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1:00 AM ET, November 15, 2007

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Music boss: we were wrong to go to war with consumers  —  The boss of Warner Music has made a rare public confession that the music industry has to take some of the blame for the rise of p2p file sharing.  —  Speaking at the GSMA Mobile Asia Congress in Macau, Edgar Bronfman told mobile operators …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Warner Music Boss: We Were Wrong  —  Someone in the music industry finally seeing the error of their ways?  A blue moon rose over Macau Wednesday when Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Warner Music Group Edgar Bronfman admitted on stage that the music industry had been asleep at the wheel.
Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
Comcast Sued Over BitTorrent Blocking - UPDATED  —  A California man filed suit in state court Tuesday against internet service provider Comcast, arguing that the company's secret use of technology to limit peer-to-peer applications such as BitTorrent violates federal computer fraud laws …
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:   Comcast hit with class-action lawsuit over traffic blocking
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Dell's Latitude XT and XPS ONE make first public appearance  —  Dell fans, we've got some juicy meat for you to sink your teeth into.  During Michael Dell's keynote address at Oracle OpenWorld today, the company unleashed (or at least demoed) its forthcoming all-in-one PC, creatively named the XPS One.
Discussion: CNET News.com and The Tablet PC
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Erica Ogg / Crave: The gadget blog:
Dell shows off tablet and all-in-one at Oracle OpenWorld
Discussion: CNET News.com and The Tablet PC
Peter Galli / eWEEK.com:
Forrester Calls Desktop Linux a Credible Threat to Windows  —  Nearly half of enterprises have concrete plans to deploy Windows Vista, and 7 percent will have started by Dec. 31.  —  Linux is becoming a credible threat to Windows on the desktop, and will grow over the next year …
Discussion: WebProNews and InfoWorld
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Vista's biggest problem remains Windows XP, survey says  —  Mac, Linux no competition for Vista in the enterprise; the rival is Microsoft's own, Forrester reports  —  Microsoft Corp.'s biggest worry over Windows Vista shouldn't be rival operating systems from Apple Inc. or Red Hat Inc. …
Discussion: CNET News.com
Quentin Hardy / Forbes:
Radio Google  —  Google's phone plan begins a war with Verizon, Microsoft and the wishes of the feds.  —  Google's November surprise will rattle the wireless industry for months.  On Nov. 5 the Mountain View, Calif. search giant announced that it had cobbled together an alliance …
public.resource.org:
Announcement  —  1.8 million pages of federal case law to become freely available.  —  Public.Resource.Org and Fastcase, Inc. announced today that they will release a large and free archive of federal case law, including all Courts of Appeals decisions from 1950 to the present and all Supreme Court decisions since 1754.
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John Markoff / Bits:
Score One for the Web's Don Quixote  —  Carl Malamud's quixotic mission to free government information took a stop closer to reality on Wednesday morning when he struck a deal with Fastcase to electronically publish a free archive of federal case law.  —  Mr. Malamud, an Internet radio pioneer …
Ryan Naraine / Ryan Naraine's Zero Day:
Apple monster update fixes 41 Mac OS X, Safari vulnerabilities  —  Apple today released a monster update to provide belated cover for at least 41 security holes in its flagship Mac operating system.  —  With Security Update 2007-008 and Mac OS X v10.4.11, Apple patches multiple "highly critical" …
Discussion: Today @ PC World and TidBITS
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Jeffrey M. O'Brien / Fortune:
Meet the PayPal mafia  —  An inside look at the hyperintelligent, superconnected pack of serial entrepreneurs who left the payment service and are turning Silicon Valley upside down.  Fortune's Jeffrey O'Brien reports.  —  (Fortune Magazine) — A door opens, and a blond man appears in a white jacket with large buttons.
Discussion: Valleywag
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Sun launches xVM virtualization platform  —  At Oracle OpenWorld Rich Green, executive vice president of software at Sun, unveiled his company's latest twist on virtualization-the Sun xVM platform.  Sun xVM is based on the Xen hypervisor and supports Windows, Linux and Solaris guest operating systems, Green said.
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CNET News.com:
Dell to carry Solaris 10 on PowerEdge servers
Discussion: The Register and The Tech Report
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
YouTube Co-Founder Steve Chen: "It's Going to Take A Little More Time" for Ad Monetization  —  Steve Chen, co-founder of YouTube says the time spent by visitors to YouTube makes it a highly valuable proposition for advertisers.  Today at the NewTeeVee conference he reflects on the meteoric rise …
Discussion: Tech Trader Daily and Webware.com
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Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
NTV Live Featured Conversation: Steve Chen, YouTube
Discussion: Valleywag, last100 and The Utube Blog
BBC:
'Virtual theft' leads to arrest  —  A Dutch teenager has been arrested for allegedly stealing virtual furniture from "rooms" in Habbo Hotel, a 3D social networking website.  —  The 17-year-old is accused of stealing 4,000 euros (£2,840) worth of virtual furniture, bought with real money.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
WordPress Traffic Passes TypePad, Execs Getting Rich?  —  WordPress is now the No. 2 most-visited blog host, passing rival SixApart's TypePad last month, according to the latest tally from Nielsen Online.  WordPress-hosted sites drew 11.4 million unique visitors last month …
 
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Kevin Ho / CNET News.com:
The 'dead zone': iPhone screen fails
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Glenn Kelman / TechCrunch:
Entrepreneur 2.0  —  This guest post is written by Glen Kelman …
Karl / DSLreports:
Verizon's Dubious Math Skills - Trouble getting accurate info on data rates
Discussion: Techdirt and CrunchGear
Reuters:
Singapore bans Microsoft's video game for sex scene: paper
Discussion: WinBeta
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Vista SP1: Release Candidate test build goes to 15,000 testers
Gary Gentile / Associated Press:
Price cut boosts PlayStation 3 sales
InfoWorld:
With Web 2.0, a new breed of malware evolves
Discussion: OWASP
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Broadband data collection bill passes full House
Discussion: Gizmodo
 Earlier Items: 
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
NewTeeVee: A Look At The Underlying Networks
Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
Windows Live Platform: our interview with Angus Logan
Discussion: WinBeta
InfoWorld:
Update: Microsoft's OneCare 2.0 due next week
Joshua Porter / Bokardo:
Do Canonical Web Designs Exist?
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Facebook's Owen Van Natta Speaks!
Discussion: Valleywag
Chris Soghoian / CNET News.com:
Mozilla responds: Firefox is independent
Discussion: Computerworld and Slashdot
Walt Mossberg / The Mossberg Solution:
Singing a New Zune  —  Microsoft's Retooled Player Marks …
Ryan Naraine / Ryan Naraine's Zero Day:
Hacker finds 492,000 unprotected Oracle, SQL database servers
 

 
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