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Richard MacManus / Read/Write Web:
Microsoft Livens Up Web 2.0  —  Summary: My Day 1 impressions of Windows/Office Live are positive and I think Microsoft is taking up the challenge of an increasingly Web-based software world, while at the same time sticking to their desktop software knitting.
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microsoft.com:
Microsoft's Live Offerings  —  Windows Live and Microsoft Office Live are designed to deliver rich and seamless experiences to individuals and small businesses.  —  On Nov. 1, 2005, Microsoft Corp. previewed for the first time two new software-based service offerings called Windows Live™ and Microsoft Office Live.
John Markoff / New York Times:
Microsoft Introduces Web Services, Competing With Google and Yahoo  —  SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1 - Microsoft introduced on Tuesday two new advertising-supported Web services, Windows Live and Office Live, as a direct response to the formidable challenges posed by its major competitors, Google and Yahoo.
Russ / Russell Beattie Notebook:   Microsoft's Live: Monopoly 4.0
microsoft.com:
Microsoft Previews New Windows Live and Office Live Services
John Borland / CNET News.com:
Sony to patch copy-protected CD  —  Sony BMG Music Entertainment and a technology partner are working with antivirus companies on a fix for a potential security problem in some copy-protected CDs.  —  Earlier in the week, security experts said that anticopying technology used by Sony BMG …
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Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Sony Raids Hacker Playbook  —  New research from Mark Russinovich over at Sysinternals (the company I've blogged about before as the source a ton of excellent and free software utilities) indicates that Sony BMG has configured some of its music CDs to install antipiracy software …
press.nokia.com:
Presenting the Nokia N92: TV goes Mobile  —  The world's first integrated DVB-H mobile device makes prime time any time  —  Nokia Mobility Conference 2005, Barcelona, Spain/Espoo, Finland - At the Nokia Mobility Conference, Nokia today proudly presented the Nokia N92, the first integrated DVB-H mobile device …
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press.nokia.com:   Open your world to mobile multimedia with Nokia N71
press.nokia.com:
Nokia Nseries enters the digital home with Nokia N80
Discussion: Matt Croydon
Associated Press:
Grandpa Is Sued Over Grandson's Downloads  —  MILWAUKEE - A 67-year-old man who says he doesn't even like watching movies has been sued by the film industry for copyright infringement after a grandson of his downloaded four movies on their home computer.  —  The Motion Picture Association …
Discussion: Techdirt, Neowin.net and broadband
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Marguerite Reardon / ZDNet:
Cable companies call on Sprint Nextel … A consortium of U.S. cable companies announced on Wednesday that they will form a joint venture with Sprint Nextel to offer mobile service to their customers.  —  Comcast, Time Warner, Cox Communcations and Advance/Newhouse Communications plan …
Discussion: PaidContent.org
sec.gov:
SEC FILES EMERGENCY ACTION AGAINST ESTONIAN TRADERS TO STOP ONGOING FRAUDULENT HACKING SCHEME  —  Foreign Traders Used Computerized "Spider" Program to Fraudulently Steal Nonpublic Issuer Press Release Information from Commercial Wire Service  —  The Securities and Exchange Commission …
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Business Wire:
Business Wire Comments …
businessweek.com:
Byte of the Apple  —  And Speaking of Things Michael Dell Said About Apple  —  And while I'm thinking of Michael Dell, something else he said about Apple - this much more recently - came to mind following Apple's release last week of a new round of PowerMac G5 and PowerBook portable computers.
Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
Massive Frontal PR is incompatible with Ship Early and Often  —  Microsoft's new (beta!) portal page, live.com, doesn't work in Firefox, and doesn't work too great in IE either.  The first thing I used it for was to search for "firefox market share."  —  Like every search engine, you get a list of search results.
sgi.com:
SGI Securities to Cease NYSE Trading  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., (November 1, 2005)—SGI announced today that it has been advised by the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) that its common stock - ticker symbol SGI - and its 6.5% Senior Secured Convertible Notes due June 1, 2009 - ticker symbol SGI 09 …
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Andrew Orlowski / channelregister.co.uk:
SGI delisted, becomes penny stock
Discussion: Neowin.net
Bethany Halford / National Geographic:
Bees Can Solve Complex Color Puzzles, Study Finds  —  As they buzz from blossom to blossom, it might seem that bumblebees need to see only flowers, honey, and hive.  But a new study suggests that bumblebees have a surprisingly sophisticated visual system.  —  Through a series of clever experiments …
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eurekalert.org:
Bees solve complex colour puzzles
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Yahoo Marketing Yahoo Search in its Google Results  —  Yahoo Marketing Yahoo Search in its Google Results  —  Yahoo is testing a clever marketing tactic in its search results outside of the United States.  If you search for "google" on Yahoo Australia & NZ, then Yahoo will serve a …
Discussion: Google Blogoscoped
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Matt Cutts:
Hand-coded shortcuts on Yahoo
Discussion: Stuntdubl
biz.yahoo.com:
Think Partnership Signs Letter of Intent to Acquire UK-based Web Diversity LLC  —  NORTHBROOK, Ill.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Nov. 2, 2005—  Headquartered in London and poised to expand into Hong Kong, Web  —  Diversity will work with THK's Smart Interactive operations in the
Discussion: Marketing Pilgrim
Shel Israel / Naked Conversations:
Rubel Rocking at Blogging Enterprise  —  Steve Rubel is delivering the keynote here at The Blogging Enterprise in Austin.  He's rocking.  He spotlights the impact of blogging on PR and the traditional media.  He held a moment of silence im memory of the old media, then swung into the key aspects …
Rich Karlgaard / Digital Rules:
Broadway Joe Was A Blogger  —  In 1965, immediately after the Alabama football team lost a squeaker in the Orange Bowl, the cocky owner of the professional New York Jets signed the cockier yet 'Bama quarterback, Joe Namath to a contract.  Do you remember the terms?  It was shocking —

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