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Adam Curry Caught in Sticky Wiki — Former MTV veejay and podcasting entrepreneur Adam Curry appears to have been caught anonymously editing the podcasting entry on Wikipedia to remove credit from other people and inflate his role in its creation. — When someone edits Wikipedia without logging …
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research.microsoft.com:
SNARF, the Social Network and Relationship Finder, from Microsoft Research — Overview — Microsoft Research's Community Technology presents SNARF, the Social Network and Relationship Finder. — SNARF was built around the notion that social network information that is already available …
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
SNARFing your way through e-mail — With the world's in-boxes overflowing with unread messages, researchers at Microsoft are offering up a tool they hope will help people sort through the morass. — The software maker this week released a free utility that aims to sort e-mail in a new way …
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
RIM gets good news in patent case — Battered by two recent setbacks in court, Research In Motion won a round in its long-running patent fight against NTP on Thursday when the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejected one of the claims by RIM's adversary. — Patent-holding firm NTP contends …
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Om Malik on Broadband:
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, cabledatacomnews.com, Things That, Joseph Laszlo, TechBlog and business2blog
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linuxdevices.com:
LinkSys courts Linux hackers with WRT54G"L" — LinkSys last month switched the standard model of its ubiquitous WRT54G wireless router from Linux to VxWorks, starting with the "series 5" version. Now, LinkSys is shipping a Linux-based WRT54GL model that it says it created specially for Linux hobbyists, hackers, and aficianados.
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Wi-Fi Networking News, Venture Chronicles, The Tao of Mac, Daily Wireless, brainwagon and digg
Shankar Gupta / MediaPost Publications:
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.
Arshad Mohammed / Washington Post:
Video Phones Offer Face Time, Even if Consumers Aren't Ready — George Jetson, his boy Elroy, Dick Tracy and Capt. James T. Kirk have used video phones for decades, calling people across the universe with unselfconscious ease. — But Americans have never embraced the technology which …
BBC:
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.
Nitin Badjatia / Download Squad:
Ten things we love about Microsoft — Here at Download Squad we know that the holiday spirit means more than just shopping for the coolest gadgets (you know, for others on our list). The holidays are also a great time to be thankful for all that we already have.
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Bob Sullivan / MSNBC:
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.
Reuters:
Yahoo using online behavior to target ads — NEW YORK—Yahoo aims to boost the effectiveness of its advertising—and rates—by targeting ads to users based on their surfing behavior on its site, the company's advertising sales chief said on Thursday. — "The new, new thing at Yahoo …
adobe.com:
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 …
Yahoo! Search blog:
Y! Q in Firefox, and Hacks Galore — Back in August, we announced that Y! Q had been integrated into Yahoo! Toolbar for Internet Explorer, enabling Toolbar users to select text on any Web page and get related search results on the spot — the latest embodiment of Y!
