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Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
Googling Literature: The Debate Goes Public — If there was any point of agreement between publishers, authors and Google in a debate Thursday night over the giant Web company's program to digitize the collections of major libraries and allow users to search them online, it seemed to be this …
gameshout.com:
Wal-Mart only has three Xbox 360 units per store — According to some latest information, Microsoft has only sent three Xbox 360 units to smaller Wal-Mart stores, while the super centers only got 10. — The information comes from various GameSHOUT users and members who went around to each store from their own local cities and state.
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Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Questions surround Xbox 360 shortage — Microsoft's global launch strategy will limit supply — Video-game consoles will be scarce and lines could be long upon next week's North American launch of Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 — with some retailers warning that they won't even have enough …
Margaret Kane / CNET News.com:
Early Xbox reviews: so-so — Early reviews of Microsoft's Xbox 360 are starting to appear and so far the reaction is: eh, it's okay. — "Good, but not great," says CNN. "Don't buy the Xbox," The New York Post. — Most of the complaints seem to be surrounding the machine's high price, as opposed to its technical prowess.
Phil Hochmuth / Techworld.com:
Cisco in space — IS IT A BIRD? IS IT A PLANE? NO, IT'S AN IP-ENABLED SATELLITE. — If you are a router company with as much as 80 percent market share and a $3.2 billion R&D budget to play with, why not bolt a router to a rocket and shoot it into orbit?
Arshad Mohammed / Washington Post:
Herndon Wired, Ready for Cable TV From Verizon — It took six hours to hook up Jeff Dorman's 50-inch set to Verizon's new TV service but, in the end, he was pleased. — "Drag racing in high-def — I'm in heaven," the Herndon resident said as he watched Formula One cars zip down a track in crisp color.
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Om Malik / On Broadband, VoIP …:
Now its Cisco versus Motorola, Microsoft — Cisco had data, Cisco had voice, and what it needed was video to complete the triple play. So they bought Scientific Atlanta for $6.9 billion. … The reasons for the deal are many, the most important being that the company the size of Cisco might …
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Will small publishers still have game? — At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco seven months ago, there was an undercurrent of fear. — Would sharply rising development costs, game developers worried, make designing games for the impending next-generation consoles …
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Jay Greene / Business Week:
Microsoft's New Word: Accountability — Redmond has set a target date for shipping its upcoming Vista operating system — the latest entry in a growing list of firm goals it is pledging to meet — When it comes to closely guarded secrets at Microsoft (MSFT), the crown jewel is the shipping date …
USA Today:
CD woes may have had roots in merger — It sounded like music to record executives' ears. — Copy-protection software that would to do the impossible: make CDs that couldn't be repeatedly copied. — Britain's First 4 Internet landed meetings with the four major record labels, trying to sell software called XCP.
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
EMI says its DRM will support the iPod — Apple has been loath to license its FairPlay DRM, used to protect songs sold from the iTunes Music Store. That has been a sticking point for record companies, which yearn to provide iPod compatibility for their copy-protected discs.
Regina Lynn / Wired News:
You're Only a Newbie Once — Researching last week's column about adult webcam chat made me nostalgic for the online community I used to belong to. The conversations in the webAffairs book could have taken place in my chat room, and I examined the screenshots closely to see if I recognized any faces or other body parts.
Phone Scoop:
FCC Shows Rugged Pocket PC Phone From Panasonic — The FCC approved a new ruggedized Pocket PC Phone from Panasonic. The Toughbook CF-P2 has both GSM/GPRS 850/1900 as well as 802.11b Wi-Fi and Blutooth. It also features n full numeric keypad, LCD screen with light sensor for automatic backlight adjustment and SD slot.
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Brian Bergstein / Associated Press:
PRODUCT REVIEW: Podcasts Converted to Text — BOSTON - Suddenly the universe of downloadable audio files known as podcasts seems as enormous as the Internet. Name a topic — from the weather in Asuncion to the ZigBee wireless technology — and there is a podcast about it.
