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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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Rafe Needleman / CNET News.com:
High-quality YouTube videos coming soon — YouTube co-founder Steve Chen, speaking at the NewTeeVee Live conference today, confirmed that high-quality YouTube video streams are coming soon. Although YouTube's goal, he said, is to make the site's vast library of content available to everyone …
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Google Operating System, Tech Trader Daily, Spark Minute, Lightspeed Venture … and Pulse 2.0
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:YouTube Co-Founder Steve Chen: "It's Going to Take A Little …
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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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Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:Dell shows off tablet and all-in-one at Oracle OpenWorld
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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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PC Pro:Music boss: we were wrong to go to war with consumers
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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 …
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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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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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:Vista's biggest problem remains Windows XP, survey says
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USA Today:
Id takes its gaming Mobile — The creators of Doom and Quake are officially taking their games mobile. — Id Software today announces its new division, id Mobile, and plans to develop mobile versions of its classic games Quake and Wolfenstein, as well as a sequel to the cellphone game hit, Doom RPG.
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.
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.
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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C.G. Lynch / CIO.com:
Five Favorite Facebook Widgets for Business Users — From a link to your LinkedIn account to virtual sticky notes to intergrated wikis, we present five of the most business friendly Facebook widgets you'll find. — Most Facebook developers will tell you that they create two different kinds of widgets.
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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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Bruce Schneier / Wired News:
Did NSA Put a Secret Backdoor in New Encryption Standard? — Random numbers are critical for cryptography: for encryption keys, random authentication challenges, initialization vectors, nonces, key-agreement schemes, generating prime numbers and so on. Break the random-number generator …
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Cade Metz / The Register:
Yahoo! Ratchets! Open! Source! Grid! Platform! — Hoping to further the Google-battling ways of an open source cluster computing platform named for a stuffed elephant, Yahoo! has decided to share a 4,000-CPU, 1.5 petabyte grid with some boffins at Carnegie Mellon University.
