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PodTech Exclusive: Yahoo! Launches Podcasting with Yahoo! Podcasts — Download to MP3: Exclusive Podcast Announcement - Yahoo Launches Podcasting — The PodCast: — YAHOO! LAUNCHES PODCASTING. Yahoo! Podcasts, A New Beta Service, Lets Consumers Find and Listen to New Audio Programs
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Listen to the Internet With Yahoo! Podcasts — I'm finally able to talk about Yahoo! Podcasts, now in public beta. This new source for online audio programming uses Yahoo! Search to make it easier than ever to find and subscribe to audio content and listen wherever and whenever you want.

Yahoo tunes into podcasting craze — Internet giant to offer tools for searching popular audio programs — SAN FRANCISCO - Hoping to tune into the latest craze in digital media, Yahoo Inc. is introducing tools for finding, organizing and rating "podcasts" — the audio programs designed …
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PodTech has the "exclusive PodTech Yahoo release" (transcript/streadmed audio) with Geoff Ralston, Yahoo's chief product officer, who promises "the best place on the web to find, discover, and consume podcasts to really find the podcast that you're interested in." He says the new site will help podcasts go mass market.

Cuban to Launch DVD Label? — Mark Cuban is hiring staff that could form the nucleus of a new DVD label, Wired News has learned, a move that comes as the dot-com billionaire attempts to shatter Hollywood's release window system by making first-run films available simultaneously in theaters, on cable TV, online and on DVD.
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Microsoft's Web Mail Gets Overhaul — The Hotmail millions (Microsoft reports 200 million users) know and perhaps love could be replaced. For the last seven months, Microsoft has been beta testing a radically different Web mail client, one that makes Hotmail's largely standard HTML interface look like yesterday's news.

Court Ruling in BlackBerry Case Puts Service to U.S. Users at Risk — OTTAWA, Oct. 7 - A court decision Friday renewed the possibility that service to BlackBerry wireless e-mail devices might be cut off for most users in the United States. — The United States Court of Appeals …

CMU scientist honored for novel method of using computers to simulate collisions of objects — Take one of those ubiquitous white plastic lawn chairs. Pound it. Twist it. Toss it against the wall. Sure, it will bend, but no matter what you do short of breaking it, the thing still looks like a chair.
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Matt Cutts Interview — How and when did you get into search? — I got into search in 1999. I was working on my Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (go Tarheels!). The computer science department there makes you take two outside classes, so I took classes …

CARNIVAL OF THE CAPITALISTS TURNS TWO! — Welcome to the anniversary party for the Carnival of the Capitalists! Today, the CotC is two years old. The first edition was held right here on October 12, 2003, and had 23 entries. When Jay and I started this, we weren't sure what would happen.

Linux stars in MS movie — In a stroke of irony, Microsoft's Halo movie will be produced in Wellington by servers running the open-source Linux operating system. — Universal Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox announced last week that Peter Jackson and his partner Fran Walsh will act …
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Airline hits Logan on bid to limit WiFi — American accuses Massport of using security concerns to stifle competition — American Airlines, the biggest carrier at Logan International Airport, is accusing Logan officials of ''strong-arming" to crush competitive alternatives to the airport's new high-speed Internet access service.