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5:15 AM ET, September 22, 2006

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Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
Microsoft Media Player shreds your rights  —  Comment No more backups, or Tivo  —  THINK DRM WAS bad already?  Think I was joking when I said the plan was to start with barely tolerable incursions on your rights, then turn the thumbscrews?  Welcome to Windows Media Player 11, and the rights get chipped away a lot more.
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microsoft.com:
Backing up and restoring licenses  —  Windows Media Player 11 does not permit you to back up your media usage rights (previously known as licenses).  However, depending upon where your protected files came from, you might be able to restore your rights over the Internet.
Jim Dalrymple / Macworld:
Apple updates strengthen wireless security  —  Apple on Thursday released a Security and AirPort update for Mac OS X that fixes vulnerabilities found in the company's wireless drivers.  Apple said the issues found were the result of an internal audit of the software drivers …
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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
New Apple patch plugs Wi-Fi hijack flaws  —  update A trio of security flaws in Apple Computer software that runs wireless-networking hardware could allow Macs to be hijacked over Wi-Fi, Apple said Thursday.  —  The Cupertino, Calif.-based company released security updates to repair the problems …
Discussion: Security Fix, MacMinute and digg
socialtext.com:
Socialtext 2.0  —  Today I gave a keynote at Networld/Interop on Enterprise 2.0 alongside Andrew McAfee — and launched Socialtext 2.0 — the most simple to adopt, use and extend wiki.  Techcrunch has the details.  —  Two big changes come with Socialtext2.0.
Discussion: Venture Chronicles
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / TechCrunch:
SocialText aims for wiki 2.0  —  Enterprise wiki vendor SocialText rolled out version 2.0 of its software this morning and made a couple of changes that are important for people beyond its existing customer base.  The changes include a drastic overhaul to the standard wiki interface …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Who is getting bought next?  YouTube, Facebook?  —  Another day in Silly-con valley.  WSJ reports Yahoo is looking at Facebook, for somewhere around $1 billion.  Yahoo-Facebook reports and rumors have been circling for a while now.  The other Web 2.0 darling, YouTube is also for sale, for $1.5 billion.
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BBC:
Yahoo 'to buy Facebook for $1bn'
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Will Yahoo's stock price kill acquisition of Facebook? Facebook IPO?
John Paczkowski / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
Geez, it's not like we had anyone killed. ...  We didn't, did we?  —  "Go far, keep your secrets close."  That's the message of Hewlett-Packard's ad campaign for its business notebooks, but it might make a better company slogan.  With new disclosures each day about HP's ill-starred leak investigation …
Daisuke Wakabayashi / Reuters:
Microsoft mulls free Web-based business software  —  SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday it may offer a free, advertising-supported version of its basic word processing and spreadsheet software, in an apparent bid to fend off a nascent challenge from Google Inc. in the business software market.
Discussion: Techdirt
Duncan / duncanriley.com:
Is Mike Arrington and TechCrunch taking legal action against Techcrush?  —  Interesting post at Techcrush, a Web 2.0 review site: … Legal issues? we'll the only possible person who could have legal issues with the site would be Mike Arrington, and it would be related to the name of the site …
Stephanie.Quilao / Back in skinny jeans:
How to explain RSS the Oprah way  —  Today, I'm going to explain how RSS can help you live your best life online.  —  We all have busy lives with very little time.  Web surfing is fun but can take hours going to visit every single website and blog you enjoy.
Discussion: Steve Sloan …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Skype backer takes on ETrade with free trades  —  Morten Lund, the guy who was the earliest backers of Skype is at it again.  He has financed Zecco, a start-up that will allow consumers to trade stocks for zero commissions, versus $10 to $20 that many online brokers charge today.
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Net:
Scoop: Zecco Head-to-head with E*trade & Charles Schwab
Discussion: TechCrunch and It's all about luck
Gizmodo:
Remember Ring Gives You a Burning Reminder  —  The Remember Ring has a special nagging feature, using its "Hot Spot" technology that warms up to 120 degrees Fahrenheit for 10 seconds, every hour, on the hour, beginning 24 hours before that "special day," apparently honoring the anniversary of your voluntary servitude.
Discussion: Ubergizmo and digg
Lifehacker:
Visualize size differences with Sizeasy  —  Web site Sizeasy is a really cool visualization tool designed to give you an idea how big something is.  —  For example, the screenshot to the right compares the dimensions of a 2nd generation iPod Shuffle to a matchbox and credit card.
Discussion: Gizmodo, Ajaxian, Boing Boing and CrunchGear
Mike / Techdirt:
Google Hoping Someone In Belgium Recognizes How The Internet Works  —  from the here,-let-us-show-you.... dept  —  Earlier this week, we wrote about how a Belgian court had ordered Google to stop indexing French and German speaking newspapers on their Google News site and within the Google cache.
Cyrus Farivar / Engadget:
Logitech's FreePulse Bluetooth headset leaked  —  The FCC's handed us yet another tasty morsel today: the new Logitech FreePulse Wireless headset, and what a headset she is.  The minuscule looking device features Bluetooth 2.0+ EDR with A2DP (huzzah!) to control your iPod (via a dongle …
Discussion: digg
Guy Kawasaki / Signum sine tinnitu:
The Art of Distribution  —  One of the important insights that the Startups 2006 panel hammered home was the importance of distribution for consumer-facing startups.  (By the way, an astounding 13,000 people watched this video during the first week.)  Many people use the word "distribution" …
Discussion: engtech and digg
Woodrow / The Ponderings of Woodrow:
Oracle takes a victory lap...Q1 results back up Q4 bravado, but not without a little SAP controversy  —  Last quarter, I remarked that Oracle started talking the talk, but could they walk the walk?  At issue was aggressive Q1 guidance despite Oracle's 3-year string of disappointing Q1 results.
Kurt Eichenwald / New York Times:
Effort to Combat Child Pornography Would Close Web Sites  —  As part of the battle against the spread of child pornography on the Internet, an initiative has begun allowing for the shutdown or blocking of sites offering illicit images of minors, even in cases where no criminal investigation is being conducted.
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
More Pentium 4 price cuts coming  —  Asian motherboard makers are saying that massive price cuts are in store for the Pentium 4 at the beginning of 2007.  Intel will reportedly cut the cost of the Netburst CPUs up to 58 percent as it attempts to clear out existing inventory and ultimately phase out the Netburst line.
Discussion: Alpha.CNET.com
 
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Matthew Broersma / CNET News.com:
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
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Business Wire:
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
AMD chip socket makes room for others