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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 …
Discussion: Riding Rails
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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.
Ben Hammersley:
Hot BBC Archive Action  —  Once in a while, I do a project whose long term implications make me want to cry.  This month's little extravaganza is just such a thing.  As Matt Biddulph explains here, I'm helping out with a special black-ops development project for the BBC.
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.
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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.
Edward W. Felten / Freedom to Tinker:   Net Neutrality and Competition
Susan / Susan Crawford blog:
Network neutrality v. platform competition
Discussion: IP Democracy and madisonian.net
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 …
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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MSNBC:
Sprint in challenge to Apple's iTunes
Discussion: Mac Rumors and Slashdot
biz.yahoo.com:
Apple: ITunes Video Sales Top 1 Million
Discussion: TinyScreenfuls.com
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.
Michael Singer / ZDNet:
Dell's third-quarter earnings slip … Dell announced on Monday that third-quarter revenue will fall well short of expectations due to sluggish consumer sales and a faulty component in its OptiPlex desktop PC.  —  The Round Rock, Texas-based computer maker said it expects revenue …
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 …
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: derivative work and Boing Boing
Society for New Communications Research:
Society for New Communications Research Launches  —  International, Multidisciplinary Consortium to Study the Impact of New Media & Participatory Communications  —  The Society will study the impact of emerging modes of communication such as blogs, wikis, RSS, podcasts, videocasts …
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.
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.

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