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glidedigital.com:
Glide News  —  12/04/2005 - Thank you for your overwhelming interest in the Glide Effortless Service!  —  New Features and More Speed on the Way: Welcome to software as a service delivered through your browser.  Your feedback has been outstanding and helping us greatly to improve the Glide service.
Discussion: TipMonkies
Business Week:
The MySpace Generation  —  They live online.  They buy online.  They play online.  Their power is growing  —  The Toadies broke up.  It was four years ago, when Amanda Adams was 16.  She drove into Dallas from suburban Plano, Tex., on a school night to hear the final two-hour set …
Dan Mitchell / New York Times:
Eyeballs Are Back, or Maybe Not  —  THE blog pioneer Jason Calacanis, who sold his Weblogs Inc. to America Online in October, took exception this week to an article in Business 2.0 by Om Malik, a technology journalist and blogger.  —  The title of Mr. Malik's article, "The Return of Monetized Eyeballs …
Ian Austen / New York Times:
Bye Bye BlackBerry?  —  OTTAWA, Dec. 2 - What if your BlackBerry screen went dark?  —  To executives like Douglas M. Steenland of Northwest Airlines, the idea of doing business without a BlackBerry is about as appealing as reverting to rotary dial phones and Telex machines.
Robert L. Mitchell / Computerworld:
High-tech retailers, low-tech rebates  —  Tis the season to be Jolly - and to fill out rebates.  Most consumers love the holiday sales on consumer electronics items.  But the majority also hate mail-in rebates.  —  Rebates are clunky, bricks and mortar affairs that involve paper forms …
Discussion: digg
Warner Crocker / Life On the Wicked Stage:
The 1st Annual Life On The Wicked Stage Ink Blot Awards  —  I created The Life On The Wicked Stage Ink Blot Awards as a celebration.  Yes, it's a celebration of the 1 year anniversary of this blog.  But it is more than that.  It is a celebration of a community that I have come to know and admire.
Discussion: Rob Bushway
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Adam Curry gets podbusted  —  The true genesis of podcasting has always been disputed in one corner of the blogosphere or another.  In general, though, the main names that get the lion's share of the credit are former MTV VJ Adam Curry and blogging pioneer Dave Winer.
John Borland / CNET News.com:
What creature will succeed the couch potato?  —  LOS ANGELES—On the day after Christmas, a long-standard survey of people's television watching habits will take a first step into the digital present—and future.  —  For decades, the Nielsen Media Research audience measurement service …
Discussion: JD on MX
Andy McCue / silicon.com:
2008 Olympics plans open source migration  —  But support costs could scupper the move...  The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games could switch to a cost-saving open source technology platform under proposals to be considered by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Jan Libbenga / The Register:
Warez servers in Germany confiscated  —  German police have confiscated five warez servers with 6 terabytes of illegal copies of movies and games in the German town of Coburg on the fringes of northern Bavaria.  The servers, with names as Temptation and Paradise Island …
Jo Best / silicon.com:
Apple challenged by Linux and pirates  —  Not to mention music-enabled mobiles...  A recent Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing has revealed that Apple now considers Linux a potential market challenger.  —  Apple's K-10 form - a review of its past financial year for the SEC …
Ryan Naraine / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft Bows to Eolas, Revamps IE's Multimedia Handling  —  The browser patent spat between Microsoft Corp. and Eolas Technologies took another twist Friday with an announcement from Redmond that it will change the way Internet Explorer handles embedded content on Web pages.
Discussion: The Tao of Mac
Jessie Seyfer / siliconvalley.com:
Free WiFi for all in Sunnyvale  —  METROFI MAY OFFER NON-PAY SERVICE IN OTHER CITIES  —  Mountain View-based MetroFi is expected to announce today that it plans to bring free, advertising-supported wireless Internet service to all 130,000 residents of Sunnyvale.
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
For Sony, a Pain in the Image  —  The spyware debacle has sparked anger, distrust, and boycotts among consumers, but the financial impact on Sony BMG is likely to be limited  —  David Snider's dismay with Sony (SNE) has been a long time coming.  It started when his Sony-branded CD/MP3 player broke …

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