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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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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.
Discussion: Microsoft Watch and Gearlog
hardocp.com:
Preface:  —  OCP is primarily a PC enthusiast Web site …
Discussion: Joystiq and Slashdot
Tom Biro / AdJab:
The XBOX 360 Ad You've Been Waiting For
Greg Yardley / Greg Yardley's Internet Blog:
Google tests out Click-to-Call AdWords  —  Google is apparently testing out click-to-call AdWords - I can't see it myself, but Seth just searched for 'refinance' and spotted some phone icons alongside the AdWords listings.  He entered his phone number and within five seconds received an automated phone call …
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Gary Price / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Begins Test of "Click-to-Call" Advertising Program  —  If you wondered when Google might begin offering pay-per-call ads it looks like the time is now.  —  In a very thorough blog post, Greg Yardley reports (nice work Greg, screen caps, too) that Google has started to test a pay-per-call advertising program.
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 …
Sharon Waxman / New York Times:
Web Site Agrees to Help Curb Access to Movies  —  LOS ANGELES, Nov. 22 - The creator of software used by millions of computer owners to download movies agreed on Tuesday to prevent his Web site from linking to illegally available movies online, the latest result of a bid by Hollywood to gain control of a growing piracy problem.
Discussion: Darknet
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Gary Gentile / Associated Press:
Hollywood, BitTorrent Reach Agreement
Discussion: PaidContent.org
Gary Gentile / Associated Press:   Hollywood Hopes to Reduce Movie Downloads
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 …
Discussion: PaidContent.org
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Allison Linn / Associated Press:
Gates: Xbox 360 Key to Microsoft Strategy
Discussion: Joystiq
Ellie Gibson / eurogamer.net:
Man robs EB store at gunpoint
Discussion: Xbox 360 Fanboy
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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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.
Associated Press:
Online Video Service Pairs Up With AOL  —  The migration of television to the Internet is getting another boost with a deal that gives Web video startup Brightcove Networks Inc. a foothold on AOL's Web portal.  —  America Online Inc. and media companies IAC/InterActiveCorp and The Hearst Corp …
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Samuel G. Freedman / New York Times:
School Radio Stations Face Competition Over Licenses  —  THE week before classes started in August 2004 at Franklin Central High School here, Steve George stopped in to prepare the school radio station for the coming year.  As the faculty adviser to WRFT, he wanted to make sure his students …
Discussion: TeleRead
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.
Discussion: Rob Bushway
Brian Jones / Office XML Formats:
New approach to licensing with the Office XML formats  —  Well, as expected there is a lot of speculation out there about what the new approach we've decided to take with the license may mean.  Yesterday I posted about our move to standardize the Office XML formats and to change the license based …
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 …
Discussion: NevOn, Views and Alec Saunders .LOG
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 …
Discussion: Techdirt and PaidContent.org
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
Microsoft's Red-Ink Game  —  Redmond will sell every Xbox console at a big loss, says researcher iSuppli.  Not to worry, the profit is in the associated software  —  Microsoft's newest gaming console marks an improvement on the earlier version in some decisive ways.
Discussion: GameInsider

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