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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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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Comcast hit with class-action lawsuit over traffic blocking — Comcast's traffic management practices have landed the cable giant in court. Yesterday, a California resident filed a lawsuit in state court accusing Comcast of breach of contract, breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing …
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
YouTube Co-Founder Steve Chen: "It's Going to Take A Little More Time" for Ad Monetization — Steve Chen, co-founder of YouTube says the time spent by visitors to YouTube makes it a highly valuable proposition for advertisers. Today at the NewTeeVee conference he reflects on the meteoric rise …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:NewTeeVee: YouTube Co-Founder Steve Chen Says Customizable External Player Coming
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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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Warner Music Boss: We Were Wrong — Someone in the music industry finally seeing the error of their ways? A blue moon rose over Macau Wednesday when Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Warner Music Group Edgar Bronfman admitted on stage that the music industry had been asleep at the wheel.
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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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Ryan Naraine / Ryan Naraine's Zero Day:
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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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.
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Mark Ward / Press Association:
WWII computer working again — Technology Correspondent, BBC News website — Bletchley's code-breaking effort shortened the war by many months — For the first time in more than 60 years a Colossus computer will be cracking codes at Bletchley Park. — The machine is being put through …
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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.
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 …
Glenn Kelman / TechCrunch:
Entrepreneur 2.0 — This guest post is written by Glen Kelman, the president and CEO of real estate startup Redfin. Previously, he was a co-founder of Plumtree Software, a Sequoia-backed, publicly traded company that created the enterprise portal software market.
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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 …
Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
Hidden Gmail feature lets you search by language — How many languages do you speak? If you are like most people, probably only one or two. If you are fluent in multiple, you may find it useful to keep messages written certain languages separate — or you may find it useful to create …
Chad Lorenz / Slate:
The Death of E-Mail — TEENAGERS ARE ABANDONING THEIR YAHOO! AND HOTMAIL ACCOUNTS. DO THE REST OF US HAVE TO? — By 2002, everyone in my family had become an Internet convert. For the technophobic older generation, signing up for an e-mail account was a concession to us youngsters …
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