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Associated Press:
Grokster Goes Down — WASHINGTON — Grokster Ltd., a leading developer of internet file-sharing software popular for stealing songs and movies online, agreed Monday to shut down operations to settle a landmark piracy case filed by Hollywood and the music industry, The Associated Press has learned.
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Jeff Leeds / New York Times:
Grokster Calls It Quits on Sharing Music Files — LOS ANGELES, Nov. 7 - Grokster, a developer of file-swapping software used to trade copyrighted music and movie files, said Monday that it would halt distribution of the software and cut off support for its associated network as part …
tech-recipes.com:
Digg Effect: The Top 10 Things Webmasters Should Know — Over the weekend, we were on the front page of digg.com again. Getting honored in this way is always a thrill to us. As a tech-tutorial site we have been highlighted on the front page many times now.
Simson Garfinkel / Wired News:
History's Worst Software Bugs — Last month automaker Toyota announced a recall of 160,000 of its Prius hybrid vehicles following reports of vehicle warning lights illuminating for no reason, and cars' gasoline engines stalling unexpectedly. But unlike the large-scale auto recalls of years past …
David Weinberger / Joho the Blog:
IBM shows del.icio.us for the enterprise, and more — I'm at a small IBM press event, "The Future of Social Networks" held in the IBM office in Cambridge. They're talking about 1) Social Nets Analytics, a "solution" [yech, I hate that term — What product isn't a solution? Can-opener= Your sealed can solution.
Presentation Zen:
Gates, Jobs, & the Zen aesthetic — As a follow up to yesterday's post on Bill Gates' presentation style, I thought it would be useful to examine briefly the two contrasting visual approaches employed by Gates and Jobs in their presentations while keeping key aesthetic concepts found in Zen in mind.
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Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
DirecTV Sells NBC Shows For 99 Cents — DirecTV Sells NBC Shows For 99 Cents Dave Zatz is out with a post on a new arrangement between NBC and DirecTV whereby people will be able to pay 99 cents to download commercial free NBC television shows with a new DirecTV DVR.
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Ingrid Marson / CNET News.com:
EMI: We don't use rootkits — The EMI Group, one of the world's largest recording companies, has distanced itself from the controversy surrounding digital rights management (DRM) software used by Sony BMG by stating that it does not use rootkits on its own products.
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Ten Technorati Hacks — If there's any one site I use more than others (with the exception of Gmail), it's Technorati. This site is a fantastic window into the psyche of the more digitally inclined. Here, in another in my series of hack postings, are 10 ways I get more mileage from T'rati.
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Marc Orchant / The Tablet PCs Weblog:
Gateway Chronicle: Happy support stories — As I've been working my way through configuring this new Gateway convertible Tablet PC, I've experienced a few glitches - both in process and what's been delivered. Hardly surprising really - these are the first of a new line of machines and some bumps in the road are to be expected.
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Yahoo Local Running Ingenio Pay Per Call? — Yahoo Local Running Ingenio Pay Per Call? — Here's a hot scoop about Yahoo from a post on the Search Engine Watch forums. Seems a member of the forums was doing some searches on Yahoo Local and noticed something different about the sponsored links.
Joanna Glasner / Wired News:
Some Technologies Will Annoy — If you're waiting for the "home of the future," filled with talking appliances and complex networks that let all our devices communicate with each other, prepare to keep holding your breath. It's not that those things aren't technically possible.
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
New worm targets Linux systems — A new worm that propagates by exploiting security vulnerabilities in Web server software is attacking Linux systems, antivirus companies warned on Monday. — The worm spreads by exploiting Web servers that host susceptible scripts at specific locations …
Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
New name flap for Microsoft — but this time its legal right is clear — Microsoft Corp. has a new name for its anti-spyware program, and unlike some of its choices for other products, there's no question this time about whether it has the right to use the moniker.
Dinesh C. Sharma / CNET News.com:
Study: CEOs find blogs useful — A growing number of American chief executives rate blogs high as employee communication tools, though a majority of them remain skeptical about starting their own, a new study shows. — About 59 percent of CEOs surveyed said they find Web logs, or blogs …
