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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.
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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 …
Diane Mermigas / Hollywood Reporter:
Content must catch up with new-media world — CHICAGO — It's all about content ... again. — Now that virtually all the powers-that-be in media, entertainment and telecommunications are fastening themselves to Internet-connected portable video devices and platforms to be part …
John Markoff / New York Times:
Internet Services Crucial, Microsoft Memos Say — SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 8 - Microsoft must fundamentally alter its business or face being at a significant competitive disadvantage to a growing array of companies offering Internet services, according to memorandums written by two of the company's top executives.
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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gamasutra.com:
Sawyer Sues Atari Over Roller Coaster Tycoon Royalties — According to a report in the UK Times newspaper, Roller Coaster Tycoon creator and developer Chris Sawyer is in the processing of pursuing litigation against U.S. publisher Atari for around $4.8 million in royalties which Sawyer …
David Richards / smarthouse.com.au:
Police Called In To Investigate Sony — A leading software company has accused Sony of spying on tens of thousands of people who buy Sony music CD's. — Computer Associates said that new anticopying software Sony is using to discourage pirating of its music also secretly collects information …
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.
Mark Chillingworth / iwr.co.uk:
Macmillan takes on Google Print — Macmillan boss Richard Charkin tells IWR why publishers may prefer alliance with Macmillan over search engines — Publishers wary of putting their titles online with Google can now side with publishing giant Macmillan, which, with its parent company Holtzbrinck Group …
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Los Angeles Times:
As Knight Ridder Goes, So May News Industry — Investor pressure to sell the San Jose-based chain comes as papers across the country are losing circulation at an accelerating pace. — As big shareholders of Knight Ridder Inc. pressure executives to consider selling the nation's second …
Sunbelt Software Blog / Sunbelt BLOG:
Trying to use EULAs and copyright law to block spyware research — RetroCoder makes a commercial keylogger called SpyMon, something that someone would normally buy on purpose. But just in case, it's in our threat database and we treat it like we treat all commercial keyloggers …
Reuters:
Microsoft Expects High Xbox 360 Sales — SEATTLE (Reuters)—Microsoft Corp. expects to sell as many as 3 million Xbox 360 consoles in the first three months after launching the newest version of its video game machine, the financial chief of the giant software company's Xbox business said on Tuesday.
Catherine Seda / Search Engine Watch:
Using Search for Public Relations & Reputation Management — Search marketing should go beyond traditional search engine optimization and paid links by bolstering a firm's reputation and customer image, according to a panel of experts. — A special report from the Search Engine Strategies conference, August 8-11, 2005, San Jose, CA.
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 …
Michael Singer / CNET News.com:
Motorola Razr drums to iTunes beat — Motorola announced four upcoming Razr handsets on Tuesday, including one that comes preloaded with Apple's iTunes music software. — The Razr V3i is expected to hit shelves before the end of the year. It includes a 1.23-megapixel digital camera with 8x digital zoom …
