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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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Ryan Katz / Think Secret:
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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DV Guru, IP Democracy, Gizmodo, Engadget, digg, Guardian Unlimited and The Blackfriars Blog
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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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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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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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.
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.
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.
Brandon Schauer / adaptivepath.com:
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.
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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Scobleizer
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, brainwagon, Daily Wireless and digg
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 …
Kasper Jade / appleinsider.com:
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.
Discussion:
The Tao of Mac
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 …
