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skype.com:
Skype Launches Next Generation Free Internet and Video Calling for Everyone — Partnerships with Logitech, Six Apart and Creative enhance experience for Skype consumers worldwide — LUXEMBOURG, 1 December 2005 - Skype, the global Internet communications company, today released the beta version …
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Mike Rundle / Business Logs:
Crippling Firefox Bug On Mac OS X — As I'm sure you all know, Firefox v1.5 has been officially released and is available for download. Got a G5 processor? Check out this page to download a G5-optimized version of the Fox that is a bit faster. You would think all is gravy in Mozilla-land, but that is definitely not the case.
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Jonathan Krim / Washington Post:
Executive Wants to Charge for Web Speed — Some Say Small Firms Could Be Shut Out of Market Championed by BellSouth Officer — A senior telecommunications executive said yesterday that Internet service providers should be allowed to strike deals to give certain Web sites or services priority …
siliconvalley.com:
Judge rules against BlackBerry patent settlement — RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A federal judge ruled invalid Wednesday a $450 million settlement between a small patent holding firm and the maker of BlackBerry e-mail devices, Research in Motion Ltd. — The ruling by U.S. District Judge James R. Spencer …
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Associated Press:
High-tech 'repo man' keeps car payments coming — NORFOLK, Va. — NOTE TO REPO MAN: Might want to look into another line of work. — A new gizmo is upping the odds that even the most hard-knock customer will come up with the car payment. Hooked into the ignition system …
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Brian Benzinger / Solution Watch:
Web-based Google Talk with Gtalkr — A new web-based client named Gtalkr has been released just yesterday which gives you the ability to use Google Talk through any browser, anywhere. I talked about meebo a while back, but what is different about the two is that Gtalkr is only for Google Talk …
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Richard S. Tedlow / Fortune:
The Education of Andy Grove — A Harvard historian explains how Intel's legendary chief became the best model we have for leading a business in the 21st century. — In 1991, an instructor at Stanford's Graduate School of Business presented his class with a case study.
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
DMCA Triennial Rulemaking: Failing Consumers Completely — December 1 is the last day to submit proposals (by 5p EST) to the Copyright Office seeking a 3-year DMCA exemption for noninfringing activities that are otherwise squelched by "digital rights management" (DRM) restrictions.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
RSS Everywhere II - but where is Google? — Last night Yahoo! announced they are integrating RSS into their web mail and alerts products. As Scott Gatz explained in an interview with PodTech: Yahoo's plan, which started in January 2004 when they launched RSS in the My Yahoo portal, is to "bring RSS to the masses".
Ryan Naraine / eWEEK.com:
Windows OneCare Security Goes 'Live' — Microsoft Corp.'s Windows OneCare PC security bundle is now available to the general public. — The consumer-facing tool, which features virus scanning, firewall protection, data backup and PC cleanup tools, has been released to the Windows Live portal …
John Seigenthaler / USA Today:
A false Wikipedia 'biography' — "John Seigenthaler Sr. was the assistant to Attorney General Robert Kennedy in the early 1960's. For a brief time, he was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both John, and his brother, Bobby. Nothing was ever proven."
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CNET News.com:
Sun to offer more free software — update Sun Microsystems said Wednesday that it will offer free access to its Java server suite and N1 management software and bundle them with its Solaris operating system. — The software being offered for no cost are the Java Enterprise System set of server middleware …
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Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Yahoo Mail RSS Reader (Screenshots!) Integrates Blogs into Email — Yahoo Mail RSS Reader Integrates Blogs into Email — Yahoo has announced the extension of its My Yahoo RSS (Really Simple Syndication) services with the addition of RSS feeds in the new beta version of Yahoo! Mail (available by invite only).
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Trojan horse rides on unpatched IE flaw — Attackers are taking advantage of an unpatched vulnerability in Internet Explorer to target users of the ubiquitous Web browser, Microsoft warned late Tuesday. — Malicious software that exploits the security flaw to download a Trojan horse …
Pete Wright / The secret life of an MS Author:
First impressions of Motion LE 1600 — Jealousy is an ugly thing, especially when it comes from an old friend you thought you could trust. — The new Motion LE-1600 arrived just around lunchtime today, leaving me just about enough time to unpack the thing, plug it into a power source and rest it next to the M200.
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Life On the Wicked Stage
