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Mike / Techdirt:
SBC: We Own The Internet, So Google Should Pay Up  —  from the uh-oh.—trouble-coming.  dept.  —  It's become pretty clear that Kevin Martin's FCC has no problem considering "competition" in the broadband space to mean incumbent telcos vs. incumbent cable companies.
Amy Gardner / apple.com:
iTunes Music Store Sells One Million Videos in Less Than 20 Days  —  CUPERTINO, California—October 31, 2005—Apple® today announced that iTunes® Music Store customers have purchased and downloaded more than one million videos since they debuted on October 12.
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www2.sprint.com:
Sprint Launches the First Instant, Over the Air Music Download Service in the U.S.  —  Sprint Music Store Fact Sheet  —  Sprint (NYSE: S) customers will be the first wireless customers in the U.S. to download full songs over-the-air.  Today Sprint announced the opening of the Sprint Music Store …
Discussion: Gizmodo and Phone Scoop
Stephen Shankland / ZDNet:
Google throws bodies at OpenOffice … Google plans to hire programmers to improve OpenOffice.org, a demonstration of its affinity for open source initiatives and one the company believes also shows sound practical sense.  —  OpenOffice has its roots in Sun Microsystems' StarOffice suite of programs.
Staci / PaidContent.org:
Google Ad Plans Move Far Beyond The Computer : It's absolutely no secret that Google's ad plans aren't limited to the PC.  The company is already trying out the print waters in a smallish trial, ads are placed against book searching and chatter about TV has been getting louder.
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Ken Yarmosh / TECHNOSIGHT:
AN OPEN LETTER TO TECHCRUNCH'S MICHAEL ARRINGTON  —  Michael-  —  I really appreciate what you've done for Web 2.0 and the larger tech community.  In many ways, you have given Web 2.0 a face it previously didn't have.  TechCrunch is one of my 'must read' blogs and I'm always excited …
Discussion: Mashable*, ben barren and Tinfinger
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Mike / CrunchNotes:   Conflicts of Interest  —  Ken Yarmosh, a paid consultant …
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
Ken feels Blogniscient isn't getting a fair shake
Discussion: Download Squad
Tim / O'Reilly Radar:
Google Print Debate on Farber's IP List  —  Over the past couple of days, there have been quite a few interesting postings about the Google Print controversy over on Dave Farber's IP List.  There's a lot of the usual back and forth, but a couple of postings that give some background on possible legal precedent.
Discussion: Boing Boing
rednova.com:
Managing Murphy's Law on Mars  —  A NASA report lays out the risks of exploring Mars and considers how to mitigate them.  —  NASA — This is it: the moment of truth.  —  The spacecraft door has just clanged shut behind you, locking you and your fellow astronauts into the small cabin …
Harry McCracken / PC World's Techlog:
Windows Vista: Death to Menus?  —  For three months now, I've been cheerfully doing something that virtually nobody, including Microsoft, thinks is a good idea: using beta versions of Windows Vista to do actual work on my primary office PC.  Which means that I've already logged hundreds of hours with the new OS.
Podtech / Comments from the PodTech Gallery:
PodTech Exclusive: Steve Forbes, CEO & Editor in Chief, Forbes Inc. - Transcript  —  Here is the transcript of PodTech's exclusive podcast with Steve Forbes in his first ever podcast.  Steve Forbes' first ever podcast in a PodTech exclusive.  I travelled to New York City to sit down with Steve …
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greg hughes:
WOW!!  I just played games on an XBOX 360  —  HO-LY CRR-AP!!  —  Okay, so... When Microsoft says the XBOX 360 is a whole new level of gaming machine, they're serious.  —  I just played a couple shooters on a XBOX 360 game console and that's it, I'm sold.  The graphics are GREAT.
BBC:
Telefonica buys UK's O2 for £18bn  —  Mobile phone group O2 has agreed a takeover offer from Spanish telecom company Telefonica.  —  Telefonica is to pay £17.7bn ($31.6bn) for the firm in order to get a foothold in two of Europe's largest mobile phone markets - the UK and Germany.
journalists.org:
NYtimes.com snags three ONA awards  —  Look for our "Best of the Best" interactive feature later this week.  —  Read the full article  —  Close: Online media can foster community  —  Mainstream media has lost its heart and ability to connect the community, said veteran ethnic media advocate Sandy Close.
Discussion: ONA 2005
Tom Hume:
Mobile games  —  Sounds like a http://mobhappy.typepad.com/russell_ buckleys_mobhappy/2005/10/austin_games_ co.html">good rant: "Mobile game guru Greg Costikyan, formerly with Nokia Research but now head of Manifesto Games, highlighted a number of problems facing the mobile games industry, and developers in particular.

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