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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
Yahoo's new pretty maps are doomed (and so are Microsoft's) — Has Google disrupted the businesses of Yahoo and Microsoft? Yes! It got me out of bed to write this post. No, that's not the disruption I'm talking about (I'll hopefully be able to take a couple of days off …
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Michael Bazeley / SiliconBeat:
Yahoo Maps: a Flash-y interface and a better API — It's been said before, but the bare-knuckles competition between Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, etc. is nothing but good for consumers. — Take the news tonight out of Yahoo about its mapping service. Yahoo's released another upgrade to Yahoo Maps …
Edward W. Felten / Freedom to Tinker:
SonyBMG and First4Internet Release Mysterious Software Update — SonyBMG and First4Internet, the companies caught installing rootkit-like software on the computers of people who bought certain CDs, have taken their first baby steps toward addressing the problem.
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Boing Boing, Infothought, F-Secure, Ed Bott's Windows Expertise, Gizmodo, Copyfight and Spyware Confidential
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Eric Goldman / Technology & Marketing Law Blog:
Sony, DRM and Trespass to Chattels — A minor storm is brewing over Sony's installation of DRM software on users' computers when they play Sony's CDs. Sony's software is installed as a "rootkit," a difficult-to-remove installation, and it supports Sony's DRM, which really irritates the anti-DRM crowd.
John Borland / CNET News.com:Sony CD protection sparks security concerns
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The Gripe Line Weblog …, www.gulker.com, Blog Business Summit, vnunet.com, Dan Gillmor's blog and Wired News
Nick Schulz / Forbes:
Don't Fear Google — NEW YORK - Google wants to scan all the books in the stacks of several of the world's major research libraries to make these books searchable online. But lawsuits are threatening to shut the project down. Should they? — Called the Google Print Library Project …
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25hoursaday.com:
Clone the Google APIs: Kill That Noise — Yesterday Dave Winer wrote in a post about cloning the Google API Dave Winer wrote … and earlier that … This doesn't seem like a great idea to me for a wide variety of reasons but first, let's start with a history lesson before I tackle this specific issue
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Bryan Glick / computing.co.uk:
Exclusive: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates talks to Computing — Bill Gates reflects on Microsoft's past and future plans, in an exclusive two-part interview looking back on Microsoft's 30 years — Thirty years after founding the world's biggest software company, and despite being the richest man …
microsoft.com:
Microsoft Acquires FolderShare, a File-Synchronization Technology Provider — Deal aligns with Windows Live goal of connecting customers to the people and information that matter most to them. — REDMOND, Wash. — Nov. 3, 2005 — Microsoft Corp. today announced it has acquired FolderShare&trade …
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CNET News.com, Download Squad, Om Malik's Broadband Blog, The Unofficial Microsoft …, Paul Kedrosky's … and Andre
James Enck / EuroTelcoblog:
And the answer is... I guess people have varying definitions for "amazing," and my teaser from last night somehow got people thinking I was talking about VoIP (and several others thought I had landed a mega-bucks job - dream on). I hope no one is let down.
web2.wsj2.com:
10 ISSUES FACING WEB 2.0 GOING INTO 2006 — Now that industry leaders like Microsoft are not only taking Web 2.0 concepts very seriously, they are apparently intent on banking on them as well, we're certainly living in a slightly different world this week compared to last.
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Google Patent : Organic Results Ranked by User Profiling — Google Patent : Organic Results Ranked by User Profiling — Google has filed for an organic search patent which is a bit different than what we're used to seeing in Google search, and perhaps something we may expect from their AdWords or AdSense divisions.
Robert Lemos / securityfocus.com:
World of Warcraft hackers using Sony BMG rootkit — Want to cheat in your online game and not get caught? Just buy a Sony BMG copy protected CD. — World of Warcraft hackers have confirmed that the hiding capabilities of Sony BMG's content protection software can make tools made for cheating …
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Saving journalism isn't about saving jobs — Every time we hear about another cutback in newspapers — and there are plenty of them these days — we automatically hear the notion that journalism jobs must be saved to save journalism. I'm afraid it's time to challenge that assumption.
Adam Mathes / Official Google Blog:
Preserving public domain books — The world's libraries are a tremendous source of knowledge, much of which has never been available online. One of our goals for Google Print is to change that, and today we've taken an exciting step toward meeting it: making available a number …
James Boyle / Financial Times:
Web's never-to-be-repeated revolution — The web is having a birthday. This month, we will have the 15th anniversary of the creation of the first web page. It is the birthday of Tim Berners-Lee's amazing idea that there could be a worldwide web, linked not by spider silk but by hypertext links …
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Reuters:
MySpace.com creates own record label — MySpace.com, one of the top music destinations on the Internet, is starting its own record label. — The imprint, to be manufactured by Universal Music Group's Interscope Records, will begin life Nov. 15 with the release of the compilation "MySpace Records: Volume I."
Eric Gwinn / Chicago Tribune:
Pimp my ride: Tricked-out cars no longer just for rich — Soon, your new car will be more entertaining and informative than your best friend. In addition to playing your favorite songs, your car will find parking spaces, identify upcoming traffic jams and tell you how to drive around them …
