Top Items:
Brian Krebs / Security Fix:
DHS Official Weighs In on Sony — A high-ranking Bush administration official weighed in Thursday on anti-piracy efforts domestically and abroad, indirectly chastising Sony BMG Music Entertainment for its digital rights management (DRM) software, which computer security analysis …
RELATED ITEMS:
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Sony halts production of 'rootkit' CDs — Sony BMG Music Entertainment said Friday that it will suspend production of CDs with copy-protection technology that has been exploited by virus writers to try to hide their malicious code on PCs. — The decision by the music label comes after 10 days …
Reuters:
Sony BMG pulls CD software — AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Music publisher Sony BMG said on Friday it would stop making CDs that use a controversial technology to protect its music against illegal copying. — "As a precautionary measure, Sony BMG is temporarily suspending the manufacture …
Mitch Ratcliffe / RatcliffeBlog:
Measuring podcasts: The right first step — Measuring podcasts: … Jeff Jarvis makes the point that defined Audible's effort to produce a tool that supports a broad range of business models, ignoring the fact that the technology doesn't do what he says it should.
RELATED ITEMS:
Richard MacManus / Read/Write Web:
Portals 2.0 flesh out their product lines — Tristan Louis has compiled some excellent comparison charts of products across the Big 4 Internet companies - Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft and AOL [nb: Tristan's site was down when I checked, but you can also access his post here on Google cache].
RELATED ITEMS:
Liberalcowboy / Jack of All Blogs:
10 Most Powerful Women in Blogging — Keeping to our policy of being controversial and well just plain silly. We rank the 10 most powerful women in the blogging industry — 1. Ana Marie Cox (http://www.wonkette.com) of Gawker Media has done everything right in her blogging career.
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Full Metal Jacket — I have, for several years, subscribed to the theory that those who are mostly desk-bound should buy the cheapest laptop they can get by with and the most expensive desktop system they can afford. One reason is the idea that laptops — slower and more fragile — aren't really worth a big investment.
Susan Kuchinskas / internetnews.com:
Amazon Gets Patents on Consumer Reviews — Review your local dry cleaner, pay $10 million? — User reviews are a hot new content area, being used by Google (Quote, Chart), Yahoo (Quote, Chart) and MSN to sweeten their local search results. But as of Thursday, such consumer reviews …
Discussion:
AC/OS
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Gas pipe broadband? — Imagine accessing the Internet over the same pipe that provides you with natural gas for cooking. — It may sound nuts today, but a San Diego company called Nethercomm is developing a way to use ultra wideband wireless signals to transmit data at broadband speeds through natural-gas pipes.
Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft's ad pitch underpins Net moves — Microsoft's grand ambitions for free services rest on one thing: its ability to get to know you better. — The company has outlined a whole host of things it would like to offer as part of its "Live" services effort.
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
SAP's Shai Agassi on Oracle's 'folly' and the shift to services — Shai Agassi, president of the Product and Technology Group and a member of the Executive Board at SAP AG, fielded questions from New York Times tech reporter John Markoff and the audience during an early morning Churchill Club event on Wednesday.
RELATED ITEM:
Jason Silverman / Wired News:
Machinima Marches Toward Amusing — Machinima is growing up — finally. — This weekend, the Machinima Film Festival and the Mackies — the form's somewhat-annual awards ceremony — will be held at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York. — Anyone who has watched …
Rachel A. Weintraub / nasa.gov:
STEREO Spacecraft Arrive at NASA Goddard for Final Testing — The two Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft arrive at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. on Nov. 9 for major testing as they near completion. Set to launch in Spring 2006 …
RELATED ITEM:
Colin Barker / ZDNet:
Gartner: Ignore Vista until 2008 … There is no compelling reason to rush into upgrading to the next version of Windows, says Gartner — Companies shouldn't rush to upgrade to Microsoft Windows Vista, according to analysts at Gartner, who believe most firms could safely hold back until 2008.
Discussion:
Andre
mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp:
Mobile phones making a monkey out of Japanese — Going bananas over mobile phones for so many years is turning Japanese into monkeys, according to Sapio (11/23). — Nobuo Masataka, a professor at the Kyoto University Primate Research Institute and author of the monster best seller …
Tom Loftus / MSNBC:
'King Kong' game raises emotional stakes — Game maker aims for thrills and chills — but some tears and sorrow, as well — There's no love lost between King Kong and this TRex. — Ubisoft game producer Xavier Poix is hoping for a certain response from gamers when they play …
Business Week:
How digg Uncovers the News — The founders of the wildly popular tech-news site explain how their mass of users sift and rank stories. Now they've got expansion plans — Overwhelmed by the fast-multiplying amount of content on the Web? Breathe easy: digg.com could provide some guidance, and some relief.
