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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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May Wong / Associated Press:
TiVo Inc. Expands to IPods and 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 (NYSE:SNE - news).'s PlayStation Portable — the latest move aimed at putting TV in people's hands for viewing anywhere.
Julie Tamaki / Los Angeles Times:
TiVo to Expand Portable Features
Discussion: PVRblog
Mitch Ratcliffe / RatcliffeBlog:
New rules for 21st century workers  —  The most important three rules for today's workforce bar none: Tom Foremski of Silicon Valley Watcher has the following rules for today's worker: … I've lived by these three rules for more than a decade.  When I started using my own strange email address …
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Silicon Valley Watcher:
Updated: (Thanks to Mitch Ratcliffe!)
Discussion: NevOn
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 …
Gary Stein / ClickZ:
No Blogs Next Year  —  › › › Intellectual Capital  —  At my ad:tech panel earlier this month, I had a number of real blog luminaries, including Nick Denton, the brains behind Gawker Media.  He pointed out the blog reader demographic is the archetypal wired guy …
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.
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.
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.
Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Wi-Fi mosquito killer coming to a porch near you  —  A biotechnology company with a specialty in killing mosquitoes is turning to wireless technology and computers to make a killing for itself.  —  American Biophysics, a small private company based in North Kingstown, R.I. …
Discussion: TechBlog and jkOnTheRun
Chris Kohler / Wired News:
Mario Kart Tears It Up  —  I was raised on Mario Kart.  If I see stock-car racing on television, I wonder why they're not firing missiles made out of turtle shells at each other.  —  That's why you can believe me when I say that Mario Kart DS is easily the killer app for Nintendo's double-screened portable.
Discussion: Cathode Tan
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: TeleRead and Smalltalk Tidbits …
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
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
New Xbox Goes on Sale at Midnight.  Good Luck.  —  The transition to a new generation of video game consoles kicks off tonight at midnight when retailers begin selling Microsoft's Xbox 360.  —  The event is a much-anticipated step in an intensifying business battle between Microsoft …
Discussion: Joystiq
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 …
Dsifry / Sifry's Alerts:
Technorati Performance Improvement Update  —  I'm incredibly proud of the Technorati Engineering and Ops teams.  They have been working day and night to deal with all of the growth that Technorati has been going through.  Back in July, we made it our highest priority to improve site performance …
Discussion: The RSS Weblog and Boing Boing
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
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: Gizmodo and 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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