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BBC:
Q&A: The Xbox 360 — Microsoft's Xbox 360 console has made its much anticipated debut in the US. The software giant says it will usher in a new era in home entertainment. Here the BBC News website takes a look behind the hype surrounding the new console. — Q: What is the difference between the original Xbox and the 360?
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Reuters:
Net TV start-up lands $16 million in funding — Brightcove, an Internet television start-up that helps programmers syndicate shows across the Web and collect money from it, plans to announce on Tuesday that it has attracted new high-profile investors, including America Online and InterActiveCorp, and a distribution pact with AOL.
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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
AOL Joins Start-Up Company to Offer Web Video Distribution — America Online reached an unusual arrangement yesterday with a start-up company that will allow almost any producer of video content to distribute programming on its service, splitting revenue from advertising or fees.
New York Times:
Google's Shopping Service to List User's Local Stores — Google executives said last night that the company planned to move quickly to capitalize on its new Google Base database service, adding a feature that lets merchants provide local shopping information.
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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Google Unveils Tool to Map Shopping Trips — SAN FRANCISCO - Joining the herd of Web sites jostling to cash in on the holiday shopping season, online search engine leader Google Inc. is adding a tool designed to make it easier for consumers to map out their local trips to the mall.
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David A. Vise / Washington Post:
World Digital Library Planned — Library of Congress Envisions Collection To Bridge Cultures — The Library of Congress is launching a campaign today to create the World Digital Library, an online collection of rare books, manuscripts, maps, posters, stamps and other materials from its holdings …
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Heidi Benson / San Francisco Chronicle:
A MAN'S VISION: WORLD LIBRARY ONLINE — Brewster Kahle hopes to realize his 25-year dream of an international book archive — A fat October moon shone through the Presidio treetops the night Brewster Kahle launched the latest shot in the space-race for a digital library.
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Russ / Russell Beattie Notebook:
Microsoft SSE Thoughts — Everyone knows Ray Ozzie is my hero right? I spent the first several years of my professional career as a Lotus Notes developer, and even worked for Lotus itself for a brief stint in 1996, so you can imagine what an Ozzie disciple I am. I even was able to pay fealty to him in person back in 2004.
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A VC, eWEEK.com, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, Danny Ayers, Raw Blog, Niall Kennedy's Weblog and Views
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Peter Galli / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft Opens Office File Formats — Microsoft Corp. has decided to open up its Office file formats and has submitted the formats to be considered for recognition as a formal standard by Ecma International, which will develop the documentation and make it available to the industry.
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consortiuminfo.org, Microsoft Monitor, Todd Bishop's Microsoft …, Microsoft Watch, Financial Times and GROKLAW
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Excuse us while we change back into our pajamas — Once upon a time, some friends who met in the casual atmosphere of the blogosphere (us) got together and decided it would be groovy to start a blog company. "We could call it Pajamas Media," we said, referring to the now-famous quote by whatshisface …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Companies I'd like to Profile (but don't exist) — There are companies I review every day that I don't write about. Reasons vary - it's been done already and the product isn't even as good as what's been done, its a mostly or totally one-way application, or it isn't consumer focused …
Gwendolyn Bounds / Wall Street Journal:
How Selling Pixels May Yield a Million Bucks — It was just a few months ago that 21-year-old Alex Tew of Great Britain was stumped about how to pay for college. He'd filled a notebook with ideas before jotting down this simple, if rather audacious, query to himself: How Can I Become a Millionaire?
Andrew Marra / Palm Beach Post:
West Palm looks to cameras to spot crime — A test of surveillance cameras might lead to widespread use in the city. — WEST PALM BEACH — Police are rolling out surveillance cameras downtown and in the city's most violent neighborhoods, the first step in an ambitious plan to make West Palm Beach …
gamesfirst.com:
How To Get Podcasts on Your Xbox 360 — game: Xbox 360 — publisher: Microsoft — keywords: podcast media syndication — As we've covered already, the Xbox 360 is a powerhouse media machine. But its dependency on Windows Media Player and Windows Media Center doesn't provide …
Joanna Glasner / Wired News:
Turkey Lovers Gobble Up Tech — People who didn't know Michael Chu was an engineer could probably figure it out from his approach to cooking a turkey. — This year, rather than simply turning on the oven, Chu smoked the bird while steaming it from inside with an open beer can.
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