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PRWeb:
Bebo Launches 'Open Media' A New Vision for Social Media and Entertainment — Bebo, the global social network, opens its doors to media brands, deepening user engagement with popular entertainment. Launch partners include global media brands CBS, MTV Networks, BBC, Turner, ESPN, Yahoo!, Next New Networks, Crackle and more.
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Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider: Bebo's Anti-Hulu Pitch: We Play Your Video, You Keep The $
europa.eu:
Mergers: Commission opens in-depth investigation into Google's proposed take over of DoubleClick — HTML: — EN — FR — DE — PDF: — EN — FR — DE — DOC: — EN — FR — DE — IP/07/1688 — Mergers: Commission opens in-depth investigation into Google's proposed take over of DoubleClick
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Computerworld, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Tech Trader Daily, paidContent.org and Reuters
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Associated Press:
Murdoch: WSJ.com expected to be free — ADELAIDE, Australia - News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said Tuesday he intends to make access to The Wall Street Journal's Web site free, trading subscription fees for anticipated ad revenue. — "We are studying it and we expect to make that free …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Murdoch Serious About Tearing Down WSJ.com's Subscription Wall — When Rupert Murdoch first went after Dow Jones, he suggested that he might take down the Wall Street Journal's online subscription wall. Well, it looks like he is going to actually do it. He told a group of investors today in Australia:
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CNET News.com
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Yahoo settles lawsuit with jailed Chinese journalists — UPDATE: Includes statement from Yahoo and information from World Organization for Human Rights USA. — Yahoo listened. — A week after being excoriated by lawmakers over supplying information to the Chinese government that landed …
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Virtual Palm OS on your Nokia N-Series tablet — hoozah! — You read that headline right, now you can run a Palm OS Garnet VM on your Nokia N-series N770, N800, or N810 tablet. Access just released a beta copy of their Garnet Virtual Machine software. Yes, Snappermail, DateBk5, Pocket Tunes …
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The Boy Genius Report, Internet Tablet Talk, Mobility Site, TabletBlog.com and Ubergizmo
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Dan Nystedt / Computerworld:
China Mobile in talks with Apple to sell iPhone — China Mobile is in talks with Apple to sell the iPhone in China, the company's CEO said on Tuesday. But he's not keen on the type of revenue-sharing model that Apple has insisted on elsewhere in the world.
Tom Espiner / CNET News.com:
Microsoft exec calls XP hack 'frightening' — A Microsoft executive calls the ease with which two British e-crime specialists managed to hack into a Windows XP computer as both "enlightening and frightening." — The demonstration took place Monday at an event sponsored by Get Safe Online …
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
"Citron" colored 4/8GB Zune discovered — The Zune software hasn't been released for very long but I've already thrown my usual arsenal of weapons at it in the hope something undisclosed in the source will waive the white flag. Fortunately, I won't go to sleep empty handed as I've discovered …
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Gizmodo, Engadget, TechBlog, Mobility Site, Zune Thoughts.com and Xbox Live's Major Nelson
Scott Jon Siegel / Joystiq:
Fall Xbox 360 dashboard update revealed: download Halo December 2 — Official Xbox Magazine has the scoop on the Fall Xbox 360 dashboard update, and you better believe it's a doozy. UK-based CVG reports that the December 2 update will allow 360 owners to download and play Microsoft-published Xbox 1 games on their 360s.
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Bank intern busted by Facebook [Your Privacy Is An Illusion] — Who says Facebook is the province of the young? Increasingly, the 30something bosses of naive recent college grads are proving adept at turning the social network against its earliest adopters.
Kevin J. Martin / New York Times:
The Daily Show — IN many towns and cities, the newspaper is an endangered species. At least 300 daily papers have stopped publishing over the past 30 years. Those newspapers that have survived are struggling financially. Newspaper circulation has declined steadily for more than 10 years.
InfoWorld:
November's coolest gadgets — The hundreds of thousands of people entering the Tokyo Motor Show are getting a chance to see more than just the latest cars — there's a whole section of the mammoth exhibition devoted to the gadgets and gizmos that are increasingly becoming part of motoring in the 21st century.
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PC World
Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
DivX support coming to PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 support in the works — DivX has announced that the Sony PlayStation 3 will soon support the DivX video codec. We suspected as much when the PS3 2.0 firmware was released, as it includes the ability to detect both DivX and Xvid files.
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Engadget
alarm:clock:
Vivox: "Never Die While Typing Again!" — Vivox sells a voice interaction platform so that when you are blasting away at some terrorists you have trapped in a cave you an trash talk them. The firm's value prop to gamers is "Never Die While Typing Again!" — Social networks and other communities can also use Vivox.
Charlie White / Gizmodo:
Samsung Rolls Out Next-Gen WiMax Toys While We Wait and Wait [See The WiMax Future] — So is Korea actually a country from the future, or what? We're asking because Samsung is now rolling out its second generation of phones, mobile devices and USB modems that support WiMax.
