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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Live Documents enters the Office suite ring — Sabeer Bhatia was the co-founder of Hotmail, the Web email service Microsoft acquired for $400 million in 1998. Now, Bhatia wants to bite the hand that fed him. He formed a new company, InstaColl, and is joining Zoho, ThinkFree, Google …
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France unveils anti-piracy plan — French web users caught pirating movies or music could soon be thrown offline. — Those illegally sharing files will face the loss of their net access thanks to a newly-created anti-piracy body granted the wide-ranging powers.
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Poor Anti-Pirates: E-mail About Leaked IFPI Email Gets Leaked — Last month a leaked email from The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) - the anti-piracy organization that represents the recording industry worldwide - revealed that they had plans …
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Shady Secrets of Going Viral on YouTube — Remember when we wrote jokingly about how to "Master Viral Video Advertising in 3 Easy Steps," concluding that there wasn't any such simple formula? — Well, a Stanford graduate student named Dan Ackerman Greenberg has a different take, but it's not pretty.
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Yahoo to launch MyM "social messaging" site [Scoop] — Yahoo has launched, in an invitation-only trial, MyM, a "social messaging" service. How many social networks does one company need? Nowhere are Yahoo's scattershot efforts more evident than in this field.
Charles Arthur / Guardian Unlimited:
Forgotten your password? Google can find it for you. Unfortunately — There's a certain amount of crowing associated with hacking the blog of a security team - which might be why a hacker, apparently Russian, broke into the blog of the Cambridge University security team at the Light Blue Touchpaper blog.
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Nokia N810: unboxing and first impressions — My shiny new Nokia N810 Internet Tablet was delivered yesterday. After fondling it for most of the day, I'm relatively impressed. The N810 is a bit smaller than the N800, which makes it more comfortable to use and easier to tote around in a pocket.
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
The BIG iPod touch review — A few weeks ago I got my hands on two 16GB iPod touch devices. Having spent a lot of hands on time with these devices it's time for a comprehensive review. — The iPod touch was for me the first Apple device to come out when I eagerly awaited the release day.
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Skype "could have saved London numbers" — Internet telephony firm Skype could have kept the London numbers it stripped from customers this week for only a modest fee. — Yesterday, we revealed how the company had angered hundreds of its customers by suddenly withdrawing their 0207 numbers.
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Diller Says IAC Will Invest As Much As $100 Million in China — IAC, (NSDQ: IACI) now split into five groups, will invest as much as $100 million in China to build a new Internet business there and will bring in Ask.com, said Barry Diller, speaking to reporters in Beijing today.
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Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi:
Facebook takes some hits from MoveOn.org for violating privacy of online purchasers... Since Wednesday, Facebook has taken a beating on its policy of publicizing purchases made online. Here's MoveOn.org's release: — As Holiday Shopping Begins, MoveOn Calls On Facebook To Stop Making People's Private Online Purchases Public
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Cliff L. Biffle / Cliff Hacks Things:
ASUS eeePC: First impressions and GPL violations — For my birthday, I bought myself an ASUS eeePC. Now, I've been lusting after very-small-form-factor laptops for some time (ever since I saw the Zaurus C series), and this is quite the small one. It also ships with Linux, which (I thought) …
Craig Rubens / NewTeeVee:
Holiday Gift Ideas for Your Favorite Videoblogger — Not sure what to get that lonely videoblogger in your life for the upcoming holidays? NewTeeVee has rounded up a collection of goodies the YouTubers of your world probably don't have. — Justin.tv Kit Dynamism has teamed up with Justin.tv …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Manage Those Holiday Gift Cards With Leverage — Holiday shopping season starts today, but chances are that you are going to end up with a bunch of gift cards this year that you may never end up using. Gift cards are expected to be the most widely-given gift this year …
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Ben Kuchera / Opposable Thumbs:
Go get your free Halo theme for Guitar Hero 3 on Xbox Live — To celebrate the holiday season Neversoft, Bungie, Activision/RedOctane, and Microsoft have all come together in one big ball of love to give us a free track for Guitar Hero 3, and it is a doozy: the MJOLNIR Mix of the theme from Halo.
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Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
O2 has Wigan-sized iPhone problem — Exclusive Everyone wants a Wii or an Eee this Christmas. They're the hottest technology items in town, but there's none to be found for love nor money. If you want an iPhone, however, supplies remain plentiful. — Reliable channel sources tell us …
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Cellphone Tracking Powers on Request — Secret Warrants Granted Without Probable Cause — Federal officials are routinely asking courts to order cellphone companies to furnish real-time tracking data so they can pinpoint the whereabouts of drug traffickers, fugitives and other criminal suspects …
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