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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Just Googling It Is Striking Fear Into Companies — Wal-Mart, the nation's largest retailer, often intimidates its competitors and suppliers. Makers of goods from diapers to DVD's must cater to its whims. But there is one company that even Wal-Mart eyes warily these days: Google …
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Unsecured Wi-Fi would be outlawed by N.Y. county — According to a new proposal being considered by a suburb of New York City, any business or home office with an open wireless connection but no separate server to fend off Internet attacks would be violating the law.
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Stevedod / Steve Dodson's WebLog:
Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware is now......"Windows Defender" — Over the last few months we have been working hard on creating the next version of the Microsoft anti-spyware technology. Today, we are announcing the new name for this technology... Microsoft Windows Defender. Does this mean a lot is changing??
Luke Hutteman's public virtual MemoryStream:
Feeds, well-formed XML and Vista — The Microsoft RSS Blog just announced that Vista will only accept RSS feeds that are well-formed XML. — I agree with Nick, who commented "This is the right thing to do, and I'm glad you're doing it - thanks". I'd like to add some emphasis to that statement though …
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TJ's Weblog:
WeblogsInc plays dirty — Over at Calacanis blog Mr. Calacanis looses his head about our new design. — No doubt there are some similarities on the two web sites. Three boxes incorporate nicely the groups of people WeblogsInc and Creative Weblogging are both are serving to. But that's where it ends.
Kasper Jade / appleinsider.com:
PowerBook to gain iSight, iBook to go widescreen in 2006 — Along with its transition to Intel processors, Apple Computer in the first half of next year will introduce new eye-catching industrial designs for both of its laptop offerings, AppleInsider has learned.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / eWEEK.com:
SuSE Users' Panic Unfounded — Rumors circulating that Novell is going to kill off its popular Linux desktop lines are completely false. — A Linux Today story, which asked the rhetorical question "Why has Novell management decided to discontinue their entire SuSE Linux branded desktop …
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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Digg temporarily downed by 'success' — Digg, a rising online technology news community that has been called a rival to Slashdot, went offline for about five hours on Friday. There was no attack, instead the servers succumbed to the site's success, according to Digg founder Kevin Rose.
Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Wireless: The new backseat driver? — SAN FRANCISCO—Just in case you don't have enough backseat drivers, your car could one day tell you when you're about to screw up. — On Thursday, General Motors demonstrated a vehicle-to-vehicle, or V2V, wireless communication system that alerts you when a collision is imminent.
Mark Russinovich / Mark's Sysinternals Blog:
More On Sony: Dangerous Decloaking Patch, EULAs And Phoning Home — My posting Monday on Sony's use of a rootkit as part of their Digital Rights Management (DRM) generated an outcry that's reached the mainstream media. As of this morning the story is being covered in newspapers …
Yoshiko Hara / eetimes.com:
Japan demonstrates next-gen TV broadcast — TOKYO — Aiming at next-generation broadcasting, Japan Broadcast Corporation (NHK) has demonstrated a live relay of a 4x x 8k resolution Super Hi-Vision program connecting a 260-km distance by a fiberoptic network.
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Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
On the 15th birthday of the World Wide Web, a look back — In November of 1990, Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at Europe's CERN Particle Physics Laboratory, invented the very first web server and web browser. The server, entitled simply httpd, and the browser, called WorldWideWeb …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Lunch? — As many people know, Google offers its employees free lunch and free dinner at the campus (Yahoo charges its employees). It's a lavish affair, with many different types of high quality food, drinks, desert, etc. I like visiting Google for lunch, and accept nearly every offer I get from a Google employee.
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Robert McMillan / InfoWorld:
Sony DRM patch might crash Windows — Security expert says design flaw in patch theoretically could crash a computer as software is installed — A software patch released by Sony (Profile, Products, Articles) BMG Music Entertainment in response to an uproar over its XCP CD copy protection software …
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