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Mike Davidson / Interactive Design …:
Unstealth! Get Ready For Newsvine... This morning, news broke that our new company, Newsvine, is about to hatch. Remember that name. — Newsvine. — You'll be hearing it a lot over the next year. — First things first. I apologize to all Mike Industries readers for keeping this a secret …
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Om Malik / Om Malik's Broadband Blog:
Introducing, Newsvine — Chris Anderson, editor of Wired Magazine, on his blog had some stark statistics about the declining fortunes of the old media, especially the newspapers. Will the old media will whither away or not, I can't say. What I can add though, is theat the current state …
Suzi Turner / ZDNet:
CA targets Sony DRM as spyware — Computer Associates, maker of security software, has announced their anti-spyware program PestPatrol will detect and remove Sony's rootkit-enabled DRM software. I spoke to Samuel Curry, Vice President, Product Management of Computer Associates …
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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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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Apple tries to patent 'tamper-resistant software' — Apple Computer, which is in the process of switching to computers based on the omnipresent Intel processor, has filed a patent application describing a method for securely running Mac OS X on specific hardware.
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Maya Roney / Forbes:
Google's Automat Seen With 'Enormous' Potential — Benjamin A. Schachter of UBS Investment Research reiterated a "buy" rating and $430 price target on Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) following the release of a new patent application for Google Automat.
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Dan Bricklin Log:
I'm working on a new product called wikiCalc — After months of waiting, I'm finally ready to explain my next product. I wanted to wait until I had something you could actually use so there would be a better understanding of what it was and what it wasn't.
Allison Linn / Associated Press:
Gates Warns of 'Sea Change' in Memo — SEATTLE - The technology industry shift's to Internet-based software and services represents a massive and disruptive "sea change," Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates wrote to top-level executives in a memo aimed at rallying his troops against the new competitive threats the company faces.
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Reuters:
Japan's Olympus to shrink compact camera business — TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Olympus Corp. said on Wednesday that it planned to shift the focus of its digital camera business away from compact models and sell more high-end single lens reflex cameras to boost profitability.
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Aaron Weiss / wi-fiplanet.com:
The Open Source WRT54G Story — The story of the Linksys Wireless-G Router (model WRT54G) and how you can turn a $60 router into a $600 router is a little bit CSI and a little bit Freaks & Geeks. It's also the story of how the open source movement can produce a win-win scenario for both consumers and commercial vendors.
Hkwint / lxer.com:
Is MS Windows ready for the desktop? — The last few years, there's been a lot of talk about this new Windows XP thing (to quote Bono at a 1984 concert: very, very too much talk!). What's all the buzz about, and how can you turn Windows XP to your advantage, if this is possible at all?
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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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Ben Charny / eWEEK.com:
VOIP No Longer for the Underdog — News Analysis: The telehone industry's old guard emerges as leaders of "new telephony," and they can thank federal regulations. — Internet telephony was once for underdog firms able to muster up a few hundred thousand dollars in investments.
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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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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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