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JakeTheSpud:
TABLETS OF SILICON — Consolidating my life with the Toshiba M200 — I should have figured that Moses was onto something when I read he returned from the top of Mt. Sinai with the Ten Commandments on tablets of stone—after all, he was a revolutionary. Until October I was either chained …
hexblog.com:
Windows WMF Metafile Vulnerability HotFix — This week a new vulnerability was found in Windows: — Browsing the web was not safe anymore, regardless of the browser. Microsoft will certainly come up with a thouroughly tested fix for it in the future, but meanwhile I developed a temporary fix - I badly needed it.
itar-tass.com:
Putin tells telecom minister Leonid Reiman he does not have mobile phone — MOSCOW, December 30 (Itar-Tass) - President Vladimir Putin said during a meeting with Russian Telecommunications Minister Leonid Reiman Friday one of the things that makes him different from the vast majority …
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Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
What The F**k is with Dell Technical Support?! — I'm on hold waiting to speak with a Dell Tech Support representative, presumably in India. The Dell 2405FPW UltraSharp Flat Panel LCD Montior I recently purchased (using our corporate discount at work) arrived in a broken state.
New York Times:
Patents Rejected for BlackBerry — Research in Motion, the maker of the BlackBerry wireless e-mail device, said yesterday that the United States Patent and Trademark Office had issued preliminary rejections of two wireless e-mail patents owned by NTP, the holding company that had won a patent infringement lawsuit against it.
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Ars Technica:
Australia looks to legalize VCR recording, CD ripping — Our friends in the Land Down Under (where women glow and men plunder) have been living under an awful plight, but the need to run and/or take cover is coming to pass. See, while the rest of the world is trying to figure out how to stop …
CNN:
Poll: Google the best of the Web — (CNN) — The search engine Google is the most significant development in the 15-year history of the World Wide Web, according to a poll of CNN.com users. — Nearly 18,000 CNN.com users voted in the three-week online survey, part of Spark's look …
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Cookie monsters — The government cookie story is getting stupider by the day. The AP — having naively believed they had some investigative scoop when they discovered that the NSA site, like most every site on earth, sets cookies — now finds that the White House has "bugs" …
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Rhys Blakely / Times of London:
Identity question for world's encyclopaedia — "In my vision of the future of journalism what we will see is an increasing amount of citizen participation in the gathering of news and in feedback and in reporting and analysing the news. At the same time, we'll have professional organisations managing the process"
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Voice control coming to XM radio — XM Satellite Radio and VoiceBox Technologies announced a multiyear alliance Thursday to bring voice control to the satellite broadcast service. — The partnership will let drivers issue voice commands to search through XM Satellite Radio's 160 channels of music …
Larry Seltzer / eWEEK.com:
Anti-Virus Protection for WMF Flaw Still Inconsistent — Days after the revelation of a flaw in Windows' handling of WMF graphics files, dozens of exploits are being spread from thousands of adware sites. But good protection is available. — At the same time, further testing confirms …
Eric Rice:
New Years Eve LIVE podcast / KSSX.com *and* in Second Life — PHONES WORK!!!, Now you can call in live, 1-818-237-5533 or 1-800-978-KSSX. And you know someone is gonna be busting out the hybrid podcast + live stream realtime rowra, baby. — Update Seems to be a little confusion about the event, apparently.
jkOnTheRun Audio Edition:
jkOnTheRun Audio Edition #8- OQO video review — Watch jkOnTheRun Audio Edition #8 here (WMV format, 640x480, 39.5 MB, 9.14 minutes) — Watch jkOnTheRun Audio Edition #8 here (MP4 format, 320x240, 18.4 MB, 9.14 minutes) — No you're not seeing things, well I guess you are at that.
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Alienware's m3400 ultraportable — Looks like Alienware couldn't be bothered to launch at CESand announced their latest Sentia today, the m3400 14-inch widescreen laptop. This is one of thosestraddles-the-ultraportable- line laptops that's a solid 4.5 pounds, a number still more than portable enough …
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