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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 …
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Sony's EULA is worse than their rootkit — If you're unfortunate enough to buy music from Sony, you may think that the worst thing they'll do to you is screw you by infecting your computer with malicious rootkit software. Not so! Rootkits are only the beginning.
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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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David Berlind / Between the Lines:
And they said 'WebOffice' couldn't be done.. — Everytime I write about the forthcoming fat client's fall from grace thanks to a new breed of software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers, the technologists-in-denial club shows up in the comments section of our blogs with its tar and feathers to give me a lashing.
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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 …
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."
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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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.
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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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.
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.
Gary Price / Search Engine Watch:
Real-Time Flight Tracking — Want to check on the status of a flight that's currently in the air? The major search engines and other specialized services offer real-time flight tracking services that show you the status of major airline flights. — Yahoo, Google and Ask Jeeves offer information …
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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 …
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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