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Jay Greene / Business Week:
Microsoft Vista: Companies Can Wait — Corporate buyers may be slow to adopt the new operating system and Office business programs — It's been five years since the last release of Microsoft's Windows operating system, and more than three since the previous iteration of its Office word-processing and spreadsheet program debuted.
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The Google/YouTube Come-On — Google (GOOG ) and YouTube are dangling nine-figure sums in front of major programming and network players—that is, the Time Warners, News Corp (NWS )s, and NBC Universals of the world. Google calls these monies licensing fees, according to executives who've been involved in the discussions.
Gizmodo:
WTF Alert: Chinese BenQ MusiQ Dog Tag Player Site Has Guy Posing In Front of WTC Ruins — These BenQ MusiQ Dog Tag MP3 players may be quite stylish, but wtf is up with their Chinese site? The splash page features some one gloved Michael Jackson guy standing in front of what looks like the WTC ruins.
Kotaku:
PS3 DVD Upscaling Promised — JPN Wii Launch: "We Only Have a Few Hundred" — Thought the PS3 was the hardest console to score? Well, it is, but oddly, the early word is that the Wii is as well. We've heard a few stores with shockingly low Wii numbers.
CNET News.com:
FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool — update The FBI appears to have begun using a novel form of electronic surveillance in criminal investigations: remotely activating a mobile phone's microphone and using it to eavesdrop on nearby conversations.
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Nintendo Wii launches in Japan — According to our row of clocks in the Engadget situation room here at Engadget HQ, it's now past 9:00AM, December 2nd in Japan, which means the Wii has been out and about in its home country for around two hours by now. We just got some pics from a friendly tipster …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Open-source group wants educational patent reversed — A legal center is trying to overturn a patent it says threatens three open-source educational projects, a sign of the tension between patent holders and the collaborative programming community. — The Software Freedom Law Center …
George Ou:
AMD Quad FX slaughtered by a single Intel CPU — All the reviews are in for AMD's new "4×4" Quad FX dual CPU platform and it loses nearly every single real world benchmark to a single Intel CPU while consuming more than twice the electricity. We basically see two FX-74 3. GHz processors …
I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
In a Jam: Stories of ISP bad faith and can the government really listen in to your VoIP calls? Yes they can. — My son Channing, who is four years old, recently celebrated Pajama Day at his preschool when everyone — even the teachers — came to school in their pajamas.
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Jon's Radio:
A conversation with John Wilkin about the Michigan/Google digitization project — My guest for this week's podcast is John Wilkin. He's the director of the University of Michigan Library's technology department, and coordinator of the library's joint digitization project with Google.
Tim Lee / The Technology Liberation Front:
The Journal Fails to Do Its Homework — Neat! The Wall Street Journal appears to have cited my DMCA paper in today's editorial. (It's behind a paywall, unfortunately) Unfortunately, although I always appreciate seeing my work cited, it doesn't look like they read read it very carefully:
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Robert Scoble / ScobleShow:
Archive this, but do it right, Jeff Ubois warns — This is a different kind of show for the ScobleShow, one where we talk about an issue that we should think about — in this case whether companies who are scanning books and other information ...
Jason Clarke / Download Squad:
How to fix your iTunes artwork — I recently learned a little trick that helped me to fix the artwork that was associated with the songs in my music collection. Over the past few years, I've used a number of different artwork importing tools, with varied results.
Leslie Katz / CNET News.com:
Aerial search under way for missing CNET editor — update In a search-and-rescue mission involving multiple agencies, federal and state law enforcement officials are combing remote roads off Oregon's Highway 38 and Interstate 5 in search of missing CNET senior editor James Kim and his family, police said Friday.
David Chartier / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Intel GM has "religious experience," buys a Mac — Hexus has an interview with Pat Gelsinger, Intel's GM of their Digital Enterprise Group, in which he describes crossing "the religious boundary" by purchasing a Mac. Note how the interviewer reacts and grimaces around 1:41 when Pat drops the bomb …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
On to the next version of Windows — Guess Microsoft really wants to make sure the next version of Windows doesn't take another five years. — The day after releasing the final Windows Vista bits to volume-licensing business customers. Microsoft issued a call to testers asking for input on the next version of Windows.
Unsanity News:
New in version 2.4: — ShapeShifter and guiTweak are now Universal Binaries! — ShapeShifter now requires Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" or newer. — ShapeShifter now supports windows with a "Unified" toolbar. These are windows which are draggable by the entire toolbar, yet are not metal windows.
