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CNET News:
Calacanis: Apple to release networked HDTVs — Yesterday I spent a couple of hours here at the office with Valleywag's most cherished and adored tech celebrity, Jason Calacanis. Love him or hate him, the bloke's got contacts, and he confirmed to me that he knew first-hand that Apple was working on a networked television.
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Fred / A VC:
Don't Shoot The Messenger — I've detected a bit of irritation, and even cynicism about the motives of Sequoia, Benchmark, Ron Conway, and others (including me perhaps) in the venture capital business who have been publicly and privately advising their portfolio companies and entrepreneurs everywhere …
Edible Apple:
Kevin Rose drops MacBook Blu-Ray Rumor at Live Diggnation event — At the live Diggnation that was just held in London as part of the “Future of Web Apps” Expo, Kevin Rose enlightened us with yet another juicy rumor. He claimed that the new and yet to be announced MacBooks will support Blu-Ray drives.
Molly Peterson / Bloomberg:
Google Rewires Washington in Challenge to Microsoft — Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) — Vivek Kundra, recruited to Washington to overhaul city computer networks plagued by cost overruns and viruses, treats his projects like stocks. The biggest “buy” on his trading floor is Google Inc.
Lawrence Lessig / Wall Street Journal:
In Defense of Piracy — Digital technology has made it easy to create new works from existing art, but copyright law has yet to catch up. — In early February 2007, Stephanie Lenz's 13-month-old son started dancing. Pushing a walker across her kitchen floor, Holden Lenz started moving …
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Twitter Status:
IM: Not coming soon — In October 2006, just three months after Twitter launched publicly, we added IM support—i.e., the ability to get and send tweets via XMPP/Jabber/Google Talk. I was a big fan of this feature, because this interface, which millions of people were already familiar with …
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Associated Press:
New machine prints sheets of light — NISKAYUNA, New York (AP) — On a bank of the Mohawk River, a windowless industrial building of corrugated steel hides something that could make floor lamps, bedside lamps, wall sconces and nearly every other household lamp obsolete. — It's a machine that prints lights.
Robert McMillan / PC World:
Mafiaboy Grows Up; a Hacker Seeks Redemption — The Internet attack took Yahoo engineers by surprise. It came so fast and with such intensity that Yahoo, then the Web's second most-popular destination, was knocked offline for about three hours. — That was on the morning of Feb. 7, 2000.
David Sarno / Web Scout:
Brave New Films sues Michael Savage over YouTube takedown — Brave New Films, the Web video production company run by liberal filmmaker Robert Greenwald ("Outfoxed," Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price"), is suing conservative talk-show host Michael Savage in a copyright dispute that hinges …
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Brian Nadel / Computerworld:
Sprint's 4G Xohm WiMax: How fast is it? — In our hands-on tests, the new Xohm network was fast and smooth — but for now, you have to be in Baltimore. — Computerworld) With most American mobile data networks busy trying to deliver third-generation (3G) mobile wireless access to traveling businesspeople …
Elizabeth Montalbano / PC World:
Microsoft Sues DHL After Train Dumps 21,600 Xboxes — Microsoft is suing U.S.-based cargo-delivery service DHL Express for allegedly losing 21,600 Xbox game consoles because of a train derailment in Texas, according to court documents. — In a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court …
Paul Boutin / Valleywag:
Stupid rock band totally pwns Google — Google's Hot Trends page has been gamed before, but today's #1 spot is the best ever — a dorky-white-guys rock band named Captain Caucasian and the Raging Idiots. No KKK references, just a bunch of guys with guitars and a singer whose baseball cap is two sizes too big.
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