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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Audible and its consultant — I usually don't quote flamers here, but these comments by Mitch Ratcliffe, in a rather longish response to Jeff Jarvis, Staci Kramer, Om Malik, Doc Searls and myself, says everything wrong about who I am and what I do. I think people might miss this, so here's the quote.
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Mitch Ratcliffe / RatcliffeBlog:
More on the future of podcasting — You will forgive me recalling that Bill Gates, richest guy in the world, once said that no one would need more than 640 Kb of RAM on a personal computer. As I read some of the responses to the Audible Wordcast announcements, I am repeatedly reminded of the folly of Gates' view.
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Sarah McBride / Wall Street Journal:
Audible's Podcast Tool Tallies Listeners — Audible Inc. is introducing a tool to help advertisers measure how many people are listening to podcasts, the Internet-based audio shows that are downloaded to listeners' computers. — That means advertisers will be able to get a handle on how many people are really listening to shows.
Michael Hill / Associated Press:
Libraries offering audiobook downloads — GUILDERLAND, N.Y. — A new way to borrow audiobooks from the library involves no CDs, no car trips, no fines and no risk of being shushed. — Rather, public libraries from New York City to Alameda, Calif., are letting patrons download Tom Clancy techno-thrillers …
Ryan Naraine / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft to Zap Sony DRM 'Rootkit' — Microsoft Corp. will start deleting the rootkit component of the controversial DRM scheme used by Sony BMG Music Entertainment. — The software giant's Windows AntiSpyware application will be updated to add a detection and removal signature …
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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Microsoft will wipe Sony's 'rootkit' — Microsoft will update its security tools to detect and remove part of the copy protection tools installed on PCs when some music CDs are played. — The Redmond, Wash., software maker has determined that the "rootkit" piece of the XCP software …
weirdhat.com:
Watching all six Star Wars movies simultaneously — I'VE BEEN SLASHDOTTED! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!&nbs p; — So I got on the front page of digg, which I'd never even heard of before this happened but apparently is wicked popular, when a friend of a friend who didn't know this was …
Reuters:
Dell, seeking sales growth, embraces style, luxury — Dell is trying to spice up its image—and turn around lagging sales growth—by shaking Apple Computer's hold on hipness, but it may be tough to match its smaller rival's flair. — A recent Dell ad in Variety, Hollywood's trade magazine …
David A. Vise / Washington Post:
AOL to Have Reruns on Demand — America Online Inc. and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. are planning to put thousands of episodes of once-popular television shows like "Welcome Back Kotter" and "Chico and the Man" on the AOL.com Web site, where high-speed Internet users can view them for free.
Tom's Hardware Guide:
Taking Linux On The Road With Ubuntu — Linux To Go — Many users get annoyed by everyday troubles that still affect Windows systems. Whether it is a failing driver, problems caused by poorly written applications or a virus infection, any consumer type version of Windows can be considered …
Timothy L. O'Brien / New York Times:
Are U.S. Innovators Losing Their Competitive Edge? — WHEN James E. West was 8 years old, he propped himself on his bed's brass footboard one afternoon and stretched to plug the cord of a radio he had repaired into a ceiling outlet. It was one of his first experiments.
english.chosun.com:
First WiBro Phone to Be Unveiled During APEC — Samsung Electronics will unveil a mobile phone allowing access to the mobile wireless broadband Internet service WiBro, the world's first according to the company. The firm said Sunday it will introduce WiBro terminals in various shapes …
Richard Waters / Financial Times:
Mobility Special: Plugged into it all — To listen to a group of students at the University of California's Berkeley campus talking about their obsessive communications habits, you would think you had stumbled into a meeting of recovering alcoholics. Rich Brown, a graduate student …
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
The anatomy of a leak — There's been some low-grade flaming over the "disruption" memos, leaked here and elsewhere earlier this week. Was Dave being used, unwittingly, as a PR tool? Did Microsoft know that they would leak? Some people didn't even bother asking questions …
