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Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:
TiVo to Transfer Shows to iPods, Sony PSP  —  SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 20 - TiVo, the maker of digital video recorders, plans to announce a new feature on Monday that will let TiVo owners watch recorded television shows on Apple's video iPods and on Sony's handheld PSP game machine.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
TiVoToGo programs can now go farther  —  Recording service expanded to iPods, PSPs  —  SAN JOSE, Calif. — TiVo Inc. is expanding its video recording service so users will be able to transfer recorded television shows onto Apple Computer Inc.'s iPods or Sony Corp.'s PlayStation Portable …
Discussion: Techdirt and rexblog.com
Julie Tamaki / Los Angeles Times:
TiVo to Expand Portable Features
Discussion: PVRblog
Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Google Base blog import instructions  —  Google Base launched last Tuesday as a new repository of information for distribution across Google's network of sites including Google search, Froogle, and Google Local.  You can add your existing content to the Google Base for broad distribution with only a few easy steps.
Discussion: Micro Persuasion and OSNews.com
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intertwingly.net:   GOOGLE BASE FORMAT REVIEW
Steve Gillmor / Steve Gillmor's InfoRouter:
Time is on our side  —  When Dare Obasanjo and Jason McCabe Calacanis come out swinging against forward motion in attention, you know something important is happening.  Both are important figures in this reboot we're calling Web 2.0, and their concerns should be examined carefully.
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
Where Is Wal-Mart's Fancy Stuff?  Try Online  —  Sometime soon, somewhere in the country, an aspiring groom will go down on bended knee, present a ribboned blue box to his sweetheart and watch as she beholds the yellow diamond ring on which he spent $10,000.
USA Today:
Cingular will be sold under name of AT&T  —  NEW YORK — SBC, which closed its merger with AT&T on Friday, plans to sell Cingular Wireless under the fabled AT&T name, Ed Whitacre, the chairman and CEO of the combined company, has confirmed to USA TODAY.  —  Cingular, the USA's No. 1 wireless company …
Discussion: Techdirt, Om Malik and MobileTracker
Rob Pegoraro / Washington Post:
Ground Rules for Buying on the Cutting Edge: home computer  —  Shopping for a computer would be easy, if it weren't for that whole Windows-versus-Mac thing.  —  Fortunately, that may be a simpler choice than you think — and making that call first can greatly simplify the rest of your home-computer shopping.
Discussion: Geek News Central …
Jenstar / JenSense:
Separate bidding on content network introduced by AdWords  —  Yahoo Search Marketing has long supported the model of allowing separate bidding on the content and search networks, which enabled advertisers to decide how much they were willing to pay dependent on whether it showed …
Tom Sanders / vnunet.com:
Gartner: piece of tape defeats any CD DRM  —  Anti-piracy technologies 'easily defeated', reports analyst  —  The highly controversial XCP digital rights management (DRM) technology bundled by Sony BMG on 52 of its audio CD albums can be defeated by applying a small piece of tape to the discs, according to analyst firm Gartner.
Discussion: Smalltalk Tidbits … and TeleRead
Anick Jesdanun / Associated Press:
Study: Search Now No. 2 Among Web Tasks  —  NEW YORK — The number of people who use Internet search engines to find information has jumped over the last year, claiming a solid No. 2 spot behind e-mail among online tasks, a new study finds.  —  Of the 94 million American adults who went online …
Om Malik / On Broadband, VoIP …:
Skype's Risky Retail Strategy  —  This past week, Skype folks dropped by to Business 2.0 offices, hoping to brief me on some news which was under embargo.  I refused to chat about anything under embargo, because it was clear that the news would find its way onto the web.  I did not want to be shackled.
Discussion: Mark Evans, VoIP Watch and jkOnTheRun
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
Where the Tech Buffs Shop  —  NewEgg.com has carved out a loyal following among shoppers looking for the latest computer gear  —  Earlier this year, Stephen DiFranco, a vice-president for consumer sales at chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices, noticed an unusual trend in sales.
Discussion: Venture Chronicles
Ray Ozzie:
Really Simple Sharing  —  One of the great things about once again having an active blog is that it enables me to engage in discussion about concepts I'm excited about, and that I'm working on, before they're fully-baked and while they could benefit from others' involvement.
Russ / Russell Beattie Notebook:
U.S. Mobile Christmas 2005  —  Since last year's post summarizing the U.S. mobile phone market was so popular (Sir Tim Berners-Lee used the image in a presentation to the W3C!  W00t!), I figured I would take a half hour or so and do it again this year for comparision purposes.
Justin Nolan / 360 Insider:
Play some Xbox 360 multiplayer without Xbox Live  —  Xbox Live might be "free" this generation, but not if you want to do some multiplayer gaming.  You still need to shell out the $50 a year (which, in my opinion, is more than worth it).  As with the old Xbox, XLink Kai is to the rescue.
Discussion: The Gadgets Blog
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Vladimir Cole / Joystiq:   16 NES-ified covers of hit songs streamed to Xbox 360 playing Kameo
John / ProgrammableWeb.com:
diggdot.us  —  Digg + slashdot + del.icio.us/popular are a regular browsing cycle for some folks so the diggdot.us mashup combines them into a unified format, eliminates duplicates and adds a few extras.  It's brand new so it will likely go through refining shortly (ex: some duplicates still get through).
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Instantly Hooked on Diggdot.us

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