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Dave Winer / H Y P E R C A M P:
Exclusive: Full text of Gates email, Ozzie memo — Something weird happened just before midnight Eastern time, first the Wall Street Journal, then the NY Times, then the Seattle Post-Intelligencer all had reports on a memo leaked from inside Microsoft that was sent to top management …
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Rough Type, Mark Evans, RatcliffeBlog, web2.wsj2.com, Om Malik's Broadband Blog, Things That, Keep Trying, The Doc Searls Weblog, Burningbird, Between the Lines, albert.tanutama.com, Alice Hill's Real Tech News, CNET News.com, SearchViews, Scobleizer, business2blog, Read/Write Web, TechBlog, Don Dodge on The Next …, Web 2.0 Explorer, Alex Barnett blog, PaidContent.org, New York Times, Paul Kedrosky's …, The Pondering Primate, JD on MX, rexblog.com, Niall Kennedy's Weblog, B.L. Ochman's weblog, IP Democracy, Susan Mernit's Blog, Windows Vista Weblog, Microsoft Watch, David Card, BASEMENT.ORG, Smalltalk Tidbits … and What Do You Care …
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Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Monitor:
INTERNET TIDAL WAVE 2.0 — Colleague Michael Gartenberg pipes in on Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie memos that leaked out yesterday. Both preceded Microsoft's "Live" launches, which set Microsoft on a course of delivering Internet services. As Michael says, "We've seen it before," …
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Are You Infected by Sony-BMG's Rootkit? — As we've mentioned before, Sony-BMG has been using copy-protection technology called XCP in its recent CDs. You insert your CD into your Windows PC, click "agree" in the pop up window, and the CD automatically installs software that uses rootkit techniques to cloak itself from you.
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Mark's Sysinternals Blog, Boing Boing, Things That, Smart Mobs and The Sony Boycott Blog
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Kai Schmerer / ZDNet:
Apple Mac OS X on x86: a first test — Steve Jobs might not approve, but Apple's latest operating system can be installed on any x86 hardware. How well does it function? Read our preliminary labs test to find out. — Back in June, when Apple boss Steve Jobs announced the platform change …
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architosh.com:
Apple Preparing Full Assault on Microsoft - Virtual Machine War? — Yesterday an interesting news item on the Net aligned with a previously published statement about Apple's ultimate intentions behind the Intel switch. A reliable source had told Architosh prior to the highly anticipated …
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog, michael parekh on IT, Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus, OSNews.com and digg
Susan Kuchinskas / internetnews.com:
Google Automat to Spew Classifieds? — Google's rumored classifieds service is not only in the works, it's patent-pending, according to analyst firm Classified Intelligence. — Analyst John Zappe discovered the patent application, which includes screen shots for Google Purchases …
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The Voice of Online …
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Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
IBM to analyze digital scuttlebutt — IBM said it is developing an application to analyze how discussions on blogs and other Web sites are affecting a given corporation's image. — The computing giant on Monday described a service, called the Public Image Monitoring Solution …
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Rebuilding Media
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Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Carriers Adopt Content Rating for Cellphones — The nation's major cellular phone carriers said yesterday that they had adopted a content rating system for video, music, pictures and games that they sell to cellphone users - a development that could pave the way for them to begin selling pornography …
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Gizmodo
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bit-tech.net:
Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion interview — Xbox 360 is less than 2 weeks away now, and gamers everywhere are getting fired up. We are here at bit-tech, too, as you can probably tell by our Deputy Editor's often lustful comments about the upcoming addition to the Project Gotham Racing series.
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TechSpot
Om Malik / Om Malik's Broadband Blog:
The TV Show Download Bunkum — Rationality is the first victim of panic. And right now what I see all around me is a panic driven, knee jerk reactions by media giants to the world which is spiraling out of their control. The perfect example of this panic-driven move is today's announcement from CBS and NBC.
Josh / Bokardo:
Why Should I Trust Microsoft with My Attention Metadata? — Who would you rather have keep a database of your attention metadata: Microsoft or a complete stranger? — For me the answer is easy: not Microsoft. — You see, Microsoft has so damaged my trust over the past decade …
Julie Clothier / CNN:
Dutch trial SMS disaster alert system — (CNN) — The Dutch government is testing a mobile phone danger alert system that sends text messages to people who could be affected by natural disasters or terrorist attacks. — The system, called Cell Broadcast, uses GSM technology to identify cell phone users in a particular area.
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Gizmodo
visto.com:
Visto Secures Additional $70 Million Financing From New and Existing Investors — Strong Investor Support Positions Company To Drive Mass Adoption of Mobile Email — REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - November 9, 2005 - Visto Corporation, the world's leading provider of secure mobile push email …
Stephen Baker / Business Week:
Blogging For Fun And Profit — Startups can start good buzz on the blogosphere — if they're careful … Allison Gower was already running two companies, one a promotional packaging outfit and the other an advertising startup called qtags. So she had plenty of doubts when she sat …
Steve Friess / Wired News:
Curry in Podcast Convention Clash — The Portable Media Expo kicks off Friday in Ontario, California, with all the earmarks of success. But the proceedings could see some last-minute competition from one of the biggest names in the fast-growing podcasting business: former MTV VJ Adam Curry.
Andrea Sachs / Washington Post:
My Dinner With Google — I Typed 'tofu oranges cauliflower,' And My Computer Concocted a Meal — For more than a year, a package of Cambodian tapioca sticks sat in my pantry unopened. Then one evening, I Googled my noodles and ate them. — Google, t he almighty Web search engine …
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Charlene Li's Blog
Burtonator / Kevin Burton's Feed Blog:
Hacking Memeorandum in Three Easy Steps — Seems like Tara and Alex have been having some fun. — They figured out how Memorandum works and hacked it so that they could appear on the site (thus getting more traffic). — There's even a cool screencast (I love these things)!
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable*:Hacking Memeorandum: More Proof That Algorithms Don't Work
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Scobleizer, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, Alex Barnett blog, Hellonline, IP Democracy, Tinfinger and HorsePigCow
