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Blogmalware / Anti-Malware Engineering Team:
Sony DRM Rootkit — I've been getting a lot of questions in the last week about Microsoft's position on the Sony DRM and rootkit discussions, so I thought I'd share a little info on what we're doing here. We are concerned about any malware and its impact on our customers' machines.
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K.C. Jones / crn.com:
Murder Suspect's Google Searches Spotlighted In Trial — 4:54 PM EST Fri. — Prosecutors claim a Mac specialist on trial in connection with the killing of his wife did a Google search for the words: "neck snap break" and "hold" before she was killed. — Robert Petrick …
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Mike / Techdirt:
Your Google Searches May Be Used Against You In A Court Of Law — While there appears a ton of other evidence (digital and otherwise), one of the pieces of evidence in the murder trial of a man accused of killing his wife was that he searched for "neck snap break" on Google soon before he allegedly killed her.
Andrew / andrewescobar.com:
How to Safe Sleep (Hibernate) Your Mac — Hibernation and Sleep — Mac users have become quite familiar with using Sleep mode. In Sleep mode, Macs go into a very low-power mode, while saving the current session for later use. Putting a Mac to sleep will continue to power RAM in sleep mode …
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
If it's not MP3, is it still podcasting? — Yesterday's coverage of the Audible announcement exposed a conversation that was coming, and it boils down to the question in the title of this piece. The answer — if you're not using MP3, you're probably trying to make podcasting into a replay of previous media.
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
FROM SERVICE TO APPLICATION — Late last week - and it was certainly an odd week for all sorts of reasons - I had the honor of appearing before the SDForum's Search SIG in Mountain View, on the Microsoft Valley campus. First I was interviewed by Dan Farber about the book (here's Dan's write up) …
Yuki Noguchi / Washington Post:
Government Enters Fray Over BlackBerry Patents — Agencies Depend on Devices, Lawyers Say — Some people make jokes about Washington wonks being attached to their BlackBerry e-mail devices, but the U.S. government takes the service very seriously. — The Justice Department has filed …
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Kasper Jade / appleinsider.com:
First Intel Macs on track for January — Apple Computer is on track to introduce the first Macs with Intel processors as early as January, which should help the company avoid any potential sales slow down in the first half of 2006 and appease concerns voiced by shareholders and industry-watchers, AppleInsider has learned.
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Brian Handwerk / National Geographic:
Antigravity Machine Patent Draws Physicists' Ire — A perpetual-motion machine may defy the laws of physics, but an Indiana inventor recently succeeded in having one patented. — On November 1 Boris Volfson of Huntington, Indiana, received U.S. Patent 6,960,975 for his design of an antigravity space vehicle.
Whatshisface / The Post Money Value:
The New VC Handbook — Sorry for the all quiet on the western front thing going on here; it has been a busy couple of weeks. — Recently, I had an opportunity to listen to a couple of VCs who are, by all accounts, rock stars. These are the 100 million dollar to each partner type rock stars.
Lora / What Is New:
What do you use a PC for anyway? — What do you use a PC for anyway? — This evening I was reading a few articles about Windows Vista and one alluded to how people are in search of killer applications for Tablet PCs while another said the killer app is really a killer scenario, such as using the Internet.
Troy Norcross / Mobile Marketing & SPAM:
Faster and faster - Carnival of the Mobilists 5 - Week 46 — Welcome to Carnival of the Mobilists #5 — The carnival is rapidly gaining speed and momentum and going ever faster and faster - and this is a good thing! One of the great things about this is that there are a growing number of submissions every week.
Luis Camino / Unofficial Club Sony Ericsson:
First image of rumoured mini P990, the P970 — As pointed by Mobile-review some weeks ago, Sony Ericsson may be working on a reduced-size version of the P990 without the Qwerty keypad but same touchscreen, UIQ 3. interface and rest of features, and what you see above is a computer generated image …
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Erick Schonfeld / business2.com:
The Flickrization of Yahoo — If social search pans out, it could give Yahoo a much-needed edge over Google. Google takes an automated approach to search, throwing armies of Ph.D.s and thousands of servers at the problem. It wants to make search more relevant by creating better algorithms.
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