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Road to Expo: Apple's new media experience coming soon — December 2, 2005 - Apple is planning to unveil a robust new content distribution system in January at Macworld Expo alongside its revamped media-savvy Mac mini, Think Secret has learned. The new content system and related media deals …
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Podcast Amongst Yourselves — Today we're launching a new version of Odeo with several big changes. The most notable is that everyone can now record audio with the browser-based Odeo Studio - or via the phone. Either way, your voice gets posted as an MP3 on an Odeo page …

IE flaw lets intruders into Google Desktop — A security researcher in Israel has found a way to steal information from unwitting users of Google's desktop search tool by exploiting an unpatched flaw in Microsoft's ubiquitous Internet Explorer. — There is a bug in the way the Web browser …
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Things That, Security Fix, Search Engine Journal, TechSpot, Aviran's Place and Search Engine Watch Blog

Consumer-Generated Justice: Blogger Sidelines E-Commerce Site — AFTER A HEATED PHONE EXCHANGE with an unsatisfied customer who happened to be a blogger, PriceRitePhoto.com, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based camera e-retailer, recently found that blogosphere justice can be swift, but is rarely merciful.

In June I wrote People With Erasers about Wikipedia. Now after reading about the Seigenthaler affair, and revelations about Adam Curry's rewriting of the podcasting history — the bigger problem is that Wikipedia is so often considered authoritative. That must stop now, surely.
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The Truth About Ala Carte Cable — Oxymoron of the day: AT&T backs a-la-carte cable. — No Kidding.... This Is Surprising? — MSNBC/Motley Fool has this op-ed about how FCC is looking out for consumers. News flash guys .... no. Its looking out for the phone companies.
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michael parekh on IT, Things That, Joseph Laszlo, PaidContent.org, TechBlog and business2blog
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eBay Selection on MSN Shopping — MSN Shopping recently integrated with eBay to bring a considerably broader selection of products onto our site, ranging from refurbished auction items to brand new, fixed-price items. This addition enables our users to enjoy a significantly expanded selection …

Adobe's Acquisition of Macromedia Expected to Close on December 3, 2005 — SAN JOSE, Calif. — December 1, 2005 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) and Macromedia, Inc. (Nasdaq: MACR) today announced they have either received or been notified they will receive all regulatory clearances necessary …

Experience Attributes: Crucial DNA of Web 2.0 — essay archives — The industry has spent a lot of time defining Web 2.0 and mapping its DNA. But as we attempt to emulate the fast-growth success of the Web 2.0 darlings, we need to zero in on the parts of the DNA that actually create this noteworthy new value.

A better way to escape cell phone jail — Cell phones are a bit like the weather. Everyone complains about them, but no one's doing anything. — For cell phones, there's good reason. Getting out of a bum cell phone plan can cost an arm and a leg, no matter how legitimate your reason for escaping.

MindManagerPlugInForCDS.msi (version 1.0.1) (download) — Installation — Install this plug-in. During installation you may get a message to add .mmap as a Text Document file type. Follow the steps below to do that. — Adding .mmap as a File Indexing Type — Open Copernic Desktop Search.
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Life On the Wicked Stage

Spotlight, wireless, RAW enhancements due in Mac OS X 10.4.4 — Improvements to Spotlight searches, AirPort, Bluetooth, and RAW camera support are a few enhancements Apple reportedly has planned for an early winter release of Mac OS X 10.4.4 Update, a routine maintenance update to the Mac OS X "Tiger" operating system.
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The Tao of Mac

Xbox 360 sells out within hours — The Xbox 360 has virtually sold out in the UK as gamers rushed to snap up Microsoft's next generation games console, say retailers. — Dedicated fans queued overnight or in the early hours of the morning in the light of limited stocks.

The Carnival is here! 2 — Wap Review is honored to be hosting this weeks Carnival of the Mobilists. The idea of the Carnival is to expose a variety of the best writing on mobility in one place. It is held at a different blog each week and is open to anyone who has something to say about mobile phones …

Quintura Search & Blog Comment Marketing - Spam? — Quintura Search & Blog Comment Marketing - Spam? — Quintura Search has been trying really hard recently to gather links to their web site via posting rather misinformed comments on various search engine blogs recently …
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Micro Persuasion

RSS + SMS — Okay, so I decided to wait a bit to see if anyone glommed onto the really big news yesterday from Yahoo!, but no one seemed to get it. Most posts I saw focused on the new RSS aggregator in the Yahoo! Mail beta (which is definitely cool, don't get me wrong), but only sorta mentioned the new RSS Alerts bit.