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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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Ellie Gibson / eurogamer.net:
Man robs EB store at gunpoint — It's only been on sale since midnight and the Yanks are already going crazy for the Xbox 360, with many queuing for hours to get their hands on a console and some shops reporting that they've already sold out. — Some gamers have gone to even greater extremes …
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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 …
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.
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Paul Miller / Engadget:PS3 will be $300 to $400 at launch, according to Sony CEO
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
Brendan / Open Source:
The End of the Name Game — Roger Simon emailed yesterday that he was about to call with good news. Then he called, and it was good. What was OSM will once again be Pajamas Media. Roger assured us they had no intention of causing us any trouble and, given what they're creating, it's easy to imagine they've got a lot to deal with.
