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John Leyden / The Register:
First Trojan using Sony DRM spotted — Virus writers have begun taking advantage of Sony-BMG's use of rootkit technology in DRM software bundled with its music CDs. — Sony-BMG's rootkit DRM technology masks files whose filenames start with "$sys$". A newly-discovered variant …
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Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
Calif. Lawsuit Targets Sony — A class-action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of California consumers who may have been harmed by anti-piracy software installed by some Sony music CDs. A second, nationwide class-action lawsuit is expected to be filed against Sony in a New York court …
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The Sony Boycott Blog
Mark Russinovich / Mark's Sysinternals Blog:Sony: You Don'T Reeeeaaaally Want To Uninstall, Do You?
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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David Pogue / New York Times:
At Last, Phone Some Tunes to Yourself — YOU just know that certain technologies, once they become inexpensive and easy to use, will be earth-shattering hits: instant viewing of any movie ever made; nonpolluting cars; cellphones that don't drop calls. — Don't look now, but one longstanding member …
Business Week:
Netflix: Starring in Merger Story? — After facing down Blockbuster and Wal-Mart, the online DVD-rental company may be an acquisition target — but it won't go for cheap — It's the oldest plot in the movies: Upstart takes on the champ, wins a few rounds, gets his nose bloodied, then gets back up and wins the fight.
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PaidContent.org
Lizette Alvarez / New York Times:
Got 2 Extra Hours for Your E-Mail? — EVEN in his sleep, Stever Robbins, an executive adviser, could not escape his e-mail. "I was buried under a pile of e-mail," Mr. Robbins, 41, said. "I can't remember ever having a nightmare. For my first nightmare to be about e-mail, that was pathetic."
Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
Google is Building Yahoo 2.0 — In his posting titled Reading the Google Tea Leaves, Tristan compares various product offerings from Google against those of the "big three" (AOL, Microsoft, and Yahoo!) and concludes: … I've been giving a much shorter verbal version of his post for many months now.
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Search Engine Watch Blog
Techworld.com:
One million Windows users switch to Mac — As many as one million Windows users may have switched to Macs this year as the iPod halo transforms Apple into a technology industry "darling" and users tire of Windows security problems. — According to Needham analyst Charles Wolf …
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Windows Vista Weblog
Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Friendster overture not endearing to all — Friendster recently sent a mass e-mail to try to make new friends for its social network. Instead, it made some enemies. — The one-time hot spot dug deep into its network to pull out the e-mail addresses of people who didn't initially respond …
Tony Long / Wired News:
Eat, Sleep, Work, Consume, Die — Say you live in Greenwich, Connecticut, during, oh, the early 1850s. Your older brother left home a few years back to try his luck in the California gold fields. Like the vast majority of those who risked everything to go west, he came up empty.
Matt Cutts:
Jagger winding down — (a quickie post for those SEOs who can't resist watching data centers) — As Jagger1 and Jagger2 wind down and Jagger3 is visible at 66.102.9.104, I wanted to recap where things stand. — Jagger1 was visible at most data centers starting around 10/16/05.
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Search Engine Watch Blog
Elinor Mills / ZDNet:
More Google classifieds buzz … Word of yet another Google patent related to classified ads surfaced Wednesday, as the search giant stayed mum and Google watchers speculated about the mysterious company's plans to conquer the Web by becoming a one-stop info shop.
Natalie Hanman / Guardian:
Growing up with the wired generation — Today's teenagers use technology to stay in touch with friends at all times - turning their bedrooms into 'connected cocoons' — Being sent to your bedroom used to be a punishment: now it's a teen dream. Through personal computers …
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.
