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Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
No one is lining up for Windows Vista in San Francisco — Earlier tonight I attended a Windows Vista launch event in San Francisco and was surprised to find not a single person in line to buy the software less than an hour before launch. CompUSA stayed open late to provide hands-on demonstrations …
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New York Times, The Next Net, MacUser, Shop Talk, VoIP & Gadgets Blog, jkOnTheRun, Microsoft News Tracker, Gizmodo, P2P Blog, Tim Sneath, Business 2.0 Beta, Engadget, SearchViews, Mark Evans, InsideMicrosoft, Don Dodge on The Next …, NevilleHobson.com, greg hughes, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog and The Last Podcast
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Joe / Techdirt:
Release Of An Operating System Just Not The Big Deal It Used To Be — from the some-party-dude dept — While Microsoft has tried hard to drum up enthusiasm for the release of Vista with various stunts and threatrics, it's clear that there's just not the same level of excitement surrounding …
John Paczkowski / Good Morning Silicon Valley:Look, there's exactly three of you camped out here — I really …
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Seagate unveils "D.A.V.E." drive with Bluetooth and WiFi — The storage junkies over at Seagate are branching out a bit. Instead of just seeing how many terabytes they can cram into increasingly smaller hard drive platters, they're getting a little creative with this new "D.A.V.E." (Digital Audio Video Experience) device.
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Martin Fackler / New York Times:
Profit Slips at Sony on Losses for PlayStation 3 — Sony, the Japanese electronics maker, said today that its profit had slipped in the third quarter as it took large losses on its new PlayStation 3 game console. — But the company raised its annual profit forecast following strong sales …
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Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
Andy Beal Spamming MyBlogLog? — Hey Andy, this isn't too cool: — And I suspect that you know better. You're a smart guy. So how about setting a good example instead of making me wonder how we should treat people trying to take advantage of the system? It's a pretty cheap stunt, ya know?
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Kim Zetter / Wired News:
I Was a Cybercrook for the FBI — By the time David Thomas eased his Cadillac into the parking lot of an office complex in Issaquah, Washington, he already suspected the police were on to him. — An empty Crown Victoria in one of the parking spaces confirmed it.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
FBI turns to broad new wiretap method — The FBI appears to have adopted an invasive Internet surveillance technique that collects far more data on innocent Americans than previously has been disclosed. — Instead of recording only what a particular suspect is doing …
Nick Wilson / Performancing.com:
3 Reasons Why Snap Preview is Ruining Your Blog, and Hurting Your Readership — Snap's preview anywhere gizmo is ruining the reading experience for millions of people. Its intrusive, obstructive and unuseful in almost every respect and use case. The fact that so many big blogs are using it …
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Texas Startup Blog, ReveNews, Bloggers Blog, The Last Podcast, Graceful Flavor, Scobleizer and digg
Yahoo! Search blog:
Yahoo! Site Explorer: Authenticate your site via a META tag and more goodies — We spend a lot of time listening to our users, and I am happy to say we've gotten better at it. We've been using feedback forms and message boards, and finally at the Chicago SES last December, we launched our new Site Explorer Suggestion Board.
Stuart Dredge / pocketgamer.co.uk:
EXCLUSIVE: It's all systems go for next-gen Nokia N-Gage — Big publishers check the platform out at top-secret workshop — Product: — Manufacturer: — Format: — Mobile, N-Gage — What's happening with Nokia's next-generation N-Gage platform?
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Holland Considers Banning DRM, Legalizing Filesharing — Recently Dutch Record Companies decided to no longer use copy protection on CDs because the costs didn't outweigh the benefits. Politicians are now looking for alternative ways to compensate the Music Industry.
Valleywag:
SECOND LIFE: Put your money on World of Warcraft — CLAY SHIRKY — If we don't start off by lumping Second Life with World of Warcraft as virtual worlds, a question emerges: why do virtual game worlds outperform non-game worlds in their adoption? — I have never doubted …
AppleInsider:
High-quality images of Apple's first orange iPod (shuffle) — Apple on Tuesday graced its affordable line of iPod shuffle digital music players with a fresh array of hues, including orange — a first for the iPod family. — The Cupertino-based company also broke the shuffle's gender barrier …
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Engadget, Infinite Loop, ben barren, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Webomatica, CrunchGear and digg
Fred / A VC:
The Seminal Web 2.0 Service — I wrote the following about YouTube the other day: … I am an afficianado of web services. I love using them, figuring out how they work, the neat stuff you can do with them. I learn so much from using the web. And I try to write about it as much as I can.
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Joe Duck
