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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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Mark Ward / Press Association:
Colossus cracks codes once more — 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.
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 …
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.
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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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
I.B.M. to Push 'Cloud Computing,' Using Data From Afar — I.B.M. plans to build a sizable business by bringing Google-style computing to mainstream corporate customers. — The I.B.M. strategy, to be announced today, seeks to exploit the technical work and commercial interest in large data centers …
Times of London:
Hidden crime of 'wi-fi tapping': only 11 arrests but most of us are guilty — More than half of computer users have illegally logged on to someone else's wi-fi connection yet only 11 people have been arrested for the crime, an investigation by The Times has found.
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Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo:
Confirmed: Sprint Will Ship BlackBerry Pearl 8130 on Black Friday; Moto Q and i335 Coming Too [Cellphones] — Confirmed: Sprint Will Ship BlackBerry Pearl 8130 on Black Friday; Moto Q and i335 Coming Too — Rumor confirmed. On Friday, November 23, better known to you Dealzmodo nuts as Black Friday …
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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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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Christine Wilhelmy / Apple:
Apple Releases Final Cut Express 4 — New Final Cut Express Features AVCHD Support and iMovie '08 Integration — Apple® today released Final Cut® Express 4, a significant upgrade to its powerful video editing software based on Apple's award-winning Final Cut Pro 6, with a new low price of $199.
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.
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK:
Stealth-mode app turns InBox 2.0 into Life 2.0 — Yesterday Mike Arrington noted the stories that both Yahoo and Google are planning to build social networks around their email services. This is based on the premise that you already 'socially network' with people via email, so why not put a social graph wrapper around that?
Jennifer Saba / Editor and Publisher:
EXCLUSIVE: 30 Most Popular Newspaper Sites for October — NEW YORK More people visited NYTimes.com than any other newspaper Web site in October, according to new data released by Nielsen Online (owned by E&P's parent company) — and that traffic surged in October.
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Vista's biggest problem remains Windows XP, survey says — Mac, Linux no competition for Vista in the enterprise; the rival is Microsoft's own, Forrester reports — Microsoft Corp.'s biggest worry over Windows Vista shouldn't be rival operating systems from Apple Inc. or Red Hat Inc. …
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