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Grokster Downloading Service to Shut Down — WASHINGTON - Grokster Ltd., which lost a Supreme Court fight over file-sharing software used for stealing songs and movies online, agreed Monday to shut down and pay $50 million to settle piracy complaints by Hollywood and the music industry.
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Music Industry Announces Grokster Settlement — WASHINGTON, DC - The owners and operators of the Grokster peer-to-peer (P2P) network - the lead and most well-known defendants in one of the Supreme Court's seminal decisions this year and the most profound case affecting copyright laws in two decades …

Yahoo, TiVo to connect services — update In a move that further blurs the lines of television and the Internet, Yahoo and TiVo have partnered to schedule downloads to TiVo boxes from any Internet connection. — Starting Monday, consumers will be able to schedule recordings of TV shows …
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TiVo and Yahoo! Collaborate to Offer Online Scheduling Through Yahoo! TV
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Yahoo Plans to Connect Services With TiVo
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Yahoo, Google to launch new wireless services — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. are set to roll out new wireless services, taking advantage of advanced networks and cellphones to provide features similar to those available on computers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
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Daily Wireless, Phone Scoop, Gizmodo, The Pondering Primate, InsideGoogle and The Tao of Mac
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Yahoo and Google Unwire — Christian Lindholm, the father of Lifeblog software and Navikey UI leaves Nokia . A few weeks later Lindholm joins Yahoo. A few months later WSJ publishes plans of Yahoo teaming up with SBC and Cingular of joining a co-branded phone made by Nokia.

Over 1 million Windows to Mac converts so far in 2005? — The momentum generated by Apple's iPod digital music players and related products continues to translate into new Macintosh sales according to one Wall Street analyst who estimates that over one million Windows users have purchased a Mac in the first three quarters of 2005.
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Google brings maps to phones — LOS ANGELES — Internet search giant Google introduces its first downloadable cellphone application on Monday, bringing its acclaimed map technology to phones. — With Google Local for mobile devices, users can get colorful, overhead views of a neighborhood …
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Miss Behavin' — Thanks Liz for your assessment of the Seattle Post's article. You have no idea what it means to me. — I swear, I felt sick when I read that article. All of the grand demos and in-depth conversations and contacts over the weekend were instantly twisted to "I'm a Bimbo" in that moment.
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Camp as newsroom — I find the combination of blogging and news rooms very exciting. — The first time I experienced it was at a conference in Monterey in 2000. I was sitting in the conference computer room, a small hotel ballroom with about 100 workstations, updating my blog.
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Full Circle Online …

CARNIVAL OF THE CAPITALISTS - 11/7/05 — Welcome to this week's Carnival of the Capitalists. This edition has NOT been brought to you by Insight Broadband who's crappy cable modem was off and on all night last night. That being said, sorry for being late. Here it is... Economics

QUALCOMM Files GSM Patent Infringement Suit Against Nokia — SAN DIEGO — November 07, 2005 — QUALCOMM Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM) and its wholly owned subsidiary, SnapTrack, Inc., filed suit on November 4 against Nokia Corporation and Nokia Inc. in federal court in San Diego for infringement …

Perspective: Why they say spyware is good for you — Sony rightly came under fire last week from programmers and Internet users for injecting an undetectable copy-prevention utility into Microsoft Windows when certain CDs are inserted. — Now the lawyers are taking aim, too.

Sony'S Rootkit: First 4 Internet Responds — First 4 Internet, the company that implements Sony's Digital Rights Management (DRM) software that includes a rootkit, has responded to my last post, More on Sony: Dangerous Decloaking Patch, EULAs and Phoning Home. They rebut four of the points I raise in the post.

U.S. newspaper circulation falls — NEW YORK — Average weekday circulation at U.S. newspapers fell 2.6 per cent during the six month-period ending in September in the latest sign of trouble in the newspaper business, an industry group reported Monday. — Sunday circulation also fell 3.1 per cent …