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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 …
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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'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.
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Exclusive: Barack Obama to name a "Chief Technology Officer" — The campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has given VentureBeat an exclusive look at his technology plan, which he plans to unveil officially tomorrow (Wednesday) before a visit to Google's headquarters.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:Barack Obama's Google-Friendly Technology Platform
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Walt Mossberg / The Mossberg Solution:
Singing a New Zune — Microsoft's Retooled Player Marks a Vast Improvement; However, It's Still No iPod — November 14, 2007 — by Walter S. Mossberg and Katherine Boehret — Last year, when Microsoft Corp. introduced its Zune music player to take on Apple's iPod juggernaut, the software giant struck out.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Social networking: Quietly being subsumed by your everyday apps — The future of social networking is coming into focus and it looks like Facebook-ish features will be increasingly be integrated into your everyday applications. — To wit: — Yahoo and Google are looking …
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Fred / A VC:The Biggest Social Graphs
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Jason Mick / DailyTech:
Ballmer Welcomes Google's Android OS to "Microsoft's World" — Ballmer has some more interesting insight into looking at the world through Microsoft-colored glasses. — At a recent Tokyo press conference, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had some interesting things to say about Google and its new Android OS …
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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 …
usercentric.com:
Direct Comparison of iPhone and Hard-Key QWERTY Phone Owners Indicates Higher Text Entry Error Rate for iPhones — User Centric, Inc., a Chicago-based usability consultancy, finished a third and final study examining the user experience of Apple's iPhone. Previously, User Centric found …
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.
Business Wire:
Red Hat and Hyperic Extend Collaboration on Open Source Systems Management Technology — Combined technologies and open source innovation provide customers with superior management solutions — RALEIGH, N.C. & SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Red Hat (NYSE: RHT - News) …
Ryan Naraine / Ryan Naraine's Zero Day:
Hacker finds 492,000 unprotected Oracle, SQL database servers — A survey by renowned database hacker David Litchfield has found a whopping 492,000 Microsoft SQL and Oracle database servers directly accessible to the Internet without firewall protection. — Litchfield (right) …
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BBC:
Nintendo warns of Wii shortages — A chronic shortage of Nintendo's popular Wii console could mean disappointment for those putting it at the top of their Christmas list. — The BBC has learned that high street retailers are struggling to keep up with demand for the console, which has been in short supply for months.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple (AAPL): Estimating China iPhone Revenue Potential — Yesterday, Dan Frommer assessed a potential Apple iPhone deal with China Mobile (CHL) or China Unicom (CHU). Last night, Reuters reported several reasons why a China deal isn't imminent, and we responded by saying that while it may not be imminent, it's inevitable.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Facebook's Owen Van Natta Speaks! — Here's a video interview I did while at the Monaco Media Forum with Facebook's Chief Revenue Officer Owen Van Natta about the new ad product from the hot social network-dubbed "social advertising"- that has everyone's knickers in a knot.
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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 …
