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Business Week:
At SBC, It's All About "Scale and Scope" — CEO Edward Whitacre talks about the AT&T Wireless acquisition and how he's moving to keep abreast of cable competitors — SBC Telecommunications' financial performance of late hasn't been much to write home about.
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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.
Matt Biddulph / hackdiary:
The BBC's programme catalogue (on Rails) — Ever wondered what's in that archive? Who looks after it? It turns out there's a huge database that's been carefully tended by a gang of crack BBC librarians for decades. Nearly a million programmes are catalogued, with descriptions …
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Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Ruby on Rails chases simplicity in programming — Can one man and a mantra of "radical simplicity" change the world of Web development? — David Heinemeier Hansson, a 26-year-old Copenhagen native, has built a "framework" to help Web developers be more productive and has released the package of tools through an open-source project.
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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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Mark Russinovich / Mark's Sysinternals Blog:
Sony, Rootkits And Digital Rights Management Gone Too Far — Last week when I was testing the latest version of RootkitRevealer (RKR) I ran a scan on one of my systems and was shocked to see evidence of a rootkit. Rootkits are cloaking technologies that hide files, Registry keys …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
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.
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.
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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.
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Thomas Hawk's Digital …
The Register:
Telefonica grabs O2 from under T-Mobile's nose — It isn't exactly a secret to anybody who has watched the routine visits between O2 directors and Telefonica - the Spanish telecoms giant has been reluctantly courting the former BT subsidiary for a year or more, simply to keep the Spanish Government happy.
garmin.com:
Pre-Loaded Maps in a Pocket PC — The iQue M4 is Garmin's first iQue to come pre-loaded with City Navigator North America NT covering the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. There's no need for downloads from your PC. — The iQue M4 uses Garmin's familiar StreetPilot interface …
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
The Internet and the future of TV — Imagine a day when you would be in total control of creating your own TV channel lineup. — Instead of subscribing to a service from a cable, satellite or phone company that might offer you hundreds of channels you'll never watch …
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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.
