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San Francisco Chronicle:
Yahoo shapes up online video project Reality series pilot to be broadcast on the Internet — Terry Semel, the former movie studio chief who now leads Yahoo Inc., is back in show business. His Web portal has filmed a pilot for a reality series called "Wow House" that will be broadcast online within the next few months.
isc.sans.org:
Handler's Diary — WMF FAQ (NEW) — Last Updated: 2006-01-02 03:18:03 UTC by Johannes Ullrich (Version: 2(click to highlight changes)) — [a few users offered translations of this FAQ into various languages. Obviously, we can not check the translation for accuracy, so use at your own risk.
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Ron / revo-europe.com:
News: Nintendo's Market Value Goes Up — Research reveals that Nintendo's Market Value has increased since February 2005. — DFC Intelligence have released their latest piece of research on the game industry, revealing how all game companies have fared from February to December.
Russ / Russell Beattie Notebook:
Going Back Downstairs — Okay, imagine you go to this huge party over at this big house. As soon as your arrive you can tell it's just one of those parties. There's people everywhere - packed in the living room, out by the pool, clustered in the kitchen, everywhere.
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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:Hell's weather report: cold and colder. Beattie switches to Windows
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Evan Schaeffer / Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground:
Blawg Review #38 — Not that you're going to feel any real sympathy for your Blawg Review host, but I want you to know that I faced a difficult task: finding great law-related blog posts to highlight from a week in which many weblogs weren't posting at all. For several days, I was stumped.
Damon Darlin / New York Times:
Data, Music, Video: Raising a Curtain on Future Gadgetry — The flat-panel televisions will be getting bigger, the MP3 players and cellphones will be getting smaller. And almost everything will be getting cheaper. — But the biggest trend expected at the International Consumer Electronics Show …
Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Answering Back to the News Media, Using the Internet — Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel, or so goes the old saw. For decades, the famous and the infamous alike largely followed this advice. Even when subjects of news stories felt they had been misunderstood or badly treated …
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Julie Bosman / New York Times:
Lesson for Murdoch: Keep the Bloggers Happy — When Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation bought MySpace, the social-networking Web site, in July, some of its users gloomily predicted that the site would be altered to suit the company's corporate interests. — Proof for many of those people came earlier …
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
Those Born to Shop Can Now Use Cellphones — Calling all retailers: 2006 may finally be the year that consumers start buying goods with their cellphones. — With people already spending billions on ring tones, wallpaper and games for their phones, analysts and retail executives say they believe …
Eobanb / applexnet.com:
KDE 4 to Support Apple Dashboard Widgets — The start of something bigger? — It's official; Zack Rusin, a lead developer of KDE, has stated in his journal that the upcoming KDE 4 will be able to run and display Dashboard widgets much in the same way that Mac OS X 10.4 can. He writes:
kodak.com:
Kodak Unveils World's First Dual-Lens Digital Camera; Combines Ultra-Wide Angle and Zoom Lenses in Compact Body — Innovative KODAK EASYSHARE V570 Camera with RETINA Dual Lens Technology Shown First at CES 2006 in Kodak Booth 31400 (LVCC South/3) — LAS VEGAS, Jan. 2 …
Mikko / F-Secure:
It's not a bug, it's a feature — What exactly is going wrong with the WMF vulnerability? — Turns out this is not really a bug, it's just bad design. Design from another era. — When Windows Metafiles were designed in late 1980s, a feature was included that allowed the image files to contain actual code.
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
China declares war on Internet pornography — The Chinese government regularly censors Internet content in an effort to diminish the distribution of politically subversive material, but now the communist state is expanding its control and targetting Internet pornography web sites as well.
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Roland Piquepaille / Emerging Technology Trends:
Is this Rembrandt a real one? — About a year ago, I told you about how computer scientists from Dartmouth college were investigating digital images. But they're also interested in old paintings authentication, as reports Wired Magazine in The Rembrandt Code.
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Download Squad
AC/OS:
A very happy new year for MySQL — In my in-box this morning was an update from Marten Mickos detailing the company's progress over the past year. Marten is one of my favorite people, and MySQL is one of my favorite companies, so it's great to see them doing so well. There are people (or soccer/football clubs like !
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