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Brad Stone / New York Times:
RealNetworks to Introduce a DVD Copier — People have been avidly feeding music CDs into their computers for years, ripping digital copies of albums and transferring the files to their other computers and mobile devices. — This has not happened nearly as much with DVDs, for both practical and legal reasons.
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
RealNetworks Launching DVD Ripping Service; Will It Make Any Ripples? — DVD ripping software have been around for the longest of times, but this is a more mainstream attempt at it, and continues RealNetworks' (NSDQ: RNWK) efforts to stir up the pot a bit: later this month it is launching …
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Eric A. Taub / New York Times:
New E-Newspaper Reader Echoes Look of the Paper — The Plastic Logic reader, left, has a screen the size of a sheet of paper for a copy machine. Center, Sony's eReader; right, Amazon.com's Kindle. The Plastic Logic device, which is yet to be named, can be updated wirelessly and store hundreds of pages of documents.
Daniel Boffey / Daily Mail:
Apple admit Briton DID invent iPod, but he's still not getting any money — Apple has finally admitted that a British man who left school at 15 is the inventor behind the iPod. — Kane Kramer, 52, came up with the technology that drives the digital music player nearly 30 years ago but has still not seen a penny from his invention.
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Ted Dziuba:
A Web OS? Are You Dense? — People are calling Google Chrome a “Web Operating System” and a “Cloud Operating System”. Some are even calling it a Windows killer. — I think it's time to nip this horses**t in the bud, before it gets out of hand. — How Does Arringtons Know What Operating Systems Is?
PRWeb:
MyHeritage Raises $15 Million from Index Ventures and Accel Partners; Innovative Photo Tagging Technology Makes it Easier for Families to Stay in Touch — MyHeritage, one of the world's most popular family Web sites, today announced a $15 million investment from leading venture capital firms Index Ventures …
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Nick / Rough Type:
The Omnigoogle — “Some say Google is God,” Sergey Brin once said. “Others say Google is Satan.” — The confusion about Google's identity may not be quite that Manichean, but it does run deep. The company, which today celebrates the tenth anniversary of its incorporation …
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
New iPhone app helps users find healthy food near them — If you've got an iPhone and a desire to maintain a healthier diet, the folks at a new startup called WebDiet may have just the thing for you. — The company, which was founded by Wendell Brown and Craig Gold, veterans of previous ventures …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
DEMOfall 08: iLovePhotos puts photo-organizing on autopilot — Of the billions of photos that get snapped this year, the odds are good that about 11 percent will be uploaded or shared online, according to market researcher International Data Corp. iLovePhotos wants to raise that percentage.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
DEMOfall 08: Telnic figures shows how .tel domains can communicate without web sites — Mere mortals do not need to know how Telnic's new .tel service works. We can just think about the benefits. Basically, without using a web site, you can now list your information on the Internet so that people can contact you directly.
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Craig Stoltz / Web 2.Oh. . .really?:
Rick Sanchez Debuts Twitter on TV — Today at 3 p.m. EST, CNN's promiscuous social media adopter Rick Sanchez debuts a TV show called Rick Sanchez Direct. — This may be of some cultural significance, in that that the program appears to be about/from/in/around [insert your favorite preposition] Twitter.
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Rob Hof / Tech Beat:
Is the Google-Yahoo Deal Really a Bad Thing? — That's what advertisers think, according to the trade group Association of National Advertisers. The ANA on Sunday filed a letter to the Justice Dept., recommending against the deal under which Yahoo will run Google ads on some of its Web pages …
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Ryan / The Dastardly Report:
Esquire October 2008 E-Ink Issue! — Yep, I got one! In hand, fresh from the newsstand. For the October issue of Esquire, they decided to release 100,000 issues with the world's first E-Ink magazine cover. The E-Ink display is the same technology used in the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader.
Wall Street Journal:
Critics Say Gates-Seinfeld Duo No Laughing Matter — Microsoft Ads Draw Attention, Not Praise; Missing the Creativity? — Jerry Seinfeld's long-running sitcom is often described as a show about nothing. The same might be said of a baffling new Microsoft Corp. commercial featuring …
Microsoft:
Microsoft and Partners Help Customers “Get Virtual Now” — Today more than 20 partners announce plans for Microsoft virtualization solutions; Microsoft Hyper-V Server, Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 available within 30 days.
