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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Judge: Can't link to Webcast if copyright owner objects — A federal judge in Texas has ruled that it is unlawful to provide a hyperlink to a Webcast if the copyright owner objects to it. — U.S. District Judge Sam Lindsay in the northern district of Texas granted a preliminary injunction …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Why Doesn't CafePress Use Flash? — There are many sites that sell customized casino chips (just do a search), but we haven't found any that have an online design tool to allow you to create the chip itself. TheChipLab has take the extra step and has created a very nice Flash tool for designing your own casino-grade chip.
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Rich Miller / Netcraft:
DDoS Attack Targets CafePress.com — CafePress.com, which provides online stores for thousands of blogs and web sites, has been hit with a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) which has disrupted service for many of its merchants during the critical final shopping days before Christmas.
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Thomas Crampton / International Herald Tribune:
French court favors personal privacy over piracy searches — PARIS: A French court has ruled that music companies and other copyright holders cannot conduct unrestrained Internet monitoring to find pirates. — The decision, which could leave record companies open to lawsuits in France …
Steve Gillmor / Steve Gillmor's GestureLab:
Bad Sinatra — Jonathan Schwartz has a problem. Me. I read his blog today, starting with the most recent post and eventually landing on one a few days ago about the resurgence of the thick client. Let me weigh in thusly : what a load of s**t this is. When Sun leadership starts moving away …
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Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Toshiba's SED TV a no-show at electronics show — Toshiba's long-awaited SED TV will not be appearing at the Consumer Electronics Show in January after all. — Televisions with SED, which stands for surface conduction electron emitter display, will provide a better picture than LCD …
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Drew / Dembot:
Abbey Corps — One thing that I kind of like about Rocketboom is that I have never — done any press releases. I also dont have an email list; Until now, I've always — just fielded the incoming. I'm not against that kind of outreach, it's just — interesting that there has never been any.
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
World of Origami still unfolding — Get ready for Origami take two. While Microsoft's minitablet effort may not be quite where the software maker had hoped, the project is ready for another cameo. — This spring, Microsoft attracted huge buzz for the Origami prior to its launch …
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Bink / Bink.nu:
Microsoft confirms first Windows Vista vulnerability — MSRC Blog: We are closely monitoring developments related to a public posting of proof of concept code targeting an issue with the Client Server Run-Time Subsystem. The PoC reportedly allows for local elevation of privilege on Windows 2000 SP4 …
Tom Yager / InfoWorld:
Kill two Windows servers with one Xserve — At its core, Xserve is a two-socket Core microarchitecture Xeon (Woodcrest) rack server. As I wrote in my review, in hardware design, Xserve lives up to market standards. Some touches, like the SAS/SATA drive bays, a PCI-X slot for existing expansion cards …
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Glenn Fleishman / Wi-Fi Networking News:
Connexion In-Flight Replacement Figuratively Up in the Air — The Wall Street Journal reports that the efforts by Lufthansa, Panasonic Avionics, and others to have a transition plan in place for Connexion's demise are delayed: Panasonic made the surprise announcement a few months ago …
Ben Fritz / Variety:
XBox up on downloads — Amazon digital video sales are slow — Though a box office failure, Warner Bros.' 'Poseidon' is selling well as a high-def download through Microsoft's Xbox Live. — In a topsy-turvy year for the digital download biz, a videogame service in just a few million homes …
Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:
The ZNF Festivus Update — Well, it's getting to be that time of year — No, not the Festival of Lights... The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is nearly upon us! However, being the holidays, Netgear has gifted me with an all-expense paid trip to Vegas plus $2k to blow on [showgirls and gambling] …
David Haskin / InfoWorld:
The seven top mobile and wireless trends for '07 — The top wireless trends that will emerge in 2007 — cheap smartphones and WiMax — wouldn't be possible without the two biggest stories of 2006 — The top mobile and wireless trends that will emerge in 2007 wouldn't be possible without …
Brian Runnciman / vnunet:
Google guru prepares for internet evolution — Internet guru Vint Cerf tells the BCS's Brian Runciman about Google's strategy and gives his opinion about developments in the IT industry — Vint Cerf is Google's chief web evangelist, but is perhaps better known as one of the founding fathers of the internet.
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Patent lunacy defense — Microsoft reportedly has filed two patents covering certain aspects of RSS, Really Simple Syndication. Dave Winer is outraged. Nick Bradbury sagely says "Not so fast". I don't have the inside scoop on this yet, but here is what I think is happening.
