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Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
XBOX MANIA!  —  Michael Gartenberg: The Xbox Live Arcade Experience, Xbox 360, It's about the Games, and my favorite of course, Xbox 360, the Media Side.  "As soon as you turn on the Xbox, you'll get notice on your MCE.  Just follow the directions and download the new version of the extender software and you'll be good to go.
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BBC:
US gamers lay hands on Xbox 360  —  Avid gamers have queued overnight in the US to be the first to get their hands on Microsoft's new games console, the Xbox 360.  —  Hundreds of stores opened at midnight to satisfy fans who waited for hours.  —  The curvy white and silver Xbox 360 marks …
Tom Biro / AdJab:
The XBOX 360 Ad You've Been Waiting For  —  A couple nights ago, we told you about a crazy XBOX 360 advertisement that wasn't going to hit the airwaves anytime soon, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Todd Bishop.  Well, it appears he was right, it's not going to make television.
Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Gates at Xbox launch  —  If any managers in Microsoft's Server & Tools division have been missing an employee for the past few days, I think we've found him.  The first person in line to buy an Xbox 360 console at the launch event at Bellevue's Best Buy store Monday night was Dan Friedman …
Discussion: Gary Stein
Ellie Gibson / eurogamer.net:
Man robs EB store at gunpoint
Discussion: Xbox 360 Fanboy
Paul Miller / Engadget:
PS3 will be $300 to $400 at launch, according to Sony CEO
Discussion: krunker.com
Gaming Steve:
Xbox 360 Launch Party at Best Buy in Midtown Manhattan
Discussion: Joystiq
ps3.ign.com:   Patience 360: Ten Reasons to Wait for PS3
gamasutra.com:
Gates: Microsoft In Game Market Past Xbox 360
Discussion: Joystiq
Jack Shafer / Slate:
The Great Google Wipeout  —  Chronicle of a corporate death foretold.  —  It wasn't like it had never happened before in the tech world.  At the beginning of the 1980s, an Apple computer was the only box a self-respecting user would own.  Lotus 1-2-3, WordPerfect, IBM PCs, CompuServe …
OSM:
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 …
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Brendan / Open Source:
The End of the Name Game
Discussion: PaidContent.org
tivo.com:
TiVo To Bring TV Programming To Apple Video iPodTM and PSPTM (Playstation® Portable)  —  TiVo to Provide New Capability for Quick and Easy Transfer of Viewer's Favorite TV Shows to iPod or PSP  —  ALVISO, CA — NOV 21, 2005 — TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO ), creator of and a leader …
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Michael Learmonth / variety.com:
Peeved over TiVo  —  Biz hardly happy with download plans
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.
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 …
Discussion: Engadget, IP Democracy and Smart Mobs
Houston Chronicle:
Note to readers  —  Today you'll notice a more colorful look to chron.com, a home page that highlights more of site's content, new features, improved menus and a powerful search tool that will make it easier get around.  —  Unfortunately, you may also notice pages loading very slowly sometimes …
consortiuminfo.org:
Microsoft Drops the Other Open Format Shoe … Ever since I interviewed Alan Yates at Microsoft back in September in connection with the Massachusetts/ODF story I've been wondering what Microsoft's strategy has been to fend off the challenge to Microsoft Office that the OASIS format standard presented.
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Reuters:
CBS says in talks with Google for video search  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. television network CBS is in discussions with Internet media company Google Inc. for video search and on-demand video, CBS chairman Leslie Moonves said on Tuesday.  —  Viacom-owned CBS, which is in the process …
Gary Gentile / Associated Press:
Hollywood, BitTorrent Reach Agreement  —  LOS ANGELES - In a deal aimed at reducing illegal Internet traffic in pirated films, Hollywood reached an agreement Tuesday with the creator of the popular file-sharing software BitTorrent.  —  The agreement requires 30-year-old software designer Bram Cohen …
Discussion: PaidContent.org
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?
Discussion: Google Blogoscoped and Adrants
Inside AdWords crew / Inside AdWords:
Use Google Maps to target your customers  —  Here at 37° 25' 22", -122° 5' 6", we wanted to make it easier for you to set up customized location targeting.  So last week, we put Google Maps into AdWords, allowing you to visualize cryptic coordinates or just pick a specific location …
Thomas Mennecke / slyck.com:
Bram Cohen and Dan Glickman to Make Major Announcement  —  File-sharing and the trade organizations that represent the music and movie industries are two entities not normally associated with cooperation.  This notion has been changing recently, especially for the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America.)

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