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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Wikibooks takes on textbook industry  —  If you found yourself needing an old biology textbook and couldn't locate your battered copy from college, you'd have a few options.  —  You could go to a university bookstore and snag a used copy; you could drop a few dollars on a new one at Amazon.com …
Twid / Todd Dailey:
Restore your iPod nano to new condition with a $4 can of Brasso  —  [Edit: Wednesday 9/28/2005 5:30PM - by request, added two pictures with flash of the finished nano, see the bottom of the story.]  —  First off: Apple responds to iPod nano screen concerns.  Yay!
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Verizon's Muddy TV Picture  —  A push by telcos into the territory ruled by cable operators may take a decade to break even.  Will investors lose patience?  —  From Long Island, N.Y., to the outskirts of Dallas, phone-service giant Verizon Communications (VZ ) is making deeper inroads into the TV market.
Discussion: IP Democracy
Mark Evans:
Google Wi-Fi in NYC  —  Google's semi-secret WiFi network has established a foothold in New York City.  Someone who recently visited saw a plaque (left) and took a photograph.  As most people know, Google dipped a toe in the WiFi market in April by sponsoring a free hotspot in San Francisco's Union Square.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
What's Google learning from their Wifi network?
Discussion: ben barren, IP Democracy and OpsanBlog
Scott M. Fulton, III / Tom's Hardware Guide:
HD DVD support a last minute switch, Microsoft says  —  Redmond (WA) - In an exclusive interview with Tom's Hardware Guide, one of Microsoft's lead representatives on the DVD Forum Steering Committee said that decisions regarding whether his company and Intel would back and promote HD DVD …
Edward W. Felten / Freedom to Tinker:
The Pizzaright Principle  —  Lately, lots of bogus arguments for copyright expansion have been floating around.  A handy detector for bogus arguments is the Pizzaright Principle.  —  Pizzaright — the exclusive right to sell pizza — is a new kind of intellectual property right.
Discussion: Techdirt
Jeffrey Goldfarb / Reuters:
Did you say dogging or blogging?  Brits confused  —  LONDON (Reuters) - Proponents of the latest Web trends were warned on Tuesday that the rest of the world may not have a clue what they are talking about.  —  A survey of British taxi drivers, pub landlords and hairdressers …
Discussion: Marketing Pilgrim and IT Facts
Sue Zeidler / Reuters:
Music service to target at-home high-end listeners  —  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - MusicGiants Inc. will launch a new music download service on Wednesday hoping to stand out from the crowded digital audio market by appealing to high-end at-home listeners, the company said.  —  "We're highly focused on home audio.
bit-tech.net:
Evesham Voyager C720 with 7800 GTX Go  —  It's roughly a year since NVIDIA launched their GeForce Go 6800 Ultra GPU for notebooks.  Over the course of the last year, notebooks have transitioned quickly from being a poor second fiddle for gaming, to some of the most desirable gaming rigs around.
Discussion: Neowin.net and digg
Gregory M. Lamb / Christian Science Monitor:
We swim in an ocean of media  —  The media "ecosystem" surrounding Americans - not just TV, radio, and newspapers but also the Web, PDAs, MP3 players, cellphones, video games, and more - keeps getting more widespread, personal, and diverse.  —  The world is seeing "a Cambrian explosion" …
Discussion: TechnologyReview.com and Get Real
Ryan Katz / Think Secret:
Updated Mac minis arriving, details revealed [updated]  —  September 27, 2005 - One week after Think Secret first brought word of pending Mac mini revision, the new models have started arriving.  —  One source reported receiving a 1.5GHz Mac mini Tuesday, although the box still featured the old 1.42GHz label.
Discussion: MacInTouch, Gizmodo, OSNews.com and MacSlash
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Employee and customer debate state of Windows Media Center  —  I learned a lot about the Media Center after Charlie Owen, who works on the Windows Media Center team, and Thomas Hawk, a blogger who writes a lot about digital media debate each other.  Thomas writes back here.  Charlie answers back here.
Michael Singer / ZDNet:
Five reasons for Palm's slide … When Palm ruled the handheld-computing market, few thought it would ever have to partner with Microsoft.  —  But a series of missteps, from manufacturing gaffes to strategic blunders, eventually made Palm's partnering with its longtime rival seem like a possibility …
Kevin Newcomb / ClickZ:
Yahoo! Testing New Branding Metrics for Search  —  As part of its effort to make search marketing more appealing to brand marketers and other traditional marketers, Yahoo! has begun offering its larger advertiser and agency partners more advanced tools for choosing keywords.
USA Today:
TV on cellphones?  Funny but profitable  —  LOS ANGELES — Brainstorming about how to take their company to the next level back in 2003, three guys in Berkeley, Calif., came up with a crazy notion that a cellphone was powerful enough to display television images.  —  On little 1- and 2-inch screens.

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