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USA Today:
Sony to pull controversial CDs, offer swap — LOS ANGELES — Sony BMG Music Entertainment said Monday it will pull some of its most popular CDs from stores in response to backlash over copy-protection software on the discs. (Related item: Firestorm rages over lockdown on digital music)
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Ed Felten / Freedom to Tinker:
Sony's Web-Based Uninstaller Opens a Big Security Hole; Sony to Recall Discs — [This post was co-written by J. Alex Halderman and Ed Felten.] — Over the weekend a Finnish researcher named Muzzy noticed a potential vulnerability in the web-based uninstaller that Sony offers to users …
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microsoft.com:
Microsoft Delivers Free, Comprehensive Desktop Search Capabilities for Enterprise Customers — Corporate IT departments can now easily deploy, customize and manage Windows Desktop Search across entire PC networks to enable faster, more relevant information access with enhanced security.
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Yahoo! Search blog:
Social Commerce via the Shoposphere & Pick Lists — Today we released the Shoposphere and Pick Lists beta, plus enhancements to our core shopping search capabilities, which we hope you'll try out during your holiday gift-giving spree. — The Shoposphere and Pick Lists are examples of social commerce.
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Gates to tout Microsoft's supercomputing move — Bill Gates plans on Tuesday to announce Microsoft's foray into the world of supercomputing, though its first operating system for computer clusters remains in beta testing. — Gates is slated to speak at the SC05 supercomputing conference …
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Joseph Jaffe / Jaffe Juice:
Just your ordinary dinner at Mikes — My head's still spinning (and it's not because of the Stella) I just got back from the most awesome dinner with Robert Scoble, Buzz Bruggeman, Andy Ruff, Bill Daul and guest of honor, Doug Engelbart, inventor of Groupware....and the Mouse (not Mickey, but clickey)
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Alastair Jamieson / Scotsman:
Sony accused of leading price-fix cartel to stop cheap deals on web — THE electrical giant Sony has been accused of price-fixing in an attempt to curb internet bargains and send online prices soaring, it emerged yesterday. — The firm is among up to five leading manufacturers …
Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Is Friendster up for sale? — Friendster, the former high-flying social network, has hired a banker to shop itself around for a buyer, according to sources familiar with the matter. — The San Francisco-based company has hired Montgomery & Co., a boutique investment banking firm in Santa Monica …
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Hollywood Reporter:
Dialogue: Rupert Murdoch — Dialogue: Rupert Murdoch — With an enviable track record in newspapers, books, TV and film, the News Corp. chief pushes his chips toward his latest passion: the Internet. — The corridors of the Executive Building on the 20th Century Fox lot in West Los Angeles are long …
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Quinn Norton / Wired News:
Sony Numbers Add Up to Trouble — More than half a million networks, including military and government sites, were likely infected by copy restriction software distributed by Sony on a handful of its CDs, according to a statistical analysis of domain servers conducted by a well-respected security researcher …
Will Wade / Wired News:
Huge Solar Plants Bloom in Desert — The barren deserts of Southern California are known for relentless sunshine and miles of empty space — the perfect combination for the world's most ambitious solar-energy projects. — Two Southern California utility companies are planning to develop …
pandia.com:
Search Engine Insight: 10 Questions for Dan Thies — Welcome to the first installment in Pandia's new interview series. We will ask search engine experts on searching, marketing and other issues related to the search engine industry. — Our first interviewee is the well know search engine marketing expert Dan Thies.
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Emily Singer / techreview.com:
Game Away the Day — New research suggests that people who play video games to excess exhibit traits similar to those of drug users. — Show a smoker a lighter, and he or she will get the urge for a cigarette. The same physiological responses that trigger a smoker's craving may also be at work …
Jeremy Wright / Ensight:
Google Blahnalytics — I was quite excited when I woke up yesterday and found that Google Analytics had finally been launched. There had been rumours of Google taking the Urchin product they bought a year ago and making it vastly free for most customers - and now that rumour is a reality.
Lisa Williams / PressThink:
If I Didn't Build it, They Wouldn't Come: Citizen Journalism is Discovered (Alive) in Watertown, MA — Guest writer Lisa Williams: "H2otown is written in the third person by a nerdy, self-absorbed, high-tech-gizmo-loving narrator. Writing in this persona allowed me one big thing the local newspaper wasn't allowed: to be funny.
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