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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 …
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 …
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Dell's Latitude XT and XPS ONE make first public appearance — Dell fans, we've got some juicy meat for you to sink your teeth into. During Michael Dell's keynote address at Oracle OpenWorld today, the company unleashed (or at least demoed) its forthcoming all-in-one PC, creatively named the XPS One.
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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 …
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 …
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'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.
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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.
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Apple monster update fixes 41 Mac OS X, Safari vulnerabilities — Apple today released a monster update to provide belated cover for at least 41 security holes in its flagship Mac operating system. — With Security Update 2007-008 and Mac OS X v10.4.11, Apple patches multiple "highly critical" …
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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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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 …
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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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
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.
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
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.
Reuters:
Singapore bans Microsoft's video game for sex scene: paper — Singapore bans Microsoft's video game for sex scene: paper — SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore has banned a Microsoft Corp video game which contains a scene showing a human woman and an alien woman kissing and caressing each other, a local newspaper reported on Thursday.
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Ryan Naraine / Ryan Naraine's Zero Day:
Hacker finds 492,000 unprotected Oracle, SQL database servers — A survey by renowned database hacker David Litchfield has found a whopping 492,000 Microsoft SQL and Oracle database servers directly accessible to the Internet without firewall protection. — Litchfield (right) …
