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New York Times:
With New IPod, Apple Aims to Be a Video Star — SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 12 - Having conquered the world of portable digital music, Steven P. Jobs set his sights on television Wednesday, unveiling an Apple iPod that can play video - along with an online shop to fill it with TV shows, short films and music videos at $1.99 apiece.
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Hollywood Reporter:
Dis-Apple pact upsets affiliates — The Walt Disney Co.'s pact with Apple to repurpose primetime programming on its new video iPod generated a mix of confusion and concern among ABC's local affiliate stations as the news spread Wednesday. — The prospect of the new device distracting …
Benny Evangelista / San Francisco Chronicle:As Apple unveils video iPod, it hints at a media-focused future
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Thomas J. Fitzgerald / New York Times:
Tablet PC's Reach for the Masses — Tablet PC's, the portable computers with pen-based abilities, have been around since November 2002, but so far have not been widely embraced by consumers or businesses. The devices made up fewer than 2 percent of the notebook computers sold worldwide in 2004 …
Ananova:
Musical breast implants — Computer chips that store music could soon be built into a woman's breast implants. — One boob could hold an MP3 player and the other the person's whole music collection. — BT futurology, who have developed the idea, say it could be available within 15 years.
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Lester Haines / The Register:
Coming soon: the mp3 breast implant — Here's an appealing thought: an mp3 breast implant which will allow surgically-enhanced girls to store and play back their entire music collections from their 36DD assets. — We kid you not. According to UK tabloid the Sun - ever watchful …
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Big Hitters Said to Want Piece of AOL — Google and Comcast are in talks with Time Warner to buy a portion of America Online, according to several people with knowledge of the negotiations. The joint bid was widely seen as a way to head off Microsoft, which has also been negotiating to buy a minority stake in AOL.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Memeorandum is Changing the Web — I've previously profiled Memeorandum, and there are no major announcements or feature releases to spur this new post. — However, something much more significant is happening because of Memeorandum, and I am not the only person to notice it.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Brief Observations Regarding the New Stuff Announced at Today's Special Event … Not just no FireWire cables in the box; no FireWire, period. Such is the price of smaller and thinner, I suppose. — Highest capacity iPod is still 60 GB. There certainly exists a market of people …
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diveintomark.org:
HOWTO Rip DVD Movies To Your iPod Using Free Software — This guide is licensed under the GNU General Public License. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License or (at your option) any later version.
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emarketer.com:
Web Growing Faster Than Ever — The World Wide Web, as measured by the number of domain names, is growing faster than at any time in its history, reaching nearly 75 million sites. — The Internet stock bubble may have burst, and certainly no one is going to put it back together again …
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lightreading.com:
Vonage Hearing Buy-Out Bids — VOIP pioneer Vonage Holdings Corp. has heard several acquisition offers in the last two weeks, a source close to the situation says, and has already rejected at least one worth more than $1.5 billion. — Vonage is ostensibly preparing for an IPO …
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Mike Wendland / Detroit Free Press:
GATES VISITS U-M: Microsoft stays facing forward — Chairman remains mindful of giants that fell as computer technology evolved — Every morning when Bill Gates gets up, he reminds himself of the dream companies he wanted to work for just before he dropped out of Harvard to form Microsoft Corp.
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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
The race to time-based and blog search — OK, MSN is late to the party again. Hey, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, how's that acquisition I recommended coming? That'd get us into the blog search market right now. Among other things. But, since I haven't been given a check to go company shopping yet …
Clay / PSP Sony PlayStation Portable:
PSP System Firmware Version 2.50 is Out! — We got a news tip just minutes ago from a guy called Niklas saying that the 2.50 firmware update was now available via the "Network Update" feature on the PSP. As of now, we do not have the details as to what changes are included in the update …
Sumner Lemon / InfoWorld:
Google's Blogger service now accessible in China — Reopening of access to Blogger comes as Google ramps up its presence in China — Long inaccessible from within China without the use of a proxy server, Google's (Profile, Products, Articles) free Web log service, Blogger, can now be accessed directly by Internet users in Beijing.
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Glenn Fleishman / Wi-Fi Networking News:
NY Times v. Wall St. Journal on Hotel Internet Fees — The two big papers duke it out over paying for Wi-Fi in hotels: On Sept. 27, New York Times business travel columnist Joe Sharkey wrote about the tendency for big hotels to charge big bucks for in-room and public space Wi-Fi and wired broadband.
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