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BBC:
'Kill switch' dropped from Vista — Microsoft is to withdraw an anti-piracy tool from Windows Vista, which disables the operating system when invoked, following customer complaints. — The so-called "kill switch" is designed to prevent users with illegal copies of Vista from using certain features.
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Spencer E. Ante / Business Week:
Verizon Embraces Google's Android — How Verizon Wireless learned to stop worrying and love open access. Step one: Realizing it's a way to add low-cost customers — In yet another sudden shift, Verizon Wireless plans to support Google's (GOOG) new software platform for cell phones and other mobile devices.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Announces Fastest Growing Search Terms — Yesterday Yahoo announced its top search trends for 2007. Google's list traditionally come later in December (here's last years list), but today VP of Search and User Experience Marissa Mayer revealed the "fastest rising U.S. search terms" on the Today Show.
Cade Metz / The Register:
Secret mailing list rocks Wikipedia — The Register Desktop Support Seminar . Live & Online 11th December (10am PST) — On the surface, all is well in Wikiland. Just last week, a headline from The San Francisco Chronicle told the world that "Wikipedia's Future Is Still Looking Up," …
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Nokia:
Nokia World 2007: Nokia outlines its vision of Internet evolution and commitment to environmental sustainability — Amsterdam, The Netherlands - At the annual Nokia World conference today, Nokia outlined its vision for the mobile industry, predicting rapid change driven by the convergence …
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Bloomberg:
Deutsche Telekom Wins Ruling in IPhone Sales Dispute — Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) — Deutsche Telekom AG, Europe's largest telephone company, can block buyers of Apple Inc.'s iPhone from using the handset on competitors' networks, a German court ruled, overturning an injunction won by Vodafone Group Plc.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Where the hell is Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook? — It's just totally amazing to me how badly Facebook is handling the PR around its new Beacon system. — This story is NOT going away. Even if this particular story goes away, there's a bad taste in our mouths because Facebook tried to do something that clearly wasn't for the users.
Eric / Hulu Blog:
A preview of online HD — While we love the convenience of watching our favorite shows on the web anytime we want, we also love the stunning resolution, true colors, and widescreen landscapes of high definition video on an HDTV. We're video geeks at heart.
Rebecca Kuo / DigiTimes:
Kenmos and Nano-Op supply LED notebook BLUs to Dell and Apple — Kenmos Technology and Taiwan Nano Electro-Optical Technology (Nano-Op) have become suppliers of notebook-use LED backlight units (BLUs) for Dell and Apple, with the makers' shipments to the segment expected to soar, according to industry sources.
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
MPAA's University Toolkit hit with DMCA takedown notice after GPL violation — The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) recently released a software toolkit designed to help universities detect instances of potentially illegal filesharing on school networks.
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Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear:
World of Warcraft-branded Dell laptop: Start saving your gold now — While I am technically a Mac guy, I would only be 80 percent embarrassed to be seen with this Dell XPS 1730. And yes, that's strictly because it has World of Warcraft graphics on it. The laptop, which is set for release …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Bubble 2.0: The Video … How could we not? A perfect link-bait video, and it is pretty funny too (Here Comes Another Bubble): — Sphere It -
Robby Stein / Official Gmail Blog:
The next evolution of labels — Back in the Paleolithic Era, the world was a very different kind of place. People were hunter-gatherers, lived in caves, and kept all their email in folders*. You can't really blame them. Between tracking woolly mammoths, fashioning crude stone tools …
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
LA Times invests in Mixx, integrates social news site — The Los Angeles Times has partnered with Mixx, a social news website, to give readers more input in the news they read. — It has also said it will start using technology from Aggregrate Knowledge, a Silicon Valley company …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Xbox 360 Fall 2007 Dashboard update hands-on — What, you didn't wait up all night to play around with Microsoft's Xbox 360 Fall 2007 Dashboard update? Ok, fine, we're just that geeky, but we feel vindicated: this is hands down our favorite 360 update thus far.
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
MySpace Launches Transmissions - No, It's Not an Auto Repair Social Network — MySpace has announced this morning the launch of MySpace Transmissions. The program is described as, "a music program that empowers top recording artists with a new platform to create and distribute exclusive …
Stephen Totilo / MTV:
The PSP Online Store - 'A Glimpse Towards The Future' - The Biggest Interview About Sony's iTunes-Style Gaming Move — Two weeks ago, Sony launched the PSP PC store with a whimper. It debuted just two days before Thanksgiving, offering PSP owners the chance to download some free themes and buy and download few old and new PSP games.
