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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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'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 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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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.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Inbox 2.0 Makes Me Sad — Saul Hansell at the The New York Times is reporting that both Yahoo and Google are planning to use their email services as the core of their social networking strategy over time. — Of course, by social network, they mean Facebook and MySpace.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:Social networking: Quietly being subsumed by your everyday apps
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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.
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 …
Chris Albrecht / NewTeeVee:
NTV Live Mininote: Dan'l Lewin, Microsoft — Dan'l Lewin, Corp. Vice President, Strategic and Emerging Business Development, Microsoft Corporation. — When will this video revolution arrive? When the technology disappears. We're still concentrating on the technology which presents new disruption opportunities.
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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) …
CNET News.com:
New computer interface: Blow on the screen — Georgia Tech researchers have created a hands-free user interface that uses a microphone to tell where on a computer screen a person is blowing. (From News.com's Underexposed blog.) — Marvel pops comics online, hopes fans pay
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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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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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.
