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EFF: Breaking News:
Google Copies Your Hard Drive - Government Smiles in Anticipation — Consumers Should Not Use New Google Desktop — San Francisco - Google today announced a new "feature" of its Google Desktop software that greatly increases the risk to consumer privacy.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Nicol to 'bring out the soul' of MSN — John Nicol was on sabbatical with his teenage daughter delivering computers to schools in Uganda last September when he got a phone call from a top honcho at MSN asking him to be general manager of Microsoft's portal.
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Elizabeth Montalbano / InfoWorld:
MSN won't rebrand itself — Though the new head of Microsoft's (Profile, Products, Articles) MSN division has been calling the company's MSN portal "MSN Media Network" internally, Microsoft has no formal plans to rebrand the site, a Microsoft spokeswoman said Thursday.
Kenji Hall / Business Week:
This PlayStation May Play Too Much — Sony's new super-packed PS3 handles a lot more than games. That, some say, could confuse buyers — Picture this: you plug your TV into a box the size of a phone book and go online to check headlines. You get bored and click over to a Giants game.
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Sarah Lacy / Business Week:
Oracle's Open-Source Shopping Spree — The database giant is in talks to purchase at least three software companies that would help it shift customers to a subscriber-based model — The open-source community may be in for a jolt. Oracle (ORCL) is plotting what could be the biggest endorsement yet …
xbox.com:
Master Chief Dual-Wields His Way to Windows Vista — "Halo 2," the award-winning sequel to the instant classic "Halo: Combat Evolved" to make its PC debut on the Windows Vista platform — "Halo 2," the game that redefined first-person combat and multiplayer action for millions of gamers worldwide …
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Microsoft News Tracker
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David Weinberger / Joho the Blog:
WSJ on FON, disclosure, and my friends — [I'm posting this reluctantly. Ultimately I decided I don't want the WSJ article to be googled without a response.] — The Wall Street Journal today ran an article by Rebecca Buckman that raises an interesting question but fails to generate an interesting answer.
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Mark Evans, Martin Varsavsky, Darwinian Web, Escapable Logic and John Cook's Venture Blog
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
RIM's workaround revealed — update BlackBerry maker Research In Motion on Thursday announced details of how its new software workaround, designed as a backup if U.S. courts impose an injunction later this month, will be released to customers. — The specifics of the workaround come days …
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Alice Hill's Real Tech News
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Daniel Taylor / Mobile Enterprise Weblog:BlackBerry Work-around: Too Little, Too Late For IT Departments
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Gizmodo, MobileTracker, Mobile Analyst Watch, Engadget and IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband
Rob Fahey / gamesindustry.biz:
Lionhead back in acquisition talks with key publishers — Ubisoft and Microsoft both linked to possible acquisition talks at UK developer — Sources close to British developer Lionhead Studios have revealed to GamesIndustry.biz that the company behind Fable and Black & White …
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Edgeio could become like Craigslist 2.0 — In addition to running the very influential Web 2.0 site TechCrunch.com, and writing a blog called CrunchNotes.com, Mike Arrington has been working on a startup of his own called Edgeio (when does this man sleep?) - which Rob Hof of BusinessWeek got a demo of recently.
David Intersimone / Sip from the Firehose:
Borland plans separate company for Delphi, JBuilder, C++Builder, InterBase, JDataStore and other developer products... To our loyal developer community: — Today, Wednesday February 8, 2006 at 1am Pacific Time, Borland announced plans to seek a buyer for our IDE product lines that include Delphi …
WhoopJack / ipBS:
How to get your missed TV shows with Azureus and Bittorrent — I'll start by saying that I am a paying cable subscriber. Often times there are multiple shows on at the same time that I would like to watch and I wanted a way to be able to watch those other shows.
TDavid / Things That:
Incentives won't make Yahoo or MSN #1 search — On the heels of saying they were not going to focus on being #1 search and then taking that back, Yahoo is now flirting around with an incentive plan for users who switch to their search. What a cliche this "incentives to do XYZ thing" is and for them it's a sign of desperation to me.
The TNL.net weblog:
The New Gatekeepers — A recent article in the Wall Street Journal claims that there is a level of conflict of interest for bloggers who have advised FON and are writing about it. While the Journal's story, in itself, is probably more of a tempest in a tea cup, I do believe that it raises …
Marc Canter / Marc's Voice:
OH MY GOD - Microsoft Live is Hailstorm 2.0 — ... ..but in a good way. Assuming they allow us to mesh into it - and vice versa. — As I sat in the etribes.com/mashup last night (near the Savoy Theater, off the Strand) - I was honored to listen to Sam Seshi rap out Microsoft's Live.com platform.
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
HBO wants its programming to be off-limits for DVRs — Although the courts shot down the FCC's attempt to enforce the broadcast flag, the networks are moving full steam ahead on getting the flag written into law one way or another. So far, one bill has been introduced that would plug the so-called …
Kim Tae-gyu / KoreaTimes:
Korea Develops Running Robot — South Korea has developed a robot that is capable of running. The feat is the second in the world after Japan and was accomplished by a local venture start-up working on a small budget. — Robotis Thursday took the wraps off the network-based humanoid …
