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Official Google Blog:
Adieu to Google Answers — Google is a company fueled by innovation, which to us means trying lots of new things all the time — and sometimes it means reconsidering our goals for a product. Later this week, we will stop accepting new questions in Google Answers, the very first project we worked on here.
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Business Wire:
BitTorrent Strikes Digital Download Deals with 20th Century Fox, G4, Kadokawa, Lionsgate, MTV Networks, Palm Pictures, Paramount and Starz Media — SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—BitTorrent, Inc., home to the world's leading peer-assisted digital content delivery platform …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
New Deals, Big Money for BitTorrent? — Updated: BitTorrent has signed partnerships with major media companies like 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Starz Media and Comedy Central. These deals with the established media are perhaps a sign why the company is being able to raise more money.
BBC:
Voluntary code for blogs 'needed' — Blogs and other internet sites should be covered by a voluntary code of practice similar to that for newspapers in the UK, a conference has been told. — Press Complaints Commission director Tim Toulmin said he opposed government regulation of the internet …
Scott Small / BBspot:
MPAA Lobbying for Home Theater Regulations — Los Angeles , CA - The MPAA is lobbying congress to push through a new bill that would make unauthorized home theaters illegal. The group feels that all theaters should be sanctioned, whether they be commercial settings or at home.
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Wes Felter says that "most people" don't want to connect their computers to a TV. Well, most people, in the day in horses and buggies, didn't want to ride in an internal combustion engine-driven mobility device, but today it's impossible to live in modern society without using the darned things.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Walled Garden, Not Going Away — Fred Wilson's assessment of the YouTube-Verizon Wireless deal is spot on. The limited amount of YouTube inventory over Verizon wireless network and devices, "violates the entire ethos of YouTube, not free, not open, exclusive, no community, limited …
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Ellen Lee / The Technology Chronicles:
Second Life's Anshe Chung makes a million — Anshe Chung, a seemingly Donald Trump-like character in the online world Second Life who develops and sells virtual real estate (but with much better hair), said Tuesday that she's become Second Life's first millionaire.
pulitzer.org:
Pulitzer Board Widens Range of Online Journalism in Entries — The Pulitzer Prize Board announced today that newspapers may now submit a full array of online material-such as databases, interactive graphics, and streaming video-in nearly all of its journalism categories.
SecurityFocus:
Bot spreads through antivirus, Windows flaws — Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2006-11-28 — University security experts warned administrators on Monday that a bot program has started to spread by exploiting five patched Microsoft vulnerabilities and a six-month-old flaw in Symantec's antivirus software.
USA Today:
What would techies do with a newspaper? First, they'd make it all digital — Over the past month, I've asked a number of Internet entrepreneurs and thinkers a pretty simple question: If you owned a newspaper, what would you do with it? — OK, we'll discount the smarty-pants quips I got …
Natali Del Conte / TechCrunch:
Russia Agrees To US Request To Shut Down AllofMP3.com — An official document posted to Digg today summarizes an agreement between the U.S. and Russia in which Russia has agreed to close down AllofMP3.com, and any sites that "permit illegal distribution of music and other copyright works."
Benjamin Heckendorn / Engadget:
How To: Consolize an arcade game — Every so often, that console-modding Benjamin Heckendorn wanders away from his lair at benheck.com to share some interesting projects with Engadget. — If you're like us, you probably have many fond memories of playing arcade games in your younger days.
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Adam Thierer / The Technology Liberation Front:
First Amendment & Video Games Score: Gamers 10, Censors 0 — When are state and local lawmakers going to stop wasting taxpayer dollars with unnecessary regulatory enactments and fruitless lawsuits aimed at censoring video games? I ask because this week the video game industry added yet …
oxm.co.uk:
Double Dragon punches towards Xbox Live Arcade — Retro fighter leads new downloadable games — If maximum volume hair, denim cut-off jackets and a relentless fist-fight sounds like a good evening out to you, Xbox Live Arcade could well save you an ASBO!
Natali Del Conte / TechCrunch:
Walmart Bundles Digital Downloads With Physical DVDs — Wal-mart sold an option for a digital download with the purchase of the "Superman Returns" DVD when the movie went on sale today. This is the store's first foray into the digital movie business. — According to CNN …
