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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 …
Reuters:
Gamers Wait in Rain for Xbox 360 — NEW YORK/SEATTLE (Reuters)—Hundreds of video game fans braved chilly temperatures on both U.S. coasts on Tuesday to be among the first to get their hands on Microsoft Corp.'s new Xbox 360 video game console, which went on sale in North America on Tuesday.
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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.
Michael Gartenberg:
Xbox 360, the Media Side — One of the most impressive things about the first generation of Xbox was the ability to use the console as a low cost media center extender for windows media center PCs. It was a cumbersome process though, requiring a special boot disk for the console …
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Gavin Clarke / The Register:
RSS 'extensions' published by Microsoft — Microsoft has released details of a set of proposed extensions to Really Simple Syndication (RSS), billed as making it easier to receive and share data. — A draft of Simple Sharing Extensions (SSE) version 0.9 for RSS 2.0, and Outline Processor Markup Language …
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Michael Learmonth / variety.com:
Peeved over TiVo — Biz hardly happy with download plans — TiVo's plan to allow users to download TV shows and films to Apple's iPod and Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) could strain relations with networks and studios hoping to develop revenue streams from digital distribution.
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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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Lora / What Is New:
Touch and ink do work together — Fujtisu is now shipping its Lifebook P1510D notebook with Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 operating system. The P1510D is an interesting notebook from several standpoints, including that it uses a touch screen instead of an active digitizer.
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Ars Technica:
Xbox 360: shortages no joke — While some people insisted that the talk relating to Xbox 360 scarcity was just a veiled publicity stunt, I headed out this morning to see what the scene looked like on the ground. In a word: chaos. — The shortage is very real, and it has plenty of people angry and frustrated.
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Barry Fox / newscientist.com:
Invention: Landmine arrows — For over 30 years, Barry Fox has trawled the world's weird and wonderful patent applications each week, digging out the most exciting, intriguing and even terrifying new ideas. His column, Invention, is now available exclusively online.
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 …
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MIA / Popgadget:
Belkin kickstand case for video iPod — I am trying very hard not to succumb to the allure of the iPod with video, considering I haven't even half filled my 4G iPod, and I've already been through several portable media players from Archos, iRiver, etc...none of which I ever really used …
Spencer Ante / Business Week:
A Digital Dodge City — The high-stakes battle between Verizon and Cablevision over a Long Island town is in the hands of a court and state regulators — James Altadonna Jr. won a heated election in 2001 to unseat the incumbent mayor in Massapequa Park, a comfy middle-class suburb …
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 …
