
Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Apple updates Tiger with Safari 3, security fixes — Apple is taking Tiger to 11. — The company released a major update to Mac OS X 10.4 on Wednesday that delivers several improvements, fixes some bugs, and patches several security holes identified in recent months.
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Ryan Naraine / Ryan Naraine's Zero Day:Apple monster update fixes 41 Mac OS X, Safari vulnerabilities
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Walt Mossberg / The Mossberg Solution:
Singing a New Zune — Microsoft's Retooled Player Marks a Vast Improvement; However, It's Still No iPod — November 14, 2007 — by Walter S. Mossberg and Katherine Boehret — Last year, when Microsoft Corp. introduced its Zune music player to take on Apple's iPod juggernaut, the software giant struck out.
Jason Mick / DailyTech:
Ballmer Welcomes Google's Android OS to "Microsoft's World" — Ballmer has some more interesting insight into looking at the world through Microsoft-colored glasses. — At a recent Tokyo press conference, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had some interesting things to say about Google and its new Android OS …
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Exclusive: Barack Obama to name a "Chief Technology Officer" — The campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has given VentureBeat an exclusive look at his technology plan, which he plans to unveil officially tomorrow (Wednesday) before a visit to Google's headquarters.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
WordPress Traffic Passes TypePad, Execs Getting Rich? — WordPress is now the No. 2 most-visited blog host, passing rival SixApart's TypePad last month, according to the latest tally from Nielsen Online. WordPress-hosted sites drew 11.4 million unique visitors last month …
public.resource.org:
Announcement — 1.8 million pages of federal case law to become freely available. — Public.Resource.Org and Fastcase, Inc. announced today that they will release a large and free archive of federal case law, including all Courts of Appeals decisions from 1950 to the present and all Supreme Court decisions since 1754.
Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
Comcast Sued Over BitTorrent Blocking - UPDATED — A California man filed suit in state court Tuesday against internet service provider Comcast, arguing that the company's secret use of technology to limit peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent violates federal computer fraud laws …
Peter Galli / eWEEK.com:
Forrester Calls Desktop Linux a Credible Threat to Windows — Nearly half of enterprises have concrete plans to deploy Windows Vista, and 7 percent will have started by Dec. 31. — Linux is becoming a credible threat to Windows on the desktop, and will grow over the next year …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Social networking: Quietly being subsumed by your everyday apps — The future of social networking is coming into focus and it looks like Facebook-ish features will be increasingly be integrated into your everyday applications. — To wit: — Yahoo and Google are looking …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
NewTeeVee: A Look At The Underlying Networks — Next up at NewTeeVee Live, a panel on underlying networks that carry Internet video, called "The Network Makerover." On the panel: Cisco's (CSCO) Tony Bates; Akamai (AKAM) CTO Mike Afergan, Verizon's (VZ) Jeff Harris, Hilmi Ozguc of Maven Networks and Grant van Rooyen of Level 3 (LVLT).
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usercentric.com:
Direct Comparison of iPhone and Hard-Key QWERTY Phone Owners Indicates Higher Text Entry Error Rate for iPhones — User Centric, Inc., a Chicago-based usability consultancy, finished a third and final study examining the user experience of Apple's iPhone. Previously, User Centric found …
Jeffrey M. O'Brien / Fortune:
Meet the PayPal mafia — An inside look at the hyperintelligent, superconnected pack of serial entrepreneurs who left the payment service and are turning Silicon Valley upside down. Fortune's Jeffrey O'Brien reports. — (Fortune Magazine) — A door opens, and a blond man appears in a white jacket with large buttons.
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