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Stuart Miles / pocket-lint.co.uk:
MIT unveils $100 laptop to the world - PLUS IMAGES — 17 November 2005 - MIT has unveiled its $100 hand-cranked laptop computer to the United Nations technology summit in Tunisia and said that it hopes to make millions of the devices to give to the poorest people in the world.
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michael parekh on IT, Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab, Guardian Unlimited, OSNews.com and Flashpoint
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Peter Kafka / Forbes:
EMI Says Apple's Jobs Will Change ITunes Pricing — Life is complicated, but Apple Computer's iTunes store is pretty simple: Download a song, pay 99 cents. Consumers have done that more than 600 million times since Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs opened the online music store in 2003.
Maxine Shen / Yahoo! News:
DON'T BUY THE XBOX 360 — THE buzz started six months ago. There's Bill Gates on the cover of Time magazine in May, with a glowing green-and-white machine. "Inside Bill's New Xbox" it screamed. — Since then, the Xbox 360 - a sequel to Microsoft's Xbox video-game unit …
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Sue Zeidler / Reuters:
Blu-ray, HP at odds over high-def DVD launch plan — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Blu-ray Disc group, which aims to set the standard for next-generation DVDs, on Wednesday said it would not adopt a proposal from Hewlett-Packard Co. by the launch of the technology, leading the PC maker …
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J. Alex Halderman / Freedom to Tinker:
Not Again! Uninstaller for Other Sony DRM Also Opens Huge Security Hole — I have good news and bad news about Sony's other CD DRM technology, the SunnComm MediaMax system. (For those keeping score at home, Ed and I have written a lot recently about Sony's XCP copy protection technology …
Rafat / MocoNews.net:
Cingular Launching Live Ticker Service; MediaNet Improvement — Cingular is announcing some major enhancements to its mobile content services: it is launching a news ticker service called Live Ticker, which sends scrolling text and images to the bottom of cell phone screens.
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Reinhardt Krause / Investor's Business Daily: New Cingular Service Puts Scrolling News Onto Phone Screens
Business Week:
E-Mail Is So Five Minutes Ago — It's being replaced by software that promotes real-time collaboration — Darren Lennard is a managing director in the London offices of European-based investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. Like many of the 21 traders he manages, Lennard is young …
Elizabeth Montalbano / InfoWorld:
Microsoft strikes deal for cable-ready Media Center PCs — Software giant partnered with Cable Television Laboratories, a cable-research consortium — Microsoft (Profile, Products, Articles) Corp. Wednesday edged one step closer to its vision of offering a complete home digital entertainment …
Google Blogoscoped:
Matt Cutts, Google's Gadgets Guy — Matt Cutts works at the Googleplex and at his blog writes about Google, search engine optimization traps and whatever comes to his mind that won't "waste people's time." Of all the Googlers around who have blogs, Matt might be the most outspoken when it comes …
Bruce Schneier / Wired News:
Real Story of the Rogue Rootkit — It's a David and Goliath story of the tech blogs defeating a mega-corporation. — On Oct. 31, Mark Russinovich broke the story in his blog: Sony BMG Music Entertainment distributed a copy-protection scheme with music CDs that secretly installed a rootkit on computers.
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USA Today:
Edward C. Baig: Personal Tech - Latest iMac lets you control it from sofa — Apple Computer is the latest tech powerhouse to stake a claim to your living room. Its new iMac G5 computers, unveiled last month in the shadow of the video iPod introduction, are all about enjoying your digital treasures …
Keith Reed / Boston Globe:
Boston tech consultant Yankee Group is sold — Equity firm, local executive are the buyers — Boston technology consultant Yankee Group Research Inc. has a new owner — again. — Alta Communications, a Boston private equity firm that specializes in media and telecommunications investments …
Seth Goldstein / TRANSPARENT BUNDLES:
MEDIA FUTURES: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE — A Story in Five Parts: — Wall Street Meets Madison Avenue — Problem: Marketing is Inefficient — Solution: /ROOT Markets is a Financial Exchange for Consumer Leads — How the Securitization of Mortgages Opened Up the Housing Market for Consumers
Kasper Jade / appleinsider.com:
Even smaller iPod shuffle may debut in January — A second-generation iPod shuffle digital music player from Apple Computer will be noticeably smaller than the existing model and could see an introduction as early as January, says one Wall Street analyst. — "We are hearing …
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google buying online photo company Riya? — The latest Google buzz is that the search giant is buying or talking about acquiring Riya, a Redwood City, Calif.-based company that uses facial-recognition technology to enable users to search for people in photos. Pretty nifty idea if it works.
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microsoft.com:
Microsoft Enhances Phishing Protection for Windows, MSN and Microsoft Windows Live Customers — Cyota Inc., Internet Identity and MarkMonitor to provide phishing Web site data for Microsoft Phishing Filter and SmartScreen Technology services. — REDMOND, Wash. — Nov. 17, 2005 …
Michele Gershberg / Reuters:
TV networks say digital recorders raise viewership — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Far from being the TV doomsday machines that some have predicted, digital video recorders that allow viewers to skip advertising and watch shows at their leisure will actually boost television audiences, the major networks said on Wednesday.
