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westchestergov.com:
SPANO PROPOSES LAW TO COUNTER RISKS OF WIRELESS NETWORKS  —  Businesses would be required to maintain secure networks  —  Wireless Internet connections are becoming more popular as "hot spots" are popping up at Starbucks and countless cafes, businesses and even parks, but many users …
Discussion: Engadget and IP Democracy
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Guy J Kewney / newswireless.net:
WiFi Internet cafes "must have firewall" - Westchester County  —  Just outside New York City, Westchester County has become the scene of the latest WiFi scare, with County Executive Andy Spano [left] announcing legislation to prevent insecure WiFi hotspot operation.
Discussion: Moore's Lore
Mike / Techdirt:
Local Politicians Say Open WiFi Should Be Illegal
Discussion: broadband
Gavin O'Malley / MediaPost Publications:
CBS Crosses Online 'Threshold,' Distributes It Via CBS.com  —  CBS IS CROSSING ANOTHER DIGITAL threshold - literally.  The broadcast network, Wednesday unveiled plans to distribute three episodes of prime-time sci-fi series "Threshold" online via CBS.com.  The move represents yet another …
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
CBS considering offering shows for download via iTunes
Discussion: Terry Heaton's Weblog
Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
Want 'War and Peace' Online?  How About 20 Pages at a Time?  —  In a race to become the iTunes of the publishing world, Amazon.com and Google are both developing systems to allow consumers to purchase online access to any page, section or chapter of a book.
Om Malik / Om Malik's Broadband Blog:
Bigger Than Google, MySpace is different  —  Robert Young, earlier this year, explained to my readers why Rupert Murdoch really bought MySpace for $583 million.  He argued that we should wait for Rupert to launch a record label and a music channel that takes on MTV and knocks it off its top spot.
Microsoft Team RSS Blog:
Feeds and well-formed XML  —  Here in Windows, we're working hard on Windows Vista Beta 2, and we've recently been doing some work on how we parse feeds.  —  Our years of experience in with HTML in Internet Explorer have taught us the long-term pain that results from being too liberal with what you accept from others.
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Xbox 360 and iPod interoperability?  Sort of  —  If you play "Project Gotham Racing 3" on an Xbox 360 after the console hits stores later this month, Microsoft invites you to use tunes straight off your iPod as an alternative to the game's sound track.  —  Officially, the company …
Samus / What Do You Care What Other People Think?:
SaaS Startup Offering  —  I've been working hard to develop a strong Microsoft-based offering for startups building SaaS companies, because the economics are with LAMP right now.  In listening to startup engineering managers and business managers (i.e. VP Engineering and CEOs) I consistently hear the following:
Motley Fool:
Google's Next Buy  —  By Rick Aristotle Munarriz (TMFBreakerRick)  —  Don't tell me that Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) printed out 14 million new shares back in mid-September without a game plan.  Don't tell me that Google fattened up its balance sheet to $7.6 billion just because legal tender …
Arshad Mohammed / Washington Post:
SBC Head Ignites Access Debate  —  The head of a major telecommunications company stirred up a hornets' nest this week by suggesting that he wants to charge companies like Google and Yahoo a fee for bringing them into consumers' homes.  —  SBC Communications Inc. Chairman Edward E. Whitacre Jr.'s comments …
Discussion: Techdirt, IP Democracy and Werblog
Wall Street Journal:
Wide-Flying Moguls: Google Duo's New Jet Is a Boeing 767-200  —  Included Are Two Staterooms,  —  A Shower, Seats for 50;  —  It's 'Good for the World'  —  On the road, Sergey Brin and Larry Page have owned environmentally friendly hybrid vehicles such as the Toyota Prius.
Discussion: Silicon Valley Sleuth
Peter Judge / Techworld.com:
xMax sparks low power wireless revolution  —  A little-known start-up has demonstrated wireless broadband 1000 times more efficient than WiMax - and claims the technique could also make wireless LANs that will run for years on watch batteries.  —  xG Technology, based in Sarasota, Florida …
Discussion: Rebuilding Media and Techdirt
Seb Janacek / silicon.com:
Minority Report: Will Apple send in the clones?  —  A wise move, or just an old one? … In the months since Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced the Mac was making the seismic shift from PowerPC to Intel processors, the murmurs about the possible resurrection of the clones programme have been getting louder …
Discussion: MacSlash
Peter Kafka / Forbes:
IPorn?  —  NEW YORK - Get set for what could be yet another porn boom.  —  It seems that Apple's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) announcement this week that it has sold one million videos at $1.99 a pop just 20 days after unveiling its new video store and video-capable iPod …
Discussion: Coolz0r and The Doc Searls Weblog

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