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The Doc Searls Weblog:
Yo, Libraries: say No to DRM — My sister pointed me to this notice about downloadable audiobooks from the Central North Carolina Regional Library. Here it is: … That last item is the chocolate-coated spider. No iPods? "Copyright compliance" problems? wtf? So I looked around.
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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.
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.
J. Alex Halderman / Freedom to Tinker:
Sony Shipping Spyware from SunnComm, Too — Now that virus writers have started exploiting the rootkit built into Sony-BMG albums that utilize First4Internet's XCP DRM (as I warned they would last week), Sony has at last agreed to temporarily stop shipping CDs containing the defective software:
David A. Vise / Washington Post:
What Lurks in Its Soul? — The soul of the Google machine is a passion for disruptive innovation. — Powered by brilliant engineers, mathematicians and technological visionaries, Google ferociously pushes the limits of everything it undertakes. The company's DNA emanates from its youthful founders …
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Francis C. Assisi / indolink.com:
Shashank Priya Invents Wind-Powered Wi-Fi — 12 November 2005 — According to Nature, the world's pre-eminent scientific magazine, Assistant Professor Shashank Priya of the Materials Science and Engineering Program at the University of Texas at Arlington is successfully using pocket-sized mini windmills …
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 …
corporate-ir.net:
Audible Unveils Audible(R)Wordcast at Podcasting & Portable Media Expo; For the First Time, Content Creators Large and Small Will Be Able to Build Audit-Ready Advertising-Based and Subscription-Based Podcasting Businesses — WAYNE, N.J.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Nov. 11, 2005—Audible, Inc. (NASDAQ …
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.
Darren Rowse / Blog Tips at ProBlogger:
Affiliate links Outranking Official Links on Google — I've noticed in the past month a number of times when affiliate links in Google rank higher than official sites. The most prominent of these at present in the ProBlogging community (I get an email about it every day or two) …
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) …
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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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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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.
