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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.
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Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear:Plastic Logic will show off a fancy, new electronic paper device today
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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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John P. Falcone / Crave: The gadget blog:DVD ripping goes legit with RealDVD
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:RealNetworks Launching DVD Ripping Service; Will It Make Any Ripples?
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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?
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Ted Dziuba / The Register:
Chrome-fed Googasm bares tech pundit futility — Fail and You Last week, Google released a web browser called Chrome, and the online tech media had a powerful Googasm. We were long overdue for another climax like this, having been lightly stimulated with half-baked Google web products in the four years since GMail was released.
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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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.
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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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ANA:
ANA Recommends Against Google-Yahoo Search Advertising Partnership in Letter to Department of Justice — The ANA has sent a letter to Thomas O. Barnett, Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), citing its objections to the announced Google-Yahoo search advertising partnership now under review by the DOJ.
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
Say Where brings voice recognition to iPhone apps … If you've spent any time using iPhone apps, you probably have gotten a hint of the fact that they may well be the hottest thing going and, in some ways, the future of software. — That's largely due to the fact that, especially with iPhone 3G …
BBC:
Paper tale — The future of paper is starting to look a little less certain, says Bill Thompson — The UK launch of the Sony Reader has sparked another round of frenzied speculation over the future of the printed book in a world of screens, networks and digital data.
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BBC:
Know where fast — “This is, in a sense, a social network of dead people,” Steven Johnson told this year's dConstruct conference in Brighton. — Mr Johnson was a keynote speaker at the gathering which brought together technologists, and theorists involved in the social web.
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Google Military-Controlled Satellite Reaches Orbit, We Don't Feel Lucky — The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.According to the company, the GeoEye-1 satellite is the highest resolution commercial satellite orbiting the planet right now.
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Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Web 1.0 Job Sites Have New Competition: PaidInterviews — At DEMO08, a new type of job web site launches today: PaidInterviews. Unlike today's traditional (ahem, boring) job sites like Monster.com or HotJobs, PaidInterviews combines social networking with a more sophisticated job matching algorithm …
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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
The 3 Laws of Platform Adoption: Why Developers Choose Platforms and What it Means to You — I've been thinking a lot about platform adoption recently. I guess it is the combination of the upcoming Microsoft PDC and watching the various moves in the area of social networking platforms like OpenSocial and fbOpen.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
London Stock Exchange hit with ‘connectivity issue’ — The London Stock Exchange is on hold Monday following a “connectivity issue” that halted trading. The timing couldn't have been worse: Volume was heavy in Europe after the U.S. government bailed out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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 …
