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Associated Press:
CBS, NBC to Offer TV Shows for 99 Cents — NEW YORK (AP) - CBS and NBC have announced deals to offer replays of prime-time programs for 99 cents per episode, shifting television toward a sales model that gained popularity with downloaded music. — CBS is teaming up with Comcast Corp. …
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Reuters:
NBC, CBS to offer shows on demand for 99 cents — NBC and CBS unveiled separate plans on Monday to make some of their hottest prime-time shows available for viewers to watch at their leisure—without commercials—for 99 cents an episode, throwing open the door to "on-demand" television.
Richard Siklos / New York Times:
NBC and CBS to Sell Reruns for 99 Cents Each — In separate moves, the CBS and NBC Universal television networks said yesterday that they would start selling reruns of their top new shows within hours of their broadcast for 99 cents an episode through video-on-demand services on cable and satellite.
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
AMD surpasses Intel in U.S. retail stores — Advanced Micro Devices sold more chips than industry giant Intel in U.S. retail stores in October, according to a report released Tuesday by market researcher Current Analysis. — Desktop computers and notebooks with AMD chips accounted …
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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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Jennifer Bayot / New York Times:Grokster File-Sharing Service Shuts Down in Settlement
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Good Morning Silicon Valley
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.
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.
The TNL.net weblog:
Reading the Google Tea Leaves — Every time Google comes out with a new product, many people talk about how great it is and highlight the product as a category killer. However, it increasingly appears to me that Google is filling up holes in their offering, in an attempt to match its competitors.
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Blogspotting, Doc Searls' IT Garage, The Doc Searls Weblog, RatcliffeBlog and IP Democracy
Nick / Rough Type:
Search is a commodity (again) — Until Google came along, internet search suffered from two big problems as a business. First, it was hard to make money off the end users (as a result, search engines had become commodity services sold to and rebranded by portals) and, second …
Mike / Techdirt:
Sony: Rootkits Are Okay, Because No One Knows What They Are — from the did-he-actually-say-that? dept. — Sony's response to the whole rootkit fiasco has been anything but reassuring — which is probably why they're facing a series of lawsuits about the matter.
Dan Richman / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Internet takes a bite out of P-I, Times circulation — The Internet and telemarketing restrictions are hastening the decline of daily newspaper circulation nationwide and at both of Seattle's daily papers, experts and publishers said after the latest audited counts were released Monday.
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
WiFi isn't short for "Wireless Fidelity" — Last week, I wrote in passing about how WiFi doesn't "stand for" wireless fidelity. It's a pun on "Hi-Fi" and "wireless fidelity" doesn't mean anything. Innumerable correspondants wrote in to say that the Wi-Fi Alliance said different.
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 …
Jeremy Wagstaff / loose wire:
Verso Helps Block China Traffic — Verso Technologies has announced its first major deal for its Internet filtering technology — in China. Verso is best known for its high-profile promises to block Skype VoIP traffic, which have raised a few eyebrows, and very little take-up, in the U.S. and Europe.
