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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 …
Marc Orchant / The Tablet PCs Weblog:
Gateway Chronicle: It's here! — The new Tablet PC arrived yesterday - six days ahead of the originally promised delivery date. As I feared, it showed up with no notice. There will, therefore, be no pictures of the UPS deliver person carrying the box up to my office.
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Life On the Wicked Stage
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.
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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michael parekh on IT, Neowin.net, OpsanBlog, TechBlog, Boing Boing, Engadget, IP Democracy and broadband
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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OSNews.com
David Adam / Guardian:
Fuel's paradise? Power source that turns physics on its head — · Scientist says device disproves quantum theory — · Opponents claim idea is result of wrong maths — It seems too good to be true: a new source of near-limitless power that costs virtually nothing …
Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek:
TransMedia Plots Death Of The Desktop Nov. 3, 2005 — The Glide suite, due later this month, runs on the vendor's own servers and is accessed through a browser. It includes applications for creating, sharing, and selling photos, music, video, and documents, as well as doing content management, calendaring, E-mail, and conferencing.
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Threadwatch.org
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.
Karen Gomm / ZDNet:
Google Print upsets children's hospital … Peter Pan has been funding vital work at Great Ormond Street for decades, but Google Print could 'rob the hospital of a major core of its charity revenue' — Great Ormond Street children's hospital is worried that that Google's online publishing scheme could cost it much-needed income.
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.
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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Web 2.0 Explorer
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??
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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Techdirt
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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Windows Vista Weblog, Randy Holloway Unfiltered, The RSS Blog and Niall Kennedy's Weblog
